Stryker2011 wrote:Wow! That is a lot of Ellie’s, Asta. You must have bought up most of the stock!
I bought two of CC Toys' Ellies. They each came with two sculpts, so I made two more. It was quite a lot of work adapting bodies to make them small enough.
The little one on the bigger stand was my original from Redman. Because she's so short I consider her to be prequel Ellie from the American Dreams comic book.
I also bought two CC Joels, but only made one more because I'm not a big fan of his angry sculpt.
The Master Team TLOU2 Ellie is currently on the way. Hopefully CC's Clicker and TLOU2 Ellie and Joel will be released soon.
When I first saw the EKUAZ promo photos with the cracked lens gas mask I thought about TLOU, and read up again on how people get infected from the spores. It's only through inhalation, so you'd think that a non-full face mask would do the job. Yet all the masks I've seen in the games are full face, and in TLOU2 Abby has to discard a mask with a broken lens when searching for one for Lev.
(I have a couple of half-masks that came with the VTS Dark Zone figures, but as I never saw them used in the games it didn't feel right to use them).
I don't know much about the function of gas masks and have never worn one, but the FM12/S10 style, as on the EKUAZ figure, has a rubber seal covering the nose and mouth. Maybe that's not good enough on it's own to afford full protection against inhalation? Or maybe it was a game choice.
While looking at gas masks I also looked at the lens options. The red lenses are often separate parts (outserts) that plug onto the mask over the clear eye pieces (inserts) to assist with low light vision.
The clear lenses themselves, however, can also be changed, as with HUNK's mask which has the red lenses set into the mask in place of clear ones.