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    Gaianotes 3rd Figure Painting Contest 

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    Masa
    Published on 05-11-2013 01:44 AM
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    Gaianotes, known for their excellent line of hobby supplies and equipment, are sponsoring another figure painting contest. Like their previous contests, the winners will be selected from the entries during the second week of June and winners will be posted on their website. This contest requires that you paint one of Gaianote's own "Practice Figure" busts and the winners will receive cash prizes and hobby supplies. Entries will be accepted until the end of May.

    More information (in Japanese) can be found here

    Wonder Festival 2013 Winter 

    by
    Masa
    Published on 01-04-2013 09:14 AM
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    The next Wonder Festival event is almost here! February 10th, from 10am to 5pm at the Makuhari Messe International Convention Center in Chiba, Japan. Last year's festival had over 1900 independent dealers and over 47,000 attendees. Entry ticket/guidebooks are on sale at participating local hobby shops in Japan as well as from the Kaiyodo website for 2000 yen.

    Treasure Festa 4 in Kobe 

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    Masa
    Published on 08-07-2012 07:59 PM
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    Sunday, October 28 will be the date for the next Treasure Festa event in Kobe. It will be held at the International Convention Center, Bldg. #2 from 11am to 4pm. Admission cost is 1500 yen.

    The event is much smaller than the Wonder Festival offerings, but will usually have a lot of smaller independent dealers from surrounding areas who cannot attend the larger festivals in Tokyo.

    Wonderfest 2012 Summer 

    by
    Masa
    Published on 06-25-2012 08:44 AM
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    It's that time of year again and Kaiyodo seems to be sticking with the new location at the Makuhari Messe (International Convention Center). It will be held on July 29 from 10am to 5pm in halls 1-8. This is the single largest garage kit event in Japan and along with the winter Wonderfest, the largest gathering of garage kit dealers and independent kit producers under one roof. The last winter Wonderfest had almost 2000 dealers and 50,000 attendees. Ticket booklets will be sold at all Kaiyodo store locations and participating hobby shops. Admission price is 2000 yen.

    GKJapan is back and open for business! 

    by
    Dr.H
    Published on 06-13-2012 07:49 AM
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    Many of you have probably noticed the site has been down for the past week(ish).

    I did a complete overhaul of all the old software and plugins and Masa and I upgraded to the newest version of vBulletin with official built in cms content homepage and blogs.

    This is a huge improvement to the software and now the site should be working MUCH better and faster with no more server errors!

    The old cms from vbadvanced had a security issue that was causing all sorts of script errors so the official VB one will be great. It has article abilities and tons of widgets we can setup to improve it and our members experience on gkjapan.

    Right now I'm working on setting it up so please don't worry about the default articles and categories that you see there. I will be removing and changing these as I get use to all the new features.

    In the mean time everything is up and running so feel free to use the site again!

    You can expect to see a fresh new banner and gkj logo to go with the new site soon!

    Thanks,
    Dr.H
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