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I built this over ten years ago, it's the Masudaya Maria from "Metropolis". I painted her with a gilded gold spray
paint from Home Depot back in the good ol' days. The nameplate is drybrushed gloss silver, then lightly drybrushed with flat black for an "antiqued" look, I was really pleased with how it
turned out. I'm way to fond of her to change her now, she really looks striking when the built-in lights are on her. 'Sides it was a black & white movie!
I never realized just how "off" the Masayuda figure sculpt was (I'm assuming a $500 piece is going to be more accurate
than a $100 piece, though as you well know it don't always work out they way, the recent $300 metal "Millenium Falcon" comes to
mind.). The sculpture is radically different from the Masayuda kit, the sculpt' Maria has a much bigger ass! In my memories of the glory days of "Famous Monsters" I seem to recall Forry proudly publishing the first ever pictures of Maria's back, which if I remember right wasn't shown in the film. Whichever is more accurate to the film version I can't say, it's been years since I've seen "Metropolis", but the Masayuda is definitely slimmer and more streamlined than the sculpt.
I painted mine gold when I got it, I'm still honestly not sure if I choose that color because of A)"Star Wars"-C-3PO influence on my subconcious, B) Another iconic FM cover of Maria I
seem to remember where she was gold, or C) Because I'm a idiot. I say I'm not sure why I did it because I know intellectually from all those articles & pictures in FM that Maria was silver, but gold
still seemed like the correct color at the time.
A lucky accident was the gilt paint did give it an interesting textured metallic look, and that the paint faded after a few
years to more of a bronze than the initial bright gold
Scott Copeland
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