Showing posts with label "The Queen of the Suicide Squad" (Eaglemoss). Show all posts
Showing posts with label "The Queen of the Suicide Squad" (Eaglemoss). Show all posts

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