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Caren Hortensia 1/8 by Alter

Saku — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:08:01 +0000

As I promised from my last preview post. my next photo shoot would be the lovely Caren Hortensia by Alter. Hearing the name Alter, we usually have our expectation set to high whether it would be the paint job, sculpt or the overal figure. So far, Alter has not disappointed me even once so will it meet my expectation ? let the pictures decide ^^.

Manufacturer : Alter

Scale : 1/8

Series : Fate Hollow Ataraxia

Character : Caren Hortensia

Released Date : December 2006

Camera : Nikon D40 with stock 18-55mm lens

Price : $50 at DTAC

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This Week’s Loot and Next Photo Shoot Preview

Saku — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:30:23 +0000

As you all probably already know that I can never resist the temptation of getting any anime girl figures with a sword and the two figures above are no exception ^^. Kaori Kanzaki 1/8 by Kotobukiya (Yes I know it’s Koto but she has a sword, Koto or not does not matter to me ^^) so it should be interesting to find out if Koto does a good job on this one. Other figure is Clare from Claymore by MegaHouse. It’s pretty old figure but was re-released again last month.

I got Kanzaki Kaori for 6,460 yen and Clare for 5,225 yen from Hobby Search. Not a bad price for both but with the currency rate these days, they become quite expensive. Not to mention the cost of shipping and border fee. /sigh >.> Are you guys cutting back on your figure/figma spending during this recession ?

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The lovely Caren Hortensia 1/8 by Alter which I purchased back in December at DTAC ^^

Caren Hortensia 1/8 PVC by Kotobukiya

Saku — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:15:00 +0000

My 2nd Caren Hortensia figure which I bought from Anime North 2008 back in May. The first one is made by Griffon Enterprise (check my entry for the other Caren Hortensia figure) while this one is made by Kotobukiya. It’s an old figure and originally released in September 2006. Hobby Link Japan has this figure in stock in case anyone is interested ^^.

I wish I know more about Caren aside from the obvious source (wiki) and other various anime site. I haven’t played the game so I don’t really know a lot about her and I don’t think I am going to play the game anytime soon ^^;; since it’s in Japanese.

For this photoshoot, I decided to use yellow background just because I feel like it lol and since Caren’s clothes are mostly black, the yellow background blends easily with black clothers (at least I think so ^^). After couple photoshoot sessions, I suddenly feel like doing outdoor photo shoot. It was cloudy when I did it but it didn’t really stop. The setting was on my house backyard which is unattended and makes a great place for outdoor photo shoot sessions.

This figure comes with a base but I decided not to use it.

I have nothing to complain regarding this; good sculpture and nice painting all around. I love details on her eyes ,although, the wooden base could have been better. I think the outdoor photo shoot came out better than the indoor ones. It seemed to come out little bit darker than I expected. What do you guys think ?

Details

Manufacturer : Kotobukiya

Scale : 1/8

Series : Fate/Hollow Ataraxia

Character : Caren Hortensia

Released Date : September 2006

Check out another photoshoot by Prim3.

PS: Akatsuki Mashiro will be my next photo shoot and it will be an outdoor photoshoot ^^

Caren Hortensia 1/7 scale PVC by Griffon Enterprise

Saku — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:28:54 +0000

It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Fate series ^_^ so most of my figures are from the Fate series. Caren Hortensia is one of the characters in Fate / Hollow Ataraxia ( フェイト/ホロウアタラクシア). I haven’t read the novel yet but it does not stop me from getting this figure.

I bought this figure from www.hlj.com for ¥4,290 (approximately ~$41). It’s quite challenging to take some pictures since my lightbox is kinda limited in term of space and this figure is pretty wide because of her red cloth of Magdala.

Front view

45° Angle

Side View

Back View

Her leg ^^

Side View

Weird angle shoot ^^

Griffon certainly did a nice job on this figure. I like her eyes the most since it’s painted in detail. The red cloth is not detachable unfortunately but she looks weird without her red magdala. I was hoping it is when I saw this figure at Hobby Link Japan. Oh well, she looks elegant with her reg magdala ^^ anyways

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