kimahri
CF Legend
So yeah, In my favorite comic book shop they also get cool and random stuff in to sell and at the moment they had a plastic Model Kit for Danbo.
Danbo is a Cardboard Robot from the Manga Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma. It's a story about a little 5 year old girl who just goes about daily life doing, five year old things with a slightly exaggerated comedic style. It's adorable and somewhat relateable. Anyway, Danbo appears later in the series as a costume by one of the character for their school thing that they do over there and he just kinda, broke out from the series and became a cultural icon for Innocence, according to the internet.
There's some more stuff about him here.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/danbo
Right on to actually making Danbo. First and foremost These things a bloody hard to do! Everything is so small and tiny and fiddly for my massive non-asian hands not to mention the instructions were in japanese and had warnings all over which I have no clue on how to read...
The box, it was on sale for £30 but I used my store credit.
The parts
And the instructions. If anyone can read them please tell me what the warnings were for...
His leggies. This thing is very finely made, all the plastic tags were getting in the way. I ended up getting a nailfile to try sort them out
The body
Armies, which keep falling off...
and the head. Now he's all done!
Here's the little Coins to "power him". Given their size I was like, **** that. There's also this tiny little switch that's like, smaller than a pen nib. I lost that bit but meh, it wouldn't go on anyway. Also there's a bit at the back where another cardboard flap goes on where the hinges were about as thick as a strand of hair, I broke that bit as well but you can't really see it.
Finally here he is compired to the box he came in. Yeaaaaah.
All in all. I'm not getting another one of these. Ever it took me an hour to build this thing, as adorable as it is. It was fun but it's too bloody fiddly. Hope you enjoyed me wasting your time with this silly crap, it's something different at least and would you expect anything less of me to do something with weird japanese stuff.
Danbo is a Cardboard Robot from the Manga Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma. It's a story about a little 5 year old girl who just goes about daily life doing, five year old things with a slightly exaggerated comedic style. It's adorable and somewhat relateable. Anyway, Danbo appears later in the series as a costume by one of the character for their school thing that they do over there and he just kinda, broke out from the series and became a cultural icon for Innocence, according to the internet.
There's some more stuff about him here.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/danbo
Right on to actually making Danbo. First and foremost These things a bloody hard to do! Everything is so small and tiny and fiddly for my massive non-asian hands not to mention the instructions were in japanese and had warnings all over which I have no clue on how to read...
The box, it was on sale for £30 but I used my store credit.
The parts
And the instructions. If anyone can read them please tell me what the warnings were for...
His leggies. This thing is very finely made, all the plastic tags were getting in the way. I ended up getting a nailfile to try sort them out
The body
Armies, which keep falling off...
and the head. Now he's all done!
Here's the little Coins to "power him". Given their size I was like, **** that. There's also this tiny little switch that's like, smaller than a pen nib. I lost that bit but meh, it wouldn't go on anyway. Also there's a bit at the back where another cardboard flap goes on where the hinges were about as thick as a strand of hair, I broke that bit as well but you can't really see it.
Finally here he is compired to the box he came in. Yeaaaaah.
All in all. I'm not getting another one of these. Ever it took me an hour to build this thing, as adorable as it is. It was fun but it's too bloody fiddly. Hope you enjoyed me wasting your time with this silly crap, it's something different at least and would you expect anything less of me to do something with weird japanese stuff.
