Choun White

Here's a project that I did over the summer. When I picked up my Ikki Tousen Choun figure, I was quite surprised at how green it was.

Here she is with my Macross Frontier Sheryl Nome. With shot of the back and the "lift up" feature.



After showing this to my buddy Hsunami Prime, he also commented on how green she was. He also pointed out in the pre production photos that her armor color was a light grey and almost white. This made me wonder how she would look in a white and gold color scheme. Upon hearing that, Hsu said that he'd like to see Choun in those colors. So, I took up the challenge and gave it a try.



That was a good start and I thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea, but I kept at it and the results were pretty good.





The right side of Choun's shoulder armor is still green and unpainted. It's hard to paint it with her hair in the way and can only be done by taking her apart. So, I decided to leave it in a weird quirky sort of way. I also didn't paint her feet for similar reasons and I think leaving some green in is alright.




I learned some things while doing this re-paint and it was a very good practice for when or if I get into building resin kits. All in all I like her in the white color and I feel it better matches her than the green.

Ichiban Kuji Lucky Draw Ranka Lee

The final fig in the Ichiban Kuji Premium Macross Frontier lottery, prize C Ranka Lee. She's the other heroine in Macross Frontier. She starts off as a regular high school girl who starts dreaming of becoming a singer and starts to pursue it. Anyway, she's the shows Moe girl character and was pretty good at it. The seiyuu Megumi Nakajima did a great job voicing her and her singing voice was a welcome change to a lot of the high pitched screechy not as talented seiyuu's from the past.

Onto the figure. Her colors are similar to the other figs, Primarily silver, but this time with a light green trim. Her concert costume is cute and fits her character. She comes with her pet Ai-kun and can be attached to the base.

She's got a frilly skirt painted in white with a silver skirt on top. The frills can be seen from the back as well.

Her stockings go past the knees and stops just below her skirt.

The pose is her typical "kira" pose made famous by her performance of "Seikan Hikou" that caused a bunch of unruly and rebellious Zentraedi to get massive "moe overload". It's quite a famous pose now.

Other side of the pose.

Based on the pics, it is obvious that there's plastic in between her body and her skirt. The skirt is cast-off and the plastic can be removed. She can then be posed without the skirt and she then has a sexier pose with just her panties. Alas, I faced great difficulty in pulling the figure apart to cast off the skirt. It's just as well since she went back into the box right after. However, she seems quite prudish because of this compared to how Sheryl automatically split and casted off the skirt all by herself when I pulled her out of the box. ;)

My final thoughts on this Ranka fig. The sculpt is good like the others with simple details on the dress. The color is simple, but I like it. The pose is good and captured her character well. So all in all a nice figure to have. With that my posts about these Premium figs are done.

Ichiban Kuji Lucky Draw Sheryl Nome

The B prize figure of the Ichiban Kuji Macross Frontier premium set is Sheryl Nome. She's one of the main characters of the show and proved to be quite popular among the fans. I think she's a pretty good character and her designs with various outfits are HOT.

This figure has her wearing a stage outfit for when she's performing a concert. The design is pretty good and shows off her sexy body pretty well. The colors are primarily Silver with red trimmings and a white string on her top.

There's a big bow around the back of her waist and you can see it from the front. Below is a pic of how it looks from the back.

From her right, you can see her body a little better since her left arm isn't outstretched.

Her top is like a corset that ties just below her breasts. It accentuates her "assets" quite well.

Her skirt is sculpted to show off some skin underneath. Below, the skirt is ruffled or lifted up enough to see a little bit of ass cheek :D.

And of course, the skirt is removable so that a much sexier pose can be attained. Hmm, white panties? She seems like the type to wear a much more fancier and sexier selection.

Rear view with a better view of that bow. Looking good from the back too. :)

From her right.

From this angle it looks quite sexy.

So there it is, Sheryl Nome. The sculpt is good. The head, hair, and face isn't as great as the Megahouse one, but it's close. The color is real good since I dig the simpler color and the silver makes it even more special over the normal one. The pose is spot on to the character. Over all, this is one hot fig because of the cast off skirt. A nice addition to my collection.

Black Rock Shooter Miku Figma part 3

Today, I set aside some time to work on this project. Specifically, the flaps on the boots. I took a piece of rubber band that we use at work to bundle up asparagus (really, I did). I cut it into appropriate lengths. I then paint it flat black and then I painted the white stripes using flat white.

As can be seen above, I also painted the white stripes on Miku's shins to represent the zipper. I let the fig sit there to dry and got to painting the left ponytail of Miku's hair. I also painted the joints to match and I painted the hair ties white.

The hair is pretty much done, except for a couple of little spots. I'll paint those when I finish this up. While the hair dried, I took the rubber flaps and glued them onto her shins. I sort of messed up on the left leg, but it's not that bad. I then put the fig back together to see how she looks.

Not bad so far. With the boots done, I can now move onto the belt. I still need to make her bra and I've gathered some materials for it. I also need to paint her hands black so that she's wearing gloves. Looks like I'm nearing the completion of this project and it feels pretty good.

Ichiban Kuji Klan Klan

So yesterday I posted the box and group shots of the Ichiban Kuji Lucky Draw Premium set from Macross Frontier by Banpresto. Whoa, it's a mouthful that one.

Anyway, onto Klan Klan. She is one of the sub-characters that pilots a Queadlun Rea and is also the unit commander of the other 2 Queadlun Reas. There's also a story line between her and Alto's friend Michael. The figure I have here is her Macronized version in her pilot suit. It's actually quite nice in person and I'm digging the silver and blue color scheme.

A closer shot of her chest reveals just how "talented" she is and makes one wonder how tight of a fit it is to get in the Queadlun Rea.

The back view. Looks good and very appealing.


She also looks good from the side and you can see the blue go up to her chest.



My final thoughts on this Klan fig is that Banpresto did a pretty good job with the sculpt. She looks like her counter part in the show and her proportions are sexy. The coloring is simple with it being Silver and Blue, but I dig simple colors like that. The pose is good like she just took her helmet off or walking away/towards her Queadlun Rea. As a Macross fan, I definitely don't regret getting this figure and I'm glad it's part of my collection.

Macross Frontier Lucky draw figures

Yay, today I took a break from playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare2 and visited my friends at Toyslogic to pick up some figures. I came home with all 3 of the special prize figures from the Ichiban Kuji Lucky draw. These figures are made by Banpresto and it's actually the 2nd run of the lottery. The first ones had all 3 figures in normal colored dress. This 2nd version, as you all can see above, is in silver. I've been told that only 800 were made. I don't know if that's true or whether or not its 800 sets or 800 pieces in total. The important thing is that I now own a set.

So, onto box images. Here's the front of the box of Prize A, Klan Klan in her Macronized form.


And the back of the box

Now onto the box of Prize B, Sheryl Nome. Front.

And the back.

Finally the box of Prize C, Ranka Lee. Front.

And the back.

The boxes are pretty standard figure boxes. The figures can be seen from the window up front and the back has production pics of the product. Kinda boring talking about boxes, so let's go to some group shots like the one at the beginning of this post. Here you can see the size difference between all 3 figs. Klan is of course the tallest, Ranka the smallest, and Sheryl sort of in between.

The display base for each one of them spells out S.M.S. which stands for "Strategic Military Services" if I remember correctly. The bases don't have connecting joints or anything messy like that. All I did was stand them next together which is straight forward and simple.

Some more pics. I should invest in some better lighting for this sort of thing. :)






So that's it for today. I took pics of each one of the girls and I'll just do a separate post for each of them with some info on the character and my thoughts on the figs themselves. Tomorrow I'll start things off with Klan Klan the hot macronized meltrandi. Hotness+1.