The 4D Master Lionheart Crusader is a 1:25 ( roughly 70mm) figure puzzle manufactured by the Fame Master Enterprise Limited of Hong Kong. The set comes with 4 parts to build the fully painted knight and horse. The figure is depicted wearing what would soon be known as the Royal Arms of England. Its blazon is Gules, with three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure, meaning three identical gold lions with blue tongues and claws, walking and facing the observer, arranged in a column on a red background. The box and the armor style labels the figure as a crusader but Richard the Lionheart used a single lion rampant, or perhaps two lions affrontés on his surcoat, during his time in Outremer. Richard later used three lions passant in his 1198 Great Seal of England, and thus established the lasting design of the Royal Arms of England. The figure is covered in chainmail, a surcoat, a great helm and armed with a lance, a strapped sword and a heat...
the last two poses are so bad. come on...the barrel into the ground?! and the guy with the grenade is looking at it like he never seen it before! a bad set!
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ReplyDeleteOne figure has his weapons barrel in the dirt, even the most inexperienced soldier would not do such a thing and if he did the other troops and the SGT would be all over him. One pose has no magazine in his machine pistol. I agree with Tsold9000 that the man with the grenade acts like it's new to him. And two left handed shooters! I like the sculpting, but the poses are terrible. I heard a theory that since this may have been the last ESCI set the sculptor intentionally sculpted poor poses as a type of revenge against the company for ending production. I have a few of these in my collection but not many and I have "edited" out certain posed either completely or at least reduced their numbers. The guy leaning on the rifle, you have to cut the rifle off and he becomes a leaning figure. The Pegasus Paratroops are much better.
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