WWRp -- Now with Berties (was: Winter Bramble)
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:36 pm
So, this is Winter Bramble (you can click through for a better look at the images, but Picasa has mangled the super-hi-res version a bit):
Not shown is that Bramble's got a snowflake painted on top of his head. Winter, remember?
Bramble's very articulated, which can make him fairly expressive for a dude whose face consists, in its entirety, of two recessed dots for his eyes. His knees and elbows are restricted hinges with perhaps ninety degrees of motion, but his hip, shoulder and ankle joints are ball joints. The wrists allow rotation, but not much else. The wrists also look a tad fragile, so do be careful. Bramble's head also seems to be on a ball, so he can look in any direction around him, with some up and down motion as well. Finally, he has a joint in his midsection which will allow the upper body to be rotated some way to either side, restricted mostly by the enormous ammo container on his back bumping into his bags or the hangers for same. Each of the fingers and the thumb have three joints: with the exception of the point where the thumb meets the hand, which is a tiny, tiny ball joint, these are all hinges.
Several of Bramble's joints will be stiff, and I'm not sure how much abuse his plastic will take, so be careful when posing him.
As you can see above, he comes well-armed, but only with the enormous minigun. His pouches and bags (the large bags hanging from back seem to be modeled on ALICE packs, FWIW) are made of actual canvas, and appear to feature working plastic fasteners to keep the pockets closed. You may want to find some inert to stuff in them, however, as they will probably come partially collapsed from being packed in the box. Additionally, the bags and pouches will be an ever-loving pain to get on their hooks. One the bags on mine still falls off if you look at it funny. He doesn't play well with the undead, however. Makina doesn't play well with ... anyone, I think. Bramble's pretty awesome, all things considered.
[Edited 2010-08-27: Nobody told me the link to larger images was dead!]
Bramble's very articulated, which can make him fairly expressive for a dude whose face consists, in its entirety, of two recessed dots for his eyes. His knees and elbows are restricted hinges with perhaps ninety degrees of motion, but his hip, shoulder and ankle joints are ball joints. The wrists allow rotation, but not much else. The wrists also look a tad fragile, so do be careful. Bramble's head also seems to be on a ball, so he can look in any direction around him, with some up and down motion as well. Finally, he has a joint in his midsection which will allow the upper body to be rotated some way to either side, restricted mostly by the enormous ammo container on his back bumping into his bags or the hangers for same. Each of the fingers and the thumb have three joints: with the exception of the point where the thumb meets the hand, which is a tiny, tiny ball joint, these are all hinges.
Several of Bramble's joints will be stiff, and I'm not sure how much abuse his plastic will take, so be careful when posing him.
As you can see above, he comes well-armed, but only with the enormous minigun. His pouches and bags (the large bags hanging from back seem to be modeled on ALICE packs, FWIW) are made of actual canvas, and appear to feature working plastic fasteners to keep the pockets closed. You may want to find some inert to stuff in them, however, as they will probably come partially collapsed from being packed in the box. Additionally, the bags and pouches will be an ever-loving pain to get on their hooks. One the bags on mine still falls off if you look at it funny. He doesn't play well with the undead, however. Makina doesn't play well with ... anyone, I think. Bramble's pretty awesome, all things considered.
[Edited 2010-08-27: Nobody told me the link to larger images was dead!]