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Hobby Hovel: Three Years Later
Seasons change, clocks turn, and before we knew it, Hobby Hovel is three years old! This past year has born witness to a dizzying amount of changes for me, both within and without the blog. Of course,...
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Review: 1/10 Beach Queens Saber Extra
Saber, Saber, Saber — even eight years after she was introduced to the world, the figure-collecting community is still driven by a never-ending hunger for anything with a big blonde hair bun. I would...
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“Review”: 1/8 Rizfis Luttiva Mente
The figure is far from relevant today, the post is hardly a proper review, and there won’t even be any neat photos — hell, it’s not going to be much of anything. If anything, what you’re reading now...
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Visual Novel Reviews: Period
“Cute loli’s presented as an apology for how delayed and shit this article will be.” Hellooo everyone and welcome to some more eroge reviewing goodness! Sadly this article has been greatly delayed due...
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Review: 1/6 Aegis (ART WORKS ver.)
As some of you might know, I have something called the “one figure rule”. Since there are so many characters and series that I like, I’ve always thought that it’d be a waste to have multiple figures...
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Review: MG Hi-Nu Gundam
Suprise — a Gundam review! Bet you weren’t expect that, huh? It’s a little depressing to realize that it’s been a year and a half since I’ve done one of these. But unlike the hiatus I took in figure...
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Paintless Gunpla for Busy People
Remember that post I wrote for Hobbylink Japan that I mentioned in the Hi-Nu review? It is now live on hobbylink.tv — check it out!
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Discovering Photography
Over the last few months, I’ve gone on a bit of a spending spree. With a new camera body, new lens, and a new bag to hold everything in, I found myself feeling slightly ridiculous at how much I’ve...
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Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica: a Retrospective
I got this gigantic movie poster for being one of the first people to pre-order tickers for the screening. Nifty ain’t it? Earlier this month, the first two Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica movies finally...
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Visual Novel Reviews: Rewrite
Hey there boys and girls! For this review I’m gonna be using the 1 game format like I did last article and probably will continue to do so for all future reviews going forward. Hopefully this will cut...
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Review: 1/8 Menma
If there is one personal quality that the figure collecting hobby develops, it’s patience. The journey from original source material, to the first prototype at an expo, to painted prototype, to...
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Chag’s Anime North 2013 Adventure
After taking a year off, I’m back at Anime North! After Otakon last year, I had my doubts on whether or not I’d attend AN again, but as luck would have it, I got into touch with Jenn and Suich from...
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Ash Recommends: Visual Novels — the B-List
DELAYS! Oh good lord the delays…*cough* I mean hello everyone! So this was supposed to have been done many many weeks ago, but unfortunately, many, many delays happened instead. Said delays started...
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The Story of Alicia, My Friend
A month ago, I flew to San Francisco and met someone in person for the first time. We had In-N-Out Burger and visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art briefly before she had to run off. On the...
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Of Love and Figures
If you’ve been a long-time reader of Hobby Hovel, then you would have undoubtedly noticed the lack of activity over the majority of the past year. I had even skipped my anniversary post due to the...
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Review: 1/7 Tharja
“What is that?” “Why do you collect these things?” “You spent how much on this?” As a figure collector, one is bound to run into questions like these sooner or later. Of course, there are many...
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Robot Damashi Sinanju
Hope you’ve had a good year guys, because it’s time for a new post! I won’t ignore the elephant in the room and pretend this blog hasn’t been fallen into an obvious state of disuse in the past year,...
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Menma with Flowers
So I was yet another wedding a couple of months back, and when it (finally) came time to leave, the wife insisted on taking the small box of little white flowers on our table home with us for figure...
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Lessons with Tharja
Photography has a way of adding new meaning to things. Behind every image is the potential for a stories and memories about how it came to fruition. At the best of times, it’s a veritable adventure of...
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Rim-Lit Saber
Of all the figures I re-shot since their original reviews, Alter’s summer Saber was among the most difficult. While the original review had some of my favourite photos to this day, the fact that I ran...
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