*Warning! Image heavy post!*
Managed to chance upon a sealed WWRp Medic Bramble! Now I've gotten almost all the bots for my medic squad, the only one left is the 1/6 Medic Dropcloth. The rest of the 1/6 bots are too big for me to amass.
As one of the older 3A products, the box packaging comes with a window! There's also more description about the Bramble.
Clamshell has a whitish base instead of the newer transparent ones.
Accessories are packaged and stored behind the clamshell. Look how well packed it is.
A closer look at the Bramble from different angles. From what I've read, the older bots like these have more silver drybrushing, compared to the newer weathering that is mainly sponged based.
If you compare this with the recently posted Caesar, you'll notice some differences as well. Bramble has a lot of silver brush streaks that look like abrasions/scratches, while Caesar has more dark gray/blackish sponge marks that look like rusting. Personally, I like the weathering on Caesar a little better, the silver here comes across too bright and clean for me.
The accessories are compacted in bags within a bag. Open it up and you get the pieces inside.
The tank that goes behind, the gatling gun, the bullets and the bags. Of all the things, the gatling gun is the coolest! I have shotguns, rifles, revolvers, pistols, but no gatling gun!
Closer look at the tank. I suppose it's an ammo tank since the bullets connect to it.
The Bramble has pretty standard articulation as compared with the other bots, but the foot is one single piece instead of the two-piece that Caesar has. Head and shoulder joints were a little stiff though, and the vinyl is somewhat soft, reminiscent of the Bertie.
I could feel the main body depress slightly under my grip when I was trying to twist the head. The shoulder ball joints were especially scary, as again, I could see the anchor point of the ball joint twist ever so slightly as I tried to move the arm.
This time, I took fast little twists in opposite directions to try to loosen up the joint a bit, instead of trying to twist the arm all the way in one direction. This worked a lot better as the anchor point didn't move much, if at all, while allowing me to work the joint slowly. Eventually I got both arms moving. Went back to try this with the Bertie's stiff left shoulder, and it worked too. Hurrah!
Anyway, a few simple poses of the Bramble. Not too good at posing this guy when the gatling is so difficult to hold without dropping. Updated whole squad photo to come again soon!
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