Slam Dunk Figures by ST: the competition

Figure Fridays: Rafael Marquez by FT Champs

The recent futbol fever hitting our country got me interested in the sport and hooking up Fifa 11 on my Playstation. Next up, is getting some figs to shoot. I recently got the Marquez Fig at a sale bin in Greenhills for 4 US$ And the Chelsea booter fig for 3 US$.

Marquez is the captain of the mexican national team and was a fixture in La Liga's FC Barcelona. He now plays for the new york red bulls in the MLS.

Considering their price, FT Champs Futbol figs are a steal, the lifelike sculpt and the intricate manual paintjob are definetely worth it. Too bad though that the licensing for the Kit outfitter and sponsor (Nike, Unicef) are missing. Another issue is that the ball does not fit on the Peg like other sports figs do so.

Photography: Beantown Heroes

Due to Stresses at work, I tried to go back to Shooting Figures as a stress release.

Here are the shots I did the past 2 Days. The Heroes of Beantown.

Review: Sakuragi Hanamichi Figure (TK Holdings)

It's been nearly 2 decades since Takehiko Inoue's Masterpiece graced the Manga and our television screens. While there were tons of merchandise back then, Cards, Shirts and even Stationeries. The series is lacking in the figures department. With few articulated figs by Bandai and a lot of bootleg super deformed figures over the past 18 years.


Fast forward to 2010, A new Sakuragi figure finally debuted in the market. The Figure is made by a relatively new company known as TK Holdings. How does this bode out? Let's See:

Diorama: Kamen Rider Black: Battle of the Century Kings

I was impressed with the SIC Hero Saga Diorama photobooks so I decided to make one for myself. I tried to make it old school so I made everyone's (on their 20's) favorite childhood hero, Masked Rider Black.



It took 2 months making this diorama, but after all the work, here it is:

Review: Figma Drossel

People buy/ collect figures and memorabillia because they like a certain character and would like to have a representation of it. But once in a while, there are some figures that even when you have no idea about it, its so cool that you'd want to get it and just backread about the character later. That's the case for me with Figma Drossel.




The 19th Lord of Uranos' Kingdom's Tempest Domain, Drossel Juno Vierzehntes Heizregister Fürstin von Flügel is the main character from Disney channel and Toei's collaboration series: Fireball. The series ran for 13 one and a half minute episodes.








The box is your typical figma box design, with a Disney channel logo on the front and has Drossel's patterns over certain parts. It is also a tad wider than normal figma boxes because of its big extra accessories.




Articulation is great, Drossel can be posed in any physical possible way. At first hough, you need to be careful since joints would have the tendency of being stiff and have a high rist of breaking. But if you got over that and had it a little bit loosened up, it would be ok.



To add, there seems to be a need of care though when it comes to the wrists as this area is fragile and some acquaintances had already broken theirs. I'd also warn you with the shoulder joints. these arent directly noticeable, but they are very stiff.



Paintjob wise, drossel stands out with a glossy white look similar to the CGI anime. details from panel lines to rivets are shown well and is accented by the clear/metallic blue eyes.





Accessories wise, Drossel comes with 3 extra accessories and a stand. the first is a jet pack which drossel originally thought to be a fashion accessory. Characterized as a pair of big buns with hidden jetpacks.




The next one is similar to what kung fu girls or even princess leia would wear. Drossel uses this when performing capoiera (which she refers to as karate).



The last one is an encyclopedia/ Anthropology book about humans.



Aside from the 3 main acessories, miku comes with 4 extra set of hands. A visible problem is that the hands do not fit within the Extra hand holder alloted to figma figures. Some of them quickly falls off.

Drossel also looks like another familiar character, Sari from the transformers animated series. Here is drossel digibashed by yours truly to be sari.



And also, as the obvious, big similarities with miku hatsune (or in the pic, miku kagami).



Overall, it is one of the best figmas out there. Despite its minimal set of flaws, you should really get one.

10/10

Artwork of the Week: Titanium Man

Titanium man, one of the main villans from iron man (the character did not appear in the movie but appeared in video game and action figure line incarnations of the movie).

Taken with a Cannon EOS 400d

Artwork of the Week: K-Will

Customized Mcfarlane Sportspick - Kelly Williams #9 Team Pilipinas
(from TMAC version 3 base figure)

This is the first time I customized an sportspick figure. I saw a lot of customizers do renditions with their sports picks figures for players or variant uniforms that havent been done as of yet. But I havent seen anyone do local (PBA) Players. I've been doing model kits before but this seemed to be a whole new ballgame. I Re sculpted the face and did the decals. The base was also re designed and the Jersey was repainted in the proper colors.