This project is not quite inspired by a French/Belgian comic as the others, but it's based on a manga which was turned into one of the animated shows shown on French television when I was of an age to watch cartoons. Saint Seiya, or, as I knew it first, Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque.
The story
focuses on an orphan named Seiya who was forced to go to the Sanctuary in
Greece to obtain the Bronze Cloth of the Pegasus constellation, a protective
armor such as are worn by the Greek goddess Athena's 88 warriors known as Saints. Upon
awakening his Cosmos, the power of the Saints which is an inner spiritual
essence originated in the Big Bang, Seiya quickly becomes the Pegasus
Saint and returns to Japan to find his older sister. Quickly though, events drag him into a war against the usurper Pope Ares to protect the reincarnation of the goddress Athena...
It should be no surprise then that the
bottle cap collection released by Bandai grabbed my attention. I was hoping for
something close to 35mm and when I got the first set, they were about 40mm
scale, so close enough. A word of warning, they are bendy plastic and they are
anime to boot. Do not read on if you can't stand either. The figures all come
in one colour, with an ink wash for shading. I wanted to see whether they can
be painted like miniatures and this section of the blog will record the
results.
To give them some stability, I got some 40mm resin lipped bases with a flagstone pattern (most of their major battles take place in Greek temples) from Fenris Games and Dragonforge Design.
Two sets of figures were released and include Athena and the Bronze Saints, Pope Ares and the Gold Saints, Poseidon and his Marine Saints, Hades' Spectres, a a few additional and ofter more rare character figures. Over the years, I managed to get a full set.
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