Zoffy Update!

  • April 12, 2019

We’ve had little Zoffy for two weeks now and she is settling in well.

About a week ago we let her out of the room she first stayed in and into the entire house. She was a bit nervous at first but in a day or so had finished exploring every conceivable nook and cranny and had claimed the house as hers.

Of course this means she’s now met Emi, and I’m happy to say that while they’re not fast friends yet, there’s no major disagreements between them. Zoffy is more nervous of Emi than vice versa though, and tries to avoid getting too close.

Zoffy is quite tall for a young cat, and one of her tricks is to stand up and look at things like a meerkat! (Yes that’s me napping on the couch…) Look at her cute stubby legs…

She loves lazing on the bed, or even sleeping in the laundry baskets…

But more than anything right now she loves playing with the myriad of toys scattered around. This includes things she shouldn’t touch (such as toys on my work desk!) so I have to keep a close eye on her to make sure she’s not getting into trouble.

She’s very active, very hungry and loves attention so never runs from a pat. The only quirk that I hope she grows out of soon is she is terrified of the TV 🙂

Needless to say she’s filling a void with her cuteness and our smiles 🙂

Perfect Cell

  • April 6, 2019

I haven’t posted about a model kit in a while, so here’s the latest I’ve made:

This is a character from Dragonball Z (a Japanese manga) done as a plastic model kit! Here’s the runners showing all the colours:

Much like the recent Miku bust I’d made the instructions were bilingual which I suppose makes the kit more accessible. But as usual the almost-completely pictorial assembly guide made it an easy build despite some tiny pieces.

Notably the kit includes a ‘muscle building’ system which just means his mottled skin is made by overlaying a lighter piece onto the darker background:

The precision is as usual for Bandai – excellent – and this works very well.

The head contains about 20 pieces alone and the final kit probably a couple of hundred:

It’s quite large and very posable, although as usual I chose not to display it in battle mode with energy ball attack.

Overall a fun build that looks great. If I was a bigger DBZ fan I’d certainly buy more from this range.

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  • Robert

Introducing Zoffy!

  • March 30, 2019

Meet Zoffy, the newest member of our family:

Zoffy is seven months old and we adopted her from a rescue agency two days ago. She was found in a junkyard with her mum and three siblings, and rescued when she was only three weeks.

She’s very shy of course, since she suddenly has new parents and a new home. She was housed (at the rescuers home) in a basement even without windows so I’m sure she’s overwhelmed.

But she’s very interested in us, more so all the time, and seems to be becoming comfortable in the bathroom where she will ‘live’ until at least after her first vet visit.

She’s extremely cute with a soft meow and loud purr. Emi is of course insanely curious about her, and sits outside the bathroom meowing a lot. I have a feeling they’ll get along 🙂

I’m sure you’ll see lots more Zoffy on here as the years go by!