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What's up with that bag? From the popular anime and manga series Air Gear. Irresistibly attractive, this is one very sexy figure to own!

• Ringo Noyamano as the Masked Hentai remembers to cover her face, but not her backside or much else!
• And what's up with that bag? This quirky, conspicuous rendering of the leader of the Sleeping Forest and current Thorn King (Queen) from Oh! Great's manga Air Gear is the latest piece in Yamato's Story!
• Image! Figure! collection. Based on a piece by Yasuhiro Uchijima, this intoxicating 9-inch tall PVC statue of Ringo faithfully captures her breathtaking beauty and the sculptor's singular technique.
• Every element of her boots, bag, and body embraces an irresistible attraction that makes this one very sexy figure to own. Bag her for yourself! Includes accessories.

Ringo Noyamano as the Masked Hentai remembers to cover her face, but not her backside or much else! And what's up with that bag? This quirky, conspicuous rendering of the leader of the Sleeping Forest and current Thorn King (Queen) from Oh! Great's manga Air Gear is the latest piece in Yamato's Story! Image! Figure! collection. Based on a piece by Yasuhiro Uchijima, this intoxicating 9-inch tall PVC statue of Ringo faithfully captures her breathtaking beauty and the sculptor's singular technique. Every element of her boots, bag, and body embraces an irresistible attraction that makes this one very sexy figure to own. Bag her for yourself! Includes accessories.

He comes on a 25th Anniversary foil card with the Wave 4 figures on the back. Definitely part of the appeal of these figures is the eye-catching character art.

Doc is a great example of re-using parts to create a wholly new figure. It’s basically a repainted Duke body with a new head and new accessories. The familiar stretcher and flare gun accompany Doc, but he also now comes with a silver pistol that fits into a thigh-holster,as well as a packed-in stand that comes with all the figures in the G.I. Joe line. Finally, he has a removable shoulder bag.

A great looking figure and well worth the effort to secure in your collection.

Canda Suami Istri

Seorang lelaki yang pendek dan buruk rupanya suatu hari duduk-duduk bersama istrinya yang sangat cantik. Si lelaki tak berkedip memandang wajah istrinya yang cantik jelita.

Agak tersipu-sipu, sang istri pun sang istri berkata, “Kau ini kenapa sih, kok dari tadi memandangku saja?”

“Kulihat wajahmu,” jawab si suami, “semakin hari kok semakin cantik saja. Maka setiap kali aku melihatmu, semakin bertambah syukurku.”

“Ya, “kata si istri,” dan kita berdua nanti akan masuk surga.”

“Lho, darimana kautahu?”

“Bukankah hamba yang bersyukur dan hamba yang bersabar akan masuk surga. Kau bersyukur karena mendapat anugerah istri seperti aku. Sedangkan aku bersabar mendapat cobaan berupa suami seperti kau."

Saya termasuk seorang pengagum Pak Mustofa Bisri (banyak yang panggil Gus Mus), pemikirannya bagus, juga seorang penyair yang indah namun logis, apa ada yang juga mengagumi beliau?

I donated this one to a charity auction for Friends of Animals that will be held at the October 2008 Chiller Theatre Toy, Model and Film Expo. You can find out more about the Expo at www.chillertheatre.com

Handmade, OOAK art doll. 8.5 inches tall.
Mixed media including fabric and Paperclay.
Copyright © 2008, Shain Erin. All rights reserved.

Skeleton Art Doll 2
Handmade art doll. 10.75 inches tall.
Mixed media including fabric and Paperclay.
Copyright © 2008, Shain Erin. All rights reserved.

This one is currently available at my Etsy Shop

Mummy Art Doll 12
Handmade, OOAK art doll. 7.5 inches tall.
Mixed media including fabric and Paperclay.
Copyright © 2008, Shain Erin. All rights reserved.

This guy is currently available at my Etsy Shop

Mummy Art Doll 9
Handmade, OOAK art doll. 6.25 inches tall.
Mixed media including fabric and Paperclay.
Copyright © 2008, Shain Erin. All rights reserved.

Bati novas fotos dos Nendoroids L e Light Yagami, agora dividindo o mesmo espaço, a mesma base. Juntos eles ficaram  mais bonitinhos e mais legais, compus em minha mente um dialogo.

Para que o diaogo fique legal é necessário ler da direita para a esquerda, como em um mangá.

E seguir a seguencia aqui mostrada, ou os numeros na descrição das fotos.

Como podemos trocar os rostos dos Nendoroids, são muitas as cituaçãoes que podem ser encenadas, essa é apenas uma das que já passou pela minha cabeça. ^_^

L não foi colado a base como o Kira. L é colado apenas a cadeira com fita dupla-face para não cair, e colocado na base do Light. No começo tive muita pena de fazer isso, mas depois me concientizei que era o melhor a fazer e ainda estaria fazendo uma peça considerada única.

Veja também:

Review da Figure Nendoroid Light Yagami (Kira)

Review da Figure Nendoroid L

Review do anime Death Note

Você gosta de inventar histórias com as suas Figures? Gosta de criar suas figures?

This is the first of the Mummy Dolls Series. You can see photos of all of the series on my website: www.shainerin.com
 

Toradora! is one of the new anime series that I'm watching this season that I'm actually somewhat excited about. A while ago, I read the manga up to the latest scanlation, and liked it quite a bit - which is strange because I'm actually somewhat bored of the tsundere genre.

The manga and the anime series is actually based on a Japanese Light Novel of the same name. Toradora! is a comedy/friendship/romance story about a guy named Takasu Ryuji, who gets mistaken by everyone as a violent delinquent (because of his evil looking eyes and face), but in reality, is a super nice guy and couldn't hurt a fly.

Our other protaganist is Aisaka Taiga, a very small, petite, pretty girl, who in reality, is super violent, and seemingly mean and nasty. She's also somewhat clumsy, ditzy and a klutz :P. She is given the nickname "Palmtop Tiger" because of her petite size, but packs a whallop.

At first we are led to believe that Taiga is a mean-spirited girl with no redeeming qualities. But as the story progresses, we see that it isn't really the case, and she is like that for a reason. And you begin to care about her despite the way she acts.

The two's relationship first starts out as practically enemies, then turns to friends and comrades-in-arms working together to succeed in love. Ryuji likes Taiga's best friend, while Taiga likes his. Then as the story continues, you begin to realise that these two are actually a perfect fit, more of a perfect fit than the people they profess to love, as they get closer and closer without them realising it.

Anyway, you're probably saying, enough about the series. Here's more about the figure. The figure is actually based on the cover of the first volume of the manga:

Taiga is sitting on her knees in a "moe" position while holding a little tiger in her palms, long brown hair spread around her. As you can see, the figure is pretty much a perfect rendition of the 2d image. Quite amazing to pull it off.

Specs are as follows:

Scale: 1/8 (She is actually pretty small compared to other 1/8s, but understandable!)
Material: PVC
Sculptor: Hironori Tokunaga
Company: Max Factory
Series: Toradora!
Cuteness Level: Off the charts!

Close up. Pretty much superb. Strangely enough, Taiga is my very first "Max Factory" static PVC. All of my other Max Factory figures are Figmas ^_^;;

The little palmtop tiger thing is actually it's own little figure, freely removeable.

The eyes (optical ones) are painted extremely well. I've noticed that Max Factory figures all have well-painted eyes.

Here is the base she comes with. Pretty plain, except the indentations don't leave much to the imagination ^_^;;

Obligatory bottom view ^_^;;. Don't lie, you were waiting for it, weren't you!

One thing that surprised me is that this figure is actually cast-offable! I had no idea you could do that. Honest. I only found out when I had to remove the plastic protective covers. Honest.

Here she is in her panchira showing glory.

Rear view for those into that stuff.

Close up view, though slightly out of focus. Gomen, too lazy to take a better shot now! Oh yeah, if you can't tell she has a little pink bow on the pantsu. I was expecting a skull and crossbones ^_^;;

Since the chibi tiger is actually it's own figure, you can replace it with other stuff, limited only to your own weird imagination.

A perfect spot for Nagato to read her favourite books.

Mascot pic.

A capsule toy Gundam I got the other day.

Aisaka Taiga, "Nice Boat" version.

And that comes to the end of the review. In conclusion I give Max Factory's Aisaka Taiga a 9/10 score. She would have gotten a 9.5, but the -.5 is because she is static and can't move. Yes I have lightened the penalty for static PVCs, I think I'm getting used to them ^_^;;

All in all, a veritable perfect rendition of the 2d picture that she was based off. If you think you will like Toradora! I definitely recommend this figure. The paint job is excellent, the features sculpted flawlessly. She's super cute. I don't think I can find a fault with this one (other than it being non-articulated of course!).

Aisaka says, "Get this figure!"

Ja Matta! ~Ace

Makes me proud to spend too much money collecting an ever-growing pile of miscellaneous junk. Ah.

Here is dude.. trying to figure how to get started.

Yeah.. he looks happy. But seriously.. he has no clue what he is doing.. See - dude isn't the most practical man in town.. I think he has two left hands and no right. Sum of the cardamum - I'm the boss of the sukkah building. But he sure looks better on a picture.

Sorry hunny for telling this. Love ya!

Anyway.. here's the next picture. Done with the "skeleton"!

And that's how it still looks.. now 22:37.. We'll keep you updated..

... another wallet bleeder... look at how swiftly the sword slices through the cash...

Ah~ How nice! ^^ I also love the firey red hair and the glossy paint treatment. However, in terms of cuteness level, Nendroid Shana (at 3333 Yen) wins hands down. I would love to have her too... if budget allows.

Damage at 2500 Yen (w tax), and will be released in December. Pre-orders are open already but I'll hold my purchase for now. Pre-ordered! x_x

I've not watched the anime, Shakugan no Shana (灼眼のシャナ) that the figure is based on but I've heard that it is hugely popular and spawned a couple of seasons and OVAs.

Landscapes and Contemplations

Kalle Kataila

The first step was to slice the clay figure into half and remove the newspaper and the metal stand. I chose to slice it from the nose with an intention to shorten the nose to the correct proportion. Otherwise, I could have cut the figure along the forehead or hairline to reduce the risk of altering the proportions of the important features on the head. The second step was what we called "hollowing" that involved removing the excessive clay from the figure with the clay thickness at about 1/2 to 3/4 inch.

Well, this already looked like a piece of contemporary art. Next I continued to trim off 1/4 inch rim from the lower half of the head. It was considered a very brave move but I was quite confident.

Hollowing off the clay was quite a fun and therapeutic process as seen in the picture on the left. Joining it back with clay slips was effortless and easy although it did appear to be complicated by looking at the picture on the right.

lesson learnt : take risk, know yourself, know the clay, enjoy what you do.....

I snapped some extra pictures and thought I should upload it here as well.

OK the image are in fact, snapped quickly. And it is hard to get the proper lightning, when it involves a bigger number of figures, combine with my camera that has limited capability, pictures may appear to be below sub-par standard.

OK more picture follows, I didn't filter them out properly so I just random dump the images out =_="

As I say, this is only my Good Smile Company and Max Factory figure collection (I have a few more Alter and Kotobukiya stuffs). And I have a few more incoming this week (1 scaled, 2 nendoroid, 1 figma). Oh my and I started figure collection on February 2008... =_="

這次的Figma竟分開紅髮普通版以及通販限定版, 雖然有人埋怨上下身違和感大, 不夠傲驕等等...

但好在, 小的認為這還有值得入的地方, 那就是:

標準"絕對領域"(剛好到腿的上4分之3),再加上"薛丁格的內褲"

簡直就是天作之合

黑髮版對我來說比較吸引, 可是較難入手...

發售日據說是09年3月

I ended up buying her from ebay like a total cheater, from someone who charged $15 shipping none the less, but it was worth it in the end since I really only wanted about 4 figures from this Series. Remember last time? I spent about $200 and Rachel still had to get me two I was missing, lol! Mushroom Kitty and Rainbow Kitty, here I come!