Louisana Tiger - Carl Reid Sculptures Review

[Guy]

CRS-4
Carl Reid Sculptures
"Louisana Tiger"
75mm resin & white metal
Sculpted by Carl Reid
Painted by Danilo Cartacci

Carl Reid recently released a 75mm Louisana Tiger Zouave from the American Civil War cast in resin and white metal Under his own brand, Carl Reid Sculptures. 5 resin parts and 4 metal parts comprise the kit.

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Arriving well packaged in a sturdy cardboard box with the small parts sealed into a zip-lok bag.

The bottom two photos above show the resin parts and the white matal parts in the bottom photograph.

Above are various views of the separate cast resin head.

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Above you see various views of the single cast torso with the attention to detail and drapery and folds Carl is famous for.

Above is the front and back of the separately cast arms.

The above photographs show the front and back of the rifle with hands as well as the foil for the straps. The bottom two photographs show the sword and pouch.

Above is a resin textured base supplied with the kit.

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Additional Box Art
painted by
Danilo Cartacci

Conclusion:
An exceptional kit by one of our foermost sculptors today. MInimal clean-up required. Highly recommended.

SK Miniatures

R482
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[megroot]

Thanks Guy,
This one is from the moment i saw it attracked my eye.
Danilo did some awesome painting on it.
Never painted a CW. maybe as i can rid off the blue-white trousers i will buy it.

Marc

 

[Michael Tse]

Thanks for the review!

Beautiful, and at a lovely scale!

 

[diamond cutter]

Lovely work as always Carl!!! Glad you decided to put accurate trousers on this figure instead of the Speedos you were contemplating lol

 

[rheath]

Brilliant as always Carl !!! and very sweetly painted.