Subject: Hero Forge? Pfft. I can do better! I can make actual figures!
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Posted on: 2024-09-28 21:56:13 UTC
Unfortunately, I'm not living at my house right now so I have to scrounge up old WIP photos for most of them, but they should be enough to give you an idea!
The only one of which I have a finished photo, of Best Character (TM) Corolla! As Huinesoron put it (because I just had to share it with her number one fan), "she looks like she's solving one problem and creating three more" The base is a model kit from Bandai's 30 Minute Sisters series of mecha girls, the Sis-Ac25g Far Farina. Aside from repainting some parts to better fit Corolla's colors, I used the energy wing effect parts from a Bandai HG GAT-X105B/ST Star Build Strike Gundam model, and the KotobukiyaM.S.G. SP006 EX Magia Blade set in light blue to try to depict her Moonlight Dagger spell. Fun fact: the figure is actually very close to 15cm tall, which is Corolla's height in "fun size" form. So this depiction of her is actually 1/1 scale!
And left we have Nikki (please ignore Ami on the right for now, that's a very WIP image, I have a better one for later). This is an attempt to try to depict her in her full Fortress Barrier Jacket - which hasn't even featured in TWWA yet. The pauldrons have since been replaced with less blocky ones, the skirt armor has been modified by replacing a few pieces with thrusters, and I added a cloth skirt under the armor one to not have her waltz around in just a leotard XD. The "hair intake" bangs and most of the low ponytail were actually scratch-built. As for what I used, them ain body is mix-and-matched parts from a Laetitia and a Materia from Kotobukiya's Frame Arms Girls line, with quite a bit of painting involved. The skirt is again a Kotobukiya M.S.G. line set, the SP022 Expansion Armor E, while the wings at the back are from Bandai's 30 Minute mIssion line kit Air Fighter in white (from where I also took the thrusters I later put on the armor skirt). Her Device, Vanguard, has been depicted with yet again a Kotobikiya kit, the M.S.G. Led Sword. I got the blue one because they unfortunately don't make a white one, but it is good enough. I later also fitted a shield, taken from the Bandai HG Gundam G-Self Perfect Pack. You can glimpse the complete form of the figure in this photo that I took while I was at a RC Drift event with my rc car and some stuff I brought as diorama pieces (inculding Ami with an alternate body). And yes, I am running an Itasha-style livery with Nikki on my RC car!
And now let's go for the other two, who actually aren't PPC Agents in the main timeline, but Ami is in some alternate ones.
Here's Ami fully painted. I hadn't fully finished her Device Moschetto yet here, so she's actually holding a Tomytec Little Army Mk14 EBR. Kind of a continuity error, since what I'm depicting her in is the "light" version of her Barrier Jacket which she only made long after she lost that rifle... The figure is mostly a Kotobukiya Megami Device kit, the Soldier/Scout, with her one-up pigtail made with one that actually came from the Laetitia kit I used for Nikki. On the very left you can get a very terrible angle of the still incomplete Moschetto, which I made mostly out of HG scale Gundam weapon parts. Also pictured: A Tomytec Little Armory Barret M82A1 I got in the so far disappointed hope that we'll get male character kits so I can make Sergio, a 30MS kit with the bikini body parts I had used for another project (an underwater diorama in an acquarium), a drone that was part of the Soldier/Scout kit, and the also still unfinished CMS-42HS Knight Destiny Gundam also from TWWA (a kitbashed Bandai HG Perfect Strike Gundam kit)
Last but not least, Chris Leone, Sergio's twin sister introduced in TWWA (and as such not a PPC agent in any timeline, actually.) The idea was to depict her in a high tech flight suit, so I used a Bandai 30MS SIS-A00 Tiasha for the body and the alternate head left over from the Soldier/Scout kit (which was actually perfect as it was, and what inspired me to start Chris' figure project in the first place). The gun is indeed her Beretta M93R, coming from the Tomytec Little Armory M9 and M93R combo set. I plan to replace the skin-colored thighs with black ones to make it a full suit instead of a leotard and thigh-highs combo, I have ordered the parts already. Haven't figured out how to make her glasses yet, though...