My dream work would be being a “gunpla” designer, modeler, I’m not sure how it’s called, but the work consist in design a model kit (if you don’t know what it is, you can see my last post, there is a short description of it) and every process that this involve. Designing the general structure, the pieces, the articulation and the general engineering, modeling it on the computer, make the molds, etc. I don’t know everything about this fascinate me so much, and I’m so glad that in my career I’m learning some skills that will be very useful on this, parametric modeling, design of products in general, illustration, the use of colors; also I’ve  practice a lot with my own modifications to the kits I have built. So my plans to the future are to go to a competition of “gunpla” building and try to get some “rename”, show my capacities and experience, and then try to work for the company.

I would feel very accomplished with this work, because is what I like, and also this thing satisfies my esthetic need. The only problem I see, is that I’ll need to go to japan to work on this, so now I’m don t feel so prepared to leave this country, and I have to learn a totally different language, so hope in the future I can do those things.

Hello ladies and gentleman’s, I’m Rodrigo Muñoz, and this is the second (actually, this was the first, but I didn’t publish it on time) entry of my first blog.

In this entry I’m going to talk about one of my model kits; if u don’t know what model kits are, these are scale articulated plastic models, that you have to build. There are models of war vehicles(tanks, ships, airplanes), classic vehicles, robots, mechas (piloted robots), etc. The ones that I collect are mechas from animated series, called gundam. The gundam franchise is quite large, and has been around for at least 40 years, so they have made a lot of different series, but all of them have in common the mechas called gundams. So, having already explained what a gundam model kit is, I can tell what this first entry will be about.

This is the last model that I have built, it’s called “Gundam Love Phantom”. This one belongs to a series called “Gundam Build divers”, I won’t talk too much about the show, because it was bad, but it has a lot of good designs, at least I like a lot of them. The thing that I like the most about this kit, is his head design, also, his wings are very cool too, and it has very nice gimmicks, like que canons on the wings and the sideskirts. The engineering of the kit is pretty good, it has a nice range of “posability” (the capacity to pose), and the color separation (pieces of different colors to match the 2d design), is amazing. 

"The greatest Chilean of all time"

When I thing about important Chilean figures, there aren’t much names on my mind, but there is someone who I think immediately, and that’s Pedro Aguirre Cerda. He was the president of Chile in the year 1938, his government was the start of the radical period. Something that make special his government was the preoccupation for the educational system, and he made a lot of acts to promote this, some of those were, upgrading the infrastructure, creating new schools, promoting the formation of the students. Also, Aguirre create the CORFO, an organization that develop the national industry, generating jobs for the people, and making Chile more independent economically. Thanks to those acts the country improve economically and socially, sadly Aguirre died 2 years after his investment, without completing his term.

The reason why I think he was so important, is because he was focused on something different than any other politician, the preoccupation for the educational system is something that since the military dictatorship, has been lost, and is one of the biggest problems of our country today. The educational system of a country is very important, because the children are the ones who grown to become part of the society, and then, are they the ones who will change it, so, the way they grown, is determinant to the future of a country.