I worked on Hoi Hoi San last night and finished her too. Boy, she's something alright. Took me about 4 hours doing her while watching a couple of episode of Ninkyo helper.
She's pretty good when finished, can't say I'm a fan of Kotobukiya plamo Quality though. Sometimes there are pieces that doesn't fit really well with each other and I need to cut a bit off in order for them to fit.
And no, this is not my first experience with Kotobukiya kit. My First one is a Hucklebein (from super robot war), even then the quality of material and mold is still far compared to Bandai.
Hoi Hoi San, 4 years later, have better quality than Hucklebein, to be honest. SO I have no regrets in getting her
Like Gundam, you start from the feet, up to her waist. Even building her panties too. No Problem so far, but the feet and the ankle does not fit snugly enough for my taste
I wish the skirt are made of rubber though, since it's plastic, though it's not flexible for articulation. It still look good.
Now this photo shows her torso opened. At first I had planned to fit a MP3 player onsode her. But seeing how small her torso is from the inside, Especially with the ball jointed waist, Now I'm not so sure. At least, I'm not so sure I can fit something inside of her AND keeping her articulation at the same time.
This shows the USB connector slot on the side, which the base of my idead, now I'm not so sure
Torso and Skirt assembled, showing details on her apron.
This is the 'face' that comes with her. At her promotion picture, I though there will be some kind of mechanism for her eye, I'm mistaken. Sadly :P
Head finished! If you notice, her eyelash and eyebrow are pre painted. but you got the water decal as well should you decide to paint her
This is the most troublesome part of HoiHoi San, The hair. The middle hair are two piece part,a hair and a ball joint connector. It's not molded together, and you HAVE to glue it together otherwise it'll fall off easily. Even the manual state so
Hoi Hoi San, ready for action!
Now Yotsuba-chan have a friend to play with
I'd say I'm really happy with my purchase, there are a few gripes, but they are minor. I'm pretty sure Kotobukiya surprised by her popularity and now decide to milk her dry, as evidenced by the last plamo show
Honestly, I never even heard of Hoi Hoi San before, but when I saw Her at Play-asia.com, I knew I'm gonna get her.
Hoihoi San is a 1/1 Scale model kit.
Wait, You'd say
a 1/1 scale of a female figure? how big and, most importantly, how expensive would she be? - you'd wonder
Relax, I was startled at first, but when I read more about her, turns out she's a small cockroach-killing robot. Using a projectile weapon against them since conventional bug spray can't.
I didn't realize her box will be so huge, it's almos as big as a MG Gundam plamo, and certainly dwarfed my PSP. Also I got Reycal, but I'm thinking of getting rid of her as I already spend and GOING to spend too much until the end of the year
Inside there's the stundard Runner. Her pieces is not as much a GM Gundam. But hey, it's a plamo of a girl figure, how much parts do you think you really need? :P
The manual book shows a USB port on her back, ofcourse, the figure itself is empty. I wonder if I can find a chinese made mp3 that's small enough to be fitted in her body and make use of that USB connector
The color chart, for those who interested
and of course, a water decal.
I wonder If I'll be using this... it's been a bad habit of mine to not use them since I always thinking I would paint them.... someday (even though in actuality, I never did paint my gundam. Well, there's this ONE time....)
I might taking a go at her tonight (okayyy, that sounds... weird :P - since we're talking about a cute female girl)
I'll try to update my progress in building her
G.I.Joe was and always been a fun toy to play with. Especially if you have a lot of them in your collection.
However, Kenner uses a method called O-Rings, which basically use a rubber band to connect the torso and waist so they can twist around.
This is a flexible and cheap method to do this, as oppose to ball joints and stuff. The bad thing is; rubber tend to wear down dude to stress and age.
When I open my collection again after 14 years in a box, most of them either have broken O-Rings and or loose O-Rings
note: O-Rings are basically rubber seal for plumbing that you can find on hardware store, I buy mine in a pack of 50 for about 0.50 usd :D
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1) your broken GIJoe figure (d-uh)
2) a (+) small screwdriver ( can't figure out the size)
3) a spare O-Rings
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