German Armour

Hey look, Moé Idolatry actually updated :O
Today, it’s a short post on two figure I just got in that I *HAVE* to show.

Some of you may know (or not…), I’m a huge fan of Mecha Musume, particularly Shimada Fumikane’s (or Humikane) work.

So when I heard about these two I instantly pre-ordered ^^;

So, here’s the two Panzerkamfwagen II (20mm armament) Ausf. F – Sd.Kfz 121

May as well start with wallpapers, the next three are at 1920×1080

Bonus! Here’s a custom weathered Stug III Ausf A Mecha Musume trading figure.

UPDATE:
Here’s some specs :P
1/10 Scale PVC
Comes with interchangeable legs (mecha type and normal type)
Interchangeable right arm (up position and down position)
Hats are magnetically attached.
Photos showing mecha legs and switched heads.

Greetings & Salutations!

This is Rinka here, Nice to meet you all!~
I’ll be a new co-writer here on moeidolatry.com!

As fellow avid Dollfie Dreamer, I will also bring in my pair of beautiful girls who I’d like to also introduce; Ran & Yukari Yakumo. And from their many years of travels, living through many ages of the world, they are willing to share their adventures and knick-knacks with you lovely readers.

I myself will be helping to cover pop culture events like Manifest and Supanova by sharing photos and writing about my expeditions at the shows.

A little about myself? Well… I guess you could say I am a large fan of kemonomimi (mainly Kitsune/Fox) girls, along with kuu-dere, onee-sama and motherly anime archetypes who posses various voluptuous assets heheh… ^^;;. I tend to be a cool and level headed in most situations, I’m not afraid to voice what I think and can be a real critic when it comes down to my passions which are Dollfie Dreams, anime and pop culture.

With this I leave you some of my creations, an image of Yukari surrounded with only a fraction of the collection accumulated over the lifetimes she has seen through, Ran Yakumo looking ever so warm and sweet, and lastly Sakura Matou at Rayong beach in Thailand from one of my first ever shoots.
I do hope you will enjoy and look forward to my future work

Sincerely,
Rinka

i<3u

Managed to get my girls some gifts in my busy schedule ^^;

Hope they like to share the bear too lol.

I thought about getting them cake, but I think I’ve been feeding them too much of it (in other words, I think I’ve been having too much cake…)

They look like they enjoy the bear :D
Though, will they share it nicely or not…?
Will I need to buy another bear? =/

Arturia seems to like the hearts, and Evelyn is quite content with it…even if she pretends not to.

Anyway, for those singles out there (technically me…), happy singles awareness day!

Dollfie Dream mini-gather

Today was quite eventful :D
A few friends decided to bring their dollfies along to mingle with each other, naturally I decided to let one of mine come along too. The location? OzAnimart, a lil anime store in Melbourne Australia.
Evelyn has visited OzAnimart before, so I guess it’s Arturia’s turn to socialise.

As I wasn’t expecting any photos, I didn’t bring my regular gear, instead I had to make do with my lil old faithful, the Nikon Coolpix P2 snapshot camera.

I borrowed Will’s dollfie’s black wig and tried it on Arturia, the result was pure sex (well… I thought so).

The next few photos include the other girls. DDDy Yoko belongs to a friend, and Aisha (DDDy Kanu) belongs to Will.

So ya, overall a fairly fun day, always feels nice having friends who are getting into dollfies :3

The girls were also quite a hit with the customers who came into the store, one of which thought they were on sale XD

Reload! Reload!

22nd January was the date for @Can (Atcon), a small convention in Melbourne, Australia.
That was also the date my friends, Rinka and Maroon Beret, accompanied me in our S2 Café butler outfits. Our goal: to have a dollfie photoshoot!

Rinka carried Saori, I carried Arturia and Maroon Beret was in charge of the photographic equipment load. The plan was to rendezvous at my place before moving out to the CBD. It was a hot day so we were in for quite a trip of painful walking and fanning ourselves with moé Japanese fans…

We arrived at the point and scouted the immediate vicinity for potential photo opportunities. LZ were found and we set up the tripod and equipment, ready for war!

Well anyway, it turned out alright :3
Unless of course, someone decides to have a poke at what’s going on.

Chammy Moéness

FORTY DEGREES CELCIUS!!
I had to endure 50km/h hot winds with the sun blazing down my backside as I crawled to the post office to pick up an equally hot figure.
Behold, cutely-sexy Cham Cham~

Thanks to Tokyo Hunter for listing this item.
This Cham Cham is the Queen’s Gate version of the Samurai Spirits character, illustrated by Blade (here’s his Pixiv).
The figure is a collab of Hobby Japan and Clayz, and as with most Hobby Japan exclusives, they’re pretty decent quality.

So, without further delay, here’s some photos.
Sorry that these aren’t nice outdoor shots… I’ll have to get around to another proper photoshoot sometime ^^;

Also, Happy New Year! :D
Let’s see how many figures I’ll get in 2011 OTL…

Snow trip!

While it’s blistering hot in Japan (presumably), we’re enjoying winter down in Australia, or at least, some parts of it that aren’t in constant “summer”.

We’ve taken this opportunity where some friends and I were free on a weekend to take a trip to Mt.Buller, a popular ski location for locals and foreigners alike. It’s a 4 hour drive from central Melbourne to the mountain, so we did a one day trip, with dollfies in tow. Three to be exact, I’ll be introducing a new friend, Rina. Over the course of many months I’ve managed to convince a friend of mine to also be a proud owner of a dollfie.

The trip was quite tiring and it didn’t help that the weather was being especially unruly. It was raining, overcast, and misty. The rain was the problem, but we’ve found that the Volks’ violin dollfie carry case are especially hardy in keeping the dollfie dry, but the case itself was one soggy piece of equipment. Thankfully it dries out fairly easy.

Anyway, less blabbing, more photos.

Here’s a stereogram for good measure, left image is slightly blurry tho =/

Sorry about the relative lack of photos, the weather wasn’t happy, and we were tired and hungry :(
Hope you enjoyed the photos!

Sakura and Arturia

In this photoshoot, I decided to re-visit the location used for Alter’s Saber Alter and the solo Arturia. Instead of going at it alone, Arturia is accompanied by a friend’s Dark Sakura!

For those who don’t recognise the location, it is St.Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. On my previous photoshoot with the two, you can see that the weather was quite uncooperative that day. We decided to come back another time. This time, the weather was too good… The harsh sunny conditions provided bright reflected light from nearby buildings, which created a weird mix of shad with highlights =/

Anyway, onto the photos!

I’d like to point out that about this time is where those inquisitive Chinese tourists arrived, mirorring what happened the other times I was last there. A group of children ran up and started to stare in amazement, one yelling to her mother “Barbie! Barbie! Barbie!” a few times ^^;

To be honest, I’m not really 100% happy with the last shot as it doesn’t have the same impact as the first. The weird lighting on their faces was due to a building nearby which was cream in colour and reflected most of the light from over the hedge to their heads @_@;

Anyway, that’s that! Hope you enjoyed the photos~

Shoujo S

Based on the illustration by Hanaharu Naruko, this little figure is delicately sculpted by Max Factory under Native Web.

I decided to take photos of it indoors, as taking it outdoors might be a little complicated…
Only issue is my indoor photography skills are lacking, considering I don’t have the right indoor equipment.

Also, thanks to Tokyo Hunter for helping me acquire this figure.

What? Where’s the rest?? Well, you can view the rest on my figure.fm post.
Why am I doing this? Well, I don’t really have a proper NSFW system implemented here so that’s why I’m using figure.fm for now~

Enjoy!

Stereoscopic images

3D vision, the new consumer sensation. You see it everywhere, from the big screen cinemas, to smallest hand held console, it seems to be everywhere all of a sudden.

Some of you may have encountered some images in the past that have two images side by side. These are more likely than not, stereograms. For this specific type of image, one needs to cross their eyes so that both images merge into a single image in the centre.

During my outdoor photoshoot of Arturia and Sakura (which will be posted soon!) I took a few photos of them together, with a slight shift in angle. Once I was at home processing the photos, I noticed that they had a similar quality to stereoscopic images I’ve seen, so I tested them out. To my surprise, they worked! I’ve created my first accidental stereogram!

If you’re new to all this, before you click on the image and try it for yourself, I’ll let you in on my little technique which seems to work for me. Here’s a few steps:

• Focus on centre of the image, it’s best to keep the image small so make it easier on your eyes if it’s your first time.
• Put a finger in front of your eyes, between you and the image.
• While still focused on the image, you’ll notice that your finger is out of focus and that there’s two of them.
• Align the out-of-focus fingers so that each finger is in the middle of both sides of the image.
• Now here comes the tricky part, focus on the finger.
• You’ll now notice that the now out-of-focus image has combined.
• You can now move the finger away, but try to keep your eyes slightly crossed so that the image is still combined.
• Focus on the image without un-crossing your eyes and enjoy 3D!

Hopefully that helps ^^;

Now onto the accidental image:

Now, I tried to reproduce this with a figure on my shelf. It was quite a challenge without any specialised gear, or a tripod…

Hope you’ll enjoy those images :3