Kharis, Vampire Queen Bust from Kabuki Studio - An Unboxing

Today's post sees me unboxing Kharis, the Vampire Queen from Kabuki Studio. She's a 1/8th Scale bust made of resin and comes including a plinth.

Kharis is one of three busts currently available from Kabuki, along with Ky-Ra and Bonny Anne, whom I unboxed almost a year ago (time flies!).

She arrives in a plain cardboard box with a paper wrap around it, so you can see what the model is. Inside the box is enough bubble wrap to keep the piece from shaking around in transit.

Once you get past the bubble wrap, you are met by the following pieces.

With the piece being a bust, the main draw of your focus is to the face, so we'll start there. She's got quite an angular face, as befitting a vampire, along with an elaborate hair do and angular and spiky jewellery. She's caught in the act of licking her lips - the joy of little bits of character like this is that it's up to you to work out why. Has she just finished a meal, just seen a particularly juicy specimen or something else entirely?

The neck joins up to the shoulders with a dual peg system, with a positive and negative on each section to create a stronger bond.

As the head bone connects to the neck bone, the next place we stop on the bust is the, err, bust. With this being a lady from Kabuki, it's a pretty busty bust though unlike Bonny Anne in the link above, everything is covered up.

The theme of spikes is continued as they decorate the top of what I'm taking to be the top of some form of off the shoulder dress. While the chest might be a little OTT for some people's taste, there is some nice sculpting going on with the definition of the colar bones and shoulder blades.

The fabric of the clothing is also nicely  sculpted, as it gives you enough clear surface area to play with it if you wish, while also offering folds and creases for guidance when shading and highlighting.

To keep the decoration and theme going right across the piece, the pedestal that is included with the piece is also detailed with an angular jewel.

The three main components together. There is a raised section in the form of a collar or necklace at the bottom of the neck which helps to hide the join slightly by creating shadow underneath it, which connects up with the jewel which had previously say hovering in mid air on her chest.

Along with the three larger pieces in the kit, there is a bag of smaller pieces. The first two parts go together to form an ornate ruff or collar.

Also in the bag are cuffs for the tops of the arms of the dress and some parts on a sprue to complete her hair do.

Overall I like Kharis. I think she's possibly a little too busty, but the character in the face and the design through the theme are plus points. The cast is nice with few mold lines and limited clean up required. She'll set you back 45 Euros though so some might say she's a little expensive - though at 1/8th Scale she's quite a big bust. Plus, as Kabuki are celebrating relaunching their webstore with their new address, there is 20% off everything in their store this weekend (for 48 hours from the email that was sent around on Friday evening at any rate) so if you fancy her then now would be a good time to grab her?




Want to see what she looks like all painted up? Here is the one Pepa Saadevra painted up for the box art (I bought mine prior to this so the box art was an unpainted version).