It’s been ages since I have acquired the Amie-Grand Asuka in summerwear, I have always liked her but there is a serious problem with this PVC figure…

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Picture Source: Hobby Link Japan

Overall, this is a fairly nice Asuka figure, nice facial expression (I like the deredere Asuka), the painting is good, just about everything is good except this figure can’t stand straight!  Like I have talked about in one of my earlier figure collection topic.  This figure has tortmented me for ages and I have tried various different techniques to try keep her straight.  I tried tipping her over, putting something under her base and even tried to glue her feet down to the base.  None of those techniques worked.  While I was working on my Detolf Dioder project earlier today (This Asuka has always been inside the Detolf), I finally decided to put an end to this problem.  But none of the previous techniques had worked before, what could I possibly do?  But I am an Engineer, I have to figure out a way around the problem!  Finally, it came to me… I need to pin her down like what people do with their resin kits!

Almost immediately, I took out my power tool, hand vice, drill set and began to work on her.

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I started with the hand vice and tried to get the hole started, switched to my power tool once I felt comfortable enough with the pilot hole.  Next I inserted a brass pin that I have laying around my modeling desk.

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And the result

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In the attempt to balance Asuka so she won’t tip forward again, her left foot is now slightly lifted above the base.  And I have applied some super glue where the pin was inserted to fill up the remaining gap between the base and the brass pin so Asuka is now support by the brass pin reinforced left foot.

And the final result

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It’s been a few hours since I completed the remodeling and I have yet to see sign of her tipping over.  Hopefully, this will put an end to the Asuka who used to play smooth criminal.  Now, pinning is not a new idea, it’s been used by resin kit modeler for many years; however this technique is rarely used among PVC figure collector.  Hopefully, this write up will help other collectors of this wonderful Asuka figure and keep her standing straight.

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