What's in the box? - Herald of Hell Airi

Today I'm going to be look at what you get when you order Herald of Hell Airi from e2046. As I understand, this is a variation on one of the characters from the Queen's Blade series. Queen's Blade is a little... different. Yeah let's go with different. The story is, every four years one woman from each town battles in the Queen's Blade tournament to determine the Queen. What makes this series different is all of the sexually suggestive (and not so suggestive) scenes and imagery. And there is a lot of it. For example, Airi here is a scythe wielding ghost maid that feeds on humans be kissing them. In case you're wondering, this is not THAT kind of adult anime. Anyways, if you want to check out the craziness, head on over to hulu where 2 seasons can be found.

With that out of the way time for the box! Comes in the standard style e2046 box. Arrive in perfect condition. Off to a good start.

The box, is noticeably smaller than your standard issue MG box. Not too surprising give that I'm not expecting may parts.

After taking off the lid, there is a picture on top. As always, I'm disappointed there is only one image, but at least it's a decent one.

Next up are the instructions. Pretty simple. Looks to only be 13 parts.

Time for the parts. They're all here and the quality, as always, is pretty good.

This figure is said to be 1/6 scale. If that is true, she only comes out to be 4 and half feet tall. This figure is much bigger than MG kit... but smaller than the Red Frame's tactical arms in sword mode.

One thing I really like about the kit is the parts separation. If you were a beginner to model building and wanted to try a resin kit, this is the one for you. The arms are separated from the main body, but the seam lines follow the clothing. You could easily just glue this together and likely not see that they came from different parts.

Now for the part that I can't figure out. As you can see in the instructions, you get a short resin piece and a longer plastic pipe to build the scythe. This is where things get confusing. The instructions say blade, resin piece, plastic piece. However, in the photo it looks like it goes blade, plastic piece, then resin piece. And if that wasn't confusing enough, there is no way to connect the resin piece and the plastic piece. Fortunately the rest of the kit looks so good and straight forward, I don't really mind putting in a little effort on this kit. Wouldn't be fun if there wasn't some challenge right?

Well, that's all. Based on what I can see, if you want to try a resin kit for the first time or are new to modelling, this is the one. Beautiful, very simple, and only a little clean up. You can't ask for much more from a resin figure.