Well, just a day before I went out to get the Iwata Eclipse HP-SBS, I was refered to an art store called "Curry's" by a member of the Hobby Fanatics forum. To my surprise they had the SBS there at a much lower price ($160 as opposed to $225 at Advance Hobbies). When I went to the store closest to me, I was amazed that Curry's isn't just a regular artists' materials shop like Lewiscraft or Michaels. Curry's Artists' Materials was a hardcore artist shop. To my luck, all of their airbrushes had been put on sale. All of Iwata's Eclipse line had been reduced from the store's original $280 (wow, more than Advance's) to $160. I looked around at all the Iwata Eclipses they had in stock and to my amazement, they had the Eclipse HP-CS, its one of the airbrushes I have read about and found great comments on, from reading posts in e2046. I thought, hey, what the heck, its better than the SBS, since it's a gravity fed, and it's paint cup reservoir holds a much more gracious amount of paint than the SBS. So I came home with the Eclipse CS and an Iwata Straight Shot 10' airhose. I've tried it on my Tamiya 1:32 Mini 4WD cars just to lay down a few coats and "test drive" the airbrush. Wow, it felt amazing compared to that $8 one I bought from Princess Auto.

Yes, yes. Now that I have an airbrush I will "try" to work on my unfinished models and have the ready for the 2nd Toronto Model Contest, which, as I've heard from Kelvin and James, that it is being planned on for November of this year. All I need now to complete my auto models are new clear parts for the windsheilds, side windows and rear window. Aswell, I need some thick masking tape, since I'm not in a mood to pay $9 for a sheet of Tamiya's model-specific window masking. But I do have to purchase a new wet-decal sheet for the GTO. I already have two sheets for the NSX ;) since I screwed up the previous one. Let's hope I can try to spend my money wisely and try to get something in the static model category complete. That's it for now.