Vila has just been put in front of me. No, not the real thing, but the first one off Kelvin's miniatures painting production line. Very nice it is too.

The current batch have already been assembled and undercoated, so I can't report on the casting, but Kelvin informs me that it is a three- part casting, base, body and left arm, and the arm is a right [censored] to pin to the body. Looking at it I can well believe it.

The figure is of Vila in his "coat-of-many-colours", his left hand held out in front of him and holding a gadget. The face isn't as good a match as on the Blake models, but it's not bad considering the small scale of these figures. The slouch, on the other hand, is very Vila:-) It's one of Vila's more visually interesting costumes, and I like this figure a lot.