DONE@p.5 +++ 1:6 Rei Ayanami in Plugsuit [Evangelion dojinshi/同人誌/what-if]

[PR19_Kit]

VERY impressive work Thomas. But how tall is she, I have no idea of scale in the figures world?

[Old Wombat]

Excellent build, Dizzy!  

I still prefer the more "realistic" look of the inspiration image ...

... But you've expressed the anime look perfectly & with precise attention to detail.  

[Dizzyfugu]

VERY impressive work Thomas. But how tall is she, I have no idea of scale in the figures world?

She's pretty exactly 1'/12" tall - quite huge! Bigger than a Barbie, I think?

[Dizzyfugu]

Excellent build, Dizzy!  
I still prefer the more "realistic" look of the inspiration image ...
... But you've expressed the anime look perfectly & with precise attention to detail.  

Thanks a lot. Well, since the kit was/is not based on the illustration and had to be modded, there were compromises to be made. After all, the kit would hardly resemble the anime Rei Ayanami at all, at least the face, so that the result is not as bad or off as I expected. There are, however, more realistic dojinshi kits of the character around, but these would either not be suitable for the plugsuit conversion/tuning I wanted to do, or they are, well, much more sexualized and "off topic". Another problem is that, even if such a kit is nominally the same scale, interchanging parts like the head is almost impossible, because of the kits' individual proportions, style and details.

However, what a figure/model based on an official illustration can look like is this here - I accidently found the artwork that inspired the resin kit when I built it many moons ago:


Last Exile +++ 1:8 Tatjana Wiszla: Original design sketch vs. resin character figure by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

That's really come out well Dizzy 

[Dizzyfugu]

That's really come out well Dizzy 

Thank you, too! 

[PR19_Kit]

She's pretty exactly 1'/12" tall - quite huge! Bigger than a Barbie, I think?

Oh YEAH! 

She's got to look IMPRESSIVE in the actual plastic, or vinyl, or whatever!       

[Steel Penguin]

very nice looking stuff Dizzy 
as you say the face isnt very "Rei"  but the figure does do the AI  art very very well.

[Dizzyfugu]

very nice looking stuff Dizzy 
as you say the face isnt very "Rei"  but the figure does do the AI  art very very well.

Agree with the latter. Despite my doubts about "being a Rei" the model turned out to be a surprisingly convincing 3D rendition of the artwork. 

[PR19_Kit]

.................. the model turned out to be a surprisingly convincing 3D rendition of the artwork. 

THAT'S for sure!