trimming and cutting. There's always something.

Every Sofubi project has something. It’s actually quite rare for your vinyl to come out just as you planned. I’ve talked with so many makers, and they all have stories about something that doesn’t fit right, or some weird angle they need to stuff a part in, at just the right softness to get it to work.

Malba is no exception. Coming in at a whopping 9 parts, there is/was a lot that could go astray, so I consider this work of art a win, with the one step I need to perform on every figure. His little hip/leg joints are small enough that the joints inside are crammed together into too tight a space. So I heat him up, pull his legs out, and trim the flanges on the bottom of the insides of his leg joints, and wallahhh. No more problem. After this he stands great, and he tells me he feels better not having his left push over his right, and vice versa. A happy Malba.