- Removed the trench-coat tails. As I mentioned earlier, the unit is horribly cast, and if I had intended on the doing the kit straight OOB, I would have returned it. Needless to say, sculpting dynamic, flowing coat-tails, swooshing around the subject, will be the most challenging aspect of this reanima- tion. Also, I will have to sculpt the drapery and detail of the right arm where it was molded to the coat-tails. As a sidebar note, I found a sizable air hole where the arm joined to the coat. . .
- Re-animated right leg. This is a little more involved than one would think largely due to the proportions of the figure. I thought I could retain the poleyn (knee guard) attached to the leg, but the variability in thickness between the two guards demanded that I remove the right one, and refit it to the knee. The right leg is now posed; pinned; the flattened calf muscles reworked; and awaiting the rescribing of the boots and the attachment of the knee guard.
- Reworked attachment block of torso to legs. This is a bad fit. And if you look closely at the painted boxart, you will see that little or no filling was done on the join seam of the legs, and the rolled edge of the breastplate does not line-up.
- Slightly repositioned and pinned the left arm, and replaced the too-short and anything-but-straight bō (the image of the boxart shows the best KM could come up with?) with a brass rod. This required careful surgery to avoid damaging the fingers, but it is one instance where the softness of the alloy actually helped.
- Finally, the left leg was pegged for mounting and the figure (well, the legs) now sits on its work base.
FOLLOW-UP
All the joins save for the head have now been pegged and fitted for seamless assembly. Work on the coat-tails will be underway in less than a fortnight. . .
FOLLOW-UP (2)
Just completed fitting and attaching the right knee-guard. All subassemblies are now ready for final clean-up and detailing. . .
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