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Sakura Matou 1/6 by Griffon Enterprise

Saku — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:18:34 +0000

After my previous double date Asa-senpai at harbour front couple weeks ago, Sakura had demanded me to take her out for a date and as a sign of jealousy, she wouldn’t let me to take her pictures until I do so. Not only that, since she is competing with Asa-senpai, she also wanted me to take her for a trip to Niagara Falls. She had never been there apparently ^^;; and t0 my surprise, she didn’t mind tagging along with my family who happened to be going to Niagara Falls as well. When we arrived at Niagara Falls, she told that she would keep her promise and let me take some pictures of her while enjoying the scenery of Niagara Falls . She was very excited since it’s her first time her and told me to hurry up and take some pictures of her. She was demanding, wasn’t she ? but she kept her promise and let me took some pictures of her.

She likes Niagara Falls so much that she wanted to have her pictures taken using Niagara Falls as the background.

This figure was released back on February 2007 so it’s quite an old figure considering the amount of figures being released every year. I barely remember when I bought this figure, although, I do think it was last year when I just started collecting figures. One thing that I am not sure of is the scale. It states that it’s 1/6 but the figure itself is more like 1/8 than 1/6 because 1/6 figures that I have are much bigger than this one. If there is a life size Sakura, she must be a pretty tiny girl ^^.

After along walk along the falls, Sakura and I went to a nearby park. She was little bit wet from the water falls but I was not really worried because her uniform is fully waterproof ^^ , although, I was hoping it’s not if you guys know what I meant ^^.

This is one of my favorite picture of her among others. The flowers background and some leafs beside her seemed to fit her image nicely

This would be my favorite picture of her. The angle is just perfect and the flowers match with her eyes colour and hair colour.

Browse through all pictures using the slideshow below ^^

Review

I am not sure if it is because I have been getting too many figures from Alter or GSC but I started noticing the different quality in particular, the paint job. I may be biased but other manufactures seemed not to be not as good as Alter or GSC, the attention to details are great and beyond expectation.. As for this figure, the paint job is pretty good but I don’t like her eyes and face for some reasons. I don’t think her face looks closed enough to Sakura in the anime/eroge version (I am justbeing nitpicked here). As a typical Griffon’s figure, this figure comes with a clear based and her name + series engraved on top it. I didn’t bother to bring it because it’s pretty much a hindrance during outdoor photo shoot. She is a 2-part figures as you can separate her top and her bottom part. Other than her eyes + hair, her uniform is nicely painted and her socks adds a moe factor(I think) to her.

During the photoshoot ( not exactly a photo session but it’s more like I took pictures as I walked ), I was kinda in hurry especially the ones with Falls’ background because the wind was quite strong so I was really worried that the wind might blow my figure away >.> . The funny thing is that my mom was more worried about the figure that I was lol ^^;; and she told me to hurry up and took some photos. Even though I took a lot of photos with the Falls’ background, unfortunately, only some of them turned at least decent because the rest is too bright. One thing that I found really annoying about outdoor photoshoot is the fact when the result on the screen of your camera and on your computer is totally different. I couldn’t measure if the result is too bright or too dark (damn sun) on the screen.

Manufacturer : Griffon Enterprise Inc.

Scale : 1/6

Series : Fate/Hollow Ataraxia

Character : Matou Sakura

Released Date : February 2007

Camera : Nikon D40 with stock 18-55mm lens

Price : Couldn’t remember where I got her and for how much -_-;; 5,600 Yen at HLJ

Location : Niagara Falls

Previous photo shoot: here (my old photoshoot back in February 2008)

Image via Gelbooru

Last but not least, Happy Mothers Day

Tousaka Rin Gallery

Saku — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:49:46 +0000

Image via Gelbooru

Somewhat bored and couldn’t sleep so I thought I would post something but then I didn’t really have a topic in mind. I am sure you guys wouldn’t mind some treats with Tohsaka Rin gallery to get through up coming final exams. Hopefully the gallery may relieve some stress from school/work ^^ and good luck with your exams everyone ^^.

Don’t forget to check my previous Saber’s gallery where I believe that I sent GNdynames to heaven ^^. More pictures below and they can be NSFW so proceed with your own risk.

Image via Gelbooru

Image via Konachan

Image via Gelbooru

Image via Konachan

Image via Moe Imouto

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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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 ^^

Sakura Matou 1/7 Scale PVC Bikini Version by Griffon

Saku — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:13:32 +0000

It feels like forever since my last figure post and I tried something new during this photo shoot. That’s right….. I used black background. I’ve been using white background since the beginning so a change would be nice and the result turned out pretty good imo ^^.

I got this figure a while back in April from Hobby Link Japan for 5600 Yen / $50. One thing I like about Griffon Enterprises’ products is the figure base because there is always a name plate on it ^^ and the base is shiny too.