Branjita's 2022 Collection!

The Saiyan Saga shelf

Very few Saiyan Saga figures exist, especially at 5 inch scale. As a result, I had to customize characters and create my own figures in order to have half of these characters represented. I'm thankful that some unlicensed company created such excellent Saibamen figures, because I was not looking forward to having to sculpt my own Saibaman, and there's noooooo way I would have sculpted 6 of them. The King Yemma is an unlicensed resin purchased from djfungshing off ebay and Adrenaline created the custom Yamcha figure. The rest are all figures I simply purchased or customized. 

PGV yeah the WCF Baba and Grandpa Gohan are great! I gave one of my Babas a larger crystal ball to sit on (I had a marble that was perfect, so I wanted to do this) and Grandpa Gohan only needs longer legs (for the most part) to be a bit taller to scale with 5 inch scale. I'll eventually do that custom, but like most customs... I am not sure when I will finally do them...

Awesome set-up man. I too used to own the HQ DX Frieza but I sold it immediately after they announced the SHF version. What’s the name of that figure that’s between the Vegetas? Would it scale with SHF?

The Cell Saga shelf (technically Future Trunks Saga, Androids Saga, Cell Saga shelf)



This is one of my favorite shelves, because I liked this saga and there were more characters made by Irwin and Jakks to fill this section than Saiyan and Namek Sagas. I do still need to finish and work on a few more custom figures, but I'm pretty happy with this one. Over half of these are custom figures, so I really worked hard to fill this in.

Yeah, that first wave of Striking Z Fighters (and maybe other waves) had a matte texture similar to a terracotta pot (or kind of like a piece of sandpaper). Kind of unusual. I imagine Irwin was experimenting with what texture and paint style they should go with for their products.

tabuuforteakugun Yeah, my Kind Cold is fortunately in VERY good condition. His paint hasn't been modified in any way. Regarding him standing, I did the superglue method of tightening his ankle joints. It's the method where you put a drop of liquid super glue on the joint and continuously rotate/wiggle the joint for 5+ minutes until the glue has dried. Continuously moving the joint while the glue dries prevents the joint from being glued together, but enables it to have more friction and a tighter feel to it. It does leave a bit of a white haze to the area generally, so it can be ideal to use a tiny screw driver to pry the joint open a tiny amount and put the drop of glue in the actual joint (instead of just on top of it) and then wiggle it. Having KC fall forward and knock over other figures is not something I can let happen. Some of the Figuarts collectors have developed/discovered other methods for doing this that might not be as risky or potentially destructive as using super glue, but I have not tried any of the methods I have seen mentioned. I've read about them here and on Facebook though, but I can't remember where or what they are.

Sorry, I don't have any advice. Honestly, if I could sew, I would make a new cape for my King Cold because I don't like the Jakks cape. It'd be a lot cooler to make a navy blue cape with dark red on the inner side and then have it visually look like it is attached with brass buttons on the front of his armor. If I could do that, I'd put the Jakks cape in storage and not display it on the figure.

Perhaps you know someone who can sew who can make a template from the existing cape and sew you a navy blue/red one that you can attach with double stick tape. The elastic bands are kind of silly.