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This is another rare find I came across on Ebay. It’s 1/6 Hellboy sculpted by Shawn Nagle. I saw this kit in a magazine and have wanted one for a long time. It was nowhere available however until the time I saw it on Ebay. It’s been built and painted I believe by Shawn himself with his signature on the bottom. He was selling the piece through a friend on Ebay. I remembered at the time the Ebay seller was very particular about the buyer to whom he was to sell the kit. Fortunately, I had several referrals which was convincing enough that I was truly a collector. The kit came out long before the movie and it’s the comics version which has been skillfully sculpted by Shawn. Shawn did a fantastic job in capturing the features of this character created by Mike Mignola for Dark Horse Comics. It’s a good example of a well sculpted kit with a dynamic posture. Fine details on the base itself also deserve some time and a much closer look to truly appreciate them.
This 1/6 kit was acquired on Ebay. This is from the earlier TV version starring Lou Ferrigno as Hulk. Likeness is amazing. It also has a dynamic posture in anger. My painter did a fantastic job. The green color he used has a metallic finishing look to it. I remembered when I first saw it I asked him why it subtly shines and he said he had mixed some metallic ink to it. It doesn’t take more words to describe the kit. Rather, it takes time and patience to closely look at the kit from multiple angles to appreciate it.
This is a 1/6 kit purchased from Amok Time Toys at Wonderfest. It’s not the Bowen version although the two look extremely similar in terms of their postures. Both kits are skillfully sculpted. Bowen’s version is easy in the sense that it’s readily displayable while Amok Time’s version isn’t. It takes a huge amount of effort to make it ‘stand.’ First of all, it’s big and heavy and is in an intrinsically off-balanced posture. To make it displayable, I need a base not only big enough but also with a support at the knee. Otherwise, the kit wouldn’t display right. The base I use now is actually a scaled up version of part of another base for Classic Plastic’s Terminator kit by Randy Bowen. I wanted the display set to look right for this character in a charging posture. The base looks right for that. However, I needed to upsize it. Therefore, I asked a skillful craftsman to upsize the base with a pantograph machine. The piece on the base itself serves just perfect as a support at the knee for the entire body. This kind of kit is tricky, if not difficult, to display right. My painter did a fantastic job in showing all details this kit has to offer.
This 1/6 Bruce Willis kit was purchased from Amok Time Toys at Wonderfest. Facial details are incredible. This is the only kit for this character that I know of that is available in the market. This kit comes with two displayable versions, namely, one with just Willis’ head and another with the hood over the head. I like to display with just the head because of the incredible facial details and the paint job done to it. This kit had been professionally built with details of the cloak highlighted. To complement this kit, I found a base with a ruined wall in the background.
This is a 1/6 vinyl kit by Horizon. It’s very detailed. Most of my collection are resin kits. Resin kits are normally more ‘substantial’ and capture more pronounced details. Although this is a vinyl kit, it’s been well sculpted and is rich with details. My professional modeler filled up the legs with plaster to increase the weight of the kit. He also did a fantastic job at painting the kit too. Although this kit is not very dynamic in the way that it stands straight, I like this kit having one badly damaged arm and one holding up his thumb. This posture reminds me of the last scene in the second Terminator movie directed by James Cameron right before when Arnold as T-800 had to terminate himself in order to destroy the last Terminator chip in his head. This kit is being put on a special base. It’s a vacuum formed base that has been filled up with foam. So the base is extremely light. Nick NeAngelo helped build up the base. The kit and the base complement one another very well.
This 1/5 Bladerunner kit was acquired on Ebay. The incredible paint job was done by Steve Parke, one of my favorite artists who writes for Amazing Figure Modeler magazine. The great sculpt work deserves the hands of a great artist who can bring life to it. Parke had done a fantastic job in that respect. He even painted the tie to the same way it looks in the movie. What is even more amazing about this display set is that this kit didn’t come with the base it has now. I came across this base again not knowing at the time how to make use of it. This Bladerunner in the run is extremely tricky in terms of finding a suitable base for it. This angled wall base with an opening in between serves just absolutely perfect for Ford in the run. A part of the jacket even rests on part of the brick wall forming a support to this intrinsically off-balanced kit.
This 1/6 kit was acquired on Ebay. It was already painted when I got it. It was fairly well painted when I got it. To enhance the look, I asked another professional to touch up over it. Essentially, shadows were added to the well-featured face of this kit. The end result is the fantastic way it looks now. The base was separately added, just like many of my collection. This base was purchased at Wonderfest. It’s a versatile base suitable for a wide range of kits, and I have seen it being used with many other kits before from hobby magazines. You need to be creative in terms of matching kits with bases. With Daredevil, this is probably the only one display set there is. I think they fit one another wonderfully!
This is another rare find I came across on Ebay. It’s 1/6 Hellboy sculpted by Shawn Nagle. I saw this kit in a magazine and have wanted one for a long time. It was nowhere available however until the time I saw it on Ebay. It’s been built and painted I believe by Shawn himself with his signature on the bottom. He was selling the piece through a friend on Ebay. I remembered at the time the Ebay seller was very particular about the buyer to whom he was to sell the kit. Fortunately, I had several referrals which was convincing enough that I was truly a collector. The kit came out long before the movie and it’s the comics version which has been skillfully sculpted by Shawn. Shawn did a fantastic job in capturing the features of this character created by Mike Mignola for Dark Horse Comics. It’s a good example of a well sculpted kit with a dynamic posture. Fine details on the base itself also deserve some time and a much closer look to truly appreciate them. 
