Picture time!
The wolf was assembled as seen in the instructions. Assembly was pretty straight forward. The most labour-intense work was the cutting and scoring.
I cut off the flaps on the head and used paper strips to glue the parts together. The seams were painted with brown markers.
I was a bit afraid of the dotted lines. I feared they would show too prominently on the final model but to my surprise they were quite decent.
The dog was glued to the base. Two bases are provided, one white one for individual colouring and one that looks like stone or snow. I chose the stone base. It is very important to glue the model to the base because the feet and legs want to turn into the wrong directions. Once glued down they keep their position perfectly.
The base could be laminated to some stiff card but as you can see the model stands just fine even without laminations.
I already cut the base shorter to allow the dog fit into the dio better. It will be cut down even further and re-painted later.
When I examined the size of the model I was curious and paired it together with another model:
Et voilà: They fit together nicely. So it is not too far fetched to say that the wolf is about 1/12 scale.
The model is very nice. However there is one thing that does not look quite right:
When viewed at from a lower angle you can clearly see right into the model. That is very unfortunate because it gives it an unfinished look. I understand why Pino chose that solution but nonetheless it would look better if the holes were closed. Ah well. This will be noted for the future. For my plans it will suffice as is.
