Posts Tagged ‘1:6-scale’
Saber Maid Servant
October 8th, 2007
I’m really a bad master and a terrible magus for Saber. My only trick? I conjure Skittles that “accidentally” land on the floor, which my domestic Saber servant has to pick up with her fingers. A few months of this Skittle trick has given Saber some knock out American thighs, as AC/DC would call them. They look powerful. It was just like Archer said, picture the win in your mind and yadda, yadda, yadda.
Happy Wedding Azusa
September 13th, 2007
It was almost two in the morning by the time I got home. My head was foggy and just wanted to fall asleep, but needed to unravel a little from the reception, out of the suit, in front of a fan and just clear the swamp from my entire body. Azusa got married. It was the perfect day and Azusa looked spectacular. When she strolled down the aisle and I felt the sweet breeze of her walking past make its way across my face, I thought one of these days I need to get me someone like her, except, you know, larger than 1/6 scale and not an anime or video game character.
Tohsaka Update
May 11th, 2007
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.
Saving Rin Tohsaka
April 16th, 2007
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?
Yuukanalia, a Gratuitous and Enchanting Figure
January 14th, 2007
When anime girls find themselves in a rush, late for school, an appointment, or a date, with a high degree of certainty it means they’re going to trip and if they’re going to trip undergarments will be flashed. So long as it’s in a raunchy comedy, that’s a nice bonus. It’s kind of annoying when a show that is trying to be more serious goes for a cheap flash, but that’s for another blog entry that I’ll probably never write. Judging from this figure, it appears that Yuukanalia, a character from the Enchanter manga, was in a rush and tripped on some phantom piece of sidewalk.
