April
18th 2008
Kaiyodo Buster Machine #7 Nono

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Had another recent photo shoot, this time with Kaiyodo’s Nono from their Bome series of figures. I’ve never been a big fan of Kaiyodo’s bome series, hate the poses, faces, paint, and such… but this one has to be the best they have made in all honesty.

I love the shading for the hair on Nono in particular, they have done a great job.

A big thing about Kaiyodo’s bome figures, they tend to just make their own designs for the eyes, but with Nono they kept her original design of the little stars for her eyes.

Notice where Kamina and Simon got their pose from? Yep Gurren Lagann (from what i hear) is an homage to Gunbuster and Diebuster. Thats another thing i liked a lot about this figure, the changeable arms. I like this pose a bit more in all honesty.

For this shoot i was actually trying to do it at night outside and get the stars as a backdrop, but i ended up only getting a pure black background. But i really like how it came out, still fits well with Nono in general. While i like this figure i won’t openly proclaim it to be the best figure ever, if you liked Diebuster and want a less expensive Nono figure then this is the one for you! I just wish i could have gotten my hands on my Dad’s DSLR, the pictures would have been much better but oh well, maybe i’ll just re-shoot it later…

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HLJ


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4 Responses to “Kaiyodo Buster Machine #7 Nono”

  1. deftoned on 18 Apr 2008 at 12:11 am #

    Weren’t you the one to talk me out of not buying a Nono figure a couple months back? ;)

  2. Dancing Queen on 18 Apr 2008 at 12:17 am #

    me? nooo never! ^_~ you must have me confused with another DQ you talk to online all the time!

  3. Belela-san on 18 Apr 2008 at 4:11 pm #

    Photographing still objects and people at night while trying to get the star night sky is pretty hard. One of the reasons that I see here (possibly) is that you used the flash of the camera and that definitely “eats” everything and with no flash the figure would probably “disappear”.

    I actually never photographed figures at night so I might give it a shot once the rain is over. Another thing I recommend is to low as possible the ISO of the camera but I think you might know that already ^^

  4. ron~ on 20 Apr 2008 at 6:48 pm #

    I never got interested with kaiyodo figurines =\ dunno why…

    will be very hard to do macro shot while keeping the star visible, because of the darkness.

    I agree with belela san about using flash can make the figurine flat. You still can use good flash, but try to bounce the flash or use diffuser :)

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