New Arrival: Figma Aya Shameimaru

I feel like I haven't taken any decent pictures lately.  Or ever.

Got Aya a week ago, actually, so I've had a little bit of time to mess with her.  Although I was also experiencing a collapse of my health at the same time, so not much really got done.  Ordered her through Yokatta's middleman service, and apparently I managed to stick an order in about a week before she was sold out at Nico Nico's web shop thing.

But this is still going to probably be a pretty lacking post.

I may need to apologize in advance for the lighting and coloring of these pictures.  I bought myself a new monitor and naturally, the colors are all different and I'm still trying to work out the balance.  But it's better than my old monitor was, at least.  Lovely, wonderful, minimal heat-producing LEDs!

Accessories!  Aya has her wings, her bird, three total faces, her fan, five total pairs of hands, bits for the bird to attach to the stand, support bits for her geta, and then the usual Figma stuff.  The hands are kind of interesting since she doesn't have quite as many of the typical Figma hands.  Aya's got a splayed pair, fist pair, newer/open grip hands, a single older/closed grip hand for the right hand, and specific hands for her pen, camera, and notebook (the notebook is also the only removable one).  I'm not entirely sure why she has the lone grip hand, unless it's meant for the fan.  It's at about the same angle as the other two grip hands.

I rather like the design of the di:stage cover.

Aya's wings connect to her back in the same style as they did on Hayate Yagami, except it works a lot better here because the attachment piece is thinner, so more of the peg can actually go in.  The wings are also tougher than Hayate's.  And they look very nice.

We gave your Figma shoes for her shoes so she can stand without her stand!  They work quite well, too.  Though I don't know how much I'll actually use them, since Aya feels the same way my Revoltech Nanaels do, in that I'm naturally inclined to put them in floaty poses.

An earlier attempt at what I was trying to do with the first image.

Aya's a Figma like any other, so there's really not too much to talk about in terms of articulation.  The bottom of her shirt, where it overlaps the skirt, is made of soft plastic so it doesn't impede the waist so much.  The shoulders of the shirt are also made of soft plastic and are floating to stay out of the way of shoulder movement.  That skirt is still hard plastic, however, so the hips are still limited there, but at least it's a short skirt in a 'dynamic' sculpt.

*dun-nun*

*dun-nun*

*Jaws theme*

And I broke one of Reimu's neck joints trying to set this picture up.  Still haven't gotten it fixed right, Goodsmile and Max Factory need to start selling packs of spare joints like Kaiyodo does with the Revolver joints.  If I ever see some ultra-cheap Nendoroids again I'll have to consider getting one to cannabalize.

Getting all the hot details from another Aya!  And having two different characters named "Aya" is causing me problems with my file names.

Have to get those all-important pictures somehow.

Might as well headswap the two Ayas.  Too bad I don't have a little mirror.

Getting good pictures of wild Takolukas can be difficult!

And now for some assorted pictures.

Grabbed a few pictures of Reimu outside since today was a nice day and I was not being couped up in my damn cubicle.

I need a small Japanese garden or something like that.

Also recently picked up the pink female Halo: Reach Spartan.  The paint is sloppy as hell.  Hopefully, this will be the last McFarlane Spartan I'll want to get, though I still want to get one of the Play Arts ones.

Girls kissing girls.

And I managed to get my Wonfes consolation prize stand from the photo contest.  I just don't have anything to use it with except Petit Nendos at the moment.

Now, back to waiting for Jehuty!  And work on comics, I suppose.  At least I have ideas!