In my short series of blog posts on PAX Prime 2013, I mentioned that I had bought, among other things, a Play Arts Meryl Silverburgh figure. There was some interest in pictures of seeing it get set up, so here we go!

I've been into figure collecting for a while now. It started off slow, with a couple of figures I bought back in college, but lately, with more space and disposable income, I've been more and more tempted by the siren call of resin and plastic. Here is a picture of my collection as it currently stood before my latest acquisition:

And here's Meryl, still in her box:

I'll spare you guys the weird, fetishistic unboxing video and just jump to another picture.

Not having a stand can sometimes present a problem. Particularly if the figure just isn't balanced to stand on its own. You might notice that Serah in the first photo up there is on her knees. That's because she came standless and couldn't sand on her own two feet without some sort of super adhesive.

OK. Now it's time to decide what hands and weapon to use. We have her defaults, as seen above, and...

I decided to go with the pistol in the right hand and default left. But before that can happen...

There was a little bit of difficulty in getting the hand on there, but after snapping everything in place and a little posing...

And with everything set up, now it just comes down to finding a place for her.

Hey, it was open space. Though I really should try to rearrange the display at some point.

And so ends this photographic journey of one of my non-gaming hobbies and demonstration of my inept photography skills. Meryl was relatively painless to set up. Any of you out there into figure collecting?