Scale: 1/6 resin
Sculptor: Chris Garish
Producer: Fantasy Realms
Release date: 2012
Limited edition: Yes, OOP
Kit is a huge 1/6 scale (40X28cm, 47cm high/16x11x18.5 high) of 8 lbs of resin. 23 parts where the steed body was hollow cast.
Here is my quick review of Pegaso Models Srl for a preorder
of a 200mm 16th century Samurai warrior bust for the upcoming
World Model Expo in
Detail of the release
Title: Samurai Warrior, 16th Century
Manufacturer: Pegaso Model
Scale: 1/9, 200mm bust
Sculptor: Ivan Mata
Box art : Jan Soukup
Preorder price: Original price was: 70,00€. Current preorder price is: 59,50€. With TAX 72,59€
From the box art pictures, the 16th century Samurai Warrior is wearing his armour, carrying a tachi or a katana and wielding with what it looks like a wakizashi with a reverse grip in his right hand.
Final thoughts:
I was hoping for an exciting new Samurai release from Pegaso. At first glance of the box art, the bust has quite a number of parts which are historical inaccurate and questionable.
Here are just a few examples of historical inaccuracies :
1. A Samurai warrior from the 16th century should be wearing his tosei-gusoku (gusoku) modern armour. The bust's kabuto is a mix of the o-yoroi and the tosei-gusoku or something else. The sode (shoulder armour), kote (sleeve armour) and the tekko (hand guard) which look completely out of wack.
2. Why is the
samurai wielding his Wakizashi?
3. Is the Samurai wearing a tachi or a katana? The long sword which the samurai bust is wearing looks more like a tachi because it is hung horizontally from the belt with the sharp edge facing downwards and for a katana the sharp edge will be facing upwards.
If it is tachi, where are the tachi ashi (hangers), the saya-ito (scabbard wrap) and the tanto is missing.
If it is a katana why is the saya and saego are facing downward and not upward?
It looks like the sculptor has zero knowledge on Samurai armour from different period and is confused between a katana, wakizashi, tachi and tanto.
Conclusion:
This is a totally
disaster and embarrassment from Pegaso to approve and release for such an inaccurate
garbage of a Samurai bust.
Thank you for looking!
This is my repaint of a 1/6 scale doll head of Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV drama using the Grumbacher Max water mixable oil paint.
The doll head is made out of some type of rubber material. Solvent paint like traditional artist oil or enamel will never dry on this kind of material due to chemical reaction. The paint will become sticky. The only paint will dry on this type of material is water base paint like acrylic. Since Max paint is water mixable oil, I have given it a try and paint the doll head using my same technique as with traditional oil with all of my figure painting. The result is excellent and it dry up nicely to an egg shell finish. The only problem is, it is impossible to remove any mould lines on this rubber material.
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