As you might know I am quite obsessed with Taiga Aisaka from Toradora!, but I am rather picky with the figures etc, so I don’t just buy every single one available out there ^^;
When Taiga regular sized Nendoroid was announced, I was very excited at first, but after I saw her final face, I must say I was rather disappointed as I felt that she wasn’t screaming Taiga at me :P
I prefer the Puchi Taiga Nendoroid’s faces a lot more and was sad that the regular Taiga Nendoroid is not close to them ^^;
For some reason I preordered her anyways as I did not want to regret not doing it and having the price inflate in the aftermarket ^^;
I decided to swap a face which I have of Haruhi Nendoroid, but while I tried to do it when I took Taiga out of the box, I realised that the old Nendoroid head is a lot bigger than the small one (doh!) So I whipped out a penknife and started shaving the plastic at the back :P
It was not a perfectly done job unfortunately but I finally managed to get it to fit somehow without falling apart ^^; The mini Tiger cat included was cute tho, and a good size for my custom Mini Dollfie Dream Taiga ^^!
Maybe who knows, I bought the Nendoroid just for this little cat :P
While Haruhi’s face is not exactly perfect fit I felt that it’s a little closer to what I want it to look. I am unable to close the gaps on the sides unfortunately :P (no pictures of that, sorry!)
I might try to modify the original nendoroid Taiga’s face a bit when I have time perhaps ^^;
RAWR~~~!!!
Of course I have to pose the mini Tiger with my Taiga Mini Dollfie Dream ^^;
Taiga’s Jacket was purchased 2nd hand from our last BJD doll meat :P
The even smaller tiger cat was from a different figure which was acquired many moons back ^^
Thanks for looking :D
Oh wow, for all the figure collecting that I do I have yet to get into figure modification. Quite interesting too that nendo heads have gotten smaller or perhaps it’s a special for Taiga since she is a small girl?
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chun Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
I actually don’t collect much figures, but find nendoroids kinda tempting time to time XD
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I love all these little cuties. :D
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chun Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 11:27 am
hehehe thank you! ^o^!
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Peter Leong Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 8:21 pm
You’re welcome. :D
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Seems like née-san & papa got the same habit of shredding up things…lolx (for the better purpose) =P
Yu
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chun Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 11:27 am
I’m not as skillful as your papa tho Yu chann LOL
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Yeesh a lot of shaving there! Haruh’s gonna send a celestial your way now XD
Not sure if I like the big smile on Taiga/Haruhi hybrid there ^^; But it’s a Nendo, so you can do many other combinations too ^^
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chun Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 11:32 am
yeah gosh didn’t realise I have to shave THAT much O-o; you know after Haruhi season 2, I didn’t like how she was bullying Mikuru some point in time, I became less of a fan :P
Taiga sometimes have happy/excited/mischievous face too ^^ That was why I decided to use it :3
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It looks like it worked out pretty well!
What will you use the other Nendo face for?
I wish they sold spare Nendo bodies so that we didn’t all have all these strange little faces floating around!!!
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chun Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 11:33 am
Oh yes it would be awesome if they do sell spare Nendoroid bodies ^^ I think There’s this obitsu bodies which can be customised to fit Nendoroids tho ^^ I don’t like the other nendoroid faces as much so… they’re currently just sitting collectively in a box with padding lol!
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Where did you get the school girl shoes for both Taiga and your bigger DDs? I’ve been looking all over but it seems some companies used to have them but are long sold out, and others never had them to begin with. I’m a little nervous to try to make some as I can sew but I’ve never made shoes before…
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chun Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Taiga wears shoes meant for MSDs? Some are a bit loose tho. This one she’s wearing is actually tight around where the ankles are, but loose where the feet is? :) I got it when I was in Japan, from a nine9style.com table! Unfortunately it was their last pair it seems I cannot even find them on their site at the moment ^^;
Some of the shoes meant for Unoas (a bit smaller? than regular MSD shoes) seems to fit Taiga as I used to have a Narae (resin BJD), and Taiga wears most of her shoes and clothes after I sold my Narae. As for shoes it depends on what you like I guess, I buy from ebay time to time and there are a few pairs of maryjane style shoes which my girls always share/interchange feets with if I am too lazy to put them on or take them off lol! Good luck!
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