I'm a huge fan of Akira, and when I first started collecting figures one of the first figures I got was Alpha's Kaneda. The one of him sitting on the red chair. Ever since I got him I wanted the Tetsuo to match, but haven't had the chance to get him. I spotted him once at a con for $40 which wasn't a… [more]
My friend and I on different etsy's of course are selling some cute Dollfie Dream Items! First up I've got some cute one of a kind headbands for Dollfie Dreams, only one of each color for sale and at a great price of $2.50USD Each it's impossible not to get them all! Click the images to get to the… [more]
Kyo-Ani's first step into making anime figures was such a lovely success. When Yuki was first announced I was apprehensive on getting her since Kyo-ani never made any figures before. It seems from their recent releases of K-on figures that this first beautiful release was a fluke since those suck,… [more]
Since I've been selling stuff on Etsy I've been looking around from time to time of items of my favorite characters, when I spotted Yoko on this etsy vendor I knew I had to have it! When I saw they did custom items I also know I had to have a Sailor Moon! Yoko is sooo adorable! You know how much I… [more]
As some of you know the prize, the favorite, no the pinnacle of my collection of figures is my E2046 Haruhi Bunny. Now I will have to say, even though she is amazing and wonderful, but I’ll never buy another figure from E2046 again. Why? When I got her the first time, her head was broken off.
It was a horrible sight to see, something so wonderful broken. You pay good money to see a favorite character of yours decapitated…? Needless to say I was pissed!
I paid good money for this figure only for her to be broken!
Plus her hair is so pointy and it rested on her neck it scratched the crap out of her chest. So I e-mailed E2046 and let them know she was broken and I demanded a replacement! They did handle the transaction well, they paid for the shipping back to hong kong, No problems from them at all. But it did take them forever to send her back to me.
About three month’s later I finally got pissed and e-mailed them asking when I was going to get her back. They must have forgotten about me because they told me it would be shipped out the next day. Well it was such a hassle the first time with sending her back and getting her, that when I finally got her and she was once again headless I just didn’t care. But at least this time it didn’t scratch anything, I just glued her back and all was fine!
Until about a few days later, I noticed something dreadful…
She was leaning! I know how to fix a leaning PVC figure, but a resin figure? I wasn’t sure on how to go about it. I asked around online and it turns out no one had really seen this before. I was told it might be the pin in her foot, but it wasn’t the pin. If it’s the pin it happens while she’s on display, the force of her weight will make her lean. But if she’s a leaner from the start, then what do you do? Well considering that she cost me $150+ I wasn’t about to try the hair dyer or hot water treatment. Risk burning her or worse melting her? NO WAY! So I did the only thing I could think of doing, I ignored it.
Well it’s been 6 months since I got her, and I thought, “What the hell I’ll try the hot water treatment on her, if i ruin her of well. I can’t take this leaning anymore!” She would randomly fall over all time. I’d have a heart attack every time she’d fall! I was still afraid though…
What if the water melts her fishnets? What if It washes away the paint? What if She melts herself? So many What Ifs, I just went for it!
Now I was super extra careful but I will have to say the surgery was a success! She moved the same way a PVC figure would have in the water! Only thing was she needed to stay in the water a little longer and it needed to be a bit hotter than most PVC figures need to be.
Here is the End result! A nice non-leaning Haruhi!
Now even Haruhi is Happy!
I thought resin figures were so rigid that they didn’t warp. Learn something new each day.
I hope your cats or the dog you have at your place doesn’t get near Nanoha and Raising Heart over there.
@Super Rats: Thats why i couldn’t find anything to help me fix her online. people told me there was no way she could be leaning since she was a resin figure
@Deftoned: I’ve only got the two dogs in my house and they don’t wander much, they just either sit on the floor on the opposite side of the bead or on the bed. But then thats why i want a glass case, I’d rather have them there instead of my bookshelves.
hmm new to me, i also thought resin figures don’t lean…
glad that hot water fixed the issue
omg when I saw this I was like this a horror sorry like
it was like a scene of a horrible crime D:….