Street Fighter Kotobukiya Bishoujo – Poison – Added 8/12/2021
Street Fighter Poison Bishoujo statue by Kotobukiya - Added 08/11/2021 Jumping back to the 80s/90s Beat-em-up theme, here’s a little shoot featuring Capcom’s Poison. Designed by Akira Yasuda for Capcom, her debut appearance was in 1989’s arcade release of Final Fight, but later went on to cross-over into the Street Fighter games. Here she’s shown [...]
Evil Dead Kotobukiya Bishoujo – Ash – Added 31/10/2021
Evil Dead Ash Bishoujo statue by Kotobukiya - Added 31/10/2021 Just tagging onto Halloween it’s Evil Dead’s Ash - in Kotobukiya Bishoujo style! Plus it’s also the Evil Dead’s 40th anniversary this month! After a night of fighting evil, (alternative) Ash appears disheveled & battle-worn, whilst still wielding the series trademark chainsaw outside the iconic [...]
X-Men Kotobukiya Bishoujo – Mystique – Added 01/09/2021
X-Men Mystique Bishoujo statue by Kotobukiya - Added 01/09/2021 The 1992 X-Men animated series is one of my favourites from the 90s. I re-watched a few episodes recently which inspired me to do a little photo shoot with the Kotobukiya Bishoujo version of Mystique in her classic 90s costume. Whilst experimenting with the lighting for [...]
Neo Geo MVS – Arcade Game Cabinet – Added 24/08/2021
Neo Geo MVS - Arcade Cabinet - Added 24/08/2021 So it’s been a while since I completed my Street Fighter II arcade cabinet, so I thought I’d post my latest project - the legendary Neo Geo MVS! Rolls-Royce of the 90’s arcade... I picked up this cabinet as a bare shell a while ago, it [...]
Diaclone – Fairlady Z Racing Type (AKA Smokescreen) – Added 14/08/2021
Diaclone - Fairlady Z Racing Type (AKA Smokescreen) - Added 14/08/2021 A little restoration project that I got hold of recently for a very reasonable price. He arrived with me in a bit of a sorry state, and had suffered the same fate as many of his brothers, a weak-spot in the design (where the [...]
Diaclone – Lancia Stratos (AKA Wheeljack) – Added 23/05/2021
Diaclone - Lancia Stratos - Added 23/05/2021 So I just thought I'd share a little something I've gradually pieced together over the last few months. This little project all started with a quest to get a G1 Transformers 'Wheeljack' toy. An iconic character from the original 1980s Transformers lineup (who transforms into the equally iconic [...]
Street Fighter 2 – Arcade Game Cabinet – Added 15/01/2021
Street Fighter 2 - Arcade Game Cabinet - Added 15/01/2021 And now for something completely different... So as you can tell from my other posts I’m a big street fighter fan, this iconic game captured my imagination more than most others did and since first seeing a Street Fighter 2 Arcade Cabinet in the early [...]
Ghostbusters Kotobukiya Bishoujo – Lucy- Added 30/10/2020
Ghostbusters Kotobukiya Bishoujo - Lucy - Added 30/10/2020 So Halloween weekend seemed like a good time to continue the Kotobukiya Bishoujo theme with their Ghostbusters Lucy statue! Lucy is an original character created especially for this Koto line, originally illustrated by artist Shunya Yamashita and sculpted by ‘Gill Gill’ Takahashi. She is described as a [...]
