First off was a shoot of one of my latest figurines Rin Tohsaka Unlimited Blade Works edition by Goodsmile Company.

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Next was Vita Unison (Vita fused with Rein Zwei) by Alter:

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Lastly I went to the RX8 Nationals with Lardman to shoot some RX8 and 7s going fast around the track at Wakefield Park.

Below is the first set of what I hope to be many: Yamaha’s Hatsune Miku by Good Smile Company. Enjoy!

Update: Re-uploaded 1-4. I was not happy with some of the processing.

In other news, I finally picked up my Makinami Mari Illustrious figurine (Max Factory version) from the post office. She stands a little under 30cm and is one of my larger (taller) figurines. Clad in a pink plug suit and donning and eager look on her face, she is ready to pount some Angels into dust.

Anyway I did a shoot with both figurines, I hope you enjoy the photos!

Mari:

Teana:

In more positive news my passion for photography has been re-ignited with the coming of the new year, having started a personal project: ‘365 Days, 365 Photographs’.
I admit it has been a bit hard for me to stay on track with this project; mainly stemming from lack of inspiration and a bit of slackness. Despite these problems the project has already helped improve both my technical and composition skills. I do however, attribute much of my recent improvements to shooting almost exclusively on my nifty-fifty.

For those of my readership who want to improve their own photography skills, I highly recommend taking up a similar project. If you lack time or are unable to post up a photo everyday, there is an alternative: the 52 project. In this version of the project, you post a single best photograph each the week (at least that’s my interpretation).

Anyway, here are the photographs from my 365 project that you can find my photostream in this link, also keep an eye out on my deviantArt account since I don’t tend to keep them in sync.

Behold the Phenom II 1055T

Turbo 3D it's like V-TEC for your PC

Waaah fitting time!

As a side note at this point I had noticed some of the pins on the chip were bent, nothing a mechanical pencil couldn’t fix. Rena though was very worried D:

Locked and loaded.

The locking system for the AMD heat-sinks are infinitely easier to use than the push pins on my old socket  775.

Cleaning out my closet

Since I was replacing my mobo, I decided to gut the old girl to redo all her cabling and clean out the dust that had built up over the past few months. The above was one of the cleaner cages.

Yaaay just about done!

Oh Noes! Rena managed to climb up onto my video card and can't get down D:

She slipped off the card and got tangled up in the jungle of cables... Wait why are those cables moving?

Waiiii~ Rena inside one of a wind tunnel.

All photos by yours’ truely using my trusty Tamron 90mm coupled with a K-7 body.
Oh yes! As a bonus to celebrate the revival of my PC I’ve finally managed to post my first ever astro stack.

As per usual the bigger version can be found on my deviantArt site here.

Enjoy!

First off a bit of background as to who Sanya is:

Sanya V. Litvyak hailing from the cold regions of the Orussian Empire she is the 2nd youngest member of the 501st, she has limited contact with the other members of the team and sometimes is seen asleep on her feet relying on Eila to move her around this is due to her duties as the resident night fighter.
Her magical abilities mimic those of radar enabling her to sense activity beyond visual range and also able to pick up on signals such as radio waves, this ability when used manifests as antennas that resemble those used on German Lichtenstein radar sets. Sanya’s striker is the MiG60 a fictional warbird that combines the features of the MiG-1, MiG-3 and Yak-1 and when equipped she gains the ears and tail of a black cat.
Her pilot archetype is based off the real world ace Lydia Litvyak.

She’s a recent release from Alter only just out in mid July for the modest cost of 6,630 yen at Hobby Search. Being an Alter release the quality is top notch a variable A+ job, oddly enough she’s still available for purchase as of writing this post which is somewhat understandable as there isn’t a huge as following for Sanya as the other girls.

True to her night fighter duties she is posed flying on a one can imagine a routine patrol, this particular instance of Sanya is much more conservative than Kotobukiya’s version released September 2009 and to be honest captures Sanya’s essence so to speak much better especially her facial expression.
Details are well painted, neat and decals applied flawlessly resulting in an amazing show piece.

Her iconic rocket launcher ‘Fliegerhummer’ is held at the ready in her hands and a magnet inside her head prevents the rocket launcher from slipping from it’s position, she’s attached to the mounting plate with a small metal peg which connects to the bottom of one of her striker units, which have interchangeable propellers one set of simulated action and the other normal props.
I suspect that in a few months time she’ll be quite sought after by collectors as aside from being a high quality Alter figurine, she’s incredibly cute to have on your desk or display case. Who doesn’t want a girl to protect their desk from the Neuroi invasion?

Anyway it looks like I’ll be even more broke than I am now if Alter decides to release an Eila figurine as having Sanya is not complete without her best friend Eila.

Oh well enjoy the photos.

Before that since it was a Sunday we went to church service with our family friends who are kind enough to host us (props to them) here in Perth, the church was Sunset Coast Church.
It was a very eye opening experience to say the least, my old view of the classic preacher in church was blown out of the water in fact when we rocked up to service it was like entering some sort of rock concert with performers on a large stage and singing evangelistic music.
The service was pretty standard affair with awesome musical interludes in-between: Church news, explanation of scripture, prayer and passing around the donation buckets the general stuff you’d expect from going to church.
The musical interludes I have to admit were of extremely high quality and the whole operation was damn slick complete with charismatic preacher.

Anyway after service it was Wai-con time dispite having to take serveral detours, and parking 5 minutes short of the convention center we eventually made our way to the venue.

After paying and getting our passes we proceeded to get stuck into the event browsing the various stalls, checking out what they have on offer and of course checking out the cosplays.

So here are some pics of the cosplay I took and some courtesy of my sister:

And of course the spoils of war:

Edit: Fixed the miss-directed links.

Yuichiro although losing to the more experienced Albert Kraus has vow to train harder.

From watching the fight on youtube and a quick wiki of Kraus’s history of fights it was fairly obvious that Yuichiro doomed to fail.
Kraus’s experience, fight record of 58 wins, 13 losses, 3 draws and seven titles truely shows that the odds were stacked very much in Kraus’s favor.

You can check out the smashing fight below.

News Sourced From Sankaku Complex.
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Recently FUNimation has announced it has aquired the license to loli-pantsu anime Strike Witches from troubled company Gonzo.

This is going to be very interesting as how FUNimation will market Strike Witches to the American market, as the primary appeal of this anime is the panstu of their rather young cast of characters… The DVD edition of Strike Witches emphasizes this point along with plenty attention to underdeveloped breasts.

It’s highly probable the censored version will be the DVD offering for American viewers, unless they were to reverse import a copy from Japan.

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News just in a couple of hours ago, Yuichiro Nagashima plans to cosplay Shana from Shakugan no Shana.

For those who are not familiar with Yuichiro Nagashima; he is a kickboxer but not any old kickboxer he’s a Cosplay Kickboxer, yes you heard right he’s a cosplay kickboxer.
And this him he’s back with to beat Albert “The Hurricane” Kraus who threatens to take Yuichiro’s Shana cosplay with him if he wins.

Yuichiro defiant states that if he wins he’ll take something of Albert’s, he continues on saying:

“Albert-ojisan is very macho, so I think I’d like to make him cosplay in a revealing outfit. Perhaps he’d change in the ring for us?”

I think the picture above really says it all…

News Courtesy of the Sakaku Complex:
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