UART is going to release the Collectible Cold Cast “C Cube” series Ryofu Housen ( 呂布奉先 ) DVD Box Illustration Ver. ( DVDBOX描き下ろしVer. ) 1/7 cold cast GK from the manga/anime “Ikkitousen” ( 一騎当千 ). Will be released in September November 2010, 12,800 yen. Kit is prepainted and completed.
This Ryofu Housen by UART isn’t look so as good as their previous released Ryomou Shimei. 12,800 yen is pretty cheap for a prepainted 1/7 GK, the sculpture looks great, but the paint job looks kinda plain to me. But for only 12,800 yen, I guess most of GK lover wouldn’t mind the paint job?
For those who don’t know what UART is, you can read my previous post about UART here.
- Official Ikkitousen anime homepage
http://www.ikkitousen.com/ - Official UART homepage
http://www.uartstudio.com/index.asp - via Amiami
Superb, I got previous UART figures and I’m really happy with the quality, I think I’ll got this sexy Ryofu !
ok, im still new to collecting(almost a year) so i dont really know what cold cast GK is. im guessing it’s a meterial type but i dont know what makes it worth so much more. so to me it just looks like $140 for something i though would look better when i saw it in one of those hobby shows.
Pretty hawt sculpt but I agree, the paint is sorta plain for the price.
While I’m happy that the amount of butt-cleavage shown on the box didn’t translate to the figure, I do wish that the coloring scheme had. Seriously, she almost looks like something from my daughter’s old Lisa Frank sticker collection.
Let´s be true !She is too dressed!She has a very nice face and an atractive butt, but her coat is SO LOCKED that she looks like a nun.please,no offense to the nuns,she looks too moralist for our “metier“.CLICKER 3000,young pal,save your money for what is to come .Go check some pre-painted figures in HOBBYFAN,look for HEAT BLADE …TELL ME LATER…
yeah.. i am going to save my money for other stuff, but can some one please tell me the difference between pvc and cold cast GK. i feel left out not knowing
I like the outfit and stance. She looks so serious, I prefer a very cute face 🙂
PVC is a kind of plastic used in the making of most mass-produced figures, particularly bishoujo (girl) figures and also most mass-produced robot figures, etc (like the MSIA or Robot Spirits line). Cold Cast is a different type of plastic, which is usually made as an epoxy and is used in a lot of Garage Kit applications, like event-limited build-it-yourself kits. Garage Kits are actually home-made (or extremely limited workshop-made) assembly kits – figures like this aren’t really “true” garage kits in that they are sold pre-assembled and painted. The basic materials used are the same, though.
PVC figures are usually made in larger quantities, and while the set-up costs are more expensive the final products are cheaper because of the number made. Cast figures are easier to produce from a set-up standpoint, but more cost more per-figure due to the labor intensive production process and the smaller run size. Some companies like Kaitendoh and Alpha Max also use very high-quality “candy resin” which gives a very nice semi-transparent, skin-like color to their figures (Uart just uses regular painted resin, though).
One other thing to remember about resin is that it is MUCH more brittle and breakable than PVC. PVC is pretty flexible, and generally not too easy to break/damage. Resin, on the other hand, is very brittle and will shatter if dropped from a shelf, etc. Be very careful shipping resin pieces overseas or even buying used resin pieces as you will probably have to do a little repair work yourself to fix small imperfections.
I dig this figure, and I liked the previous Ryomou a LOT. Bummer she’s coming out in September, because there are already a ton of other releases that month. I might bite the bullet anyway, though.
thank you for the information. glad to finally know the difference. although alot(not all) cold casts i’ve seen were pretty good until you get to the face. well i’ll probably stick with pvc for now.
Oooooh i love anything that is cold cast. God knows how many epoch figures i have.
figure does not match the art work, the sculpture did not do a good jog on the ass.