A lil prezzie

I was contacted a few weeks back by Tokyo Otaku Mode about helping them out with some feedback. Some other bloggers were also contacted too :3

I wanted to say thank you for all the lovely presents. A lot of advertisement material was in the package, but I LOVE these pamphlets and have a whole stack of them from my trips to Japan :D

There’s a bunch of flyers and advertisement posters from various things from figma releases to an ad of the PhotoKano game for PSP. They included a nendoroid calender and a pack of Weiss Schwarz cards….unfortunately I play Lycee and not Weiss Schwarz ^^;; They also included a personalised thank you photo which was very touching :3

Thanks again Kamei-san!

P.S. If anyone loves doing surveys, especially anime related, help out Tokyo Otaku Mode with theirs here!

Make a wish~!

Oh look! It’s Arturia’s birthday already~? :D

Although she’s technically younger than Evelyn, I’d say she’s the more level headed one… until you talk about food.

If you remember the original post “Return of the King” (which you don’t I guess :P), it was back in 2009 when I received my second. It feels much longer than that for some reason. I remember the day I saw her on Volks’ DD website, there she was, Saber Alter. It was practically love at first sight, I wanted to get her, I HAD to get her.

Thus the request to my friend in Japan to travel to Doll’s Party. Unfortunately he had a Japanese test to go to and needed to concentrate. My heart skipped a beat as I realised I might not be able to get her. Surprise, the After Event was announced and my friend could make it. Now, he travelled through the bitter winter morning in Japan, driving through the snow to the train station. He lined up at a Volks SR and managed to get ticket #2, and was the first guy out as he had literally spent every spare yen he had (he even had to sell a figure at an anime shop to get enough…). Thanks Hectic :3

So here we are, two years later. Oh, here’s your cake Arturia!

I got a feeling Evelyn isn’t gonna be happy that I wrote more about her sis… ^^;

P.S. Happy New Year :D

Haaaappy biiiirthday~

Haven’t done much posting, so here’s another short one :P

Today is the day I managed to get Evelyn, all those years ago.

For those regulars (hah) here, you might remember this post all those years ago.
It’s a wonder that it has been three years since she first appeared in front of me.
She’s almost unrecognisable then @_@;

Hopefully I can afford more items for Evelyn and Arturia in the future~

Anyway, here’s a cake for you Evelyn :3

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

Aya Kyunik’s Workspace

So, Kotobukiya and Danny Choo are at it again! OTACOOL 3 submissions flooded into figure.fm and this time it’s about workspaces.

I decided to throw my submission in since I missed out on the second OTACOOL book :P

You can also view my entry at figure.fm here

Also, thanks to Danny for giving me about 3 seconds of fame on the Culture:Japan show!

Anyway, here goes:

Next post should be more dollfie photos for all you dollfie lovers~
Please look forward to it!

Welcome to…

My desk!

Before I continue, Danny Choo has been generous enough to hold a competition. The goal is to upload your desk area, the criteria to win is… who knows?

For any of you who are curious enough to wonder what my work area looks like, wonder no further!

Behold! The Madness of Moé!

UPDATE: Thanks to Danny Choo! Seems like I came runner up!

Mecha Musume

German Sturmgeschütz III Ausf.G Conversion

OK! I’m going to be doing another Mecha Musume post over the coming period. Featured this time is the German Sturmgeschütz III Ausf.G found at the Konami Mecha Musume figure site

The StuG III will be converted to a Finnish StuG III “Sturmi”, specifically the Ps.531-33

Like the previous customised T-34 Mecha Musume, I’ll provide photos of progress to give you an idea of how I went about things.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to get Finnish tank-swastika model decals (besides printing them myself) I’d be more than grateful!

Oh no! D:

Lengthy delays

*sigh*
It’s come to my attention that I can’t really keep this site as updated as I used to because of uni work.
While the blog isn’t dead, it could sure be much more lively lol.

So what can you expect?
Well, the blog will continue in this dreary path for perhaps the rest of this year. I’ll be sure to post more often once the heavy load of my studies subside. OTL

On a side note, as some of you may know, even more Dollfies announced by Volks.

Happy Valentines~

Evelyn & Arturia

For those with a significant other – Happy Valentines!
For those with no significant other – Happy Singles Awareness Day!
For those with a significant dollfie – Happy…??? Happy~!

Mysterious Bag

What could it be?

I’ve recieved news today, a friend of mine (who is now my god and hierophant of moé) has sent me some disturbing news:

A ticket you ask?

I wonder what that could be~ Ooohohoho~