On the japan fan online store you can found tons of action figures or others type of finished anime figures, but not kits
A few reason for that but for starters the time for anime resin & vinyl kits is gone, no longer produced outside events, etc.
Few reasons, action figures took over and became price-wise competitive, another many manufacturers gave up production since piraters of their kits(E2046, Hobbyfan, Animebox, Elfin/Sol/Phantom) flooded the market with cheap copies.
This been going on for a long time so not much 2nd-hand unbuild stock of originals out there.
There are still a few new kits produced(like the HLJ kits), etc but for the most parts you will need to either go online to places like Mandarake, Yahoo/japan, etc to get older kits or get stuck with pirated copies. Or order from the producer directly but many are wary of overseas customers as they are worried about selling to a Pirate.
Also many shows like Belldandy, etc are really old now, know many people that are into the anime but it is older than them.
HTH.
P.S.: Base flat or gloss depends on the base design and how it interacts with the figure, IMHO.
@ bsyamato that is a nice figure of Peorth you got there! Good work getting that result with acrylics, me like
this kit is from E2046 lol [whstl] I think I’ll let the base be flat for now, like you said Mad-Modeler it might distract from the model if the base is all shiny.
Ah! My Goddess is not forgotten. Just a few years ago they made Flight of Fancy and this year they’r making new anime episodes of the series. I really like the 5episode OAV and the first manga volumes, but the following series/manga I mostly follow just because I’m a little in love with Verdandi XD
Today was a good day. School was fun, I had the oportunity to learn the basics of walking with low vision patients. My new cosplay costume arrived with the mail one week ahead of schedule.
And I managed to add the last strokes of paint to Verdandi-sama.
I’m quite proud I managed to complete this project. It’s outside my comfortzone and was at the same time both revarding, fun and exhausting. It could have been better, it could have been a lot worse.
Here’s a few teaser photos, I’ll take “real” photos when I find the time.
I’m sorry to say my attempts at taking photos has failed miserably, can’t seem to get the lighting right. Need to buy a new lamp [:(((] I’ll get to it asap but don’t hold your breath.
By the way, any suggestions ‘how to’ photograph bigger models?
**@**Watchmann I’ll be cosplaying Nodoka Manabe from K-ON. The costume is supposed to be tailored to fit my measurements but is quite wide around the waist. Perhaps I should have someone make it tighter? I won’t have the skirt that short btw (probably). It will be hillarious, I don’t look like her a bit [proplr] The scale is 1.25/1.
Otaku!? haha, yeah maybe I am. Like yesterday when I played the first Killzone start to finish during the evening/night. Mostly I’m just a regular university guy, and that’s how most of my friends know me.
