so if you're ever looking for figurines to suit
your builds then this has a gala range is really spectacular hello this is vijay from here's
hobbies and today i'm going to be looking at the on the 24 skull paddock girls from hasagowa so
these are the figurines that has a have made it's part of a one of their newer series of figurines
they did quite a lot in the 80s and 90s and these would be perhaps uh in a series released in the
last couple years of very high quality figures to suit cars so it generally wants 124 scale and
they do another series which is costco which is mainly resin but that's the difference here is
where to get all together so let's have a closer look at these and i'll show you why these are
quite nice for plastic injection molded figures so there you go so these are the paddock girls
let's look from the top there so you can see the box art there so 20 24 scale paddock
girls or otherwise known as good girls or in japan they're known as race queens so i guess
uh paddock girls or good girls are very difficult to see around the traps these days except
in japan where they're still very popular and they've got a very typical look about them
with the outfit and then also the uh the umbrella and the umbrella is quite often to shield
the drivers as out on a really sunny circuit so they don't overheat well that's the idea anyway
okay so let's open it up and see what's inside all right so it comes with a couple of sprue now they're all in this bag here so we'll
bring them out we've got some decals and some instructions so let's look at these parts to start
with all right there we go there's our two spring so you'll notice that they're already molded in a
flesh type tone it makes it easier because with a flesh coloured plastic you can use it as a base
and then just use all your toning on the outside because skin is seem transparent anyway so it
doesn't matter if it's not fully painted all the way and that's quite a common trend now to
just have uh either a white base raw plastic or resin and then starting your flesh tones on top
of that you'll notice that the this particular one has got quite a large gate there and it's
interesting how they've done that because that extends all the way around here and i think that's
probably got to do with protecting within the box as well for shipping and it does keep it all
very very stiff so it could also have to do with shrinkage in the plastic as it cools too because
when you've got a larger gate like that there's less chances of it deforming now the great thing
about these particular figures is they've actually used 3d scan technology to make the uh the
figures look more realistic and that's mainly in the faces where you see all those benefits okay
so let's just look at that we've got our main sprue and then there's our secondary sprue with
some arms and i'll zoom in a bit so that we'll be able to see the the detail let's just get that
focused properly get that right go the wrong way too far all right that's probably about right i
think all right so let's have a closer look at where's the face i've lost it now there we
go actually i'm probably out of focus there how's that that's much sharper now you can see
there just from the shadows of the lighting just how sharp that detail is and how the actual
facial features are really natural looking and you'll notice the way that they've parts
separated as well in the past that would have been a whole head separate whereas this is just a
base of the face plate and you'll see on this side how that's upside down though but you'll see
how the heads have been moulded but the face plate is separate same with this one here okay so
you've got some more natural flowing of the hair and then here's the other
face which is just over here okay so again you can see just from the shadows
how good these figs look because quite often i would have found that female figures did not
have very good features and actually looked um i guess melted in a sense but here you can
just see eyes the cheeks are quite pronounced they're very good okay so quickly we'll look at
the rest of the parts you've got there's the pole for the uh the umbrella there's the head we looked
at earlier you've got the umbrella right there you can see the the mounting hole in the center there
for that that rod it's all moulded in one piece which makes it easy you got the internal frame
detail there as well on the underside over here you've got the tall boots it's so quite natural
folds in the ankle the other leg just there got a ponytail that's quite nice molded separately
okay and then you've got another boot there that's the body section you can see there you've
got both sides nice creases and usually along inside here you'll see a really pronounced
uh mould line so these mould lines are not so pronounced you still need to clean it up
a little bit though to make it look natural but at least they're not huge and sometimes it
feels like you're re re-sculpting when you're trying to clean them off cleanly but you can see
that you just see a slight mold line there okay so from there we've got the other boot right there
and that's all for that sprue and then over here you can see we've got the arms
okay so we've got the hands there so this one it's got the pointing finger okay really fine detail the finger
is quite fine it's not a little big chunky sort of blob that you may have seen in
the past and here's the other set of arms there or really nice okay so that's all the
plastic parts this just zoom it out again and we'll see the rest of the
bits i'll move that over there so you also get some decals so a sheet of
generic decals quite nice in that they give you decals for the eyes as well actually i should
zoom in on those probably easier for you to see okay just see those eyes there so
eyes are the hardest bits of paint so if you can paint them you can actually
get them looking better than this but if you're not a very good painter because
it takes a lot of practice with eyes you can just use the ones here okay so there's a few
different expressions and then you also have some generic sponsorship that you can put onto
the umbrella or anything really so they've actually called it hazakal racing you
know of course because it's hasigawa but there's plenty of aftermarket racing decals
too so if you want to customize that to suit a particular racing car then easy enough to change
them around okay some little tiny ones there too okay so the decals and then we come up
to the manual where i'll zoom out again okay so we've got our manual here all
right let's just get that out a bit there we go okay so you start off with the legend there so
you've got the two sprues there they're numbered here so you know exactly where to find your
parts you have a paint guide which indicates the uh the mr hobby which is the lacquer paints
and also the water-based paints there also a description in case you like to use different
brands so you can easily find them alternatives okay so you've got a few warnings on this
side as we flip it over we've got the simple construction of the figures so you've got the
main body work the face plate got the ponytail arms and the legs and then over here you have
the girl which is holding onto the umbrella so again faceplate body legs as in the simple
assembly of the umbrella over this side here there's a painting instructions then also some
decal indication as well and then we'll go on the inside here and then got nothing there okay so
that's all completed within one single printing so as you can see it's all very very simple
but figurines are fairly simple to build the art of the figurine is actually the
finishing and painting which you have there so if you're ever looking for figurines to
um suit your builds particularly for cars then this has got a range is really
spectacular so this is just one of the items this is the petty girls which i've
chosen to show you but there's plenty of others as well there's a theme ones for the
1970s and 1960s and that's particularly handy for cars of that era so there you go very nice
figures indeed from how to go in 1-24 scale
