Recently the kickstarter for the 75mm (1/24) version of the classic Death Dealer finished and I received by order last week. I went for the basic level. So this meant just the figure and the free 54mm Ky-ra figure.
First up I’m a big fan of Frank Frazetta’s work and when this was first announced I ending up painting my old
Ral Partha Super Hero which was a ‘homage’ to the painting in 25mm. So I was looking forward to getting this although I almost wasn’t going to buy it (too afraid of 75mm horses I think).
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| Very well packed |
The figure comes in a solid cardboard box with custom cut foam to hold the figure and a separate section for the base and the extra bits. Interestingly the back of the box shows the horse having pins on the bottom of the feet but my horse does not have any.
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| Base |
The base is quite solid. There are holes for pins but as stated above the horse doesn’t have any. So a bit odd there.
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| Main section |
On the horse figure, it is great. The painting has a very strong and violent looking horse and the sculpt captures that very well. To be honest I like the horse over the figure in both painting and sculpt.
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| Pinched front legs |
The only down side is that the front legs of the horse are slightly pinched. They don’t match up to the mount points on the base due to this. I’m not sure if this can be corrected with heat alone or if the legs will need to be cut and realigned.
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| Rider detail |
The figure itself is just as good as the the horse. Very clean cast and nice details. The ringmail(?) on the lower part of the figure does sometimes end up looking like a row of dots however. It’s a bit too straight in some sections and ends up looking like someone just ran a the end of a piece of rod down the putty in a line instead of creating interlinked rings (i.e. in an under/over pattern). So the sculpt is true to the painting, but I find it looks a bit odd in 3D.
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| Rider detail |
For the face, well there isn’t much detail in the original painting, just a lot of dark shading. So the sculpt is good, but it doesn’t match what I always had in my mind of what the face area should be.
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| Extra bits, shield, head |
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| Head |
WRT to the Viking bust I’m making good progress on it. I did some (more) reading of leaning to paint books and something finally clicked (it’s nothing new, it was just presented in a way that finally sunk in for me). I’ve managed to do things a bit better and am much happier with what I’m turning out. More on that next week.
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