So, what do you call a female knight? Is it still Sir, or Mam, or The Lady XXXXX ? Believe it or not it she is called a Dame versus Sir for males. I ask this as I start assembling the resin bagged kit I got from Asia. Jarrod and I figured we can work on this as part of the Figures Group Build (GB) while also starting another more comprehensive kit.
Here is how it arrived, with no box, instructions, or color callouts.
And this is what it is suppose to look like once assembled
The cleaning of the resin pour connections were easy for the most part. There were a couple that were in hard to trim areas and as normal with some resin parts, certain parts were skewed or bent evidently during curing or packaging / shipping. The bent parts were easily straightened by immersing the part in very hot water for 5 minute increments and bending to correct shape.
The details seem crisply molded and mostly clean from imperfections. Even without instructions most the parts had a logical assembly process to them. Because of the need for detail painting Jarrod and I are choosing to leave certain parts off until a later point of the build.
The horse assembled from 6 main parts. The right and left halves of the horse(4 parts) had large open seams that needed filled and shaped. In the photos you can still see a seam in the back of the saddle. It looks worse than it is as the profiles have been matched and filled with CA cement. What little may still remain will be hidden by the figure once mounted. The horse once finished will be mounted on a resin base provided with the kit which will greatly increases its stability. I think we will name the horse Perseus or Legend, what do you think?
The base is a 5 piece affair showing great terrian detail and some remnants of a previous battle. After straightening the base everything went together easily. A test fit of the horse identified certain contact points that needed minor adjustments. Other than that, the base and horse had no issues.
The figure was nicely molded and shows great detail. She is made of 6 main parts. Her body had similar seam and gap issues found with the horse and were corrected in the same manner. Jarrod and I have chosen to keep the arms off until all detail painting and sealing are completed. During assembly we identified a large gap in the back, between the hips and upper torso, which we filled and contoured with spare resin block from the mold sprue. Here's few photos of her at this point. Still not locked into a name but Joan or Gwen sound nice, suggestions?
On the horse:
With her left arm sitting in position:
Right arm sitting in position,, 1 option:
The figure as shown in the initial photo can be built holding a flag (colors) or a lance with battle streamers. The flag was severely warped and needed repeated attempts to get it fixed. It is a 2 piece affair with the seam directly on the hard crease. Because of both parts warping differently it cause some problems with assembly even after our attempts to straighten them. Jarrod and I found that attaching the two parts in small segments at a time aided our ability to minimize the seam to a more true and smooth connection. So, this is photos of the Colors and lance:
In the photo the lance looks slightly bent, we will check it.
Other items such as the horses reins and small parts will be added after painting. So that is where we are at the moment. Without color charts we still need to figure out what the various choices will be for the flag, streamers, horses armor, figure, horse, etc. Any suggestions would be helpful.... (THANKS)
Thanks for looking, all comments welcome.
Ben and Jarrod
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