Category: Rants/rambles/opinions

IL-2 1946 Sturmovik & J7W1 Shinden

I just feel like flying for these past few days and weeks that I picked up IL-2 1946 Sturmovik. I obtained IL-2 from Steam for just $10 CAD (Canadian), and been wanting to play it for the past 2-3 years. I’m also pretty sure that the majority of people already have this within their possession. I’ve been holding off  on this because of Flight Sim X, Figma’s, Shinki’s, life, and because I couldn’t find the hard-copy. Also, this article isn’t purely aimed at the IL-2 1946 game, but the the J7W1 Shinden itself. I wanted to focus on the Shinden.

I have to thank Kodama within the IL-2 modding community for this gorgeous plane!

(Link – MySite)

(All images taken in IL-2 1946 Sturmovik + HSFX Mod + J7W1 Shinden.)

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Figma Mirai – Culture Japan

I spy with my little eye something that is….Orange & white, has a “d” logo, and with a name that means future. Who could that be? Danny choo’s mascot – Mirai! I’ve obtained my Figma Mirai from J-List. Why not? Everybody else seemed to have went with AmiAmi but eh…let’s create our own unique path!

(Link – MySite) – Mirai with a J-list supplied tissue packet.

(All images taken with a Lumix GF-1 – Pancake lens.)

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My Favorite Anime – Top 7 – Round 5

Hello again! As I long decided that this would be bi-monthly, I didn’t want to miss out on ruining the bi-monthly bit of this which would of turned this into a tri-monthly thing. Well, what other Animes are worth watching that I can recommend? There are some Anime airing this season, and that I’m watching that I want to highly recommend. I can’t because I haven’t completed them. I’ve been itching to add them, but resisting. I already did mention quite a few that were awesome, so what else is there? Half are going to oldies so I hope you don’t ignore them because they aged!

(Link – Safebooru)

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Battle Rondo – Nostalgia Time-Capsule

Let’s Battle! I shall be upping more images to show more from the Battle Rondo because I just wanted to share some Rondo images with you guys & gals. They contain some memories that I want to remember everytime I visit back to my own blog for nostalgia purposes. Also, to check how far I progress with my Shinkist. So far, I’ve been having fun trying to raise my crazy little desktop battle-bots with their various amusing expressions.

(Link – MySite) – Benio testing Tsugaru’s rifles.

(All images taken from Konami’s Battle Rondo MMO.)

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My Favorite Anime – Top 7 – Round 4 – Kitsunes

Kon! Kon! Because it’s March, an epic one at that, we’ll have a “kitsune” themed top seven. When March is epic we need some lovely fox spirits to accompany the epicness of it! If you’re a “kitsune” minion then these should interest those viewing Anime relating to fox spirits, foxes, or wolves using similar traits to fox myths/folklore. Now lets see the slyness of our foxy friends! These are the ones I chose as the best for this month

(Link – Safebooru) – Susukihotaru from Zakuro

(All images taken from safebooru. Trying to give credit to artists work when possible and shall only use when I can link back.)

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My History with Anime

Ah, guess it’s about time I sum up my past with Anime into Nopy’s project. Off to show how I got influenced and why I like Anime to the point that I do. It seems like a nice way of seeing what and how people got influenced by Anime and why they like what they like. Noby’s Project here: http://nopybot.com/2011/02/22/my-history-with-anime/

Do be warned! I’ll be rambling quite a bit as I’m digging back quite a bit into my past!

(Link – MySite) – My first ever images of  an outdooor figure photoshoot – Main article.

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The Hidden Life of Figures

Hello! I thought I’d offer up a tutorial article for those new to the figure photoshoot scene, or those simply struggling to brainstorm ideas. Article also doubles as explanation to those those unfamiliar with Anime and figures. I’m basically going to mention ways you can guess or form a personality for figures for your comics, photoshoots, stop motion, or whatever else you might be planning to do and what you might be able to use them for. This also comes from studying other people’s comics and articles.

(Link – MySite) – Renge’s source of supernatural energy returned.

Note: If you see some obvious points being made, or explained, then it’s because of me explaining what this is about to those unfamiliar with bringing figures to life.

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Blog’s 4th Anniversary – Happy B-day Arctic Kitsune!

Happy 4th anniversary Arctic Kitsune! Me? No, no! I simply rode on  that name (and still am) because it’s easier to share/link back with other fellow bloggers and friends. Ghostly Substance? I ditched that username as well.  *coughs* What a time to celebrate Varkitsu’s birthday on Valentines day haha. More love for him then!


(Link – MySite) – Drawn by Denkikoiji– The completed one shall be added in soon once done – Consider this a teaser.

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My Favorite Anime – Top 7 – Round 3

Whoops, I kind off slipped on these bi-monthly Anime favorites. But hey, at least I had more time to figure out which Anime was my actual favorite and ones that you may actually enjoy. My last one was for November 11th, which was posted early, and I forgot about Decembers. Time to merge November and January together :).

(Link – Safebooru) – Kobato, our carefree naive helpful girl with an angelic voice!

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Flight Sim X – Shinden Ottawa tour

Part two of my belated Flight Simulator X articles. This time I found some nice add-on packs for my local area – Ottawa – and attempted a quick tour.  I think it came out pretty well, and was highly pleased with the quality of the Ottawa airport.

(Link – MySite) – AI Air Canada at CYOW – Ottawa Airport.

(Images of varying quality  and planes. Not actual representation as I don’t have the top of the line gaming computer. This game is a resource hog.)

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My Favorite Images P2 – Figure Images from 2010

What an interesting start to a New Year! Also got a fresh patch of snow, with more on the way! Snowed twice now Nice! Need a tad bit more to photoshoot my figures in.

But ya, I thought I’d continue with “My favorite images”, meaning my own images, from the past year – 2010. I already did it once condensing three years into one and thought I’d do one exactly after New Year’s this time. Well, time to look back to see my Figma’s roaming around Ontario, Canada, Cuba, and the birth of my Shinki collection! Oh, and sorry if this seems cliche of an article for the more hardcore figure photoshooters. I just wanted something slightly easier to look back at and to see where I should move on in the future. You know, something to gauge how much I’ve improved and to see where I should go next.

Part 1 – https://arcticukitsu.com/Blog/?p=695

Starting off after March 2010: – April 3rd’s Easter Weekend

(Link – MySite) – Miku Moose

-> Warning: Possible image overload.  This article contains more images than my usual articles may usually have. Randomly worded paragraphs may or may not confuse you as well.

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