Fate/Zero

Saber

Well well well, I finally got this done.
This Saber was a Wonderfest ’07 summer special from the Alter booth, she also comes with Irisviel (NOT Illyasviel). I didn’t go there myself (no money…) but my friend managed to grab me the figures :3

For those who don’t know, Fate/Zero is a collaboration project between Type-Moon and Nitro+ being released as a series of light novels (Short novels with some pretty pictures). The story is actually a prequel to Fate/Stay Night and follows Shirou’s foster father, Kiritsugu Emiya.

Enough explanations, onto the photos!

Location

Today we visit the south side of the Old Arts Building, Melbourne Uni. Iriviel was also photographed here.
The date was 15th September, when the Melbourne Anime Festival was on, so I took this chance to take photos of the figures around the beautiful buildings of the Melbourne University campus where the festival was held.

The south side had few people walking through, and it also had quite a bit of tree cover with slips of sunlight to come through.

Setup

I FORGOT THE MINI TRIPOD! AUURGH~!
As the photos weren’t taken in full light, I needed the tripod to help get clear photos, unfortunately to my poor memory, I’ve forgotten the tripod.
I had to try and stabilise the camera to the ground with my fingers as I hold the camera, didn’t work that well, but it worked at least.

Figure

For a non-scale figure coming in at about 14cm, I had my doubts of its quality, but they were washed away once I actually had a proper look of it.

Alter has done a really nice job of Saber (and Irisviel), the sculpt is superb, showing nice creases and seams of the suit, along with the awesome pose of Saber pulling off her tie. The paint job is also pretty nice, having different shades of grey for the clothes and having a very nice gloss coat on the shoes and a nice gradual colour for Saber’s hair.

Thoughts

Well buggar me, by not bringing the tripod to stop the blurry pictures, I had to scrap almost all of the photos I took, the handful you see here are the ones which were deemed decent enough to post -__-;

Unfortunately this is also the case with Irisviel and the other figures that I took photos of at Manifest, sorry guys =/

Summary

Sexy, is how I describe this rendition of Saber. There’s something about it that I like now, the pose, the clothes, the fact that she’s taking off her tie…I dunno.
I’m quite happy about being able to get this limited edition so I have no regrets, my previous doubts are smashed. I’m not sure what else to say other than I wish she was a tad larger in scale but that’s really about the only negative comment I can think of.

Seeing Saber does make me want to get the Max Factory Kiritsugu but I’ll have to check my funds first…

Details – Photo shoot

Camera
Nikon Coolpix P2
Date
15th September 2007
Location
Old Arts Building – Melbourne University

Details – Figure

Name
Saber
Series
Fate/Zero
Maker
Alter
Sculptor
Adachi Satoru
Scale
non-scale
Release date
August 2007
Place of purchase
Wonderfest ’07
Retail price
3,000 yen
Bought it for
$33.00 AU approx
Availability
Uh, rare? Can only be acquired through 2nd hand

Upcoming

Ok, I still got other photos to post, so here’s a list:
Irisviel of Fate/Zero – Alter
N@gi of Peace@Pieces – Goodsmile Company
Himekuri Moda Noel – Kaiyodo
Fate of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s – Alter
Princess of FullAni – Kotobukiya
Pachira of Magical Poka~n – Max Factory

Hopefully those will be done soon but I’m quite busy at the moment >.<;