THE WEREWOLF SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAIN

 I AM NOT A FURRY BUUUUT... i admit i really like the "Furry Obscura" branch, the part of the furry world dedicated to horror, more precise to the Werewolf or Wolfman. The Wolfman has been always my favorite Monster since the 40s Lon Chaney Jr movie from Universal and some of my favorite movies  and fiction includes them (tough to be honest, theres not enough werewolf movies out there compared to vampires) making them my top monster to collect (tough again...theres not many werewolf toys either).

Some years ago a chinese company called Coo Model released 1/6 scale figures based on the classic monsters: Dracula, th Wolf man, the Mummy....and they looked trully amazing and hard to belive they were real, they looked like beyond posible figures and while theyr price was beyond any logic as well, they were extremelly difficult to find or to even track them down since theres almost no infor about them on the internet aside of a couple of buggy chinese pages.

For some reason, Coo Model re-release the Werewolf some years later but this time in 1/12 scale and with no accesorys, since the original 1/6 version could be transformed into human form. Of course this was too a much more smaller price as well and named "MONSTER FILE pm 001-003"with 3 different versions of the wolf: one on brown, one on black and one in white. Just recently i got the 003 version titled "The Werewolf Snow-capped Mountain", a snowy white version.

This is not based on any movie, game or comic or character, this is a totally original or "generic" Werewolf and thanks to the unatractive and plain box and scale, he dosnt looks like much at all, tough the text in red "HANDMADE FIGURE" in the front reveal wath to expect once the ugly box is open. 

Being a 1/12 scale this guy is in perfect scale to anyhting NECA, McFarlane or any standar modern action figure series and looks perfect with Figma or Figuarts as well given the beastly nature of this creature. He is digitigrade soo he needs some balancing to keep him standing but is not that bad, he can balance pretty good tough he also comes with a totally useless base.

He is articulated on the jaw, neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, chest, legs, knes and ankles, all ball joints but the jaw soo he have a good range of mobility. His chest ball joint dosnt move too much tough and thanks to the fur on his neck his head tilt is very limited as well but the rest of the articulations works great.

The sculpt is really good, with a pretty lupin style of head, reminiscent to An American Werewolf in London or even The Howling, with the pointy ears and grotesque giant snout and fangs tough i got the feeling his eyes are a little too small, the detailing of the bags under them is really good as well as the magnificent fut coming out from around his head and snout. The fur sculpt is very very sharp, something good for this small scale and the rest of the body have the same great quality sculpt. 

With his abs and chest having no fur, the texture is a little plastic but since this is a monster i dont expect every bit of him looks natural. The under part of his feet are very natural looking tough with a lot of wrinkles and details that makes them looks like real dog feet, i just got the feeling his legs are a little to short as well? Or maybe i got this impression because his arms and hands are way too long, his shape is a little awkard but maybe this was intentional.

The paint is brillant as well, with the fur having this icy blue/grey tone with darker greys giving it shadow and some white detailing that looks like snow, this is a montain wolf from the north and the colors are perfectly mixed to make him looks natural but not boring. The areas with no fur - his abs and chest and feet - have some soft purple as well as grey, like some kind of internal brusing. Of course, this is due to the cold weather and makes this parts looks like those of a iced corpse.

The tiny yellow eyes are eerie as well as the big yellow fangs and pink gums and inside of the mouth, the only section with bad paint aplication is the black around his lips. The black line is thick and and strangelly shaky...

There is a spray of blood around his mouth as well as his chest and big claws. The blood have a vibrant red tone that stand out on top of the rest of the cold color palette.

Despite this figure being a cheap version of a 1/6 figure, he is dressed in real clothing: a shirt and some pants with a rope as a belt. The tailoring is pretty basic and each piece is turn appart pretty heavilly and is really really dirty. The shirt is grey with some red stains here and there and the pants are blue with lots of dark stains. The clothing looks ancient, the ageing is really fantastic and swits really good with the figure color palette.

The shirt is really baggy but this is soo the legs can articulations are not restricted. Same for the shirt torn into pieces, it dosnt block any of the articulations at all and made me wish 1/6 figures had this kind of tailoring!!!

Theres no extra heads, claws, swords of effects, theres absolutelly no accesorys in here aside of one of the worst bases i seen in my life: a simple corcilar black stand with a black rood  and a thin wire that enters in between the Werewolf legs. Is like a 1/6 scale base but this one dosnt works at all and keeps falling apart constantly.

At first i had my doubts with this figure thanks to the bad quality box and complet lack of accesorys, but the figure itself is beautifully done and makes me belive in the "handmade" mark on the box. Is very fun to pose him around and looks great on any horror movies collection or even as an enemy of any other series (like the Ninja Turltes or Gargoyles). I really wish Coo Models release the Vampire and the Mummy in this same scale someday but the mistery behind the brand is deep and imposible to discern.