“Operation Family Donkey”

  • May 24, 2017

In a little over a day we’re off to Japan again! It’ll be our sixth trip and, as usual, you can read about our adventures here.

This time we’re doing things a bit differently. Rather than basing in Tokyo were staying in three cities. We’re also going with western-style hotels rather than ryokan this time.

It’s been four years since our last Japan trip and we’re very much looking forward to this. It goes without saying it’s one of our favourite vacation spots.

Japan’s always been a challenging place to find postcards but you know I’ll try my best. I hope I don’t disappoint! (This entry is illustrated with examples of cards I’ve sent KLS this past year.)

This post reminds me I should always take photos of my postcard art! If I ever sent you some, treasure it since it’s the only copy in the world 🙂

  • Posted in Trip
  • Robert

Gore Magala Girl

  • May 19, 2017

That’s the figure/kit I got for my birthday. It was time to set it up!

But first a brief explanation. This is a figure inspired by this guy, Gore Magala:

He’s one of the enemies in Monster Hunter, and his armour – once you defeat him and collect enough parts to make it – is very distinctive:

So this figure kit, while not reproducing the in-game appearance of the armour, is inspired by Magala. Here’s the contents:

So many parts! There are several configurations the figure can be displayed in, and I wanted the dress-with-umbrella mode. This required use of the wings, folded around to form each half of the dress:

The problem was… it’s very difficult to assemble! The pieces hardly wanted to go together, and once I got it mostly done I couldn’t get the dress around her.

The archer mode was just as difficult, and since I didn’t want to use glue or modify the pieces I eventually just settled for replacing her normal clothes with the armour…

…and displaying her in ‘dual swords’ mode:

I think I’ll call her Momo 😉

I think I could easily get the wings attached and set up like the image on the back of the box, but I want to finish filling my new curio first to see how much space I have.

Final review: looks great, incredibly (over) engineered, very challenging to assemble!

  • Posted in Miscellaneous
  • Robert