Started working on this kit and man its a dream. The pieces are nicely molded with sharp, crisp detail and minimal clean up. The molds have been excellently engineered and thought out to make it a nice piece to build and work on. The resin is sturdy enough to hold up some paper thin detail, flexes just enough to make it easy to remove casting blocks from detail parts like the bipod and chest accsy's. The addition of detail equipment makes this a kit more than a bust in my opinion and is a nice addition to this bust. The two head option (clean shaven and a gone native) make it a crime to have only one bust. Excellent sculpting on these and nice to have the option. One of the things I noticed about this kit is that unlike many kits where there is a great deal of gnashing of teeth, crying and rending of clothes to get things like hands, arms etc to line up with weapons and correctly hold the weapon without it floating in the hands or awkward positioning of the anatomy to make it work, something that has caused me more than once to consider finding a clock tower someplace, the arms are "keyed" into place and fit seamlessly. No fuss, no muss and will allow you to paint under the arms, paint the arms and attach them and still have the rifle almost snap into position and still look like it weighs something.
The addition of the 9/32 brass rod for mounting this is a nice touch, but I have access to spent .50 shells and will be using one to more fittingly mount this to its base.
All in all a great fig in the market and one that has pulled me away from my usual medieval subjects. Nice job Andy and Alan.
