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analogy | KANGANA RANAUT, in a still from Rajjo. That still is not by me. It’s from the film, I have however morphed it in it's present form.
Ready to walk to high school with her friend Audrey. Has her locker and combo memorized. Has her classes marked on the map. And for back up it's all on her phone (and yes her phone has a passcode and "find my iphone"). Ate ice cream for breakfast and woke up in time to curl her hair and put deodorant on.
Máy OPPO CPH1605 (A39) bị quên mã vẽ hình, hard reset ko được vì Oppo không cho. Xóa pattern code và frp thành công với flash lựa chọn 1 số thành phần qua sp flash tool.
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NOTE: No sacrilege is meant by the title, it was only the first thing to pop in my head at 1:30am last night as I was rebuilding my Apple 32GB iPod Touch with Linux (Pwnage Tool 2.0.1) and iPhone 2.0.
With 4GB on the root partition and 28GB for music, videos, and apps, it truly is a beast of a touchscreen iPod. With gcc, iPhoneOS toolchains, and source, much of what I had running on my Nokia N810 is now running (better!) on my iPod Touch! It truly is one godly iPod Touch!
In case you're curious, I am running Universalis and the Roman Catholic Calendar on my new iPod Touch. =)
LIL Alien kicks back, "That human skin did ok, salvaged the cash."
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Máy điện thoại Mobell Nova R1 bị quên pass mở máy, hard reset thì bị khóa tk Google, fix thành công bằng Quickshortcut app.
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Shop around when shopping online. You may find that prices for certain items can vary greatly from store to store. To be sure you get the best deal, look at a few different stores to find out their prices, as well as shipping charge. This will allow you to get the best deal you can.
Call the online company before you make a purchase. If you have some kind of problem with your purchase, you want to be able to know that you can reach customer service easily. That's why it's a good idea to call before you give them your credit card information. If you can't get anyone on the phone, steer clear.
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If you are not sure whether or not an online store is reliable, contact their customer service. Ask a few questions about the products, the payment method and the shipping. If you do not get a good impression after talking with a representative on the phone, find another online store.
If you plan on purchasing an item that you may want to return, shop at a store that offers free returns or exchanges. Many online stores want your business so they will offer things like free returns or exchanges. This option is great if you are unsure if an item will fit your needs.
If you're paying too much with expedited shipping online, try to be patient by using standard shipping. You may be shocked at how fast your items arrive using standard shipping. The dollars saved can be put to use in subsequent shopping sessions.
If you see an item you'd like to buy online, but want to pay a little less, add it to your cart. Most stores will save the items you put in your cart, which means you can come by and check for price drops regularly. Just don't wait too long. The item you want might disappear.
Just as you would when shopping in person, be sure to comparison shop on the Internet before making a purchase. What you find on one website may be significantly cheaper on other website. There are even some websites, such as NexTag.com, that allow you to comparison shop right on their page.
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Máy FPT_X501 của FPT nhưng ruột Trung Quốc Android 5.1 bị treo logo – flash stock thành công
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365530 passing Royston allotments working 1206 Kings Cross to Cambridge on 26 May 2013. When I first moved to Royston I used to be able to wander in here for fotting but now it is all gates and passcodes so today's open day was a once a year opportunity.
Pics of "The Gateway Club" at PHF (Newport News / Williamsburg International Airport) which I was unaware of until today. It is members-only however, allows Airline Elite members such as Delta Medallion (Gold/Plat - unsure of Silver). Check with the airport operations office for a passcode to the door. Entry is located within the pub inside the BlueSky Lounge / Restaurant.
One of the initial steps on setup is to create a passcode. While you are wearing it, the watch is directly unlocked with the iPhone.
Mr. Willie X, as he is known as, in these hereabouts, has been a very gracious. & generous host, & escort for three ladies out for adventure. BELIEVE YOU ME! IF THERE'S A SHY, INNOCENT & UN- ESCORTED YOUNG LADY AROUND, Sighs & praises, MR. WILLIE IS THE MAN YOU NEED TO MEET! HOPE TO C U SOON SWEETY! DONT EVER FORGET! DOLLY.
Hippo Wallet is a private and secure, non-custodial crypto wallet created by Blockchain Commodities—a leading custom blockchain software development company based in Dubai.
Hippo Wallet's team is constantly trying to improve the app's features and capabilities. More coins and tokens have recently been added to the team's existing list of supported cryptocurrencies.
Hippo Wallet takes pride in having a private, secure, non-custodial setting. Being decentralised, it has no KYC requirements, and the users can assure that only they have the access to their wallet, passcode, and private key. With the additionally supported coins on the app, users now have more options and freedom when sending, receiving, and storing their cryptos.
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Máy điện thoại Meizu của khách bị quên mật khẩu mở máy. Bị khóa recovery nên ko thể hard reset bằng recovery như cách thông thườngSau khi flash ROM gốc máy vào được recovery nhưng lại bị yêu cầu đăng nhập tk Meizu.
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FingerLock: Customize Your iOS lock screen
Customize your iPhone lock screen in-depth with a FingerLock? Don’t worry just head over here! Fingerprint scanners make it easier than ever to reducing the need to type in a PIN code every single time, secure your smartphone. Whether you’re unlocking or locking your device, or signing into apps, it’s certainly one of the most practical features on today’s phones.
Details provided to us in the tweak’s Cydia depiction FingerLock provides the user with a rare Lock screen-centric customization options that can help it stand out from the crowd. The tweak includes the following features:
You can customize the styling of the unlock button
Just Tap to unlock or Long-press
Changes the unlock button’s Y coordinate (height)
Enable unique feedback patterns when unlocking
Just skip the passcode after respringing your device
Hide the Lock screen’s unsightly page dots
Hide the ‘Swipe up to unlock’ text or ‘Press home to unlock’
And much more…
Once you installing the tweak, you’ll find a dedicated preference pane in the Settings app where you can configure it however you like:
In the above mention screenshot you can:
Toggle FingerLock App or on according to demand
Disable or enable the Lock screen’s unlock button
Choose between long- tabs to unlock
Configure the unlock button’s height on the Lock screen
Between one of four haptic feedback types choose:
Peek
Pop
Vibrate
None
Enable passcode skipping when respringing your device
Hide the Lock screen’s page dots
Also, hide the Lock screen’s unlock text
At the bottom of the preference pane, the developer provides two options:
Apply button to save your settings
Reset button to revert them back to their defaults.
If you want to add a bit more spunk to your pwned handset’s Lock screen, then you’ll find the FingerLock tweak free of cost in the Packix repository in Sileo or Cydia. Additional, the tweaks supports all jailbroken iOS 11 and 12 devices.
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With pmg PassCode program you can easily and safely handle and store your e-mail addresses, bank card data, internet access and personal data.
It is important to know that your personal data are stored in categories,(eg: e-mail addresses, credit card data, logon passwords…etc) where you can modify and edit them anytime or add new categories as well!
Just one photo today. I had to stay home waiting for an Amazon delivery which required a passcode for me to give to the driver before it could be passed over to me. When I eventually could get out to pick up some shopping, I stopped off for a coffee.
Những cách đơn giản để bảo mật iPhone nhằm đảm bảo thông tin người dùng không bị lọt vào tay kẻ gian.
Nếu bạn muốn điện thoại được bảo vệ an toàn hơn, hãy đặt mật khẩu dài hơn 4 chữ số để khiến hacker gặp khó khăn hơn trong quá trình tìm ra mật khẩu.
Để thực hiện điều này, hãy vào phần Cài đặt, chọn Touch ID & Passcode, sau đó chuyển Simple Passcode sang chế độ OFF. Thao tác này cho phép bạn tạo ra mật khẩu dài hơn và phức tạp hơn gồm chữ hoa, chữ thường, số và các ký hiệu khác.
Tham khảo cài đặt Nhạc chờ Funring Mobifone không mất phí tin nhắn cho iPhone để sở hữu ngay bản nhạc chờ không thể "độc" hơn cùng cơ hội nghe miễn phí không giới hạn các bài hát Hot nhất thị trường.
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The free cupcake of the day was the red velvet. The free cupcake is based on the Aston Kutcher and Natalie Portman movie which was also the secret passcode to get the free cupcake. Kutcher gives Portman Sprinkles cupcake in the movie.
I was going to buy a red velvet but since I got it for free I got a strawberry one too. Double the sweet life.
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LIL Alien punks around, "Human skin pretty fun to pose."
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With pmg PassCode program you can easily and safely handle and store your e-mail addresses, bank card data, internet access and personal data.
It is important to know that your personal data are stored in categories,(eg: e-mail addresses, credit card data, logon passwords…etc) where you can modify and edit them anytime or add new categories as well!
To get to my office, I have to pass through 3 regular pass card readers, two of these palm geometry + pass card stations, and remember the passcode for the office door, which scrambles the numbers every time to prevent shoulder surfing, foiling my standard "remember the pattern" mnemonic.
Tried it... doesn't seem to be working. I actually wish I hadn't updated to iPhone OS 3.1.... lost internet tethering and had to restore iPhone to get Find My iPhone features to work.
The manga background:
Oh My Goddess! (Japanese: ああっ女神さまっ, Hepburn: Aa! Megami-sama), or Ah! My Goddess! in some releases, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kosuke Fujishima. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from September 1988 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 48 tankōbon volumes. The series falls into the “Fantasy Rom-Com” genre and follows college sophomore Keiichi Morisato and the goddess Belldandy who moves in with him in a Buddhist temple. After Belldandy's sisters Urd and Skuld move in with them, they encounter gods, demons and other supernatural entities as Keiichi develops his relationship with Belldandy.
The Oh My Goddess! universe is fashioned loosely around Celtic/Norse Mythology, even though it play in modern Japan; various names and concepts are recycled for humor. Three worlds exist in the Universe of Oh My Goddess: Heaven (Valhalla), Hell (Niflheim), and Earth. Heaven is the realm of the All Mighty and goddesses, Hell is the realm of Hild and demons, and Earth is the realm of humans. Reality is controlled by an enormous and complex computer system, named Yggdrasil.
Belldandy and her siblings Urd and Skuld are – even though it’s IIRC never mentioned – the three Norns, a group of deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies. Belldandy (actually Verthandi – but no Japanese could spell this, so her name was changed…) is the Norn of the Present, while Skuld is the Norn of the Future and Urd the Norn of the Past, what is also subtly reflected in their interests and character.
Each goddess (and also demon) is assigned Class, Category, and Restrictions. Class indicates power and skill in performing pure magic. First Class goddesses are held to a stricter standard regarding the prohibition to lie. There are also three categories: Administration, Commercial (Field), and Special Duty. Limited and Unlimited restrictions indicate boundaries on permitted actions. Goddesses also wear power limiters, usually in the form of jewelry. Goddesses may be penalized for dereliction of duty and may have their license suspended for a time. A goddess using her powers during suspension will have her license permanently revoked. Belldandy is a Goddess First Class, Second Category, Unlimited License. Urd and Skuld are Goddesses Second Class, First Category, Limited License.
The goddesses' purpose is to bring happiness to everyone around them. Toward that end, Heaven has created the Goddess Technical Helpline (also called Goddess Relief Agency), designed to bring happiness to the people of Earth, especially those with great virtue but terrible misfortune. A competing institution named the Earth Assistance Center, also is staffed by goddesses. In most scenarios, a goddess appears before one that the system has deemed worthy and grants him or her one wish. The wish must be approved by the system, after which a contract is created between the human and the goddess and stored on the Yggdrasil system as a file. The wish contract file is protected by a passcode known to the Goddess. As demons work toward the opposite end, the total happiness on Earth must remain in balance. Heaven and Hell strictly abide by an agreement to work through contracts and to prevent bloodshed between them, each god is linked to a demon by a life contract, thus if one of them is killed, the other perishes as well, with their memories of the contract erased to ensure no one knows who is paired with whom.
Character description:
Urd (ウルド, Urudo) is Belldandy's older half-sister and is the second Goddess to appear to Keiichi Morisato. Urd ranks as Goddess second class, management category limited license, similar to her youngest sister Skuld. She is the Norn of the Past and, when the story begins, the Yggdrasil System Administrator and Manager in charge. Though she is much more powerful than her sisters, she has not become a first-class goddess - due to her own decision (probably to retain some freedoms like being able/allowed to lie…). Urd shares a common father with her younger sisters, but has a different mother, the Demon Lord Hild. Because of this, Urd is a hybrid of Goddess and Demon, even though this only becomes apparent and relevant in later manga chapters. Even though Urd is very powerful she has a weakness that she inherited through her demonic lineage: when she hears Austrian polka she fades out and falls unconscious – an Achilles heel that is exploited several times (e.g. by the demon Mara, who has to dance as long as she hears disco music…) to take her out of the way or kidnap her.
Urd fancies herself as a (self-proclaimed!) Goddess of Love, so she comes to Earth to spur Keiichi onward with love potions and well-meaning, but deceitful advice. But as punishment for deserting her post at Yggdrasil and for using her powers on Earth without authorization, The Almighty banishes her from Heaven until further notice. After being allowed to go back, she decides to stay on Earth instead.
Urd appears as a tall and voluptuous woman, probably in her early or mid- twenties, with bronze skin and long, silvery-white (platinum blonde?) hair, both traits which she inherited from her mother, Hild. In the manga, Urd's hair gradually changes from perfectly straight at her introduction, to wavy during and immediately after the Lord of Terror Arc, to becoming intermediately straight but still wavy. Urd's hair initially also sported a notable ahoge, but this is gone by chapter 94, after which Urd's hair further straightens out and remains that way for the rest of the series. She is 5’ 6” (165-170cm) tall, making her taller than most other characters in the series (we are talking about Japanese standards, Belldandy is 5’ 4”), and her measurements are 90-60-91.
Unlike her younger half-sister Belldandy, Urd is very impulsive, self-centered and headstrong. Belldandy describes Urd as being very passionate about everything she does. Urd is a great believer in the idea that the 'End justifies the Means', although, as Belldandy puts it: "...she gets so wrapped up in the means that she forgets what the end was." She once stole Sleipnir to get a cure for a sick Belldandy but spent so much time in the effort to master riding Sleipnir that it took eight days for her to get to the place where the cure was. Another god had fetched the cure six days earlier. Despite such, she usually means well and will do anything to protect her loved ones, and she is very loyal towards them. Because of her being the oldest, she believes it's also her duty to look after Belldandy and Skuld.
Urd's impulsiveness often makes her act first without fully considering the consequences. She is also a constant meddler, seemingly unable to leave well enough alone. She is also quite short tempered for a goddess and is rather easy to irritate and anger. Urd is also notable for her tendency to lie, something a goddess supposedly can't do (or, more accurately, it is something a goddess shouldn't do, being against the rules – it’s one reason for her “Limited License” status). Although she's not a pathological liar, she's more than willing to distort the truth if needed to accomplish an objective. She is also very open (and rather proud) of her sexuality, evidenced by her provocative dress, jibes at the younger Skuld and her slightly comical distress when turned into a child because of energy drainage. Her first appearance to Keiichi Morisato was through a semi-pornographic video (labeled “Sexy Sister”!).
For a goddess, Urd seems to have an amazing tendency to have her plans backfire, usually a result of her impulsive tendency to use raw power to solve a situation and not think about collateral consequences. Given her power levels this tends to cause explosions. Quite often, something will happen to louse up whatever scheme she's currently cooked up. Examples including: drinking one of her own love potions, trying to help Belldandy bake a cake and blowing up the kitchen, trying to help Keiichi build a motorbike and blowing up the garage, trying to dispel a number of computer "bugs" and blowing up the house, and so on.
One of Urd's most defining traits is her mixed Goddess-Demon ancestry. Because of this unique heritage, Urd is occasionally uncertain of her status within her world, as her Goddess and Demon personalities are always in conflict inside her. It was this inner conflict that allowed the Lord of Terror to eventually overcome Urd's will at one point. Deep in her heart, she truly wishes to be recognized as a Goddess and, in her earlier years, often looked up to Belldandy as a role model. This has led Urd to quietly deny her demonic heritage, much to the consternation of her mother, Hild.
The kit and its assembly:
This kit/figure holds a special place because it is a piece of memorabilia from around 25 years ago when I participated as exhibitor and workshop instructor at one of Germany’s biggest anime conventions at that time, the “Animagic”. It was a VERY funny period, meeting nice people and including some personal highlights like meeting the Japanese composer Yoko Kanno in person and attending a concert of her. Once in a lifetime! :-D
I found this figure at one of the merchandize dealers during one of the early conventions, before the doors opened for the public, and being a great Aa megamisama! Fan I was …tempted. The figure was quite simple and affordable (DM 79,-), and when I saw that a foot had broken off, I even negotiated the price down, IIRC to just DM 50;-, what would translate (w/o inflation) to roughly EUR 25,- today - a steal! It was, however, not certain where the figure came from, but it came with a clear blister pack and not in one of the typical pink or blank cardboard boxes in which cheap and shoddy recasts were sold at that time, and the seller also assured me that it was no recast. The internet was also not very common at these days to cross-check, so that research was not easy and had mostly to rely on Japanese magazines and collector catalogues.
However, once bought I never had the real drive to build or better paint that model – mostly because it was/is a “single piece” model without much hardware challenge. That changed a bit when I recently received a unique birthday present: a hand-drawn (commissioned) illustration of the character. That reminded me of the Urd model somewhere in The Stash™, I dug it out and decided it was now time to tackle it!
Concerning the figure I also became curious: what did I have here? Just a cheap recast, or something authentic? This is a real issue with these garage/short-run kits, esp. when you procure them online (totally dubious) or from merchants at fairs and conventions, where you can at least have a look at the parts, the resin and the packaging.
Good news in this case: With some internet legwork it seems as if it really is an original Volks model of Urd! Volks Inc. is a Japan-based corporation that produces garage kits and mecha kits as well as the Dollfie, Super Dollfie and Dollfie Dream lines of dolls. The company's headquarters is in Kyoto, with some 30 shops worldwide. Volks did a whole series of 1:8 scale Oh! My Goddess kits, and this Urd figure is apparently a special give-away model. What makes it odd is that it was not sold in the company’s typical cardboard boxes, but rather in a clear blister box with just a b/w sticker (and maybe a metallized Kodansha license sticker). Thanks to the internet I found references for both figure and boxing, and both look authentic, even though it’s still not certain. But I am inclined to believe that I really have an original Volks kit–these go for EUR 150-200,- these days, if complete and in mint condition. Therefore, despite the long hiatus in the kit pile, a good deal, even 25 years ago! ^^
So, here we are after 25 years. The blister pack is yellowed, the sticker faded, and the figure’s resin also yellowed a bit – but everything is still fine. There is hardly much to tell about this character model from a building perspective, because the figure consists only of a single massive piece – probably because it was just a quickly designed and produced special edition/give-away offering. The only thing I had to do was glue the broken foot back again, and sand away some light mold seams and sprue traces around the shoulders and the feet. To make the figure look a bit livelier and more delicate I added a few hair strands, made from 0.5mm styrene sheet – simply cut out with scissors and glued to the forehead with superglue.
Another addition for later presentation is a home-brew display base for the figure, following my standard design. It consists of a square 4x4” melamine-coated press board base, flanks covered with edge-band. A custom adapter/holder made from soft 1.8mm iron wire that fits into a respective opening drilled into the figure’s right foot holds it in place. Carpet tile material was used underneath to add some ground clearance. The whole thing was painted black with matt acrylic paint from a rattle can for an even and neutral finish that does not distract from the flamboyant character on top of it.
Painting and markings:
Like many garage kits, especially those from the Nineties, this model has been sculpted after a concrete illustration or after OAV/TV screenshots – and this helped a lot in the later/current age of the internet to find authentic painting guide references, because the Volks kit did not come with any instructions (O.K., there is no assembly required at all!) or the typical photoprint of the finished model that is normally part of an original GK boxing.
In this specific guise Urd appears in the OAV series (what, considering her hairdo, too, appears plausible, so I’d date the figure/mold to date from 1994 or 1995) as well as in some off-manga illustrations, maybe cover motifs. Her clothes turned out to be quite colorful: a dark, deep blue dress with kind of tiger-striped lapels and wine-red lining, a wide purple belt or obi, and low ankle boots (on some illu variations Urd wears open sandals). Additionally, there is lots of bare skin with a marked tan/bronze hue, her curly and almost white hair, as well as some pieces of jewelry.
Painting started, after the few hardware steps, with an overall coat with white primer (Vallejo) to check surface quality and create a good basis for the skin. This became first paint layer to be applied, because I’d apply it with rattle cans – due to the relatively small scale of the figure I wanted to add a light shading effect, and this stunt as well as an even paint finish for the skin would hardly be achievable through brush work. Finding proper shades for Urd’s skin was tricky, though, and eventually I procured several Montana Gold rattle cans – primarily material for graffiti artists, but also great for models due to the acrylic paints’ great and fine spray quality, their even finish, and the available color palette with subtle grading that allows to create refined transitions.
I came up with a basic tone called “Make-up”, which is surprisingly close to Urd’s skin tone on official colorized illustrations, and on top of that I added a thin directed layer of “Flesh”.
After that work continued with brushes and primarily with enamel paints. I followed a from-light-to-dark strategy and started with the hair. It was painted in two shades of grey and pure white Revell 374, 371 and 04), wet-in-wet to create contrast and shading. Next came the tiger-striped lapels (Humbrol 7 and 9), the purple belt (a mix of Revell 350 and Humbrol 20 and 47) and her boots and fingerless gloves (both Humbrol 9 and 98). That had to dry thoroughly again and then followed the burgundy red liner (Humbrol 20 and 51) of Urd’s dress and overcoat. Again, this had to dry for while due to the glossy Humbrol enamel’s tendency to remain wet for hours, if not for days… Next came the very dark blue outside of her coat (judging the illustrations it is definitively darker than the dress underneath) with Humbrol 104 and Revell 350 – again painted in a wet-in-wet technique to create shading effects without an airbrush – and finally the blue dress with Revell 350 and Model Master 2012.
Once the figure had received her basic colors it was time for detail work. This included corrections, some thinned black ink to emphasize selected edges and folds, adding some highlights here and there, and painting the – despite its chunkiness – quite delicate jewelry. The latter was, to make things easier, primed with flat black acrylic paint, and on top of that details were painted with metallic lacquer pens in gold and silver, trying to come close to the figure’s canonical appearance on TV and illustrations.
The eyes are decals – at 1:8 it is a real fight to paint them well, and Urd has very special, narrow (almost cat-like) eyes and gaze, not the typical moon eyes of cute anime girls. I procured a couple of generic eye decal sets and eventually found a pair that fitted well in style and size – even though I am a bit uncertain about Urd’s eye color. In some illus it’s apparently green, in others (though probably fan-art) even violet? Judging Urd’s OAV depiction and after some web search her “official” eye color is described as “golden or amber”, though, and as a compromise from the many decal options I had I went for a yellow-ish tone and a narrower almond shape that comes IMHO close to the “original”. Additionally, I chose almost white eyebrows as decals, too.
Urd’s blue facial (the triangle pointing down on her forehead symbolizes the past) markings were also created with decal material (TL Modellbau, taken from a mid-blue sheet), even though they were molded onto the figure’s face to ease painting. But the decal solution made things much less messy, esp. with the additional hair strands in front of Urd’s face. These would make delicate painting quite complicated, if not impossible.
As a final measure then model’s slightly opened mouth was “filled” with thinned brick red enamel paint, to create depth but to avoid a “lipstick look”, which Urd does not have despite her looks and attitude, and what also looks in general goofy on large scale anime figures.
Finally, the figure was sealed with matt acrylic varnish, again from a rattle can, the base was painted black, and then it was completed (and ready for scenic pictures 😉).
The inner door lock and the AC100V outlet. The outer door lock is a 4-digit passcode which you can set your own every time.
内鍵は手動で、外鍵は4桁の暗証番号でかけられるタイプでした。
I think many parents outside of China would wish their country will adopt similar measures.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-china-s-new-smartp...
What China's New Smartphone Rules Mean for Tech
[Barrons] Chinese technology stocks were falling on Wednesday. Proposed new rules on smartphone usage by minors could puncture hopes of easing regulation on the sector.
The Cyberspace Administration of China published a draft set of rules for smartphones that would limit daily internet use by minors, in a post seen by Barron’s and translated using online tools.
The rules would limit smartphone internet use to a maximum daily limit of one hour for children between the age of eight and 16, and two hours for those aged 16 to 18. It would also prohibit the use of smartphones by minors from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Educational and parent-approved applications would be exempt from the restrictions.
Efforts to control internet use by young people aren’t new in China. Videogame stocks were hit in 2021 when new rules were introduced to restrict the time young people play online games.
However, there were hopes that Chinese technology companies would enjoy a looser regulatory regime as Beijing looks to the sector as a growth engine while its economy struggles. The latest proposed restrictions suggest investors shouldn’t get too excited.
Chinese internet stocks dropped on Wednesday amid a broader market decline. American depositary receipts of videogame company NetEase (ticker: NTES) were down 2.9% on Wednesday, while search company Baidu (BIDU) was down 3.7% and Alibaba (BABA) fell 4%.
The Chinese state-run newspaper the Global Times said Wednesday the new regulations would make existing ‘youth mode’ restrictions more efficient in reducing internet addiction.
The Cyberspace Administration set a Sept. 2 deadline for feedback on the proposals but didn’t give a timeline for their implementation.
Write to Adam Clark at adam.clark@barrons.com
www.foxnews.com/world/irish-parents-take-action-smartphon...
Irish parents take action on smartphones amid soaring concerns over children's mental health
Ireland's health minister has argued for a nationwide version of Greystones' policy
Parents in a town just 45 minutes outside of Dublin have banded together to enforce a smartphone ban for children until they finish elementary school.
"It was just the striking results of the rising anxiety, depression and everything we noticed … of having a mobile phone, especially among young kids," Justyna Flynn, a clinical psychologist and resident of Greystones with three children in school, told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday. "The support this town got was incredible."
The parents associations at eight schools across the town of Greystones in County Wicklow decided earlier this summer to restrict smartphone access for their children amid concerns of rising anxiety and potential exposure to adult material, The Guardian reported.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-social-media-teens-smartphone-...
The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction
Adolescents are unhappier than before. But is technology to blame?
Glazed eyes. One syllable responses. The steady tinkle of beeps and buzzes coming out of a smartphone’s speakers.
It’s a familiar scene for parents around the world as they battle with their kids’ internet use. Just ask Věra Jourová: When her 10-year old grandson is in front of a screen “nothing around him exists any longer, not even the granny," the transparency commissioner told a European Parliament event in June.
Countries are now taking the first steps to rein in excessive — and potentially harmful — use of big social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
China wants to limit screen time to 40 minutes for children aged under eight, while the U.S. state of Utah has imposed a digital curfew for minors and parental consent to use social media. France has targeted manufacturers, requiring them to install a parental control system that can be activated when their device is turned on.
The EU has its own sweeping plans. It's taking bold steps with its Digital Services Act (DSA) that, from the end of this month, will force the biggest online platforms — TikTok, Facebook, Youtube — to open up their systems to scrutiny by the European Commission and prove that they’re doing their best to make sure their products aren’t harming kids.
The penalty for non-compliance? A hefty fine of up to six percent of companies’ global annual revenue.
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The exact link between social media use and teen mental health is debated.
These digital giants make their money from catching your attention and holding on to it as long as possible, raking in advertisers’ dollars in the process. And they’re pros at it: endless scrolling combined with the periodic, but unpredictable, feedback from likes or notifications, dole out hits of stimulation that mimic the effect of slot machines on our brains’ wiring.
It’s a craving that’s hard enough for adults to manage (just ask a journalist). The worry is that for vulnerable young people, that pull comes with very real, and negative, consequences: anxiety, depression, body image issues, and poor concentration.
Large mental health surveys in the U.S. — where the data is most abundant — have found a noticeable increase over the last 15 years in adolescent unhappiness, a tendency that continued through the pandemic.
These increases cut across a number of measures: suicidal thoughts, depression, but also more mundanely, difficulties sleeping. This trend is most pronounced among teenage girls.
At the same time smartphone use has exploded, with more people getting one at a younger age. Social media use, measured as the number of times a given platform is accessed per day, is also way up.
There are some big caveats. The trend is most visible in the Anglophone world, although it’s also observable elsewhere in Europe. And there’s a whole range of confounding factors. Waning stigma around mental health might mean that young people are more comfortable describing what they’re going through in surveys. Changing political and socio-economic factors, as well as worries about climate change, almost certainly play a role.
Researchers on all sides of the debate agree that technology factors into it, but also that it doesn’t fully explain the trend. They diverge on where to put the emphasis.
Luca Braghieri, an assistant professor of economics at Bocconi university in Italy, said he originally thought concerns over Facebook were overblown, but he’s changed his mind after starting to research the topic (and has since deleted his Facebook account).
Braghieri and his colleagues combed through U.S. college mental health surveys from 2004-2006, the period when Facebook was first rolled-out in U.S. colleges, and before it was available to the general public. He found that in colleges where Facebook was introduced, students' mental health dipped in a way not seen in universities where it hadn't yet launched.
Braghieri said the comparison with colleges where Facebook hadn't yet arrived allowed the researchers to rule out unidentified other variables that might have been simultaneous.
Elia Abi-Jaoude, a psychiatrist and academic at the University of Toronto, said he observed the effect first-hand when working at a child and adolescent psychiatric in-patient unit starting in 2015.
“I was basically on the front lines, witnessing the dramatic rise in struggles among adolescents,” said Abi-Jaoude, who has also published research on the topic. He noticed “all sorts of affective complaints, depression, anxiety — but for them to make it to the inpatient setting — we're talking suicidality. And it was very striking to see.”
His biggest concern? Sleep deprivation — and the mood swings and worse school performance that accompany it. “I think a lot of our population is chronically sleep deprived,” said Abi-Jaoude, pointing the finger at smartphones and social media use.
The flipside
New technologies have gotten caught up in panics before. Looking back, they now seem quaint, even funny.
“In the 1940s, there were concerns about radio addiction and children. In the 1960s it was television addiction. Now we have phone addiction. So I think the question is: Is now different? And if so, how?” asks Amy Orben, from the U.K. Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
She doesn’t dismiss the possible harms of social media, but she argues for a nuanced approach. That means honing in on the specific people who are most vulnerable, and the specific platforms and features that might be most risky.
Another major ask: more data.
There's a "real disconnect" between the general belief and the actual evidence that social media use is harmful, said Orben, who went on to praise the new EU’s rules. Among its various provisions, the new EU rules will allow researchers for the first time to get their hands on data usually buried deep inside company servers.
Orben said that while much attention has gone into the negative effects of digital media use at the expense of positive examples, research she conducted into adolescent well-being during pandemic lockdowns, for example, showed that teens with access to laptops were happier than those without.
But when it comes to risk of harm to kids, Europe has taken a precautionary approach.
"Not all kids will experience harm due to these risks from smartphones and social media use," Patti Valkenburg, head of the Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media at the University of Amsterdam, told a Commission event in June. "But for minors, we need to adopt the precautionary principle. The fact that harm can be caused should be enough to justify measures to prevent or mitigate potential risk.”
Parental controls
Faced with mounting pressure in the past years, platforms like Instagram, YouTube and TikTok have introduced various tools to assuage concerns, including parental control. Since 2021, YouTube and Instagram send teenagers using their platform reminders to take breaks. TikTok in March announced minors have to enter a passcode after an hour on the app to continue watching videos.
But the social media companies will soon have to go further.
By the end of August, very large online platforms with over 45 million users in the European Union — including companies like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest and YouTube — will have to comply with the longest list of rules.
They will have to hand in to the Digital Services Act watchdog — the European Commission — their first yearly assessment of the major impact of their design, algorithms, advertising and terms of services on a range of societal issues such as the protection of minors and mental wellbeing. They will then have to propose and implement concrete measures under the scrutiny of an audit company, the Commission and vetted researchers.
Measures could include ensuring that algorithms don't recommend videos about dieting to teenage girls or turning off autoplay by default so that minors don't stay hooked watching content.
Platforms will also be banned from tracking kids’ online activity to show them personalized advertisements. Manipulative designs such as never-ending timelines to glue users to platforms have been connected to addictive behavior, and will be off limits for tech companies.
Brussels is also working with tech companies, industry associations and children's groups on rules for how to design platforms in a way that protects minors. The Code of Conduct on Age Appropriate Design planned for 2024 would then provide an explicit list of measures that the European Commission wants to see large social media companies carry out to comply with the new law.
Yet, the EU’s new content law won’t be the magic wand parents might be looking for. The content rulebook doesn’t apply to popular entertainment like online games, messaging apps nor the digital devices themselves.
It remains unclear how the European Commission will potentially investigate and go after social media companies if they consider that they have failed to limit their platforms' negative consequences for mental well-being. External auditors and researchers could also face obstacles to wade through troves of data and lines of code to find smoking guns and challenge tech companies’ claims.
How much companies are willing to run up against their business model in the service of their users’ mental health is also an open question, said John Albert, a policy expert at the tech-focused advocacy group AlgorithmWatch. Tech giants have made a serious effort at fighting the most egregious abuses, like cyber-bullying, or eating disorders, Albert said. And the level of transparency made possible by the new rules was unprecedented.
“But when it comes to much broader questions about mental health and how these algorithmic recommender systems interact with users and affect them over time… I don't know what we should expect them to change,” he explained. The back-and-forth vetting process is likely going to be drawn out as the Commission comes to grips with the complex platforms.
"In the short term, at least, I would expect some kind of business as usual.”
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The manga background:
Oh My Goddess! (Japanese: ああっ女神さまっ, Hepburn: Aa! Megami-sama), or Ah! My Goddess! in some releases, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kosuke Fujishima. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from September 1988 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 48 tankōbon volumes. The series falls into the “Fantasy Rom-Com” genre and follows college sophomore Keiichi Morisato and the goddess Belldandy who moves in with him in a Buddhist temple. After Belldandy's sisters Urd and Skuld move in with them, they encounter gods, demons and other supernatural entities as Keiichi develops his relationship with Belldandy.
The Oh My Goddess! universe is fashioned loosely around Celtic/Norse Mythology, even though it play in modern Japan; various names and concepts are recycled for humor. Three worlds exist in the Universe of Oh My Goddess: Heaven (Valhalla), Hell (Niflheim), and Earth. Heaven is the realm of the All Mighty and goddesses, Hell is the realm of Hild and demons, and Earth is the realm of humans. Reality is controlled by an enormous and complex computer system, named Yggdrasil.
Belldandy and her siblings Urd and Skuld are – even though it’s IIRC never mentioned – the three Norns, a group of deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies. Belldandy (actually Verthandi – but no Japanese could spell this, so her name was changed…) is the Norn of the Present, while Skuld is the Norn of the Future and Urd the Norn of the Past, what is also subtly reflected in their interests and character.
Each goddess (and also demon) is assigned Class, Category, and Restrictions. Class indicates power and skill in performing pure magic. First Class goddesses are held to a stricter standard regarding the prohibition to lie. There are also three categories: Administration, Commercial (Field), and Special Duty. Limited and Unlimited restrictions indicate boundaries on permitted actions. Goddesses also wear power limiters, usually in the form of jewelry. Goddesses may be penalized for dereliction of duty and may have their license suspended for a time. A goddess using her powers during suspension will have her license permanently revoked. Belldandy is a Goddess First Class, Second Category, Unlimited License. Urd and Skuld are Goddesses Second Class, First Category, Limited License.
The goddesses' purpose is to bring happiness to everyone around them. Toward that end, Heaven has created the Goddess Technical Helpline (also called Goddess Relief Agency), designed to bring happiness to the people of Earth, especially those with great virtue but terrible misfortune. A competing institution named the Earth Assistance Center, also is staffed by goddesses. In most scenarios, a goddess appears before one that the system has deemed worthy and grants him or her one wish. The wish must be approved by the system, after which a contract is created between the human and the goddess and stored on the Yggdrasil system as a file. The wish contract file is protected by a passcode known to the Goddess. As demons work toward the opposite end, the total happiness on Earth must remain in balance. Heaven and Hell strictly abide by an agreement to work through contracts and to prevent bloodshed between them, each god is linked to a demon by a life contract, thus if one of them is killed, the other perishes as well, with their memories of the contract erased to ensure no one knows who is paired with whom.
Character description:
Urd (ウルド, Urudo) is Belldandy's older half-sister and is the second Goddess to appear to Keiichi Morisato. Urd ranks as Goddess second class, management category limited license, similar to her youngest sister Skuld. She is the Norn of the Past and, when the story begins, the Yggdrasil System Administrator and Manager in charge. Though she is much more powerful than her sisters, she has not become a first-class goddess - due to her own decision (probably to retain some freedoms like being able/allowed to lie…). Urd shares a common father with her younger sisters, but has a different mother, the Demon Lord Hild. Because of this, Urd is a hybrid of Goddess and Demon, even though this only becomes apparent and relevant in later manga chapters. Even though Urd is very powerful she has a weakness that she inherited through her demonic lineage: when she hears Austrian polka she fades out and falls unconscious – an Achilles heel that is exploited several times (e.g. by the demon Mara, who has to dance as long as she hears disco music…) to take her out of the way or kidnap her.
Urd fancies herself as a (self-proclaimed!) Goddess of Love, so she comes to Earth to spur Keiichi onward with love potions and well-meaning, but deceitful advice. But as punishment for deserting her post at Yggdrasil and for using her powers on Earth without authorization, The Almighty banishes her from Heaven until further notice. After being allowed to go back, she decides to stay on Earth instead.
Urd appears as a tall and voluptuous woman, probably in her early or mid- twenties, with bronze skin and long, silvery-white (platinum blonde?) hair, both traits which she inherited from her mother, Hild. In the manga, Urd's hair gradually changes from perfectly straight at her introduction, to wavy during and immediately after the Lord of Terror Arc, to becoming intermediately straight but still wavy. Urd's hair initially also sported a notable ahoge, but this is gone by chapter 94, after which Urd's hair further straightens out and remains that way for the rest of the series. She is 5’ 6” (165-170cm) tall, making her taller than most other characters in the series (we are talking about Japanese standards, Belldandy is 5’ 4”), and her measurements are 90-60-91.
Unlike her younger half-sister Belldandy, Urd is very impulsive, self-centered and headstrong. Belldandy describes Urd as being very passionate about everything she does. Urd is a great believer in the idea that the 'End justifies the Means', although, as Belldandy puts it: "...she gets so wrapped up in the means that she forgets what the end was." She once stole Sleipnir to get a cure for a sick Belldandy but spent so much time in the effort to master riding Sleipnir that it took eight days for her to get to the place where the cure was. Another god had fetched the cure six days earlier. Despite such, she usually means well and will do anything to protect her loved ones, and she is very loyal towards them. Because of her being the oldest, she believes it's also her duty to look after Belldandy and Skuld.
Urd's impulsiveness often makes her act first without fully considering the consequences. She is also a constant meddler, seemingly unable to leave well enough alone. She is also quite short tempered for a goddess and is rather easy to irritate and anger. Urd is also notable for her tendency to lie, something a goddess supposedly can't do (or, more accurately, it is something a goddess shouldn't do, being against the rules – it’s one reason for her “Limited License” status). Although she's not a pathological liar, she's more than willing to distort the truth if needed to accomplish an objective. She is also very open (and rather proud) of her sexuality, evidenced by her provocative dress, jibes at the younger Skuld and her slightly comical distress when turned into a child because of energy drainage. Her first appearance to Keiichi Morisato was through a semi-pornographic video (labeled “Sexy Sister”!).
For a goddess, Urd seems to have an amazing tendency to have her plans backfire, usually a result of her impulsive tendency to use raw power to solve a situation and not think about collateral consequences. Given her power levels this tends to cause explosions. Quite often, something will happen to louse up whatever scheme she's currently cooked up. Examples including: drinking one of her own love potions, trying to help Belldandy bake a cake and blowing up the kitchen, trying to help Keiichi build a motorbike and blowing up the garage, trying to dispel a number of computer "bugs" and blowing up the house, and so on.
One of Urd's most defining traits is her mixed Goddess-Demon ancestry. Because of this unique heritage, Urd is occasionally uncertain of her status within her world, as her Goddess and Demon personalities are always in conflict inside her. It was this inner conflict that allowed the Lord of Terror to eventually overcome Urd's will at one point. Deep in her heart, she truly wishes to be recognized as a Goddess and, in her earlier years, often looked up to Belldandy as a role model. This has led Urd to quietly deny her demonic heritage, much to the consternation of her mother, Hild.
The kit and its assembly:
This kit/figure holds a special place because it is a piece of memorabilia from around 25 years ago when I participated as exhibitor and workshop instructor at one of Germany’s biggest anime conventions at that time, the “Animagic”. It was a VERY funny period, meeting nice people and including some personal highlights like meeting the Japanese composer Yoko Kanno in person and attending a concert of her. Once in a lifetime! :-D
I found this figure at one of the merchandize dealers during one of the early conventions, before the doors opened for the public, and being a great Aa megamisama! Fan I was …tempted. The figure was quite simple and affordable (DM 79,-), and when I saw that a foot had broken off, I even negotiated the price down, IIRC to just DM 50;-, what would translate (w/o inflation) to roughly EUR 25,- today - a steal! It was, however, not certain where the figure came from, but it came with a clear blister pack and not in one of the typical pink or blank cardboard boxes in which cheap and shoddy recasts were sold at that time, and the seller also assured me that it was no recast. The internet was also not very common at these days to cross-check, so that research was not easy and had mostly to rely on Japanese magazines and collector catalogues.
However, once bought I never had the real drive to build or better paint that model – mostly because it was/is a “single piece” model without much hardware challenge. That changed a bit when I recently received a unique birthday present: a hand-drawn (commissioned) illustration of the character. That reminded me of the Urd model somewhere in The Stash™, I dug it out and decided it was now time to tackle it!
Concerning the figure I also became curious: what did I have here? Just a cheap recast, or something authentic? This is a real issue with these garage/short-run kits, esp. when you procure them online (totally dubious) or from merchants at fairs and conventions, where you can at least have a look at the parts, the resin and the packaging.
Good news in this case: With some internet legwork it seems as if it really is an original Volks model of Urd! Volks Inc. is a Japan-based corporation that produces garage kits and mecha kits as well as the Dollfie, Super Dollfie and Dollfie Dream lines of dolls. The company's headquarters is in Kyoto, with some 30 shops worldwide. Volks did a whole series of 1:8 scale Oh! My Goddess kits, and this Urd figure is apparently a special give-away model. What makes it odd is that it was not sold in the company’s typical cardboard boxes, but rather in a clear blister box with just a b/w sticker (and maybe a metallized Kodansha license sticker). Thanks to the internet I found references for both figure and boxing, and both look authentic, even though it’s still not certain. But I am inclined to believe that I really have an original Volks kit–these go for EUR 150-200,- these days, if complete and in mint condition. Therefore, despite the long hiatus in the kit pile, a good deal, even 25 years ago! ^^
So, here we are after 25 years. The blister pack is yellowed, the sticker faded, and the figure’s resin also yellowed a bit – but everything is still fine. There is hardly much to tell about this character model from a building perspective, because the figure consists only of a single massive piece – probably because it was just a quickly designed and produced special edition/give-away offering. The only thing I had to do was glue the broken foot back again, and sand away some light mold seams and sprue traces around the shoulders and the feet. To make the figure look a bit livelier and more delicate I added a few hair strands, made from 0.5mm styrene sheet – simply cut out with scissors and glued to the forehead with superglue.
Another addition for later presentation is a home-brew display base for the figure, following my standard design. It consists of a square 4x4” melamine-coated press board base, flanks covered with edge-band. A custom adapter/holder made from soft 1.8mm iron wire that fits into a respective opening drilled into the figure’s right foot holds it in place. Carpet tile material was used underneath to add some ground clearance. The whole thing was painted black with matt acrylic paint from a rattle can for an even and neutral finish that does not distract from the flamboyant character on top of it.
Painting and markings:
Like many garage kits, especially those from the Nineties, this model has been sculpted after a concrete illustration or after OAV/TV screenshots – and this helped a lot in the later/current age of the internet to find authentic painting guide references, because the Volks kit did not come with any instructions (O.K., there is no assembly required at all!) or the typical photoprint of the finished model that is normally part of an original GK boxing.
In this specific guise Urd appears in the OAV series (what, considering her hairdo, too, appears plausible, so I’d date the figure/mold to date from 1994 or 1995) as well as in some off-manga illustrations, maybe cover motifs. Her clothes turned out to be quite colorful: a dark, deep blue dress with kind of tiger-striped lapels and wine-red lining, a wide purple belt or obi, and low ankle boots (on some illu variations Urd wears open sandals). Additionally, there is lots of bare skin with a marked tan/bronze hue, her curly and almost white hair, as well as some pieces of jewelry.
Painting started, after the few hardware steps, with an overall coat with white primer (Vallejo) to check surface quality and create a good basis for the skin. This became first paint layer to be applied, because I’d apply it with rattle cans – due to the relatively small scale of the figure I wanted to add a light shading effect, and this stunt as well as an even paint finish for the skin would hardly be achievable through brush work. Finding proper shades for Urd’s skin was tricky, though, and eventually I procured several Montana Gold rattle cans – primarily material for graffiti artists, but also great for models due to the acrylic paints’ great and fine spray quality, their even finish, and the available color palette with subtle grading that allows to create refined transitions.
I came up with a basic tone called “Make-up”, which is surprisingly close to Urd’s skin tone on official colorized illustrations, and on top of that I added a thin directed layer of “Flesh”.
After that work continued with brushes and primarily with enamel paints. I followed a from-light-to-dark strategy and started with the hair. It was painted in two shades of grey and pure white Revell 374, 371 and 04), wet-in-wet to create contrast and shading. Next came the tiger-striped lapels (Humbrol 7 and 9), the purple belt (a mix of Revell 350 and Humbrol 20 and 47) and her boots and fingerless gloves (both Humbrol 9 and 98). That had to dry thoroughly again and then followed the burgundy red liner (Humbrol 20 and 51) of Urd’s dress and overcoat. Again, this had to dry for while due to the glossy Humbrol enamel’s tendency to remain wet for hours, if not for days… Next came the very dark blue outside of her coat (judging the illustrations it is definitively darker than the dress underneath) with Humbrol 104 and Revell 350 – again painted in a wet-in-wet technique to create shading effects without an airbrush – and finally the blue dress with Revell 350 and Model Master 2012.
Once the figure had received her basic colors it was time for detail work. This included corrections, some thinned black ink to emphasize selected edges and folds, adding some highlights here and there, and painting the – despite its chunkiness – quite delicate jewelry. The latter was, to make things easier, primed with flat black acrylic paint, and on top of that details were painted with metallic lacquer pens in gold and silver, trying to come close to the figure’s canonical appearance on TV and illustrations.
The eyes are decals – at 1:8 it is a real fight to paint them well, and Urd has very special, narrow (almost cat-like) eyes and gaze, not the typical moon eyes of cute anime girls. I procured a couple of generic eye decal sets and eventually found a pair that fitted well in style and size – even though I am a bit uncertain about Urd’s eye color. In some illus it’s apparently green, in others (though probably fan-art) even violet? Judging Urd’s OAV depiction and after some web search her “official” eye color is described as “golden or amber”, though, and as a compromise from the many decal options I had I went for a yellow-ish tone and a narrower almond shape that comes IMHO close to the “original”. Additionally, I chose almost white eyebrows as decals, too.
Urd’s blue facial (the triangle pointing down on her forehead symbolizes the past) markings were also created with decal material (TL Modellbau, taken from a mid-blue sheet), even though they were molded onto the figure’s face to ease painting. But the decal solution made things much less messy, esp. with the additional hair strands in front of Urd’s face. These would make delicate painting quite complicated, if not impossible.
As a final measure then model’s slightly opened mouth was “filled” with thinned brick red enamel paint, to create depth but to avoid a “lipstick look”, which Urd does not have despite her looks and attitude, and what also looks in general goofy on large scale anime figures.
Finally, the figure was sealed with matt acrylic varnish, again from a rattle can, the base was painted black, and then it was completed (and ready for scenic pictures 😉).
The manga background:
Oh My Goddess! (Japanese: ああっ女神さまっ, Hepburn: Aa! Megami-sama), or Ah! My Goddess! in some releases, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kosuke Fujishima. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from September 1988 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 48 tankōbon volumes. The series falls into the “Fantasy Rom-Com” genre and follows college sophomore Keiichi Morisato and the goddess Belldandy who moves in with him in a Buddhist temple. After Belldandy's sisters Urd and Skuld move in with them, they encounter gods, demons and other supernatural entities as Keiichi develops his relationship with Belldandy.
The Oh My Goddess! universe is fashioned loosely around Celtic/Norse Mythology, even though it play in modern Japan; various names and concepts are recycled for humor. Three worlds exist in the Universe of Oh My Goddess: Heaven (Valhalla), Hell (Niflheim), and Earth. Heaven is the realm of the All Mighty and goddesses, Hell is the realm of Hild and demons, and Earth is the realm of humans. Reality is controlled by an enormous and complex computer system, named Yggdrasil.
Belldandy and her siblings Urd and Skuld are – even though it’s IIRC never mentioned – the three Norns, a group of deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies. Belldandy (actually Verthandi – but no Japanese could spell this, so her name was changed…) is the Norn of the Present, while Skuld is the Norn of the Future and Urd the Norn of the Past, what is also subtly reflected in their interests and character.
Each goddess (and also demon) is assigned Class, Category, and Restrictions. Class indicates power and skill in performing pure magic. First Class goddesses are held to a stricter standard regarding the prohibition to lie. There are also three categories: Administration, Commercial (Field), and Special Duty. Limited and Unlimited restrictions indicate boundaries on permitted actions. Goddesses also wear power limiters, usually in the form of jewelry. Goddesses may be penalized for dereliction of duty and may have their license suspended for a time. A goddess using her powers during suspension will have her license permanently revoked. Belldandy is a Goddess First Class, Second Category, Unlimited License. Urd and Skuld are Goddesses Second Class, First Category, Limited License.
The goddesses' purpose is to bring happiness to everyone around them. Toward that end, Heaven has created the Goddess Technical Helpline (also called Goddess Relief Agency), designed to bring happiness to the people of Earth, especially those with great virtue but terrible misfortune. A competing institution named the Earth Assistance Center, also is staffed by goddesses. In most scenarios, a goddess appears before one that the system has deemed worthy and grants him or her one wish. The wish must be approved by the system, after which a contract is created between the human and the goddess and stored on the Yggdrasil system as a file. The wish contract file is protected by a passcode known to the Goddess. As demons work toward the opposite end, the total happiness on Earth must remain in balance. Heaven and Hell strictly abide by an agreement to work through contracts and to prevent bloodshed between them, each god is linked to a demon by a life contract, thus if one of them is killed, the other perishes as well, with their memories of the contract erased to ensure no one knows who is paired with whom.
Character description:
Urd (ウルド, Urudo) is Belldandy's older half-sister and is the second Goddess to appear to Keiichi Morisato. Urd ranks as Goddess second class, management category limited license, similar to her youngest sister Skuld. She is the Norn of the Past and, when the story begins, the Yggdrasil System Administrator and Manager in charge. Though she is much more powerful than her sisters, she has not become a first-class goddess - due to her own decision (probably to retain some freedoms like being able/allowed to lie…). Urd shares a common father with her younger sisters, but has a different mother, the Demon Lord Hild. Because of this, Urd is a hybrid of Goddess and Demon, even though this only becomes apparent and relevant in later manga chapters. Even though Urd is very powerful she has a weakness that she inherited through her demonic lineage: when she hears Austrian polka she fades out and falls unconscious – an Achilles heel that is exploited several times (e.g. by the demon Mara, who has to dance as long as she hears disco music…) to take her out of the way or kidnap her.
Urd fancies herself as a (self-proclaimed!) Goddess of Love, so she comes to Earth to spur Keiichi onward with love potions and well-meaning, but deceitful advice. But as punishment for deserting her post at Yggdrasil and for using her powers on Earth without authorization, The Almighty banishes her from Heaven until further notice. After being allowed to go back, she decides to stay on Earth instead.
Urd appears as a tall and voluptuous woman, probably in her early or mid- twenties, with bronze skin and long, silvery-white (platinum blonde?) hair, both traits which she inherited from her mother, Hild. In the manga, Urd's hair gradually changes from perfectly straight at her introduction, to wavy during and immediately after the Lord of Terror Arc, to becoming intermediately straight but still wavy. Urd's hair initially also sported a notable ahoge, but this is gone by chapter 94, after which Urd's hair further straightens out and remains that way for the rest of the series. She is 5’ 6” (165-170cm) tall, making her taller than most other characters in the series (we are talking about Japanese standards, Belldandy is 5’ 4”), and her measurements are 90-60-91.
Unlike her younger half-sister Belldandy, Urd is very impulsive, self-centered and headstrong. Belldandy describes Urd as being very passionate about everything she does. Urd is a great believer in the idea that the 'End justifies the Means', although, as Belldandy puts it: "...she gets so wrapped up in the means that she forgets what the end was." She once stole Sleipnir to get a cure for a sick Belldandy but spent so much time in the effort to master riding Sleipnir that it took eight days for her to get to the place where the cure was. Another god had fetched the cure six days earlier. Despite such, she usually means well and will do anything to protect her loved ones, and she is very loyal towards them. Because of her being the oldest, she believes it's also her duty to look after Belldandy and Skuld.
Urd's impulsiveness often makes her act first without fully considering the consequences. She is also a constant meddler, seemingly unable to leave well enough alone. She is also quite short tempered for a goddess and is rather easy to irritate and anger. Urd is also notable for her tendency to lie, something a goddess supposedly can't do (or, more accurately, it is something a goddess shouldn't do, being against the rules – it’s one reason for her “Limited License” status). Although she's not a pathological liar, she's more than willing to distort the truth if needed to accomplish an objective. She is also very open (and rather proud) of her sexuality, evidenced by her provocative dress, jibes at the younger Skuld and her slightly comical distress when turned into a child because of energy drainage. Her first appearance to Keiichi Morisato was through a semi-pornographic video (labeled “Sexy Sister”!).
For a goddess, Urd seems to have an amazing tendency to have her plans backfire, usually a result of her impulsive tendency to use raw power to solve a situation and not think about collateral consequences. Given her power levels this tends to cause explosions. Quite often, something will happen to louse up whatever scheme she's currently cooked up. Examples including: drinking one of her own love potions, trying to help Belldandy bake a cake and blowing up the kitchen, trying to help Keiichi build a motorbike and blowing up the garage, trying to dispel a number of computer "bugs" and blowing up the house, and so on.
One of Urd's most defining traits is her mixed Goddess-Demon ancestry. Because of this unique heritage, Urd is occasionally uncertain of her status within her world, as her Goddess and Demon personalities are always in conflict inside her. It was this inner conflict that allowed the Lord of Terror to eventually overcome Urd's will at one point. Deep in her heart, she truly wishes to be recognized as a Goddess and, in her earlier years, often looked up to Belldandy as a role model. This has led Urd to quietly deny her demonic heritage, much to the consternation of her mother, Hild.
The kit and its assembly:
This kit/figure holds a special place because it is a piece of memorabilia from around 25 years ago when I participated as exhibitor and workshop instructor at one of Germany’s biggest anime conventions at that time, the “Animagic”. It was a VERY funny period, meeting nice people and including some personal highlights like meeting the Japanese composer Yoko Kanno in person and attending a concert of her. Once in a lifetime! :-D
I found this figure at one of the merchandize dealers during one of the early conventions, before the doors opened for the public, and being a great Aa megamisama! Fan I was …tempted. The figure was quite simple and affordable (DM 79,-), and when I saw that a foot had broken off, I even negotiated the price down, IIRC to just DM 50;-, what would translate (w/o inflation) to roughly EUR 25,- today - a steal! It was, however, not certain where the figure came from, but it came with a clear blister pack and not in one of the typical pink or blank cardboard boxes in which cheap and shoddy recasts were sold at that time, and the seller also assured me that it was no recast. The internet was also not very common at these days to cross-check, so that research was not easy and had mostly to rely on Japanese magazines and collector catalogues.
However, once bought I never had the real drive to build or better paint that model – mostly because it was/is a “single piece” model without much hardware challenge. That changed a bit when I recently received a unique birthday present: a hand-drawn (commissioned) illustration of the character. That reminded me of the Urd model somewhere in The Stash™, I dug it out and decided it was now time to tackle it!
Concerning the figure I also became curious: what did I have here? Just a cheap recast, or something authentic? This is a real issue with these garage/short-run kits, esp. when you procure them online (totally dubious) or from merchants at fairs and conventions, where you can at least have a look at the parts, the resin and the packaging.
Good news in this case: With some internet legwork it seems as if it really is an original Volks model of Urd! Volks Inc. is a Japan-based corporation that produces garage kits and mecha kits as well as the Dollfie, Super Dollfie and Dollfie Dream lines of dolls. The company's headquarters is in Kyoto, with some 30 shops worldwide. Volks did a whole series of 1:8 scale Oh! My Goddess kits, and this Urd figure is apparently a special give-away model. What makes it odd is that it was not sold in the company’s typical cardboard boxes, but rather in a clear blister box with just a b/w sticker (and maybe a metallized Kodansha license sticker). Thanks to the internet I found references for both figure and boxing, and both look authentic, even though it’s still not certain. But I am inclined to believe that I really have an original Volks kit–these go for EUR 150-200,- these days, if complete and in mint condition. Therefore, despite the long hiatus in the kit pile, a good deal, even 25 years ago! ^^
So, here we are after 25 years. The blister pack is yellowed, the sticker faded, and the figure’s resin also yellowed a bit – but everything is still fine. There is hardly much to tell about this character model from a building perspective, because the figure consists only of a single massive piece – probably because it was just a quickly designed and produced special edition/give-away offering. The only thing I had to do was glue the broken foot back again, and sand away some light mold seams and sprue traces around the shoulders and the feet. To make the figure look a bit livelier and more delicate I added a few hair strands, made from 0.5mm styrene sheet – simply cut out with scissors and glued to the forehead with superglue.
Another addition for later presentation is a home-brew display base for the figure, following my standard design. It consists of a square 4x4” melamine-coated press board base, flanks covered with edge-band. A custom adapter/holder made from soft 1.8mm iron wire that fits into a respective opening drilled into the figure’s right foot holds it in place. Carpet tile material was used underneath to add some ground clearance. The whole thing was painted black with matt acrylic paint from a rattle can for an even and neutral finish that does not distract from the flamboyant character on top of it.
Painting and markings:
Like many garage kits, especially those from the Nineties, this model has been sculpted after a concrete illustration or after OAV/TV screenshots – and this helped a lot in the later/current age of the internet to find authentic painting guide references, because the Volks kit did not come with any instructions (O.K., there is no assembly required at all!) or the typical photoprint of the finished model that is normally part of an original GK boxing.
In this specific guise Urd appears in the OAV series (what, considering her hairdo, too, appears plausible, so I’d date the figure/mold to date from 1994 or 1995) as well as in some off-manga illustrations, maybe cover motifs. Her clothes turned out to be quite colorful: a dark, deep blue dress with kind of tiger-striped lapels and wine-red lining, a wide purple belt or obi, and low ankle boots (on some illu variations Urd wears open sandals). Additionally, there is lots of bare skin with a marked tan/bronze hue, her curly and almost white hair, as well as some pieces of jewelry.
Painting started, after the few hardware steps, with an overall coat with white primer (Vallejo) to check surface quality and create a good basis for the skin. This became first paint layer to be applied, because I’d apply it with rattle cans – due to the relatively small scale of the figure I wanted to add a light shading effect, and this stunt as well as an even paint finish for the skin would hardly be achievable through brush work. Finding proper shades for Urd’s skin was tricky, though, and eventually I procured several Montana Gold rattle cans – primarily material for graffiti artists, but also great for models due to the acrylic paints’ great and fine spray quality, their even finish, and the available color palette with subtle grading that allows to create refined transitions.
I came up with a basic tone called “Make-up”, which is surprisingly close to Urd’s skin tone on official colorized illustrations, and on top of that I added a thin directed layer of “Flesh”.
After that work continued with brushes and primarily with enamel paints. I followed a from-light-to-dark strategy and started with the hair. It was painted in two shades of grey and pure white Revell 374, 371 and 04), wet-in-wet to create contrast and shading. Next came the tiger-striped lapels (Humbrol 7 and 9), the purple belt (a mix of Revell 350 and Humbrol 20 and 47) and her boots and fingerless gloves (both Humbrol 9 and 98). That had to dry thoroughly again and then followed the burgundy red liner (Humbrol 20 and 51) of Urd’s dress and overcoat. Again, this had to dry for while due to the glossy Humbrol enamel’s tendency to remain wet for hours, if not for days… Next came the very dark blue outside of her coat (judging the illustrations it is definitively darker than the dress underneath) with Humbrol 104 and Revell 350 – again painted in a wet-in-wet technique to create shading effects without an airbrush – and finally the blue dress with Revell 350 and Model Master 2012.
Once the figure had received her basic colors it was time for detail work. This included corrections, some thinned black ink to emphasize selected edges and folds, adding some highlights here and there, and painting the – despite its chunkiness – quite delicate jewelry. The latter was, to make things easier, primed with flat black acrylic paint, and on top of that details were painted with metallic lacquer pens in gold and silver, trying to come close to the figure’s canonical appearance on TV and illustrations.
The eyes are decals – at 1:8 it is a real fight to paint them well, and Urd has very special, narrow (almost cat-like) eyes and gaze, not the typical moon eyes of cute anime girls. I procured a couple of generic eye decal sets and eventually found a pair that fitted well in style and size – even though I am a bit uncertain about Urd’s eye color. In some illus it’s apparently green, in others (though probably fan-art) even violet? Judging Urd’s OAV depiction and after some web search her “official” eye color is described as “golden or amber”, though, and as a compromise from the many decal options I had I went for a yellow-ish tone and a narrower almond shape that comes IMHO close to the “original”. Additionally, I chose almost white eyebrows as decals, too.
Urd’s blue facial (the triangle pointing down on her forehead symbolizes the past) markings were also created with decal material (TL Modellbau, taken from a mid-blue sheet), even though they were molded onto the figure’s face to ease painting. But the decal solution made things much less messy, esp. with the additional hair strands in front of Urd’s face. These would make delicate painting quite complicated, if not impossible.
As a final measure then model’s slightly opened mouth was “filled” with thinned brick red enamel paint, to create depth but to avoid a “lipstick look”, which Urd does not have despite her looks and attitude, and what also looks in general goofy on large scale anime figures.
Finally, the figure was sealed with matt acrylic varnish, again from a rattle can, the base was painted black, and then it was completed (and ready for scenic pictures 😉).