JILL VALENTINE

 Its hard to belive how much merchadise about Resident Evil we got long time ago, when the series started. Now its one of the pillars of gaming but despite that, merchwise Resident Evil is pretty low tough both RE7 and 8 arent exactly toys friendly. But the first gmes are still pretty good for action figures and despite having a lot of Toy Biz and Moby Dick Toys figures back then, Plisades Marketing released 3 series of articulated figures at a totally different scale.

But they also released statues. A Resident Evil 2 pair with Claire Redfield and another with William G-2, that never saw in my life and it seems they are extremelly rare and limited, looked fantastic and by 2000-2001 they also released a pair based on Resident Evil 3: Jill Valentine and Nemesis.

I think tough this statues are based on japnese garage kits but i am not very sure...i just know there is a japanese version of this figures but i dont know the brand. Plisades version of Jill tough is 11 inch soo she towers over the action figures series but is really really ligth since she is howllow and the vinyl is pretty thin.

Sculpted by Tunehisa Namimatsu, this Jill Valentine have a lot of problems standing by herself sicne her legs arent that well adjusted and she is juts kinda lanky, i really wish Palisades gives her a stand or a base. Anyways, i guess the convertion from garage kit to mass produced vinyl statue really hurt Tunehisa sculpt, or maybe its the material, but the sculpt is extremelly soft and lacking details.

Jill is standing on a very simple and basic pose with her gun in hand, theres no movement in here or any kind of dynamism but her face dosnt have too many features to beggin with and the rest of the body either...she kinds of looks like the image of a pretty old videogame or CGi from the 90s. I am not sure if that was the intention but i doubt it since the 90s werent that far back then.

The paint is really basic, really pale skin color with no shadows or details at all, electric blue for her top, black for her skirt and brown for her boots. But the worst part are the belts around her shoulders and the little military pockets on her waist, the green is mixing with the skin color and her outfit and looks really bad specially on such big scale.

Her face is pretty, tough extremelly basic and sadlly, the brown of her hair is mixing with her skin as well. The bangs on her forehead are soo awfull looking, is really dissapointing.

Also, thanks to the march of time (more than 20 years!!) and how cheap is the vinyl used in here, the material is starting to brake and the glue is also lossing its effects....plus she likes to fall a lot, soo this statue has been broken into pieces multiple times already. Soo far i been able to fix her but it gets really tiresome at some point.

Maybe a totall repaint can fix many of this figure problems. Its true the sculpt is not that good and is kinda unidimensional but a good paint may help a lot. Mmmm i will think about it, maybe this Jill can come to life and be able to look closer to the prototype shown on the box?