It's FanChat Friday! This week's prompt is: Do you have any physical merch? How do you choose what merch to get? Now's your chance to show it off!
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I've done repairs on similar-sized figures and smaller by very carefully making small holes in each half (tiny drill bit in a pin-vice) and then inserting a chunk of a paperclip as a permanent pin. (maybe a drop of model superglue if I'm sure I want it permanent)
Beautiful collection, btw. I keep trying to stay out of merch-heavy fandoms but it doesn't work. ^^;;
I've been taking advantage of Suruga-ya's free shipping sales and picking up a lot of stuff lately, but it's a lot of artbooks and then smaller stuff like keychains.
Here's a quick-pic of an example repair with a paperclip-as-pin, fixing poor Ryuna's broken staff.
@kalloway Yeah, I used Surugaya once to try out the free shipping and MAN, it's so tempting to do it again. But have to hold out XD
And I see 👀 📝 I see, I see...that looks very much like pro work, hehe.
Yeah, I keep caving to temptation. ^^;;
@kalloway Haha I know that feel! I think my heaviest was just Sailor Moon throughout the years...I haven't bought much from it since entering college a lifetime ago, because ironically enough it became way more expensive since, than even importing the manga in the 90s (to a small island, no less.) IMO, of course. I look at fandoms like hmm, I'll say Star Wars and kinda go
A way I try to control is just to repeat the mantra my mother taught me: when you can get it, you'll get it ^^; Works when you see the costs of stuff LMAO At the same time, most of my fandoms are old ones, so luckily no new merch if I want it, old merch is a coin's toss if I feel like splurging.
And oooh, that's a thought! Just unraveling the paperclip and cutting it in some way that can fit in the hole, then? I'll have to consider that one of these days when I get time to reorganize stuff >.>