Can't get enough of Princess Reco? Have a garage kit.

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Can't get enough of Princess Reco? Have a garage kit.

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http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/inf/reko.html
(please note that pages on this site beyond this one are NOT WORK SAFE)

This is a new garage kit made available at 2006 Winter Wonder Festival - basically a 3D rendition of the soundtrack CD cover image.

Thankfully someone I know managed to snag this one for my kit collection! :D I've got a whole ton of kits (enough for me to work on for the next 2 or 3 years...) but as far as shooter characters go, I've got a (somewhat dignified) Koyori, a Marion, a Load Ran, and now Reco.

Now if only I could find one of those Silver Hawk kits on Yahoo!Japan for something less than $200...
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Re: Can't get enough of Princess Reco? Have a garage kit.

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Devil REI wrote:I've got a whole ton of kits (enough for me to work on for the next 2 or 3 years...) but as far as shooter characters go, I've got a (somewhat dignified) Koyori, a Marion, a Load Ran, and now Reco.
Have you assembled/painted any garage kits before? Do you have pics of any completed kits? I'd be really interested to see them!
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http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/gallery/0000d54d
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I'm just getting back into figure collecting after about 5 years. Got nothing at the moment. I just wish there were more shmup characters available to buy. I have the SNS ones and Reko from the game soundtrack. The goodsmile company models are amazing - really well done.

Garage kits are too much for me as my artistic abilities are zero, I'd never give them the paint job they deserve - especially Reko.

Nice kits BTW.
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http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pi ... 1/s640x480

Is that some sort of Faberge egg holder in the background?
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Cool stuff Devil REI!
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cigsthecat wrote:http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pi ... 1/s640x480

Is that some sort of Faberge egg holder in the background?
It's an egg music box. I took pictures of Erica on the dining room table :)

There's a decent amount of shooter-related garage kits... not as much as mech anime/manga or H-games (of course), but what's out there is pretty cool.

Here's the Silver Hawk I've wanted that doesn't seem to dip below 20,000 yen on Y!J:
http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pic/00079td5/g27

Some more nifty Darius stuff from Wonder Festival summer 2K5:
http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pic/0007ab8a/g27
I would have bought all of these if I had more cash to spare :(

Something amusing for real old-skoolers:
http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pic/0007e268/g27

Overilluminated R-Type stuff:
http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pic/00078agg/g27

I would have so loved to attend Wonderfest Winter 2006, but I was in Japan over Christmas/New Years, and WF was this weekend :\ Oh well, at least I made Comiket and got this beauty:
http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pic/0008f6ft/g6
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Anou... the "Gradius" diorama is apparently supposed to be from Salamander (Life Force???). Least that's what it says in the background.

Although Salamander is kind of a Gradius game anyway.
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Devil REI wrote: I would have so loved to attend Wonderfest Winter 2006, but I was in Japan over Christmas/New Years, and WF was this weekend :\ Oh well, at least I made Comiket and got this beauty:
http://pics.livejournal.com/zerochan/pic/0008f6ft/g6
Insanely jealous of this! That is unbelievably cool.

Btw, I think that R-Type model might be the same one you can pre-order
from HobbyFan right now:

http://www.hobbyfan.com/product_info.ph ... %29+WF2004

I'd love to pick this one up myself, but I have no experience with garage
kits so I know I wouldn't be able to do it justice. I wish there was an
option to pay extra for pre-painted/assembled kits. ;P
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There's one of these on YJ right now, FYI.
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Nullsleep wrote: I'd love to pick this one up myself, but I have no experience with garage
kits so I know I wouldn't be able to do it justice. I wish there was an
option to pay extra for pre-painted/assembled kits. ;P
Shipping is hell, but if you do a search on Yahoo Japan you can find assembled and painted kits pretty regularly.
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Neo Rasa wrote:
Nullsleep wrote: I'd love to pick this one up myself, but I have no experience with garage
kits so I know I wouldn't be able to do it justice. I wish there was an
option to pay extra for pre-painted/assembled kits. ;P
Shipping is hell, but if you do a search on Yahoo Japan you can find assembled and painted kits pretty regularly.
Would you be able to find me a painted reco? :o
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Find her, I hardly even know her! :lol:
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cheeky! :)
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http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f42800343

Anyone wanna loan me $150?

There's a bunch of Touhoku characters up for grabs as well.

EDIT: http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/83957956

Another Gradius V Vic Viper from a different sculptor!

Also, I wouldn't expect to see anyone selling finished Reco kits anytime soon. If they do, prepare to spend in the area of $400+ for it...
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Here's my favourite:
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Too cool. Anybody wanna' snag me one for a profit?
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ResOGlas wrote:Too cool. Anybody wanna' snag me one for a profit?
Which one? There's a bunch of Y!J proxy bidding services out there...
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