#236 - Frog !

Long ago when I pretended to understand Duran Duran's

song lyrics and I was trying to glean some hidden words

of wisdom in Tears for Fears songs ... Tamiya released

the Frog !

... and so the younger version of me saw the Tamiya Frog

in the then hip VirraMall at GreenHills. It was a sight to

behold! I would rather ogle at the Tamiya Frog than watch

an episode of Weird Science ... and you know how hot Kelly

LeBrock was back then! The Tamiya Frog was in a glass

case container much like the glass case container of the

Crown Jewels in the movie Johnny English. I assume

the security was just as tight and there was no bumbling

Mr. Bean to save me with his funny antics should I

decide to approach said glass case within

a ten feet radius LOL.

Anyway! Fast forward to the year 2005 and Duran Duran

is now relegated to the Best of 80s CDs and rumor has it

that the Tears for Fears duo are now out of the nut house.

Tamiya must have been keeping tabs on me and they learned

that I can actually afford the Tamiya Frog now ... and so

they re-released it :-)

Once the re-released Tamiya Frog landed in Singapore,

I went to the hobby shop, purchased the kit and locked

myself in my house for two days.

I assembled the kit with tender loving care ... I applied

all the little tricks I have learned through ten years of

playing RC. When it came to painting the figure ... I didn't

just paint it. I painted it meticulously. I used the paint

normally used for those little WarHammer figures. I even

made the folds of the driver's clothes darker... then I

painted flames in the car body .... arrggghhh this is taking

so long! So I just painted the rest of the body with

whatever paint I had.

Once everything is finished and my batteries were charged,

I took bus 139 and went to the direction of Toa Payoh.

I alighted at SingTel in Thomson Road and walked

towards the sand/soil area under the flyover. I made

a track using lots of plastic cones .... and drove the

Tamiya Frog for hours :-)

When I got home, I took out the radio receiver and

batteries from the Frog ... and then I placed it on it's

own little place on my RC cupboard ...

People my age collect fancy watches and big cars.

Me, I collect little things I couldn't afford when I was

younger. ... and looking at my Tamiya Frog ... I can

say life is sweet .... That is until I saw the Moots YBB

nyahahahaha!