my bikes

my two miniature motorbikes, on the left is a suzuki dirtbike (not sure what model) and on the right is a kawasaki ninja.
the stand on the suzuki somehow got broken before it was even opened, but luckily it can still stand on its own.
as for the kawasaki, the mirrors kept falling off so I decided rather than gluing them on that I would just leave them off, I actually really like the way it looks without the mirrors so it doesn't really bother me.

gundam converge: zaku 2s

over the past year or so I started collecting gundam converge figures, converge figures are sd style and are in the same design as in the playstation 2 game ms saga: a new dawn, so far I've only collected the zaku figures from this line of toys, I had originally planned on collecting the actual gundams and some of my favorite mobile suits but for whatever reason I've only purchased the zakus.

 

 

so far I have four zaku 2 figures and one zaku 1 (not shown), from left to right front to back: garma zabi custom zaku 2, zaku 2, j. ridden custom zaku 2, and char aznable custom zaku 2.

the zaku 1 that I have is apparently known as the zaku 1 black tri-star version (not shown in this post)

kamen rider

I think it's time for something other than busou shinki, so here's a few pics of my kamen rider toy that I've had for years.

here is the view from the front showing him with and without the extra helmet piece. back when I got this toy I knew the character as masked rider, I learned many years later that the name was originally kamen rider, personally I like the sound of masked rider better but that's just my opinion.

again the pictures show the toy with and without the extra helmet but this time the view is from the side.
I'm not sure if the figure actually goes with the bike or not (I seem to remember getting the figure before I got the bike but I don't know, maybe I'm not remembering it right) but the figure is to scale and it fits on the bike very nicely, I think there might be a wind up base or pull cord that's suppose to go with it because there seems to be a gear on the inside next to the wheel, but I'm not sure.

busou shinki benio and grapprap

recently I acquired a second busou shinki prototype partio so I decided to use it to give grapprap a new body and to restore benio.

 

 

even though I'm not much of a fan of benio I do like her armor but on the other hand I hate it because it is really hard to pose her while she is in full armor, but it might just be the combination of armor, benio comes with enough armor that if you had a blank body you could basically have two benio figures, her none armored face/head in my opinion is kind of ugly so I prefer her armored face/head (she comes with two heads total), because of the posability issues I ended up giving her a somewhat weird pose.

now that grapprap has a new body I think she looks much better, personally I think she looks really good with the yellow, if I was able to get a better picture the color of her armor would be more yellow but in the photo it looks more like it's orange instead of yellow (at least to me it does) but oh well I guess, all in all I'm very happy with how she looks now.

I decided that it would make sense to take a picture of them together seeing as they used to be sharing the same body, I think they look really good together.

busou shinki prototype partio

recently I acquired 3 new busou shinki one of which I've wanted for a very long time, they are: tsugaru, strarf, and partio.

today I will be showing partio, there are two different patio figures that can be purchased the first is a prototype version which comes with no armor and is basically a blank body that comes with a detailed face/head rather than a blank face/head, the second version comes with some light armor (hand and feet armor but no actual body armor), it seems that both versions are really basic and mainly only exist for the purpose of having another character to collect.

the version I have is the prototype version and as I said above this shinki doesn't come with any armor, the armor in the picture is from busou shinki maochao.

also the stand that is holding her up is not a busou shinki stand it is a gundam stand, it fits almost perfectly but is a little loose but this can probably be fixed by wrapping the connecting piece of the stand with a small piece of tape.

custom busou shinki

one more shinki to my collection, this time I bought a blank body (strarf mk.2 swimwear version) which I had planned to use to give grapprap a new body and to restore benio but it turned out that the body was an upgraded version (konami changed some of the things on the body, there are 3 different versions) so some of the parts didn't fit, so after wasting some time I got an idea to use a figma head so I grabbed my spare kuroneko figma (I have 3 in total) and after some light modding and messing with it was finished, so here is the finished product, busou shinki kuroneko:

 

for armor/weapons I basically just grabbed whatever spare armor/weapons that would fit, the armor/weapon parts are:
grapprap: upper leg armor
benio: shoulder armor, sword
waffebunny: hand gun
maochao: wrist spacers

I'm still trying to think of what armor/weapons might look better so I'm still messing with it, but now that this has been made I have restored my other kuroneko figma back to normal (she no longer has gundam parts), for right now I'm happy with it.

the top pictures do not have a camera flash and the bottom pictures do have a camera flash (top: no flash, bottom: yes flash)

another busou shinki

after I purchased my original busou shinki (I purchased 3 full shinki and 1 armor set) I came across another full shinki and another armor set for a decent price so I decided to buy them, I had originally planned on just using the body of the full shinki to build the armor set but when I finished assembling it I thought that it was lacking so I took the armor for the full shinki and mixed it with the armor set and this is what I got.

the shinki that I used are called benio (the full body) and grapprap (the armor set)

as before the left side has no camera flash and the right side has camera flash (left: no flash, right: yes flash)