I’d like to show you Steve Readdie’s latest a departure completely from his normal output. I was lucky enough to grab hold of one of his pre-release batch at Figure World

Pilgrims Protector is a rather nice 90mm Crusader figure which could be easily adapted to be anyone from the period 11150 - 1400 with very minimal work.


This is a pre-release version so no box art but on the official release there will be box artwork


It comes in a sturdy box that has a handy tab that lets you open it without major surgery either to yourself or the box! Inside the 12 parts are protected by a generous amount of foam packing

The head is a beaut, showing the tedium of a thankless watch in the heat



I like the attention to detail on the coif showing the fastening and the quilted interior


It even comes with a separate helm which can either be worn on placed on the ground,. One slight snag is if he is wearing the helm he would have done the coif up I’d think but that would just require a bit of careful cutting and re-modelling on the chain to rectify or a Reeddees Miniatures range of alternate heads with further optional weapons heh but I digress

The figure has minimal flash, pitting or clean up required, please note the right wrist peg isn’t a bit of sprue ! I nearly hacked it off before realising it fits his hand…. Hence the importance of dry runs


All in all a great bit of kit and well worth a buy on release, I really hope we see more in this period and scale.

Steve

I've had the pleasure of seeing this on the workbench and can confirm that its a really great figure, in fact I think its Steve's best work to date.

I was hoping Steve would relese this one.

Steve a great review, I had a close look at this at Figureworld excellent sculpting and I'm sure this will be one of Steve's best sellers.

Cheers Ken

Ta Ken TBF It's fairly easy to review a figure as nice as this one

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the review, looks like another successful Reedees Miniature.
By the way I think you should give this one to your wife to paint.
cheers
Richie

lol having heard the swearing BEFORE she's started her first one I'll pass

Just started to clean this up and it's a doddle to do very easy clean up! Nice one Steve

Yes I saw this at the Figure World show and thought what a nice kit it was . Once my grey army has reduced a bit I'm going to add it to my must have list .
chippy

Would just like to add my opinion to the mix, absolute cracker! top marks to Steve for this one, lovely character to the face and some excellent details - might have to fight my son over who's going to paint it!!
Steve

What scale would that be, Steve?
And any chance of a clearer pic of the entire figure?....I can clearly read the label on your Douwe Egberts coffee jar but the figure itself remains a bit of a mystery.

Sorry it's 90mm and I'll sort out a pic, when I get back from work

Steve

As asked for hopefully these are better and cos I'm just SUPAH nice even thrown in a helmet shot (fnaaaar fnaaaar)

Any gaps mis-aligned bits etc is due to the putty not the figure,that goes together like watch parts. I've also added the scale into the original review

Steve

Thanks, Steve these pics are much better.

Thanks Mark, cheers Carl. I have an ulterior motive if enough people buy this kit Steve might release more

Steve

Steve many thanks for doing the review, the box art is being done at present so hope to have a release date some time soon.
here are some more pictures of the figure.

All the best

Steve

Great figure.
He is on the list for Euro.

Marc

Cheers Steve I'm even more pony with a camera than a brush

Steve's now released this Figure box art pics here http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/reedees-miniatures-pilgrims-protector-90mm.52485/

And here --->



Once again it's an excellent kit at a great price
Steve