Nadie, El Cazador
February 29th, 2008
Nadie let the man run down the ravine at full speed. A wake of dust that his feet kicked up from the dry riverbed trailed in the moonlight as he ran. He stumbled and kept going on all fours, using his hands, like an animal for who standing up straight asked too much of his spine. The sight and sound of the man breathing and whimpering would have been funny if he weren’t about to die.
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Nadie kept far enough behind so that she wouldn’t breathe in any of it. She knew he wouldn’t get away. Most prey thin themselves out of the herd and he wasn’t special enough to overcome the habit of prey. After a couple hundred paces, the man broke his leg or shattered his knee — it didn’t matter. He writhed on the ground like a broken race horse churning up the earth, unable to follow the track to the finish. Except there was no sympathetic crowd looking on, holding their breath, waiting for someone to end the misery that they wished no majestic creature deserved to feel. The man, just a man, not fortunate enough to be a magnificent creature, was alone in holding his breath waiting for that sweet shot as Nadie walked beside him and raised her gun to put him down.
“If you have any last words, you better say them now,” she said.
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Review of Nadie from Alter
These days you really have to get nit-picky if you don’t want to gush every time you review a figure. Either that or come up with ways that the figure could have been even better just to have something to say other than come up with new ways to say something is awesome. In this case, a more interesting base would be my pick for making this excellent Nadie figure even better, but this is Alter, and it seems their design philosophy is to put all the focus on the figure itself and make the bases as plain as possible so as not to take any attention away from the girl.
Focus on the girl is a good philosophy.
There is a fairly legitimate nit-pick though. Her fingers seem a little sausage-like rather than paying mind that fingers actually have a complex bone structure. Other than that, pure gold.
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Picture Notes
I need to remember and to adhere to the “focus on the girl” philosophy myself sometimes. It’s too easy to get sidetracked into playing around and trying to do something different and/or not doing something because you’ve already done something similar recently.
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Sadly, my current obsession with over-saturation continues. Lucky for you, Mukyaa and Toys Works came through with better shots.
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March 1st, 2008 at 1:13 am
I tend to not like figures that require poles to hold them up as it looks very distracting to me. Plus not much of a El Cazador fan hence not a fan of this figure at all. Still, it’s a nice figure and great photos as usual.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:24 am
Figure that are sculpted in motion are my favorite kind of figure… and this one simply gorgeous
Thanks for sharing
March 1st, 2008 at 2:03 am
I agree that the fingers could be better but other than that the figure looks nice. A bit too leaned back but it can be looked over as the flow of the clothing distracts you from it.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:52 am
Wow, amazing photos! Great figure too!
March 1st, 2008 at 4:22 am
Haha your first words in the review chapter are so true. Hard to find the best way to say the figure is awesome by other means than the last review ^^;
Now you mention it, it seems that fingers could have been better designed, indeed.
2nd photo from the end is definitely the side/view if prefer for this figure. Excellent shot.
I really appreciate Nadie character, even if the show was… well everybody knows about its poor content ^^ But still, I like it.
Though, the yellow-backgrounded pictures looks a bit “too much” to me :/
And thanks for mentionning those very few pics of mine ^^;
March 1st, 2008 at 6:02 am
Breathtaking pics.
March 1st, 2008 at 6:47 am
“Sadly, my current obsession with over-saturation continues. Lucky for you, Mukyaa and Toys Works came through with better shots.”
Don’t worry, I do that a lot too whenever I play around with curves.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Over saturating pictures work well too if you don’t exaggerated that is. This figure of Nadie is really awesome, I passed on her because I thought that she was being hold only with one peg and that pose could pose a real threat, so now I know that she’s being hold by two pegs and I regret so much on passing on her :(.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 am
I agree with Leopold - dynamic figures like this really stand out, largely overcoming any sausage-like properties.
Love the second pic. Like, “Hunter in Cotton.”
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 am
I found out that she looks more natural without her cloak on, although I must say that the cloak itself looks great already.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Seriously - your photos make these products look like they should be worth 90% more than their original price.
Esp your Alicia pics - how big is a 1/6 anyway?
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
You got the figurine correctly focused and blurred the flowers, great photos!
btw, what did you use for those white flower?
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I’m a bit partial to the dynamic posed figures myself, even the mid-air ones with metal posts, though two posts is a little harder to ignore than one.
Rain, i like the cape, but it does hide curve her body is in.
Helena, 1/6 figures vary in size depending on manufacturer and how accurate they’re trying to be to the height of the character, but they’re usually between 10-12 inches normally.
~ron, I don’t remember what the flowers are called, but I found them in with the dried flowers at the craft store. I bought them almost a year and a half ago for the Anemone photos.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Those pics with the white flower stuff look really nice! I haven’t seen much of El Cazador, and don’t really know much about the character, but Nadie looks to have a great body (nice job Alter lol) and that pose is really fun to look at. I enjoy a good dynamic pose myself.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
She really is pretty. I love the 2nd and third pictures!
March 5th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Good dinamic pose!
March 5th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I’m a sucker for colour saturation when I make icons, so I love those other shots too XD The anime was forgettable, but Nadie is definitely one of the best dynamic pose figures out there.