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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 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.
Snail shell found in my garden -- no longer inhabited and a bit battered by the thrush that ate it.
For the TNC weekly challenge on Lines.
I found these snail shells outside my office building last week and brought them home, I was a happy girl...
Rows of shells. Turbans and tops. I thought they looked quite elegant on their black background. Each is so wonderfully precious and jewel-like. Each seems to have a story embeded within.
This poem uses the shell methaphor brilliantly:
The Sea Shell
by Marin Sorescu
I have hidden inside a sea shell
but forgotten in which.
Now daily I dive,
filtering the sea through my fingers,
to find myself.
Sometimes I think
a giant fish has swallowed me.
Looking for it everywhere I want to make sure
it will get me completely.
The sea-bed attracts me, and
I’m repelled by millions
of sea shells that all look alike.
Help, I am one of them.
If only I knew, which.
How often I’ve gone straight up
to one of them, saying: That’s me.
Only, when I prised it open
it was empty.
A simple low bed on a platform, drapped in exotic fabrics, a painted tree and scattered blossom on the walls, a snailshell on the ceiling.
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This mornings chores were to head on over 2
the banana trees and start cutting duck food.
As you can see here Mr. Monkey The MoJo Man
had to be right in the middle of the action too ;-)
Mama's not 2 far away, like maybe 5 feet away.
Pumpkin Pie an Crew are guarding the house.
Jon&Crew ... ;-)
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Old Cape Cod
If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air
Quaint little villages here and there
You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod
If you like the taste of a lobster stew
Served by a window with an ocean view
You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod
Winding roads that seem to beckon you
Miles of green beneath a sky of blue
Church bells chimin' on a Sunday morn
Remind you of the town where you were born
If you spend an evening you'll want to stay
Watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay
You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod
If you spend an evening you'll want to stay
Watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay
You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod
Made a new snail shell diaper, this time using minkee as the outer fabric - it has more body than the thin knit I used last time and works much better.
This is from the HHS pattern, size, medium. I like that the minkee outer doesn't creep into the thigh cream with the shell, help ensuring no wicking/leaks.
This little blighter was so fast. As you know the story. No sooner had I left and upon my return this little guy disappeared. We searched high and low in the kitchen without success.
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.
Noticed this very large snail shell along the edge of the dam and had to try for a quick photo. Taken handheld while sitting on a bench enjoying an unusually warm 65°F February afternoon.
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.
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★★ While i was on one of my walks yesterday spotted this empty property with a slight damp problem,do not know how long it has been vacated but sure looks a small compact home for one in nature surroundings and can easily be moved ,no chain and no estate agent fees to worry about!
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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.
In the middle: Assorted snails with hot chili, to the left: bone with pork meat, to the top: fish head soup and to the right: doufu soup.
Made a new snail shell diaper, this time using minkee as the outer fabric - it has more body than the thin knit I used last time and works much better.
This is from the HHS pattern, size, medium. I like that the minkee outer doesn't creep into the thigh cream with the shell, help ensuring no wicking/leaks.
Shot w/ a Wanderlust Cameras Pinwide on an olympus EP-1. The Pinwide is a ultra wide pinhole cap designed to fit on any micro 4/3 camera (except Panasonic AG-AF100 or AG-AF101 videocamera). To turn your micro 4/3 camera into a pinhole camera visit us at www.wanderlustcameras.com