Last year, my fascination & appreciation for the Castlevania series went into high gear, especially with the release of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood on the Virtual Console. And, with my recent hunger for many things Castlevania, I also acquired four Castlevania figures that were released from the highly-detailed action figure company, NECA. These were Simon Belmont, Dracula, Alucard & Succubus.
But, my fix was not quite sated, since my favorite Belmont was Richter, the hero from Rondo of Blood, and this figure was never ever made. Some custom jobs had been done in the past (some quite good), but a figure was never commercially made and sold. So, after scouring around for some old figures & elements to use, and using a bit of my modeling know-how, I attempted to instead...make my own Richter Belmont figure.
And here is how it went..
My Custom Richter Belmont figure.
My Castlevania family
(...the shorter mortal in the middle is the coolest, mind you.)
For more photos, check out my album:
http://img823.imageshack.us/g/dsc5552.jpg/*Credits include:
- Konami, for creating one of the greatest video game franchises in history, Castlevania, and for proving that great men can topple monsters, and purge them from this world (using only a whip).
- Toru Hagihara, for helping to bring "Castlevania: Rondo of Blood" to the world.
- Mikio Saito, for his score from "Castlevania: Rondo of Blood", which served as background music throughout this whole project.
- NECA for inspiring me to make this figure with their own 4 figures, whose weapons and items are conveniently the same scale for Richter to "borrow" on his own "adventures".
- McFarlane toys for creating the Prince Dastan figure, based on the same character from the motion picture "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", which served as my main base.
- Tamiya paints, abrasives, modeling putty.
- Madora's award-winning sanding skills, as well her loving support, help & encouragement throughout this project.
- Mediplast for their medical tape.
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