Been considering buying these since getting the other Eikoh prize figures. These ones tend to go for a bit more on most sites, but on Mandarake they’re around the same price as the others. Initially I was considering one of the other… in the end it was both 😛

So, first up, Dark Archangel Metatron:

Top-down-ish view:

Love the colours, and the double-wings looks really good. Assembly was smooth, the wings were clearly keyed (not that it’s hard to work out which went where), the book I had to take a bit of care to ensure I didn’t snap the pole it goes on. 

And now for Archangel Metatron:

This one was a pain in the backside to assemble, with having to balance her on three poles at once. There’s also a paint flaw on top of her lower left wing (not shown in the pics) where there’s a small dot of missing yellow paint. Bit of a shame, but displayed in the right place, it isn’t visible. 

Out of the two, I prefer the Dark version of her, but both are welcome additions to my collection. 

I bought the Asunas as a pair, from someone on a Facebook buy-sell group. The Rei was one I nearly bought from a Facebook seller, but theirs was without box, and there was a Japanese seller I’ve used before on eBay who had one boxed for cheaper. So I went with that one instead. I do intend to move one day, so I prefer to have the boxes for figures, if possible. 

So here’s Rei and the first Asuna:

As this is on an upper shelf, the paper doesn’t show from ground-level, and looks OK. I love the Rei figure – it’s a bit shiny, and I love the Rei figures with the transparent hair. The swimsuit Asuna is also nice, and is quite striking, in its simple way.

The other Asuna, fairy Asuna:

She’s a nice figure, but the condition wasn’t 100%. There were a couple of marks on her, which I did manage to erase mostly (one on her back is a bit visible still, but can’t be arsed to completely get rid of it), and she’s a bit unstable on her base, which I may get around to fixing, if it’s ever an issue. Looks like the peg hole the water peg goes in has got a little duffed up, but it’s not a visible factor when displayed. She’s a nicely detailed figure, and happily sits on the fireplace, next to swimsuit Saber XD. 

Someone was selling this on MFC, and almost didn’t go for it – was a bit more than the re-release would be, but wouldn’t involve waiting 6+ months for it. This is now my most expensive figure!

Here she is in her box:

And here she is outta the box:

Top-down view, with her holding the globe:

Closeup of her face, without the globe obscuring it:

And here’s her chibi-mates she comes with:

Overall, I’m happy with the figure, though it was a lotta money to shell out in one go. She has a space in one of the Detolfs… don’t wanna risk this one getting damaged :P. 

Had this one shipped from France, from an MFC user. 

This one I had been wanting for a short-ish length of time. Saw it in someone’s loot posts, and was like “man, I really wanna get that one”, but wasn’t hugely available, and the size potentially made shipping awkward. So I filed it into the “possibly at a later date” pile. 

Then at a recent point in time I was browsing the new posts in the User Sales thread on MFC, and found someone selling stuff in euros… this one among other stuff. Asked for a shipping quote, it came up reasonable, so I bought it. 

A week or so later:

Yep, I really like this one!

And from the back:

Especially love her hair 🙂

During the day, my husband sent me “📦📦📦📥”, so I joked about putting my parcel in his in-tray. 

And thus I found out he can get very close to his in-tray and not notice there’s a figure in it:

He collected some paper out of the printer, I asked if he liked the contents of his in-tray, only to find out he didn’t see it!

Bought this one with Jungle Emmy, as I got a deal on the pair. Don’t know much about her, but she looks pretty. 

She was smaller than I imagined, but am happy with her size. Means she’s easier to place somewhere in my rather large collection. One of these days I’ll pay more attention to the quoted sizes :P. 

This figure was a bit difficult to photograph, as it doesn’t lend itself to being photoed from many angles. Think I did OK though. 

Other problematic thing was putting her together – needed to heat up her feet to get her on the base, and the clear blue bits are actually two pieces, so it was an interesting time getting them to stay together whilst slotting them into her scarf. 

Tried to fit her in the Gnedby, but that was a no-go with her smoke/scarf(?) trails. 

Bought this one from an MFC user. This one’s an interesting figure – the clothes are kinda soft, and has a somewhat clean-but-detailed appearance. 

Closeup:

The back. Couldn’t get her to pose with the spear as per the art. 

Prior to buying this, I have been thinking of buying it on and off… and finally got around to it XD. 

So without further ado, “Tentative name” Rei:

And her back:

Pleased with the figure, and glad I bought it 🙂

Was browsing the MFC ads… and came across this fellow. He ordinarily comes with a Figma, but the pair is really quite expensive, and I don’t like the figma enough to justify the cost. 

This li’l fellow flew all the way from Spain, in seemingly record time. He was posted on the 10th, according to the tracking and appeared a mere 2 days later. Wasn’t home at the time, and saw the postie put the parcel in the box on the CCTV – it looked like the right thing, but wasn’t fully convinced as it was so soon since it got scanned in Spain. Came so quickly it didn’t even stop to get scanned on this side of the pond :P. 

Here’s a side shot of the fat bugger:

And one of his back:

And now the obligatory Japanese-figure-upskirt shot!

The most SFW upskirt you’ll see all week :P. 

And another Puzzle & Dragons figure! Lilith. 

Love her design, and the pose of this figure. Had to heat her hands up to get the scythe in them, but went in very smoothly after that. Texture on the scythe is a bit different, which is a nice touch. 

Pic of her with the scythe in focus: 

A nice little figure, which was cheap too 🙂 

With me winning only one item in the Urban Mines, I had a box to fill, so the next 3 posts will be for the figures that came with the JoJo prize figure.

First in line, we have Vampire Lord from Puzzle & Dragons. 

Bit of a pain to photograph with the sword. Main gripe with this one is the sword, in two respects: one, it gets in front of his face a bit and two, it’s a bit too much like a piece of plastic. Would be nice to have a little more detailing or something to give it a less “plastic” vibe. Other than that, he was good for the money imo. 

Talking about figures and gripes, one thing that I don’t have an issue with is his back:

This is how to do a plain back for a figure – looking at you Purgatori! 

Bought this at the same time as Angela Balzac and thus got customs’d. Ah well 😛 Imo she was still worth it!

Here’s her face:

And her butt!

The velvety base is definitely a nice touch. She’s a bit smaller than I expected, but she’s well-detailed. Base has a few marks, but she was secondhand. If posed “right” on the base, the marks don’t show though. 

Here’s a figure I’ve been looking at for some time, without really knowing anything about the source material:

I like the base, and she looks good as a piece, but getting close-up there’s a couple of flaws – mostly the hair. OK for the money I paid, don’t think I’d want to pay full price for her (which would’ve roughly doubled her price). 

The alternate arm was a nice touch – both poses look good, but I can’t resist getting out the maximal amount of accessories :P. And one other nice advantage of the base: there’s a place for her weapon to rest. Some other figures I have could learn from this!