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I don't even remember how long ago now, but Snail Shell solicited a new product, Milk Tea Girl. I'd basically stopped buying anything from Snail Shell since the two pack, not so much because they're bad, but rather there really isn't much variation in the engineering, and the prices, while were fair, still were kind of higher than I'd want to spend.
Milk Tea Girl was around the usual price point, which is generally over $100 USD on Japanese sites, which really wasn't a problem in that they weren't exactly any cheaper even on Chinese based pages. So the price, coupled with the very bare bones content meant very easy pass.
Well, something must have happened, because in January 2023, I got bored and just poked around to find that all the non Japanese sites seemed to have a more reasonable price for the set, around $70 USD shipped, which puts it around Figuarts level. So I did what any normal person would do, and bit.
I'm certainly glad I didn't pay Japanese MSRP, or BBTS pricing for that matter because Milk Tea Girl is really bare bones. Most of the effort is on you - you get the fully finished figure of the lady herself, with two extra pairs of hands, an extra face, and a pair of feet that you swap out so you can use the included stand. Otherwise, the only other items that come with the set are a lithograph and various plastic model kit parts that are used to build her weaponry, both appearing to be paint guns of some sort using Boba Tea as its primary ammunition source.
The actual assembly of the models isn't horrible, but putting on those water decals is a true test of patience. I couldn't do them all - when the decals start getting smaller than the tip of a grain of sand, I tend to get a bit annoyed when I have to apply 20 of them.
I also didn't have plans to paint or seal this, so there's a very likely chance that every time I touch the weapons they're gonna lose a decal or two.
The actual figure itself is pretty typical for Snail Shell. You have very standard swivel/ball joints where you'd expect them on this type of body, which unfortunately means no waist articulation, which is great for the lines of her waist, but the ass cap ruins things in that area of the body. There's double jointed knees and elbows, along with pull down hips and shoulders, so you can do some decent stuff there. No articulation at the base of the neck though.
Like other Snail Shell figures, Milk Tea Girl also has adjustable eyeballs for further posing variations.
The body itself certainly looks great. I mean, she's a pin up model, so if she didn't look good it would mean the modelers failed at their job, though I wish they had opted for curvier hips. The Camel Toe also makes me cringe a bit - it's not the prude in me, but it just seems so pointless and is there for shock value.
Use of sun tanned skin is appropriate given the character. Paint work overall is acceptable. Snail Shel l isn't exactly known for their quality control - they're very much a new comer making their name known for value proposition.
I don't even remember how long ago now, but Snail Shell solicited a new product, Milk Tea Girl. I'd basically stopped buying anything from Snail Shell since the two pack, not so much because they're bad, but rather there really isn't much variation in the engineering, and the prices, while were fair, still were kind of higher than I'd want to spend.
Milk Tea Girl was around the usual price point, which is generally over $100 USD on Japanese sites, which really wasn't a problem in that they weren't exactly any cheaper even on Chinese based pages. So the price, coupled with the very bare bones content meant very easy pass.
Well, something must have happened, because in January 2023, I got bored and just poked around to find that all the non Japanese sites seemed to have a more reasonable price for the set, around $70 USD shipped, which puts it around Figuarts level. So I did what any normal person would do, and bit.
I'm certainly glad I didn't pay Japanese MSRP, or BBTS pricing for that matter because Milk Tea Girl is really bare bones. Most of the effort is on you - you get the fully finished figure of the lady herself, with two extra pairs of hands, an extra face, and a pair of feet that you swap out so you can use the included stand. Otherwise, the only other items that come with the set are a lithograph and various plastic model kit parts that are used to build her weaponry, both appearing to be paint guns of some sort using Boba Tea as its primary ammunition source.
The actual assembly of the models isn't horrible, but putting on those water decals is a true test of patience. I couldn't do them all - when the decals start getting smaller than the tip of a grain of sand, I tend to get a bit annoyed when I have to apply 20 of them.
I also didn't have plans to paint or seal this, so there's a very likely chance that every time I touch the weapons they're gonna lose a decal or two.
The actual figure itself is pretty typical for Snail Shell. You have very standard swivel/ball joints where you'd expect them on this type of body, which unfortunately means no waist articulation, which is great for the lines of her waist, but the ass cap ruins things in that area of the body. There's double jointed knees and elbows, along with pull down hips and shoulders, so you can do some decent stuff there. No articulation at the base of the neck though.
Like other Snail Shell figures, Milk Tea Girl also has adjustable eyeballs for further posing variations.
The body itself certainly looks great. I mean, she's a pin up model, so if she didn't look good it would mean the modelers failed at their job, though I wish they had opted for curvier hips. The Camel Toe also makes me cringe a bit - it's not the prude in me, but it just seems so pointless and is there for shock value.
Use of sun tanned skin is appropriate given the character. Paint work overall is acceptable. Snail Shel l isn't exactly known for their quality control - they're very much a new comer making their name known for value proposition.
I don't even remember how long ago now, but Snail Shell solicited a new product, Milk Tea Girl. I'd basically stopped buying anything from Snail Shell since the two pack, not so much because they're bad, but rather there really isn't much variation in the engineering, and the prices, while were fair, still were kind of higher than I'd want to spend.
Milk Tea Girl was around the usual price point, which is generally over $100 USD on Japanese sites, which really wasn't a problem in that they weren't exactly any cheaper even on Chinese based pages. So the price, coupled with the very bare bones content meant very easy pass.
Well, something must have happened, because in January 2023, I got bored and just poked around to find that all the non Japanese sites seemed to have a more reasonable price for the set, around $70 USD shipped, which puts it around Figuarts level. So I did what any normal person would do, and bit.
I'm certainly glad I didn't pay Japanese MSRP, or BBTS pricing for that matter because Milk Tea Girl is really bare bones. Most of the effort is on you - you get the fully finished figure of the lady herself, with two extra pairs of hands, an extra face, and a pair of feet that you swap out so you can use the included stand. Otherwise, the only other items that come with the set are a lithograph and various plastic model kit parts that are used to build her weaponry, both appearing to be paint guns of some sort using Boba Tea as its primary ammunition source.
The actual assembly of the models isn't horrible, but putting on those water decals is a true test of patience. I couldn't do them all - when the decals start getting smaller than the tip of a grain of sand, I tend to get a bit annoyed when I have to apply 20 of them.
I also didn't have plans to paint or seal this, so there's a very likely chance that every time I touch the weapons they're gonna lose a decal or two.
The actual figure itself is pretty typical for Snail Shell. You have very standard swivel/ball joints where you'd expect them on this type of body, which unfortunately means no waist articulation, which is great for the lines of her waist, but the ass cap ruins things in that area of the body. There's double jointed knees and elbows, along with pull down hips and shoulders, so you can do some decent stuff there. No articulation at the base of the neck though.
Like other Snail Shell figures, Milk Tea Girl also has adjustable eyeballs for further posing variations.
The body itself certainly looks great. I mean, she's a pin up model, so if she didn't look good it would mean the modelers failed at their job, though I wish they had opted for curvier hips. The Camel Toe also makes me cringe a bit - it's not the prude in me, but it just seems so pointless and is there for shock value.
Use of sun tanned skin is appropriate given the character. Paint work overall is acceptable. Snail Shel l isn't exactly known for their quality control - they're very much a new comer making their name known for value proposition.
This bee makes its' nest in a snail shell, and once completed it disguises it by covering it with a mound of grass stems or leaves. I couldn't see the snail shell, but the bee was busy for a long time bringing in grass stems and making a pile - very interesting to watch, but tricky to photograph!
Shells on shore of Bailey Island.
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received my order from Amber's wonderful shop, Oakmoss, there is hardly anything that I love more than to support a friend's business. And Amber's soaps, candles, lip balms are the cream of the cream, I couldn't recommend them enough !
And Amber brings so much attention, love & care to her natural wrapping, don't you think ? I put the skeleton leaf in my collection, and braided silk yarn to make a necklace with the snail shell & bit of stem (which I think it is)
Thanks Amber !
The Snail Shell Assassin figure recently released, and I got mine in a few days ago. Like Figma, Snail Shell has a very competent body that they tweak and provide for use in developing figures for the assortment of interesting character designs.
So I don't know the official names or anything, but this figure basically has two forms - some strange hybrid cybernetic animal form, and of course, the expected Waifu in skintight jumpsuit form.
It's an interesting design aesthetic, though for an assassin she seems awfully under armed, featuring a knife and a Grapnel Gun. The sheath for the knife and the harness for the Grapnel Gun plug directly into her lower spine. The interesting thing is that the hands are only meant to hold the knife - the Grapnel Gun is directly deployed from her harness... or that's what I think, as there's no real instructons.
Grapnel Gun comes with a coiled wire as well as three different tips, one for use when the tip has not been fired, and two actual projectiles to use with the wire.
Assassin is a return to average height for one of their figures, as Milk T Girl was just really short, though to be fair she was also really cheap to buy.
The cyborg mode head features multiple joints for articulation in the neck, covered with a fabric piece to hid the joints. There's also a joint at the base of the head, so overall this giraffe necked sculpt is actually very articulated. Compared to the normal head, which features effectively no neck articulation and limited head tilt, this feels somewhat like a step back.
Articulation has generally not been an issue with Snail Shell figures, and this is no different. mainly lacking a waist and butterfly shoulder joints. I've never removed the legs of any of the other figures (but this one I have to in order to swap out the groin pieces, and I notied the the hip design actually features some robust designs to allow for increased range of let motion without relying on a pull down hip design. The tail is actually articulated, tough the connection looks so fragile I'm afraid to actually manipulate the piece too much.
As always, use of the base will increase your posing options, and the base has cavities for you to store you spare pieces.
The two face plates are functional, and I can only presume they look like the source art. I can say, however, they're solid in terms of looking anime in nature, though again I wonder if this is simply because art direction insisted. There seems to be more rouge around the eyes on the finished product compared to the prototypes, and this shows up on the photos.
Otherwise, Paint and Build wise, pretty much on par with other Snail Shell items. in case you weren't aware, that is basically Storm Collectibles level of quality that should be coming out from these sets. Some questionable design choices as i've outlined above, but overall the figure certainly holds together than product from other companies.
The Snail Shell Assassin figure recently released, and I got mine in a few days ago. Like Figma, Snail Shell has a very competent body that they tweak and provide for use in developing figures for the assortment of interesting character designs.
So I don't know the official names or anything, but this figure basically has two forms - some strange hybrid cybernetic animal form, and of course, the expected Waifu in skintight jumpsuit form.
It's an interesting design aesthetic, though for an assassin she seems awfully under armed, featuring a knife and a Grapnel Gun. The sheath for the knife and the harness for the Grapnel Gun plug directly into her lower spine. The interesting thing is that the hands are only meant to hold the knife - the Grapnel Gun is directly deployed from her harness... or that's what I think, as there's no real instructons.
Grapnel Gun comes with a coiled wire as well as three different tips, one for use when the tip has not been fired, and two actual projectiles to use with the wire.
Assassin is a return to average height for one of their figures, as Milk T Girl was just really short, though to be fair she was also really cheap to buy.
The cyborg mode head features multiple joints for articulation in the neck, covered with a fabric piece to hid the joints. There's also a joint at the base of the head, so overall this giraffe necked sculpt is actually very articulated. Compared to the normal head, which features effectively no neck articulation and limited head tilt, this feels somewhat like a step back.
Articulation has generally not been an issue with Snail Shell figures, and this is no different. mainly lacking a waist and butterfly shoulder joints. I've never removed the legs of any of the other figures (but this one I have to in order to swap out the groin pieces, and I notied the the hip design actually features some robust designs to allow for increased range of let motion without relying on a pull down hip design. The tail is actually articulated, tough the connection looks so fragile I'm afraid to actually manipulate the piece too much.
As always, use of the base will increase your posing options, and the base has cavities for you to store you spare pieces.
The two face plates are functional, and I can only presume they look like the source art. I can say, however, they're solid in terms of looking anime in nature, though again I wonder if this is simply because art direction insisted. There seems to be more rouge around the eyes on the finished product compared to the prototypes, and this shows up on the photos.
Otherwise, Paint and Build wise, pretty much on par with other Snail Shell items. in case you weren't aware, that is basically Storm Collectibles level of quality that should be coming out from these sets. Some questionable design choices as i've outlined above, but overall the figure certainly holds together than product from other companies.
The seeds I had picked last month (or was it the month before ?) is still there, and in a pretty good shape. (May 19th 2009)
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Snails are animals too:
www.snail-world.com/Snail-Facts.html
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I can never resist photographing a tiny shell when I happen to come across an old, faded one, either in a forest or down at the edge of a lake. Picked up this one lying in the forest in Cypress Hills (SE Alberta), when we were shown a few forest trails on 22 September 2013. Posting later today, closer to noon, as I had no choice but to sleep in as I had two long, tiring days with very little sleep!
The day before yesterday, 5 October 2013, I was on a full day of birding east of Calgary. As far as photographing birds, these occasional day trips to sloughs and lakes usually result in no, or very few, bird photos, as everything is so very far away. However, I do enjoy being driven along the various backroads (thanks so much, Brooke and Eric!) and spending time with some old, familiar faces and a few new ones, too. Have to admit that, while everyone else is peering through their binoculars at distant specks, I tend to spend some of the time looking down at the ground around me, searching for plants, textures - and more empty snail shells : )
Yesterday, 6 October 2013, I spent a very enjoyable day with three friends and a group of interesting, knowledgeable people from Calgary and further afield. After a long drive N of Calgary, we explored the JJ Collett Natural Area, looking for mosses, lichens and absolutely anything else of interest to add to the species list for the area. This was the first time I had ever been lucky enough to go there, thanks to friend Sandy, who drove two of us there and back. A very interesting and beautiful natural area, with good trails.