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God bless those folks at IKEA. One of the things I’ve lamented over the years is not having a good spotlight to use on something as small as a 1:8 scale figure. There are a number of overpriced photographic lighting solutions, but that’s not what I want to spend money on. I have been using [...]
Figure On Cheap Lighting II: Blocking Light
While lots of light glorious light looks good, sometimes a figure calls for a different mood, such as the PSE-01 figure I recently reviewed. Sometimes you just want a sliver of light and a whole lot of shadow. It’s really a simple thing to do:
Tohsaka Update
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 [...]
Saving Rin Tohsaka
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 [...]
Figure on Cheap Lighting
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 [...]
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