[Kurona]

Welp... I decided to just say fuck it and go for it








Everything about that felt deeply, incredibly wrong! Almost as if there was a voice of reason at the back of my head saying, I dunno, DON'T, FUCKING, CUT UP ACCESSORIES OF YOUR EXPENSIVE COLLECTOR'S FIGURES??? DUMBASS????????


... but you know what? It worked out! As you can see from the pictures, it's a little rough from around the back but pretty much perfect at the front! Which makes sense since it was at the front of the molded core set, which is part of why I didn't think this was an overwhelmingly terrible idea on every level. Since I'll be displaying it in the driver 99.9999996% of the time aside from the few times I decide to have the Taka medal held for Emo Eiji Moments, the front is what matters the most anyway. And to test things I also decided to shake and hit the figure a few times (WHICH ALSO FELT DEEPLY INCREDIBLY WRONG ON EVERY LEVEL, I'M SORRY EIJI, I LOVE YOU), and none of the medals fell out! It seems tighter in there than the actual medal, which makes sense since there's a bit of uh, residue tiger hanging off the back. Don't think it's budging from there any time soon. But hey, uh, if it does I always have the Tajador medals! Hahaha...


And just to add another positive note... I'm not sure it really counts as one, but this was kind-of-sort-of a first 'kitbash' of mine? And... it's super satisfying to see it turn out so well. Like you know how... you know how after making a model kit, right, you get a really satisfying feeling like "I know all the instructions and parts were laid out for me, but... damn, I made that!"? I get a similar feeling here. And it's just sort of really nice that this is my favourite character, and I've been able to contribute something to completing this figure. And especially with it being a Taka medal that came from Ankh, that just makes it even better!