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This is the Revell re-boxing of the Preiser set, with some figures omitted.
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These figures were part of a Pyro Chinese War Junk build from a few years back, which I actually completed as a fishing junk. The kit was “box scale” at around 1/72-1/100 or so scale. Chinese sailor figures are hard to find in any scale, though, so I settled on 1/87 in the hope that some railroad figures might work. The closest thing I could find to Chinese sailors was this set of female agricultural workers from Preiser. These beautifully sculpted figures came neatly assembled and pre-painted, but the bent over “harvesting” poses would be a challenge to adapt to shipboard use. I started with the easiest, the walking figure. After cutting away the plants in her hands and test fitting the figure in various places on the deck, I found she fit pretty well at the helm. I cleaned up the mold seams and turned the head to give her a more dynamic stance. Since the colors provided on the figures were good, I just repaired the paint damage done by my alterations and added some shadows and highlights. The hat, which I knocked off during clean-up, tended to hide the beautifully sculpted face on the figure, so I left it off. Placed back aboard, my dedicated helmswoman leans into the tiller to put the junk into a starboard turn.