Namely these are Skeletor on Panthor and She-Ra on Swiftwind, both from Archon Studios.
These are promo game pieces released in advance of both the Fields of Eternia and Masters of the Universe: Battlegrounds games.
Although, I was grateful to be able to pick up these two characters at a reasonable price (they're not exactly things you can proxy), the arrival of official games just as I was completing my collection of Masters of the Universe miniatures did knock my duck off for some time.
Skeletor was one of the first models I painted in this project and I've already had a version of Panthor knocking around with him, made from a Mantic Basilean big cat. However, ever since I got my hands on a mounted version of He-Man, I was keen to have a counterpart model for Skeletor.
Although being a dynamic sculpt and relatively easy to paint, the models are made of a softer plastic. This means that the inevitable rougher areas of the sculpt and moukd lines are harder to clean up.
What's more, being cast in one piece makes it hard to get to the brush to some areas, and so I adopted an approach of if I couldn't get my brush to an area, it was more than likely that nobody would be able to see that but.
This issue was more pronounced on the She-Ra model, especially around her waist. However, I am pleased that with a bit of patience I was able to ensure that there are no obviously unpainted events visible.
Another issue was that the soft plastic sword blade snapped whilst I was dry brushing Swiftwind. Fortunately, I had some spare swords in the same scale left over from the multi part Eternia Palace Guards. It's not exactly right but it's close enough and looks better than a broken sword.
This model makes me smile. Partly this is because every part of the design screams of 80s marketing execs trying to sell a product to little girls.
"What if we had Barbie in a mini-skirt and tiara riding a unicorn which flies on rainbow wings?"
However, I am mainly smiling about the characterisation of Swiftwind in Netflix's She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. He is granted the ability to talk by She-Ra and immediately uses this newfound ability to start agitating for better treatment of horses in the kingdom - and he never lets this drop across several seasons.
I have no idea if I am going to add to my Masters of the Universe collection, but I am tempted to see what stls I can find to bring some of the vehicles to life.
Acquired: -124
Painted: 468
Lead Mountain: 249
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