14 December 2019

Eaglemoss' The Joker & Harley Quinn Special Edition Box Set (LE 3000)

Looking to lick the wounds of failure by venturing onto more familiar grounds, I ordered Eagle- moss' The Joker & Harley Quinn Special Edition Box Set from their DC Comics Masterpiece Collection. I received issue 1767/3000. 

One might say that this is the resin counterpart to Eaglemoss’s DC All-Stars series: classic subjects; generous scale (1/14th); and very reasonably priced (< US$25.00 per).

Both are DC New 52 iterations of their characters. The Joker appears as he did in the conclusion of "Death of the Family"; while Harley is in her re'vamp'ed ver.1 Suicide Squad get-up. 

As best as I can tell, the Joker appears to be a two-piece casting; Harley appears to be a six- piece casting (NB: not including the display plinths). The Joker is cast completely in resin; how- ever, Harley is a multi-media casting: her forearms are cast in white-metal (read: lead), and her mallet is a 2-piece white-metal casting. Casting quality is VG+++. And, I am delighted to report that pre-paint "clean-up", the usual destructive seam removal, was kept to an absolute minimum on both figures!

The Joker is definitely a SP3 (strip-prep-prime-paint) exercise. . .  He will probably be the next figure on the painting bench. As with Nurse Harley, there are a few mods in store for the Queen of the Suicide Squad; but again, primarily a SP3 exercise.

More to follow. . .   

18.12.2019--PpS is DONE for Harley and Mistah J! As a baseline going forward, I would recom- mend allowing a week for PpS. . . 

When the cost of a hobby exceeds the fun and doesn't attract new people, the game is over.” -
Oscar Koveleski, August 2003

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