Walking up to a house cat, pointing at it and calling it an aardvark makes about as much sense as pointing to sauerkraut and calling it honey. On some level names are just arbitrary sounds attached to an object, a label and we all know labels stink. Limiting. Confining. Why get bent out of shape if that guy calls a house cat an aardvark if I know exactly what it is that guy is pointing to. It’s just a tag and not exactly what that thing is. Still, getting back to the subject. I have problems calling her a dwarf.
A pixie, a sprite, a fairy or any other fey-tinged name and I’m not thinking about this at all. Those small creatures hide in gardens, bushes, and mushroom circles and shoot bows with heart shaped arrowheads at hapless humans needing a change in expectations. Dwarves don’t do any of that. Dwarves drink ale for breakfast, mine for ore, and grumble when things change too quickly. A tunnel carved too quickly will collapse twice as soon. Dwarves reject the whimsy with which fey folk indulge. Dwarves carry axes and hammers. Sturdy weapons that extend their stodginess.
There’s nothing about this – what should be called a pixie – that even looks remotely dwarven. Everyone knows dwarven women have four measurements, not three as with other vaguely humanoid creatures, the ideal measurements being 38 chest, 36 waist, 38 hips and an 18 beard. I don’t care what the manual or errata document says, a 0 beard does *NOT* count as a beard with a length of zero. There is no beard, so there is no way I’m calling this pixie a dwarf!
Doot-dee-doo-dee-doo.
“Dwarf” is a non-scale figure, but stands about the same height as a 1/8 scale figure. Being some sort of pixie, I assume she’s really small, probably closer to the size of the figure.
Overall, it’s a pretty cute figure, sculpted by Osirus, produced by Orchid Seed. Being called “Dwarf” in spite of not seeming dwarven at all in how I’m used to dwarves was the main reason for purchase. It might be the first, but no more than the second Orchid Seed figure in my collection. Costume detail is good and the base looks like it was meant to be with the figure with it being clear, pink, and cute. Always a plus. Orchid Seed fell a little short on painting her hair, at parts the plastic underneath shows through and in general the paint seems a little too clumpy, not smooth. It sort of looks like this was painted in thick to do it in one pass, as opposed to a couple of passes with finer paint. That’s all conjecture since I really don’t know. Just trying to describe my impression on it.
One could remove the Dwarf’s bloomers if they wanted to, but leaving them on gives it a more playful air, in spite of the seam on the bloomers being very obvious due to them being removable. She brightens up my mostly black computer desk area.
Oh my, your pictures are gorgeous. They would want to make everyone buy this figure in an instant. Props!~
Dwarf is a very photogenic figure, but it also looks just as great in person.
Lovely figure! She looks quite cute. Great photos too. ^^
Can only spot the painting imperfections here and there when you look at the full scale photos.
That’s often the case though that many of these imperfections are only visible through some form of magnification, such as with photos. Even as close to right next to my mouse/tablet I don’t notice anything but maybe the overall graininess of the paint used for her hair.
I think I mainly was worried because I’ve heard that Orchid Seed can be very hit or miss in the quality department.
NICE Pictures! Great looking figure! She looks quite cute!
Too cute for a Dwarf!
Oh you ordered her as well, nice
Dwarf is a very cute figure overall im more than satisfied
and I love her cute face with the twintail hairstyle.
On close view the paintjob on her hair looks a bit rough
but it doesn’t really bothers me.
You made very pretty pictures of her, good job =)
I’m not sure if the grainy texture of her hair paint bothers me in the sense of “it’s ruined!” I think I just make note of it, accept it, and enjoy having Dwarf as a desk ornament.
I actually broke her tails trying to separate her legs from her torso to get rid of the plastic wrap underneath her bloomers. Hopefully, I have them in the right position. I don’t know about you, but I really had to use a lot of force pulling the pieces apart, resulting in me breaking the tail on her right side. After that I didn’t want to have to do it again to take a couple of non-bloomer shots.
Ah ok, at the moment she’s on my desk as well
In my case nothing broke during unpacking her, the pats were connected quite firm, but I handled Dwarf very careful when I took off all the plastic wrap around her. I think as long as the cold season lasts I’ll have her on display with the bloomers, but I also like her with exposed legs
I thought the female dwarves in L2 were a bit off-putting as well, since the male dwarves look just as you’d expect. It’s a bit strange to see burly, bald, bearded dwarf dudes linked up with smiling, prepubescent little anime-style girls.
I’ve found Orchid Seed to be wildly inconsistent in a number of respects. Ameri Kawai is pretty bad for a technical perspective but their Happoubi Jin figures are excellent. Sometimes they have a real problem getting scale sizes accurate; their Happoubi Jin figures are again fine but the Lineage II elf girl figure seems to be a lot smaller than it should be. Even their sources vary a lot, and they don’t seem to have a favorite franchise to draw from, unlike most other figure makers. I was very surprised when I learned they were making figures based off of a relatively outdated Korean MMO, but as I really like the character designs from that game I’m pretty happy the dwarf girl turned out very nicely. I’m hoping their dark elf figure represents more of the same.
Oh, so the male dwarves in Lineage II are like the typical LotR / Dungeons & Dragons type dwarves? Wow. Getting mental picture…oh this isn’t good at all…lol. So that’s even doubly what the heck, from a trying to apply realism to fantasy worlds perspective.
I’m jealous, this one is so cute, i just love her !
But no money so yeah
Awesome pics as usual and i’m glad to see you posting more figures reviews
Last year was pretty thin on those. I still bought over 20 figures, but reviewed less than half of them. Just had other things capture my interest last year, but seem to be gravitating back toward blogging again whenever work isn’t kicking my butt.
Beautiful shots ^^ I agree she looks much more like a pixie or otherwise, not much like a dwarf as how we know them to be. Nevertheless she’s a near perfect figure, and I think the bloomers add character to her without being cast-off.
Thanks.
It did come out better than I thought it would. Orchid Seed doesn’t have the greatest reputation, so was prepared to be underwhelmed. This often sets you up for a pleasant surprise and that’s always fun.
That first picture just reminded me why you were the one that got me interested in figures in the first place.Those are some really,really gorgeous pictures I could look at all day long.
I am amazed shes called Dwarve though ^^;
Thanks man. That’s definitely my favorite shot in a while. I’m glad I was able to find that sweet spot where it really brings out the character.
wait, this is Orchid Seed?! They’ve come a long way in quality! Maybe I should re-invest!
How can such a cute and well made figure be called a Dwarf!! (and I agree dwarfs have beards no matter the gender)
But she is a wonderfully cute figure. I very much like the detail on this figure and her design.
You do a very great job with your photos!
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