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Figure Gallery: Mig-60 Mechamusume to Celebrate the Burning of Strike Witches!

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Popularity: 14% [?] Published by tj_han January 12th, 2007 in Figurine Reviews & Galleries

Has anyone seen Strike Witches? It’s an eight minute long OVA with 20 minutes of Omake. And fittingly for this occasion, I present this ancient batch of pictures that LianYL took of his Mig-60 Mechamusume 1/9 figure. Which you can get for dirt cheap (25-30?) at Urban Attic, only because it’s a rotten figure.

This Mig-60 girl was part of an earlier Mechamusume trading figure set and now she’s blown up to a larger scale with a slightly altered pose - her leg is bent, revealing mechanical bits. If you know British slang, you’ll find the previous sentence really hilarious. Go figure. Released by Tora no Ana under their Fine Scenery line in October 2006, Mig-60 unfortunately looks like crap especially when compared to the trading figure version.

Some photos first! I’ll just caption the pictures as they go along for a quick review. I have amazingly little free time these days, barely even watching one episode of anime every couple of days.

Man-machine interface: A mishmash of fetishes ranging from World War 2, fighter planes, garters, blondies, Russians, nekomimi, pantsu and lolicon.

THE RED ARMY! The plane is well done, with neat panel lines and a rotatable propeller.

Her face however reminds me of a deranged Dragonball character. Not DbZ mind you, those annoying little bosses from the first few arcs.

The bent knee was a new addition from the scaleup and it’s quite a good one. The revealing of mechanical interior further strengthens the hybridisation of musume and machine. And apparently, Russians don’t wear skirts. Ask Hinano.

She has an extra item slung over her shoulder. I can’t remember what it was, but doesn’t it resemble a fuel tank? Fashionable items in Mecha-musume society: Fuel tank handbags. The sling is a cheap leathery cut of string. Ugly.

As I said, the plane rocks. But her hair is awful.

With injection scars and the blandness of uncooked spaghetti, we won’t see Mig-60 doing any shampoo ads in the near future.

As with most mecha musume, she’s a loli. In an ugly see-through top.

Permanantly attached to her base, she rests on a skid and the tail of the plane.

The skid is soooo IGPX. IGPX’s robots stand on a similar device and they are very cool. So by extrapolation, Mig-60’s foot is cool too. And what’s that Russian text there?

Black tail.

With a collar and tie on a transparent top, Mig-60 commits the biggest fashion faux pas of the century. Or maybe I’m just too untrendy to appreciate high fashion.

She has no skirt. Period.

String panties and mechanical garters. Lol.

If you blow hard enough, the rotor spins.

And for the final picture, it’s so powerful that it deserves its own paragraph. The nekomimi hat is removable. For it to fit so snugly, the sculptors concluded that there was but one way. The way of the Oyaji.

Oh my god.

Verdict
Stick to the trading figures at all costs. I LAUGH AT YOU LIAN!

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21 Responses to “Figure Gallery: Mig-60 Mechamusume to Celebrate the Burning of Strike Witches!”

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1 sentinel011 33 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 12:54 am

The last pic totally reminds me of SR’s Harima.
2 LianYL 781 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 12:56 am

This is like soooooo old.
3 Tsubaki 518 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 2:30 am

It took you 9 months to post this.
4 Dark Koji 20 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 4:57 am

The last picture was really funny…..in a bad way. ^^;
5 Zer0 135 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 10:31 am

I never got into Strike Witch or Mecha Musume because the girls look like they’re amputees, severed from the knees down.
6 alphapples 1 comment Jan 12th, 2007 at 11:29 am

1) Are cat-girls the fashion these days? I don’t understand what’s so aesthetically pleasing about them.

2) If they have to remove hair to remove the nekomimi hat, why make it removable in the first place? It’s a waste of effort, time, money for the company and ruins the figure.
7 Tiny Red Man 149 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

the last photo reminded me of this manga i read b4. The character’s head is eXACTLY the same as ur last pic..my frens will like: OMG!!!@#$~@#$!@#$!@#$ ya….me too…
8 LianYL 781 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

The beauty of mechamusume lies in the personification and fusion, not the amputation.
9 Zer0 135 comments Jan 12th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

When I look at the legs, I can’t help but think of amputation…..it’s very Go Nagai.
10 Rakugakid 32 comments Jan 14th, 2007 at 4:24 pm

I fell off my chair at the last picture. I wasnt that mentally prepared
11 ZeroG 82 comments Jan 15th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

The realism of the last picture tells me tat event loli has hair problem…
shampoo commercial plz
12 Kabitzin 94 comments Jan 15th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

I like the soul patch between her eyebrows.
13 Temugin 19 comments Jan 19th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

I have all the weakness you mentioned: “World War 2, fighter planes, garters, blondies, Russians, nekomimi, pantsu and loli”, but the sum of all doesn’t produced a good result. None of these mecha musume figures is good enough to buy. If she was a girl that could transform into a plane, she could be great but what crap is that? It is the result of taking the teleportation device of “The Fly” and mixing a girl and a plane?! Amputation is not enough to describe, it’s an aberration!
14 Yamamoto isaia ibn Salah 3 comments Jan 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 pm

Khuy Znim! KIazak Maksim!
15 Hangmen 1 comment Jan 23rd, 2007 at 3:10 pm

That’s one big Harima admirer there. Even Harima himself would’ve shed manly tears.
16 ryouko 1 2 comments Mar 26th, 2007 at 5:16 am

who’s your barber?…. “the predator”?
17 adenread 3 comments Apr 5th, 2007 at 6:19 pm

lol that last picture was so funny i lol’ed in rl
18 W1N9Zr0 3 comments Apr 16th, 2007 at 5:46 am

Russian text reads:
Air Force ☆
Fighter Aircraft
19 Karel 1 comment May 22nd, 2007 at 1:22 pm

I love the pics.

I recently bought one of these figurines myself.

The main issue I have is that the hand doesn’t join onto the Aircraft real well
20 Meimi132 8 comments Aug 26th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

OMG mega-lols at the last picture!!!! Freakin’ awesome.

You watching the new Strike Witches TV I hope? So many pantsu-less girls…

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