Hi, I'm QDC.
What we're about to build today is Materbox Medusa and Perseus.
This is in 1/24 scale.
The reason why I'm building these kits is because of COVID-19.
The kits I wanted to build are not coming here on time.
I had these two kits for a number of years so I decided to build these for now until
my kits arrive.
For most of you, you might know the story of Medusa through Hollywood movies but there
is more to it.
The real story about Medusa that I'm going to give you a summary of.
There are a lot of versions of it but this is the most popular one from ancient text.
Medusa was never a monster at the beginning.
Before Medusa was a monster, she was a beautiful woman.
She was a high priestess of the god Athena.
Medusa was in charge of one of Athena's temple.
Poseidon, the god of the seas, decided that he wanted to rape Medusa.
Poseidon raped Medusa inside Athena's temple.
After Medusa was raped, Athena came down to earth.
You would expect Athena would try to help Medusa after the rape but that wasn't the
case.
Athena punished Medusa for having sex in her temple because her temple was defiled.
So Athena cursed her and made Medusa to what we know her today as the snake headed monster.
Years has passed and there was a man named Perseus.
Perseus is the son of the god Zeus but he was raised as a normal human being, as an
ordinary fisherman.
He was not a very wise man because of his age.
Perseus wanted to offer his king a gift of Medusa's head.
Since he didn't fully understand Medusa's powers of turning people into stone, he simply
went off looking for Medusa without preparing.
As a results, the gods intervene.
The gods gave Perseus several gifts.
One of them was Athena's shield.
Wings, a helmet of invisibility, and a sword.
Perseus went into Medusa's lair and cut her head off.
So that's the summary.
Perseus is a man in Greek mythology but for whatever reasons, Masterbox decided that Perseus
is a woman.
I don't know why.
It's what Masterbox has done.
Let's start building these two kits right now.
Alright so these are the two completed figures after assembly.
There's nothing much for me to say.
These kits are fairly and straight forward to build.
The Medusa figure doesn't a lot of putty to fill.
The details of these two figures are good.
No complaints.
It's time for me to paint the figures.
Okay, before we start painting the figures, I to let you know that I tried to you how
I painted the figures in terms of shading and highlights on the face and the body.
But I couldn't.
I tried to do it on camera but because of the figures are so small, I wasn't able to
do it.
I had to skip that.
It's just something I couldn't do.
Lets go on and start painting the figures.
Alright so we built the model kits.
We painted it.
We weathered it a little bit.
And we made a diorama out of it.
Let me show you the entire model diorama from the beginning to the end.
Take a look.
This is the completed diorama after completing everything.
This is a nice diorama.
I done a good job on the two figures that I painted.
I was delighted that the skin color for Medusa looked nice.
At the beginning I wasn't sure it was going to work but it worked out nice.
I do like her skin color of her reptilian skin.
For Perseus, I really like the gold accents that I painted.
She does look like a heroine.
I like the entire project of mine.
It was well worth doing.
That completes this model project...diorama!
What you're about to see in a video slideshow of the entire model kit but before I go, as
always, just because I put this video here on Youtube it doesn't make me a model kit
expert.
I am not an expert.
I'm just a regular guy just like you.
I want to add one more thing about Medusa.
Medusa has two sisters.
Those two sisters are immortals but Medusa was not.
Her other sisters looked like Medusa with the snake hairs.
They were called Gorgons.
Gorgons are not evil.
They are good beings.
Athena is the god of war and also the god of wisdom.
Athena wanted Medusa to become immortal and in order to become immortal, she must be slain.
In the mythology, Medusa's head was put onto Athena's shield and she used the shield as
a surefire way to protect herself during battle.
In archaeology, there are a lot of artifacts that Gorgons...features of snake heads...are
put onto to doorway entrances, on shields, on amulets, and they even found Gorgons in
Greek and Roman burial chambers.
They felt that Gorgons are good.
They protect the good by repelling evil by scaring them away by turning them into stone
with their ugly faces.
Gorgons are good in Greek mythology.
I recommend you look it up on the Internet.
I'm QDC and thanks for watching and build a model kit of your own. Goodbye.