Love, Pinkcheeks' Year-End Giveaway!

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How To Make a Nendoroid Scarf

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Nendoroid Halloween: Horror Stories

Hi everyone! In a few hours, the world is going to celebrate halloween, and I'm gonna celebrate it by having a horror movie marathon hahahaha! But in the toy photography community, we welcome the spooky season with all sorts of creative photos in this theme! Last year, I got a chance to showcase Nendoroid Halloween Miku and even threw a Halloween party for my babies. This year, I decided to stay away from the flashy, elaborate setups for now and concentrate on what Halloween is all about: ALL THINGS SPOOOKY!

My Nendoroids decided to come together for a little ghost story telling. For some reason, Mayoi is a bit scared to share her story...

Miku: Nee, Mayoi-chan tell us what happened the other night!

Mayoi: I really want to forget about it because it still scares me....

I was walking home alone late at night when I saw a black cat blocking the way...

Her eyes are so big and it keeps staring at me so I hurriedly walk past it.

To my horror, she kept on following me!

I walked as fast as I could, but I can still feel her big eyes staring at me as we walk down the dark street, it's as she wants to take me....

When I got enough courage to shoo her away, the cat is gone!!!

Miku-chan can't help but share what she saw...

I think I just saw a ghost the other day. What they say about ghost stories is true....

Ghosts really do scare the hell out of you when you finally see one yourself....

..and then it was Mako's turn to share her scary story...

I'll tell you something that happened the other night.

I was so tired from school so I slept early when I got back home

..then I felt the bed shaking! I woke up feeling a bit scared.

I thought it was just Maru-chan who's playing under the bed so I told her to stop but I was surprised he's staring at something under the bed....

When I got down to look at it myself.....there's a monster under my bed!
He stared at me with his big black eyes and said: "I know you're still awake..."

I hurriedly went back and covered myself but I can still see Maru-chan staring at the monster under the bed as if they're talking to each other....

Then, Heichou seems bored with the stories.,,

Levi: That's stupid. Want to hear a horror story in two words?
All: What?

Levi: DIRTY KITCHEN

Hahahahahahaha! For a clean freak like him, nothing is even scarier for Heichou than a messy kitchen! XD There goes the horror stories as told by Nendoroids! I've also asked everyone on my Facebook page to share something spooky, so here's what my fans shared for Halloween!

Photo by Sasseshichi - https://www.facebook.com/saseshicchi/posts/1681028558835516:0?hc_location=ufi

"Whenever you walk alone late at night and feel like someone is following you... don't turn around"
Photo by ChobitsNendoroids

"Your worst nightmare could be right around the corner"
Photo by Lisa Emonts

Photo by Mei Ko

Nendoroid Halloween is nothing without the Halloween Miku of course!

Photo by Nick Sontag

Photo by: Christoforus Michael Wijaya

..and what do we have here, Queen Elsa in a Halloween costume, coz why not? :)

Happy Halloween, everyone!

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Figure Portraits: Mayoi Hachikuji

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Throwback Thursday: Toy Photography Edition

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It's October and it's my birth month! I wonder where I'll be celebrating this year? :) So today's #ThrowbackThursday post is super special because I've invited my toy photography friends to join me in sharing our oldest toy photos and we're all going to see how far we've become throughout the years! These photos are taken back as early as 2006 for some and then I compared it to the latest photos now for this #TBT special.

All your favorite toy photographers from Vince454, Wieselhead, Kixkillradio, Allgroassai, Animaster, even GSC's very own Mamitan sent in their pictures! XD I met them through this wonderful hobby and I'm happy to say that we all inspire each other in some way, it's amazing to have a group of friends in the community with the same passion! :)
I'm super glad I got awesome toy photog buddies!

Check out our photos below and hope it gives you a wonderful ride down the memory lane!

Animaster

http://www.instagram.com/animaster

Animaster: "It's my first Nendo photo taken using my iPhone 3GS" (2010)

"Miku wishes you all to have an awesome weekend! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ" (2015)

Allgroassai

http://tokyootakumode.com/allgroassai

Allgroassai: "This is my first nendoroid photo using DSLR and get featured on Good Smile Company’s Photo Contest Memorial Book WonFes #13 in 2011"

"Senkan, Re-Kyuu!" 2015

Kixkillradio

http://www.kixkillradio.com

http://www.facebook,com/kixkillradio

Kixkillradio: "I love to dress up my nendoroids, this was my first photo of Azunyan wearing my doll's clothes. Taken with my friend's dslr Nikon 5k" (2011)

"In this photo shoot, I didn’t based the set from the anime but it was inspired by deliquient wars and graffiti in abandoned buildings." (2015)

Wieselhead

http://www.wieselhead.de

http://www.facebook.com/wieselhead

Wieselhead: "Arisa was my 3rd figure, but I took a figure photography picture of Arisa for the first time. She's a kind of figure I really like, an attractive Onee chan type with glasses, so I really had to take a picture. Since that day, I found a lot of joy in figure photography and slowly started to improve." (2008)

"Kongiku is a stunning, beautiful figure with a strong presence and very appealing appearance. The face is simply beautiful with it’s details and lively expression." (2015)

Grishnakh

http://tokyootakumode.com/grishnakh

http://www.facebook.com/grishnakhphoto

Grishnakh: "Practically the first photo I took of the Range Murata figure, was realized for a Christmas contest. The scenery wasn't particularly elaborated, I simply put her beside the Christmas tree, but the light effect that was created was really beautiful. The photo reached the finals in the contest and this encouraged me to continue to photograph and to collect figures." (2008)

"Waiting Under the Rain"
"I thank my mom for helping me with the rain :D" (2015)

Wndrenvy

http://www.deviantart.com/wndrenvy

http://www.facebook.com/wndrenvy

Wndrenvy: "Ever since I fell in love with this hobby, I thought learning indoor lighting is a must. But starting from this photo onward, I realized lighting is not a simple thing! haha!" (2010)

"Taken at 6.44 PM, and as you can see the sun was still so bright!
At first I was a bit worried because around 6 PM the sky was so cloudy, but luckily enough the sky moved around 15 minutes later."

Dancing Queen/GSC Mamitan

http://www.howagirlfigures.com

"Kaname Chidori" (2006)

I’ve been so excited about this Miku figure since she was first announced. This version of miku is hands down my all time favorite!

FullOAnime

http://www.youtube.com/fulloanime

http://www.facebook.com/fulloanime

FullOAnime: "The lengths I'd go for my favorite character. Taken in early 2012"

"I wanna start taking pictures of Nendoroid Renge going places. She was a lot of fun to walk and explore with." (2015)

Vince Photo-Desu

http://www.facebook.com/vince454photodesu

VinceCi: "Danbo is enjoying herself by drawing the Eiffel Tower. This was taken in 2009."

"She dozed off while reading the magazine." (2015)

YukataOnly

http://www.facebook.com/Yukataonly

YukataOnly: "I start of buying nendroid then this was short with a iPad background and some wood chip is foreground, it not what I like but I just wanted to try, I don't know anime and I saw your pic and tell me self what if I build a diorama" (2013)

"Scratch built this slight damage scene to compliment Kongou." (2015)

Hinagiku

http://www.facebook.com/HinagikuPhotography

Hinagiku: "I used compact for the hinagiku pic, and her BG is the monitor ^^" (2012)

"I Will Wait For You" (2015)

Bakayaro

http://www.bakayaro.de

http://www.facebook.com/bakayaro

Bakayaro: "I was addicted to Lineage 2 so I wanted to own a figure of it. So the little dwarf became my first figure and also my first test object for figure photography. Taken with my old Nikon D3100." (2011)

NY Otaku

http://www.nyotaku.com

http://www.facebook.com/NY-Otaku

NYOtaku: "Here's my VERY first figure photo I ever took, this was my first nendoroid I ever got with my very first camera I ever got (which was like a really crappy 1mp point and shoot). This was like 6 years ago, It's totally embarrassing ^^; but I guess it shows how with time and practice one can improve!" (2009)

"Honnouji Academy- The Early Years" (2015)

NCnendoroid

http://www.facebook.com/NCnendoroid

NCNendoroid: "This is my very first outdoor photo" (2011)

Lexy Photography

http://www.facebook.com/LexyPhotography

LexyPhotography: "I had just opened an instagram account, it was dormant with a few random photos. When Ryoko arrived, I was inspired by the TV series 'Girls of the Playboy Mansion' and decided that given her sexy pose and bunny costume I wanted a tasteful photo that suited her voluptuousness. I decided the bed with the curtain background would keep it classy! I used iPhone for this shot and relied on the halogen downlights in the room." (2012)

"First Carrier Division, Akagi reporting!"
" I used some blue cellophane and little blue plastic pieces i found at the discount store"

ExKurogane

http://www.facebook.com/EXkurogane.Blog

ExKurogane: "This is my very first shot taken with my DSLR after I bought it." (2012)

"One of the trickiest figures i had to deal with when it comes to getting photography ideas - having to come up with a SFW shot for a figure that screams NSFW all over." (2015)

Eyeland

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ateenschen/

"Voices of the Sea" (2011)

"Taken at Po Toi Island, Hong Kong.
On a night of summer, a doll was sitting by the ocean and watching the mighty milky way rising." (2015)

Lastly, here's my very first figure photos! XD

I always say I didn't start with toys first, but with people, events and landscape photography. Then I found these two Korean figurines at home and I took pictures right away.

I didn't have a decent figure back then so I borrowed my friend's paper danboard! He's super cute, but what the hell was I thinking using a cheesy filter, with a vignette, OMG. *cringe*

I'm not sure who she is, but she's my first anime figure. Also taken in 2011, heck my watermark is really obvious.

To all my friends who shared their photos with me, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! It's fun to see how we've all grown and learned throughout the years. It makes me cringe looking at my very first figure photo, but great things starts with small beginnings they say and I'm sure we're all proud of what we've become now!

Cheers to toy photography!