Kino Makoto repaint
This figure of my second favorite senshi was liberally covered in spilled glue. I got the glue off eventually, but some paint was damaged in the process. My green paint…
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Kino Makoto repaint
Black Rock Shooter repaint
This has to be a bootleg because I bought it for 23$ but it was fairly convincing: Black Rock Shooter animation version. I wanted this for the stunning engineering, cool…
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Black Rock Shooter repaint
Making a plywood stock (tutorial)
Someone asked me to describe my process for the plywood stocks I made for airsoft rifles. I’m not in any sense an expert on this, so I thought it best…
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Making a plywood stock (tutorial)
WTF Taito Figure
Sometimes we come across mindbogglingly poor design choices. I got this used Shirai Kuroko figure for $6.38. They apparently thought skinny little Kuroko needed a huge base, 2 retaining pins…
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WTF Taito Figure
C18 Lazuli repaint (semi-tutorial)
I nabbed a C18 figure, it’s really tiny (12cm/4.5″) and pretty cute in her RR uniform. The figure breaks down in 3 pieces (legs, skirt, upper body) so it fits…
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C18 Lazuli repaint (semi-tutorial)
Sakura Kyouko repaint
A Banpresto prize figure I got new for $23, this was perhaps the most sloppily finished one I’ve received so far. Fortunately she came in several parts so fixing was…
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Sakura Kyouko repaint
Luna Nova clocks
There are some interesting “zulu time” clocks in Little Witch Academia. This one is in the Luna Nova library in the Enchanted Parade: But something puzzles me; the top half,…
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Luna Nova clocks
Sorami Kanata repaint
I repainted a used figure of Sorami Kanata in summer uniform with her bugle. It was a bit scuffed and the original paint had splatters, I also thought the base…
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Sorami Kanata repaint
Ro-500
Japan has the curious penchant to personify anything from computer operating systems to deadly sins as cute manga girls. In the Kadokawa game Kantai Collection, the girls are World War…
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Ro-500
Shamefur Dispray
This has to be the most sloppily painted authentic, new, straight from Japan PVC figure I’ve yet come across. I didn’t even bother to assemble it because it definitely needs…
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Shamefur Dispray