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Art Manikin Challenge has returned! And is now accepting entries for a brand new contest to celebrate the art of posing. So if you own an A9 figure (or can get your hands on one - look at our map), see what cool poses you can come up with, take a photo and send it our way. It's free and you can submit as many entries as you like. Winners will get store credit! Every artist that submits a work will increase the pool of money by $5. So if we can get 100 artists to participate that means we'll be giving out $500 in store credit to the lucky winners! (note $5 per artist, not submission). Details here: www.artmanikinchallenge.com

Beautiful art entry by 3Drips for 2020 Art Manikin Challenge. 3drips.wordpress.com New contest forthcoming → artmanikinchallenge.com

Art Manikin Challenge Website is Back! The Art Manikin Challenge has returned! Well, at least the website has. I'm gearing up to bring back the competition and the fun as well. Stay tuned here: https://www.artmanikinchallenge.com

New photos of A96 Enjoy these new pics of the A96 figure. My most flexible biped configuration so far: www.armature9.com

Christmas Gift from A9 I have a special gift for all existing customers that have purchased figures with articulated hands. Details on yesterday's blog post: https://armaturenine.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/free-articulated-hands-christmas-present-from-armature-nine/

New Parts & Images for Large Figures https://armaturenine.com/collections/large-pieces Hey everyone, happy to share that I’ve just finished a new set of improvements to the website. As of now you can see new images in the build-it page for the Ranger figures. These now represent the current state of the designs. I’ve have also added several new pieces including keeping some of the former designs in case anybody prefers getting the older feet with springs or the older knees with screws. To a degree these former pieces are better but I’ve departed form them to save on cost (hence recent $20 drop in prices). But I’ve kept the products listed in case anybody would like to upgrade their figure. Up next I need to refresh the armaturelab.com website with all of the new content so that it’s more representative of where things are at and once that’s done the site will be mostly caught up with everything and I can move onto bringing Titan back and a couple other special things I’ve got in the works.

Horse Manikin These are the latest photos of the horse manikin by Armature Nine. This model is available on our etsy shop at: armaturenine.etsy.com Or get it on our main website (the standard quadruped on armature9.com) and customize it to your liking.

Felid Quadruped Here are some photos of the latest iteration of the felid quadruped. The difference between the felid design and the standard quadruped is it has a longer torso (but no neck segment) - so the distance between head and torso is shorter. The felid also has shorter arms (more leg power) and one additional tail segment (3 total). www.armaturenine.com

Canid Head This is one of the new canine heads on the standard quadruped armature. There are actually several canid heads to look through including: wolf, coyote, jackal, fox and more! Browse through the different head types here: https://armaturenine.com/products/quadruped-1-6-manikin

A9RIGS get updates on digitigrade feet Great update on today's blog post featuring the latest improvements to digitigrade and quadruped figures. https://armaturenine.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/photos-of-new-model/

New Head Variants Shopify lifted its restrictions to limiting 100 variants per product listing which meant I could add more head variants to the products listings! Wohooo! https://armaturenine.com/collections/a9rig-bipeds Sort through several that weren’t there before, including this “Large” head which is bigger than the Anime head and bigger than the Cartoony head. In other words… it’s pretty big! XD

A9 Travels to Aardman Animation Studios So thrilled to share this gem from today: A photo of a 2021 Ranger Classic perched atop a sign at the legendary Aardman Animations Studios in Bristol! What makes this moment extra special is how much joy Shaun the Sheep has brought to me and my five-year-old daughter this year. We’ve literally been binge-watching all the episodes we have. Oh those hilarious expressive faces and witty characters! Lol! So cool to know one of our figures is over there hanging out with such bright minds. Thank you for sending this!

New Blog Post from Armature Nine Sorry for the long period of silence everyone! Today's blog post will let you in on what I've been up to this year: https://armaturenine.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a-long-awaited-update-from-armature-nine/

Quadrupeds are Back! Did you know we brought back our quadrupeds this year? Featuring all the latest improvements to materials and part designs. Find them here: https://armaturenine.com/collections/a9rig-bipeds What's especially fun is you can also select from a variety of head shapes. This horse is the standard quadruped with the horse head. You can even get more creative by swapping hooves for paws, claws, adding wings or longer tails by browsing through the parts page here: https://armaturenine.com/collections/large-pieces And if you want to mock something up and send me a pdf, check out our newest Armature Lab at: www.armaturelab.com Use the presets tab on the far right to get you started.

A9RIGS Has Age Groups Age groups have returned to Armature Nine and this time fitted with all the latest improvements to parts and materials. While gripper hands come by default for the teen, tween and kid, you can add articulated hands if you like in the parts page. Also: Shipping for these figures is now free within the US. And $20-$40 around the world. Bipeds can be found here: https://armaturenine.com/collections/a9rig-bipeds Hands & other parts here: https://armaturenine.com/collections/large-pieces

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