“Maou Gakuin” alphabet
Summer 2020 brought us the anime "Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha" with another funky on-screen alphabet. By episode 6 I'd seen enough samples to confirm that it is an actual Roman-style…
Another Lunch repaint
An interesting little figure of Lunch riding a monocycle, apparently in the middle of a bank heist. Toriyama loves his vehicular contraptions. There is some fun detail with the dust…
Attack of the JS redirections!
My WordPress was apparently hacked yesterday, and a couple hundred of my posts had their contents replaced or infected with a poorly obfuscated Javascript like < script type=text/javascript > eval(String.fromCharCode(…
Hamefura alphabet
The anime "Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta..." (Hamefura in short) uses an on-screen alphabet that at first looked like random scribbles, but by…
QPosket Emma Watson figure
Since the Maleficent QPosket figure was quite fun and these are ridiculously cheap on the Chinese market, I acquired this Hermione Granger to repaint: Unfortunately the "before" pictures are all…
Raketa 2627 (automatic)
Along with some other watch I bought, I received a 2627 movement in need of service as a free gift. After I repaired it, I bought a frankensteined Raketa Automatic…
Rem and Ram figures
I noticed these on sale and they looked like the base would be fun to paint. However the white trim on the maid uniforms was painted very badly, and repainting…
Another Bulma repaint
In the same "Glitter and Glamours" series as that Lunch figure came this big Bulma. I'm not as thrilled about the engineering of this one; they made her left leg…
Lunch figure (re)paint
Recently I'm noticing an interesting evolution in PVC figures, where it seems much attention is placed on cutting down painting effort, by designing the figure to break down into single-color…
Bulma figure repaint
This poor knock-off of a Banpresto Bulma holding her Dragonball detector has some interesting detailing so I thought it would be fun to repaint, but the mold quality was quite…