Here’s Rin a few weeks after bending her back into shape. There’s a little bit of warp coming back, but I expected that since the inner tube she’s carrying makes for an imbalance and I didn’t do anything to counteract that weight. So, while the hot water method is a pretty good way of reshaping the figure, it still doesn’t deal with why the figure warped in the first place. At least, it’ll extend the display life for a couple of months depending on the figurine.

The image on the left was taken on April 24 and the one on the right on May 11:

On the other hand, it gives me a reason to start rotating the figures on display instead of just buying another display case to fill up with pvc. And Erwin writes a little about figure warpage and prevention.

My Rin has slowly started to lean. That’s the big crap-shoot with collecting anime gals, whether she’ll stay out of the box perfect perky or if she’ll be leaning like a smooth criminal in 48 hours. Figure warp is not limited to the lesser manufacturers. Even PVC figurines from the top companies lean, for example Max Factory’s Ignis or my Rin Tohsaka from Alter. So, why do figures lean anyway, how to prevent warping, how to predict if a figure will lean, and how to fix it if she decides to play limbo?

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“Kyon!”

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Collecting figures is a lot of fun and part of the fun is getting to show them to other people who might enjoy looking at them. Sure most of your friends will humor you, if they don’t make fun of you first, so it’s not as much fun showing off your brand new figure to them. As with many things that appeal to a certain crowd, like anime and video game character figures, sharing the joy often means going online and for that you need pictures. This blog entry is a tutorial on how to better show off your figures to other figure enthusiasts on the net by taking better photos of your collection to share.

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