NOSFERATU

 Palisades Marketing was a newborn toy company from 2000 that on its short life span they released a lot of figures that cost way too much rigth now, like the Pink Panther series of the Muppets series, but one of theyr first products included The House of the Dead 2 and Resident Evil. Specifically speaking of Resident Evil they launched - for the first time - stand alone figures that represent a human character, a small monster and two big monster bosses.

With Leon filling the human part of the series and the Zombie Soldier the small monster part, the two bosses are Nosferatu from CODE: Veronica and Nemesis from Resident Evil 3. To be honest, with the Moby Dick Toys Nemesis on my hands i was really dissapointing with wath Plaisades did with the character, he looked kinda cartoony soo i ignored him (and kind of regret it now) and went directly to Nosferatu for reasons.

Alexander Ashford have the same scale McFarlane and NECA used back then soo he fits to most collections by now tough he cant stand on his own at all!! Even with the base he have a lot of problems balancing!! He is articulated on the neck, shulders, wrists and knes tough for some reasons he does have ball joints!! BUT.... since his hands are chained on his back, the ball joints on his shoulders and wrists canot move...

The ball joints on his knes tough have a very difficult time balancing him soo they are best to be left alone, soo the only section wth full fredom of movement is his head, making him mostly an statue. Pretty weird. Also, the insect legs coming out from his sides are wired and made with bendy plastic, soo they can be posed, even the big leg on his back (and is no secret, that big apenadge is the reason why he cant stand ofn his own).

The sculpt is nice, again like the Zombie Soldier and Cerberus, he have a comic book kind of quality. While in the game he is kinda clean looking (maybe because of graphics limitations), here his entire body is full of wrinkles and the skin of barelly covering the bones, mostly like a mummy. His face looks almost like a skull and i love the big heart coming out from his chest.

The chains on the sides of his hips as well as the ones that conect his wrists with his neck on his back and the ones on his feet are real metalic chains and thats a terrific detail that makes him looks really badass. 

The paint tough have issues again. While i apreciate the cool looking electric blue on his skin, the dark blue washes are not looking too good and his lower half - the skirt thingy - looks way too simple and toy looking...cheap looking actualy. The blood help to better the look, on the chest flowing tough his stomach, on the missing pieces of flesh on the arms as well as on his back, with the big insect appeandage protunding from his back, the blood gives him a nice gory touch.

Theres no accesorys of course, aside of the base with the logo of the game and a oval wall of bricks, but even with that Nosferatu really strugle to stand all the time.

I love how big he looks thanks to the extra arms, but theres not much to say about him since he is kind of a simplistic design and the lack of articulation dosnt help him at all. Still, this is the only figures based on Nosferatu/Alexander Ashford out there and i doubt that changes any time soon, soo he is an important peice on the Resident Evil collection for sure.