E is for Epixx . . . Fantasy Knight

Credited to both Revell and Blue Box/BBI, I picked this up (TKMaxx, Basingrad, April) purely because it was clearly cheap as chips, well . . . cheaper than chips, unless you limit yourself to a child's portion (as I do!) in which case chips are cheaper, but only just - 80p!

Now, the first thing to notice is that apart from the shield-art, there's little to suggest fantasy really, his flaming sword looks like/can double-for a flaming-brand and the fact that he's wearing his jousting finery is not that remarkable, the aristocracy tend to the same vanities and social climbing as any other pink-monkeys, and I'm sure some did go into battle 'over-dressed' in their 'best-kit'!

But the other thing that leaps-out is that he's covered in dust and fluff?

It would appear (the figure is dated 2007) that it fell down the back of a storage shelf (probably in the same branch) and sat there for the best part of the last decade! There were signs of the card having been given a clean - a column of dust with finger-marks either side of it down the card immediately behind his back - but the figure itself hadn't been cleaned.

The usual OTT packaging on these types of toys and the info-panel on the bottom of the box; assuming a year's retail, a few months in storage, clearance to TKMaxx, distribution to Basingrad and what; four weeks on display? This has been hidden from view since at least 2009 sometime!

Cleaned-up with cotton-buds (paper stem only!) he's a fine chap, rather channeling one of the better Herald - Hong Kong - figures (pole-arm), the flaming brand needs to go though, it's about to set his headdress on fire!

Removal of the jerkin design and a repaint of the shield with an eagle's head or similar motif and he'll be just another medieval, if a little on the large size, but with Schleich, Papo and ELC increasingly appearing in the collection, he's not that out of place and we'll be looking at some even larger medievals soon here at Small Scale World.