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Offline white knight

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Dragon Shiryu
« on: 12 October 2008, 06:32:10 PM »
A paint/repaint of a 40mm plastic "bottlecap" Saint Seiya figure. I know it's Anime, but blame the French television who showed all these cartoons when I was growing up.  ;)

Anyway, the figures are basically silver or gold, with a wash, but I wanted to see whether they could be painted.



A comparison with a larger (100mm) gashapon figure of the same character:


For once, I had great fun doing the eyes. lol

Now to wait for my Fenris Games scenic bases to put him on.

Offline Rhoderic

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Re: Dragon Shiryu
« Reply #1 on: 12 October 2008, 07:38:01 PM »
Awesome! I've only seen some 12 eps of Saint Seiya, but I LOVED it! It's so hilariously over-the-top and yet charmingly quaint (in that anime-of-a-bygone-era kind of way) at the same time. This was at a grass-roots anime convention in Stockholm and I don't think I've ever seen the audience in a movie theatre dig anything quite so much as Saint Seiya.

I'll be waiting to see the rest of them.
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Offline JollyBob

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Re: Dragon Shiryu
« Reply #2 on: 13 October 2008, 08:58:43 AM »
That's a him:o

Nice job on the reapint, looks great.

Offline white knight

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Re: Dragon Shiryu
« Reply #3 on: 13 October 2008, 09:29:00 AM »
Yeah, it's a him. That's Anime for you...
It would have been slightly better if they'd used the armour from the first series and not the later version, but still.
Wait till you see Andromeda. ;)

Offline dodge

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Re: Dragon Shiryu
« Reply #4 on: 13 October 2008, 09:39:11 AM »
That's a him:o

Nice job on the reapint, looks great.

I thought he was a she too till your post made me read rather than skim.

Looks good though, its nice to have something different like this.

you are doing a good job finding these figures and making them into minis.

dodge


Offline white knight

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Re: Dragon Shiryu
« Reply #5 on: 13 October 2008, 09:53:51 AM »
I would have prefered 30mm of course, but 40mm is close enough. ;)

 

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