Mystery girl kit

Wow! You guys are the best! Actually I knew about Fantastic Figures and the AMazing Modeller link (I am a subscriber) but the last one I did not know. Another awesome site is Frontier Hobbies out of the UK - they have tons of out of production originals. I always like to find an online store with this stuff so I know approximately how high I can bid (otherwise I may as well just buy the damn thing!). Check Azimuth Designs if you already haven't - best girl models on the planet bar none (IMHO).

Graham

Here is a link that shows the painted figure and lists it's provenance. It is indeed a Modeler's Resource product in the "Barely Working" series. It is the one second from the top:

http://www.heycomputer.com/girls.asp

Here is a link to this same company's first release, which I described in my initial reply post above. The figure was titled "Sitting Pretty":

http://www.heycomputer.com/images/girls/sit.jpg

Yes, that kit has been around at least 10 years.  You can try contacting Modeler's Resource to see if they have any more info on it.  I agree though $200 is too much, even if prepainted - there are better sculpts out there.  I think I saw that one a while back on a site called Fantastic Figures.  If you are interested in the genre, you can have a field day with this list of weblinks:

http://www.amazingmodeler.com/weblinks.htm 

I made some bids for it on Ebay but as it crested the $200 mark I lost heart - I simply have too much to paint already without spending that kinda dough. I would rather get a Azimuth Designs girl than that one for the same price. I'll take a look at Hobbylink though.

Graham

I cut my teeth so to speak on Phoenix Phollies 80MM girls, Loved the Tim Richards sculpts and still have them right here with me very nearby. Back then it was all oil paints and the shep paine books for painting, I wanted something besides 1/35 germans and these fit the bill.

My first was the hitchhiker, my final was the girl in the bomber jacket and daisy mae's.

They just got WAY too expensive, and by that time resin was becoming more avialable with larger figures for similar cost.

Now Im into smaller wargame figures as well, which are nicely sculpted and well cast for dirt cheap prices. I see PP figures now and then at shows, and the prices are still very high from vendors, as well as some "knock off" type figures that I often see.

David

IIRC (the pic is small and hard to read) this is Barely Working 120MM Resin produced by a resin studio in California and figured prominantly in Modeler's Resource,KitBuilders Magazine and Amazing Figure Modeler.  At the time I was doing some short articles for Modelers Resource (before it was sold, and still based in Clovis, Ca) and I remember seeing it at the Nats in San Jose along with the other kits that were being offered including the MR logo in resin.

Nice kit from what I recall.

David

Phoenix Follies, like all the Phoenix Model Development figures, were made in White metal only. I believe this is a resin kit, no?

This was put out  by the garage resin kit company I referenced in my above post, who's name now unfortunately escapes me. This kit is more than a few years old, so I'm not surprised I'm having difficulty putting a name to it. It was advertised in MODELER'S RESOURCE magazine for years too, if anyone has some older back issues.

BTW,

For those interested in obtaining recasts of the old Phoenix Follies series, here is a source and catalog listing for them:

http://www.metal-modeles.com/shop_us/listing.php?section_id=58

paulnchamp wrote:

I think they might have been made by Phoenix Follies.

The pose looks like Phoenix Follies but those came in a plastic bag with a cardstock header so you could hang them on a pegboad display in the store.

I remember when this resin kit came out, but can't remember the name of the company. They also released a pin up style female figure wearing a cowboy hat and sitting on an old fashioned metal milk canister, an Indian Maiden figure, and a Betty Page style figure in a leopard bathing suit.

I believe they advertised in Finescale and Historical Miniatures magazines among others for those wishing to plow through back issues. We are talking about 7 or more years ago I think.