Introduction Scale 1/8 Sculptor ? Maker SOL Completed 4/99 Parts 26 Retail $32 Female archers... who can resist? Not to mention asymmetrical armor :) There are many things right about this kit but also many things wrong... what a pity. Also I wish she has a more dynamic pose. This is the second kit in the SOL warrior series I build (previously it was Bloody Marie). This kit took me a very long time to finish. [Update] I've been had, the price of the kit is almost halved recently :) This figure is actually from an original drawing by Luis Royo, who is a great fantasy artist (thanks to Jack who pointed it out.) This particular piece was called "Roofs of Fear", which depicts the character standing back against a pillar, surrounded by goblins. In the painting her hair color is redish brown, with her net on her chest extending into a "net-cape", which I think is really cool, but I think it will have trouble spreading like that in real life. [Update 1/01] I've repainted her hair to be red as in the original painting, and fixed her face so that she's no longer masculine-looking. She's also squinting a bit for her next target.   Kit Review Seam lines: ?/5   Pinholes: ?/5   Casting: ?/5   Fit: ?/5   Part Break: ?/5   Help Vinyl parts: hair, upper body, lower body with legs, arrow holder, l&r hands, left arm, l&r feet, left shoulder pad, base. Metal parts: l&r bow, arrow heads x 4, arrow bodies x 3 (steel wires), arrow tail x 4, metal chain Also include a thread for bow wiring. What a multimedia kit! The bow-related gadgets looks really sophisicated... and they are quite difficult to deal with. The vinyl fits are great, they did an excellent job of separating the upper and lower body; the parting line is hidden inside the belt. The left arm and body parting line is also hidden by the shoulder pad but I filled it anyway (no telling some armpit freaks may look underneath the shoulder pad :) The pieces are deformed a bit as with all vinyl kits but a little bit of heating would fix it, except the upper body! The chest bone areas were quite out of shape on my kit and I had a hard time getting it back to normal. This kit has legs cast with the lower body, which helps quite a bit in fixing her to the base without cracking joints. The rock base in included.   Building I filled her lower body with Mountain in minutes... I think this is my first time using MiM. Went quite smoothly, except I had too much on and that caused some problems with gluing the upper body. The bow was a hassle to put into the right position! I wish I test fitted it before painting. I had the hands too far apart at first, as a result the arrow head almost touched her right hand, and needless to say it doesn't look good at all. So after a lot of heating and bending I finially have her the way I wanted. The chains is very fine... almost thinner than fine necklace. I was almost tempted to change it to a thicker one so that I won't have such a hard time with it. The instruction have you open up one side of the chain and glue the ends to the arrow case, but that's just a lot of hassle. And I want the chains be taut since it wouldn't look like the chains are holding anything, but making it taut also means potentially taking the chains off the glue... pain! The chain still doesn't look striaght because they follow the hip's curve. Enough about the chains, working with the bow was also quite frustrating, I pinned the bow at the joint to reinforce it, 'coz later on I was going to wire the bow. At the ends of the bow I opened up two small holes and pass the wire through. This sounds easier than it actually is. But the worst would be to secure the bow on her right hand... glue running all over... should've use superglue gel. Then there is arrow ends... how do they go with the steel wires? The instruction said drill a hole in the arrow end and put it in. But the wires are just too thick to fit in. Eventually I settled with drilling a depression which I superglue the wire on, and pray that no one attack my kit. Painting - I had so much trouble getting her skin tone right, and spent a lot of time oil painting. The fabric are hand painted with Gunze acrylics... don't have the patience to mask them! But the worst part is her face look pretty masculine from the front... a fact I discovered after the fact... then I felt lost :( Eventually I reduced the depth of the shades on her face so that it looks softer. I think the sculptor made her chin too protruded and rectangular. But it looks great on the sides. With that blurry picture on the box cover you just can't tell what her face looks like at all.