Wonderful Hobby Life For You Festival, what I'm looking forward to!

I'm sure many of you enjoyed the glorious stream of figure announcements coming in over the weekend but also felt your wallets quivering in fear at the inevitable amount of money you may end up spending! I know I felt that way. There was plenty of good things shown and announced which I was happy to see though there's only maybe two or three I will be pre ordering at the moment. I only work part time so I can't afford more than that really. What I definitely know I'll be ordering is
This gorgeous 1/6 scale Rise Kujikawa Dancing All Night figure! The biggest figure I own is 1/7 so this will be amazing *__* I'm scared of how much she will cost though!

(source: Phat company's twitter)

I'm also very excited to see that the Majora's Mask version of Link nendoroid has been painted!

He looks very strong and ready to fight, I hope we see his accessories soon. I'm sure all LoZ fans are hoping he will come with all the masks. It'd be a massive shame if he doesn't.

(source: twitter)

Other awesome announcements include the painted Kirby nendoroid, painted Marth nendoroid, Shiina nendoroid sculpt, a Persona 3 Evoker 1/1 scale garage kit (so much want wow!), Pokemon Trainer N nendo, Megaman nendo, Anna from Frozen nendo and a new Labrys figure!

They're also announced they're going to do a figma of the MC/Makoto from Persona 3!! I'm not a huge figma person but I feel I will definitely have to have this. It's hard to get your hands on the older Persona 3 merch these days. I'm so glad the movies have helped spur on new merchandise!

As I expected, there is an absolute stock pile of Love Live figures coming out, they're all beautiful but there's no way I can have all of them. I'm already planning to have all of the current set by the end of the year but I'm getting tempted by the training versions of the girls now! I think I may be able to restrain myself to just ordering the three main characters but I guess we'll see ;)

Also announced, a Captain America nendoroid! I think this will look adorable, he suits the style really well.

What caught your eye at the WonFes? Let me know :D

Senbonzakura Miku Nendoroid

A while back this awesome version of Miku arrived. I did a quick little shoot with her in the rain so I have a few photos to share with you already. The details are very intricate and carefully painted. There aren't many flaws on this one that I've found. She comes with a few accessories including a bike! I haven't photographed the bike yet but naturally I will. It looks brilliant I promise you!

I wouldn't mind cosplaying this outfit, I love the influence on the style!

Tiny badges!

There's even detail on the back of her jacket.

Holland Park figure photos!

I went to Holland Park the other month with my friend Mick0las and we got some really nice photos of our figures. It was such a beautiful day there and the perfect atmosphere for the figures I wanted to shoot. You can see the photos I took of the actual park here! Apologies for being pretty quiet on my blog over the past month or two, I'm so behind on my editing and such. I am catching up though and I have a lot of new stuff to post soon!

As always I am open to constructive criticism on my work, I can't improve if you don't tell me what I'm doing wrong :)

I also post almost daily photos and news on my Facebook page and Twitter!

Here's a few portraits of Itoshiki sensei, he is a continual favourite subject for me. I just can't get enough of his perfectly painted face and mature aura. (apart from when he's spiralling into despair haha)

On this one you can see I tried to go for that 'old photo' style, it suits him really well. Plus I wanted to bring in a bit of SHAFT animation influence too,

I hope you like the colours here as much as I do, managed to get an autumn feel even though it's summer here ;)

Metal Oopah....

My Kyoko nendoroid and Mick0las' Shimakaze nendoroid!

*HUMS MAGICAL GIRL THEME INTENSELY*

Don't leave Okarin.....

(Mayuri nendoroid belongs to Mick0las)

Metal Oopah!

(belongs to Mick0las)

The details on Shima chan are so cute, I should get into this fandom. I love the designs!

Shima's nose <3

W-what are you looking at??

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*sparkles*

new arrival! Wind Waker Link!

At last this adorable little hero is mine. I wanted him last year but he sold out very fast and any retailers carrying Link were asking for a lot more than the RRP (understandable considering his popularity). So I was pleased when they announced a re-run due for late June! I ordered Link from amiami and he come very fast via air mail. I was so surprised by his quick arrival I forgot it was him coming and got confused about what I'd ordered when the package arrived. Heh. Toon Link is my favourite version of the character, he is simply so cute and charming. Plus those big expressive eyes always capture my heart! I took a few quick photos as the sunset the other evening provided some beautiful greens and golds. I hope you like them. There will be more in the near future for sure, I just need to stop melting from the heatwave we're having here at the moment first!

My first time adding effects to a photo in this way, any constructive criticism is very welcome!

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The cutest feet!