TEASER | POPTOYS | 1:6 Jeanne D'Arc

No she couldn't. These things are impossible to put on without assistance. She would have had at least one experienced person helping her put on her armour. No way would they have left off the most important part of the harness. If she complained about the weight they would have found something else for her to wear.

Not sure what the problem is. The Poptoys armour is far more accurate than what was in the movie.

shazzdan wrote:No she couldn't. These things are impossible to put on without assistance. She would have had at least one experienced person helping her put on her armour. No way would they have left off the most important part of the harness. If she complained about the weight they would have found something else for her to wear.

And you have primary evidence for this claim? You're just being argumentative for the sake of it, as always.

Would they have denied the will of a supposed messenger of God, regardless of how crazy it was?

We know from record that she had at least one suit of plate armour. We have a primary claim that she could not bear the weight of it.

We have the image from the fifteenth century of Jeanne wearing full armour. Nobody can know what she did and didn't wear at any given moment, nor can we even take primary claims as fact. Just because it seems impossible does not make it impossible.

It seems impossible that a girl in that period could accomplish what she did. Yet she did, and remains a remarkable character because of it.

One of the first things taught in a history degree is that you cannot claim absolutes without absolute proof. You can only suggest what is likely based upon gathered evidence.

With Jeanne her whole life was an unlikely event.

shazzdan wrote:Not sure what the problem is. The Poptoys armour is far more accurate than what was in the movie.

That armour was also in the movie, and depicts the harness taken from a Burgundian.

That armour was also in the movie, and depicts the harness taken from a Burgundian.

So no problem

Helping Asta out by posting additional pics and info that he doesn't have time to do here (all credit goes to him for finding all this stuff):

http://bbs.bbicn.com/forum.php?mod=v...extra=page%3D1

This time I received two versions, opening the small cardboard box outside, it is the official box.
This time, because the product is a large area of ​​alloy armor, it can still be clearly felt in the hands.
The design of the box is very good, the front of the box is a bit like the style of oil painting, and the back is a list of products.

There is no significant difference between the two versions of the package, the difference is only the metal labeling at the corner of the box.




In the movie, Jude was a long hair in the early stage, and it was cut into short hair in the later stage for the battlefield.
POPTOYS is equipped with double-headed carvings for both versions, which can be replaced during the game.
The head carving is personally considered to be more beautiful than the characters in the movie.





The two armor conforms to the prototype of the movie, the biggest difference is the breastplate part, and the other accessories are basically the same.
The main part is all metal.
What is more worrying is the age of the straps. There is still the possibility of damage outside the year.
But this time I saw a replacement patch in the box, which is a good idea.






There is nothing to say on the clothing, POP 's housekeeping skills.




In terms of weapons, it is equipped with a cross sword. The main body is made of all-alloy material, which has a lot of weight and detailed description.





- "For France!"



The white warhorse is also suitable for female characters. The armor of the horse is made of soft rubber and metal.





All the upper body, still have to present the final renderings, you can share a product together











There's one production issue you can see in some photos, which is the horizontal mould line across the pauldron of the full armour set:



This same thing has happened, to a much worse degree, with CooModel's smaller pauldrons in their latest Milanese armour sets.



So far, I haven't seen any issues with the larger pauldrons:



With this same problem occurring at the same time from both POPToys and CooModels, I'm wondering whether these were from the same factory. Or, knowing how incestuous the 1/6 industry, whether POP and Coo are actually the same firm?

In some of the reviews she's standing next to the latest CooModel Knight. If he's the same height as the Coo Gothic armour I have, then he'll be 13" tall. A giant for his time! That would make Jeanne about 10 1/2" tall. That's ideal for the historical Jeanne, since she was estimated to be 5' 2", but too short for Milla, who's about 5' 8".

However, I'm pleased with the POPToys height as I'd rather she was closer to her historical height.

More of Asta's hard work:

http://bbs.bbicn.com/forum.php?mod=v...ead&tid=349809


After a brave heart ignited an ancient European war, St. Jude was born in a few years. At that time, she looked at the saints with the standard of brave heart. Later, she found that the story was very brave. The gap, but can not say that the film is not good, the background between the two films is far from each other, and from the battle scene, the saint is still very good.

POP has made tremendous efforts in recent years, and launched many ancient themes, and Joan of Arc has not fallen. There have been a lot of friends who have commented on this paragraph, and the response is very good. Let's share it here.
Outer kraft paper printing uses the image of the real Jude statue.



The outsourcing of the box is very amazing, and the individual likes it.




The main body of the character is not large, and the armor has been worn, so it does not occupy the place. The first layer of the subject, the second layer of the banner and so on.



Main weapon close-up, sword is alloy



Flag close-up



Pop gave a lot of spare parts for belt rivets this time. This is very user-friendly. Now the alloy content is getting higher and higher, the weight of leather goods is bigger, the life is lower, and more spare parts are given, which does not increase the cost, but increases More to play with durability, this point is praised.



Although it is an alloy, it can be supported by the body and has no soft feet.




The head carving is close-up, personally feels very good, and rare hair is good. Skin color painting is also more realistic.












Helmet close-up








Plastic hair head close-up




Armor close-up






There is no groove on the back, similar to the COO King Knight, manufacturers are paying more and more attention to the treatment behind it.



The horse:




With equipment instructions



Naked horse close-up, a little bit of mane, you can trim it yourself.





The state of the harness, the buttocks are alloys, others are plastic and plastic parts.

And yet another in-hand review that Asta found:

I like the posing and set ups in this latest review:


http://bbs.bbicn.com/forum.php?mod=v...extra=page%3D1

I feel that this is worth starting, the two head carvings are in place, the charm of the movie protagonist, the
armor is old and more real, the war horse is quite
normal. Since the ancient times, many products have improved a grade, not bad.

Thank you both (Asta and Stryker) for reposting these beautiful images and reviews.

Stryker's doing all the hard work here!  

On SSF it was a simple matter of a single copy and paste of the entire review complete with commentary.

To do every photo and comment individually is a daunting task!


Incidentally BBICN is hard to reach today. I can get to it by choosing the translation link from a Google search, or by using a proxy. But photos take forever to finish loading.

It's as though it's being blocked by specific regions as I ran some checks on a number of those 'is it up' site checkers - and the results were 50/50 on whether BBICN was working or not.

I don't know how he arranged it, but on 27th January OneSixthKit emailed me to say that the horse would be despatched from mainland China, rather than his own Hong Kong location. The two Jeannes would follow a few days later from Hong Kong.

Knowing how long parcels from the mainland can wait in the holding area prior to boarding a flight, plus the imminent Chinese new year, I set myself up for a long wait...


The parcel left Shenzen the same day, accounting for the time zone difference...and arrived in the UK 21.16 last night!

It was released from customs three minutes later at 21.19.

That's got to be the quickest turnaround I've had, though the massively boxed Blitzway Ghostbusters deluxe set was only minutes as well.

He's currently 20 miles away, ready for delivery today.

This will be my fist 1/6 horse since I sold Dragon's Blitz.

That’s awesome, Asta. I have to wait for Timewalker to get their stock before I can add this — now I need to figure out where I’m going to put her and the horse. For such an important historical figure, it should be someplace special — I’m thinking somewhere in the library portion of my Man-Cave would be appropriate — on a stand by themselves of course.

Stryker2011 wrote:That’s awesome, Asta. I have to wait for Timewalker to get their stock before I can add this — now I need to figure out where I’m going to put her and the horse. For such an important historical figure, it should be someplace special — I’m thinking somewhere in the library portion of my Man-Cave would be appropriate — on a stand by themselves of course.

It - I never noticed whether it was a he or a she! - arrived a few minutes ago.

I saved the photos you posted of your man cave because it's such an incredible space.

Wow , I can’t wait to see your in-hand pics, Asta and Stryker!

She's a beautiful looking horse.

Quite heavy. Feels/sounds like hollow resin, and is very stable, if you pardon the pun!








She measures 13.75" to the top of her ears, and I think 10.5" to the top of the withers. Not easy to be accurate with that unless you have something similar to the kind of measuring stick used for a real horse.

In real life that's 63" to the withers, and using the calculation as described here,

https://www.thesprucepets.com/how-to-measure-a-horses-height-1887322

means that she's the equivalent of 15.3 hands high.

(63 divided by 4" per hand = 15 hands plus 3" = 15.3 HH).

The straps are fiddly but the buckles are large enough that it never looks impossible, as it sometimes does when trying to put gear on a regular figure.

My process for assembly was the saddle blanket on first. I put the tail into a plastic bag to keep the hair together in order to get it through the loop.

Next are the stirrups, which lay loose over the blanket. Then the saddle, the cinch strap being the first part that you buckle up.

I put the chest armour (peytral) on next, which has a strap on either side connecting to the harness at the front end of the blanket.

The trickiest parts were the rear armour plates (crupper) since they're heavy metal, and need supporting as you attach the first strap. I worked on the three straps at the top of each crupper, levelling them up as I went. The final two straps that bring everything together are from the front of the crupper to the saddle.

Looking good, thanks for sharing! ^.^

Looking good. Sounds like it’ll be a while before I’ll be able to assemble this set.


By the way... boy or girl?

Stryker2011 wrote:Looking good. Sounds like it’ll be a while before I’ll be able to assemble this set.


By the way... boy or girl?

Definitely a girl.

She looks great.

Stryker2011 wrote:She looks great.

She does. Such an impressive piece. I still can't believe anyone actually made 1/6 figures from the movie, let alone  a near screen accurate version of her horse.

A little more grey in the mane and tail (and even the body) would really make her life-like. (I wonder if a grey wash would work...?)

Stryker2011 wrote:A little more grey in the mane and tail (and even the body) would really make her life-like. (I wonder if a grey wash would work...?)

I wouldn't like to risk it though.

The funny thing with the mane and tail is that while it's white in full light, when I push it to the back of that shelf they turn much more grey, yet the body of the horse doesn't grow any less white. It's a really curious effect. Where the mane lies thickest, closer to the saddle, it's even darker. In fact I'd forgotten that the hair was white until I pulled her to the front of the shelf for a better look.

You can see a mild form of the effect in some of my photos, and that was even when being lit by the camera flash. See the difference between the fourth and sixth photos. Or even the difference between the mane and the tail in the fourth photo.

To the naked eye, without the flash, it's darker still.

I see what you mean. Thanks for the additional insight. It really will be a cool display with Joan sitting on her with the banner and sword upraised.

Stryker2011 wrote:I see what you mean. Thanks for the additional insight. It really will be a cool display with Joan sitting on her with the banner and sword upraised.

I won't have room to have her sword upraised unless I take out the shelf above.  


My two Jeanne's arrived in the country and have been despatched from customs. There's a chance I may get them tomorrow.

I think for display it will be her first armour with the long hair, mounted with the banner:



I'll unbuckle the faulds as she didn't have them, which might make it easier to get her into the saddle.


The Burgundian armour will have the short hair:





That would represent the progression of the film, as by the time she got the second armour she'd cut her hair.

I honestly don’t know which armor I’m going to go with. I’ll have to see what they look like in hand.

Stryker2011 wrote:I honestly don’t know which armor I’m going to go with. I’ll have to see what they look like in hand.

I'm toying with the idea of not having her mounted.

While the horse is pretty heavy and stable, I'm wondering if the weight of Jeanne would increase the chances of an accident because it places the centre of gravity higher?

This shelving unit sits on top of a pair of filing cabinets. The drawers are filled with rows of bagged comic books. I've tested slamming the heavy drawers shut and the horse shows no danger of going anywhere.

I can't decide until I have them in hand, which will be today because, unlike Parcelforce who delivered the horse yesterday, Saturday is a normal delivery day for Royal Mail.


The craziness hasn't ended come to an end yet as KG Hobby have despatched the CooModel Milanese armour - the one they called SE036 Famiglia Ducale.

It's been a mad few weeks!

Pretty fine looking piece all in all! Looks like there will soon be some happy owners.

CHEERS!

Rogerbee wrote:Pretty fine looking piece all in all! Looks like there will soon be some happy owners.

CHEERS!

Me included!




I was desperate to make sure I had both A and B versions, and not duplicates.

It was a nervous few minutes getting to the boxes as Kit uses about half a roll of bubble wrap when he packs things up.

The sculpts are really very well done. I wouldn't be disappointed if these had arrived on a HT figure. In fact I think the sculpts may owe their origins to the venerable HT Resident Evil Alice, except that POPToys' paint is much better.

The quality is a lot better than my photos suggest, which is usually the case:






First thing of note was that the boxes were heavy. The Burgundian armour is significantly moreso. I don't know that I'd want to risk having either of these sitting on the horse.

One feature that's disappointing is that the mail is shorter on the first (lighter) armour. Looking back at some of the other reviews it's consistently shorter than on the Burgundian armour figure. So it's as POPToys' intended it to be.

This puts a spanner in the works on removing the faulds.

While longer, the mail on the Burgundian is also a little shorter than it was in the film. Though I managed to pull it down a bit more after I took the photo. Might be able to release a bit more from under the armour on the other figure as well.