Among the current Happy Meal toys at McDonald's
there's a Hello Kitty dress-up figure.
You can apply either fashionable clothes
or Mac Crew stickers
onto the figure to play dress-up. Since they're stickers, you can't change them repeatedly, though.
Here's an example of Mac Crew dressed up. Note that it only covers the front,
so the back is left in a bare state. There are triangular holes for screws in two places—the head and body.
Now, changing the subject—
In Indonesia, there's a manufacturer called SUB JERSEY
that's made in-house and manufactures cycle wear and running wear,
and their cycle wear has some interesting specs tailored to local conditions.
First, jerseys: they only come in thin fabric short-sleeve and a long-sleeve version of that. Shorts are only available as short shorts—
there's no long pants down to the ankles in their lineup
（and for some reason, only bib shorts with shoulder straps）. In other words, it's all designed for tropical, year-round summer use.
They do make jackets and vests to wear on top, but those aren't thick enough to call them cold-weather gear.
Indonesia doesn't have a state religion, but roughly 90% of the population is Muslim. So Sub Jersey offers a women's vest integrated with a hijab (headscarf).
There's a distributor in Japan, but we don't have any connection to them. I'll put up a link to the home country site (→ here）.
This is a quote from their home country site, but I felt something stirring in me about this jersey's design （the motif is based on a fabric weave pattern called kain cual）， so I made a SUB Jersey Hello Kitty. By the way, in the home country, this jersey is completely sold out except for 2XS size.
Masking is such a pain.
I made the skirt black. The figure had a step and gap at the seam line on the side of the arm, so I filled just that spot with putty and smoothed it out with sandpaper beforehand.
Oops, there's a masking failure below the neck
Good thing hand-painting can fix it. I'll apply matte topcoat multiple times later, and that'll cover up the brush marks too.
The Sub Jersey home country site has models like this too. Written on the right chest area is "MERDEKA ATADE MATI!" which means "Independence or death!"—it was a slogan during Indonesia's independence war against the Netherlands. Maybe because of the political tone or the bluntness of the message, the Japanese distributor doesn't seem to carry it. While I'm at it, they also don't carry the hijab-integrated vests I mentioned earlier.
On the actual jersey, the logo is in lowercase script, but since I didn't have a decal like that, I used an uppercase decal instead.
Done. This is the Sub Jersey Hello Kitty.
On the left sleeve of the jersey is a red square with the word "archipelago" written on it, but I couldn't reproduce the text down to the letter （I should've made the square a bit bigger）. The jersey model name is Archipelago Bangka Belitung Green Long Sleeves, meaning the long-sleeve version in green of the Bangka-Belitung Islands. This weave from Bangka Island is called kain cual (qual weave).
↑Excerpt from the purple version of the same jersey from the home country site (not the green one)
I put a big SUB on the back because
I just couldn't take the masking hell anymore. It was a shortcut born of desperation. I did fill in the screw holes on the back cleanly with putty though.
there's a Hello Kitty dress-up figure.
You can apply either fashionable clothes
or Mac Crew stickers
onto the figure to play dress-up. Since they're stickers, you can't change them repeatedly, though.
Here's an example of Mac Crew dressed up. Note that it only covers the front,
so the back is left in a bare state. There are triangular holes for screws in two places—the head and body.
Now, changing the subject—
In Indonesia, there's a manufacturer called SUB JERSEY
that's made in-house and manufactures cycle wear and running wear,
and their cycle wear has some interesting specs tailored to local conditions.
First, jerseys: they only come in thin fabric short-sleeve and a long-sleeve version of that. Shorts are only available as short shorts—
there's no long pants down to the ankles in their lineup
（and for some reason, only bib shorts with shoulder straps）. In other words, it's all designed for tropical, year-round summer use.
They do make jackets and vests to wear on top, but those aren't thick enough to call them cold-weather gear.
Indonesia doesn't have a state religion, but roughly 90% of the population is Muslim. So Sub Jersey offers a women's vest integrated with a hijab (headscarf).
There's a distributor in Japan, but we don't have any connection to them. I'll put up a link to the home country site (→ here）.
This is a quote from their home country site, but I felt something stirring in me about this jersey's design （the motif is based on a fabric weave pattern called kain cual）， so I made a SUB Jersey Hello Kitty. By the way, in the home country, this jersey is completely sold out except for 2XS size.
Masking is such a pain.
I made the skirt black. The figure had a step and gap at the seam line on the side of the arm, so I filled just that spot with putty and smoothed it out with sandpaper beforehand.
Oops, there's a masking failure below the neck
Good thing hand-painting can fix it. I'll apply matte topcoat multiple times later, and that'll cover up the brush marks too.
The Sub Jersey home country site has models like this too. Written on the right chest area is "MERDEKA ATADE MATI!" which means "Independence or death!"—it was a slogan during Indonesia's independence war against the Netherlands. Maybe because of the political tone or the bluntness of the message, the Japanese distributor doesn't seem to carry it. While I'm at it, they also don't carry the hijab-integrated vests I mentioned earlier.
On the actual jersey, the logo is in lowercase script, but since I didn't have a decal like that, I used an uppercase decal instead.
Done. This is the Sub Jersey Hello Kitty.
On the left sleeve of the jersey is a red square with the word "archipelago" written on it, but I couldn't reproduce the text down to the letter （I should've made the square a bit bigger）. The jersey model name is Archipelago Bangka Belitung Green Long Sleeves, meaning the long-sleeve version in green of the Bangka-Belitung Islands. This weave from Bangka Island is called kain cual (qual weave).
↑Excerpt from the purple version of the same jersey from the home country site (not the green one)
I put a big SUB on the back because
I just couldn't take the masking hell anymore. It was a shortcut born of desperation. I did fill in the screw holes on the back cleanly with putty though.