Nina is a recuring character in Nirasawa’s art and comic fantasy stories, she is shown in her early transitional phase to her seduction to the darkness. Her grafted left mechanical insect like arm, and the counter balance to her right shoulder are typical of Nirasawa’s art, with beautiful women with voluptuous figures, most of his monster creatures are asymmetrical, with insect like protrusions. Nina’s seduction seems far from against her will, her costume suggestive of an almost bondage subservience to her master.
The kit is cast in smooth high quality cream resin, capable of resolving high detail. The parts are in polythene bags held with old school staples, this kit heralds from the 80’s after
all.
Good to see you back dude. That’s some pretty gruesome artwork from those comic strips/boxart…
Detailing looks really crisp though…
What scale is it… I hope she writes with her right hand !!
Hi Johnnych01, the figure is 18cm tall, no idea what scale that works out at, I’ll be starting this soon, got a couple in the pipeline an S boat and a panzer lV with full interior by these guys…
I remember a cartoon with a pirate talking to a woman in an alehouse. “Me eye patch? It be a bit embarrassing; me nose itched, and I’d just got me hook, you see…”
Also in the weird Female category, ordered one of these from Xplus models, She is the Machinen mensch from Fritz Langs Metropolis sci fi blockbuster 1927. Misunderstood at the time, as it was new,bold and influential. The Maria Robot colour is still being discussed to this day.
reminds me of a Pushey Girlfriend I dated in the 80’s, the hair, the Norman Nose, the chin down, eye’s up look she used to give me, dodged a bullet there.
working on the highlights in the eye’s, hair next.
on the subject of alarming females you may or may not have known, I took a parcel from the postman today and it’s her, she’s arrived at the party earlier than expected. I was expecting Maria the scary Machinen mensche.
Xplus are new kids on the block, they have cleverly combined Nostalgia for the original Aurora Monster kits, with the advantage of modern scanning and slide injection moulding techniques.
if the kit is as swishey as the packaging, It’s going to be a winner for them.
tight cellophane wrapper, sturdy box with a lid, like that. you can get an impression of the size of this from my 1/35th scale Panzer model I’m working on.
sealed in a tight polythene cover, I’m fighting the Urge to open it up, I know I’ll want to dive in and make it up, and I have far too much lined up already…oh, ok then,
a bit of judicious sanding and the seam goes, the front part of her costume is a separate piece, but it’ll still need assembling and dejoining before I paint this, blast I’m so far into the build I may as well construct the rest of the figure
yes, getting that much flesh tone on evenly and smooth needs an airbrush, I think the maker, by forming the clothing, what little there is of it, separately, are making it easier to paint, but you can see from the last image, it’s not practical, the model has to be made then painted.
Oh Dear, it seems I’ve started, so I’ll have to finish making this figure kit, Nina Dolono is nearly finished, I was due to start the Lancaster special mission Grand Slam, that neat little WW1 fighter, and I’ve still got a Panzer 4 on the blocks waiting it’s final parts and finish. Still it’s all about enjoyment isn’t it. Vampirella, you’re up next…
sanding down the join line, not so crucial with her Bikini, as that would have join lines, faint as they may be, clothing, small that it is on this figure, is manufactured somehow, but the human body is grown, so no join lines here please, actually they are reducing rapidly.
