Whew, glad this one is done. It’s like 4 kits in one - the Creature, Julie, the boat and the base; 27 pieces in all. All resin, 1/9th scale, sculpted by Jeff Yagher and produced by Monsters in Motion. I got this from MIM in 2019, but I’m not sure when it was first issued. Not to start the MIM bashing again, but I was really disappointed with the mold condition. I spent a lot of Dremel time just removing extraneous resin, and the 5 connecting points between the characters, boat and base were more suggestions than anything else. These connections are tricky because Julie’s hand is connected to the boat, the boat and one creature claw are connected to the rock spires and the other claw is attached to Julie’s leg. It took a lot of time trying to get everything to align correctly. Not the first time I wished I had three hands. Eventually I decided to first connect Julie and the Creature with a screw at that joint which allowed me the ability to twist them a little to align with the other connections. In the end I was really surprised at how high the bow of the boat had to be to fit it all together.
All that said, it’s an amazing and dynamic concept and kudos to the sculptor, molder and producer to create such a kit. I was pleasantly surprised by the the relatively small footprint as it’s more vertical than I anticipated, which is great for shelf space. Other cool parts are the 2 devonian fish and the eel. I improvised a bit by putting the eel peeking out of the boat at all the commotion, but it’s a little hard to see. I wanted to name the boat and decided to name it after the Creature’s creator, again a detail that’s hard to see. I added talus/ballast rock to the base which covered/obscured a few details, but I thought it was a good trade off.
