Sculpting - ***
This figure comes with a lot of sculpted elements, but I shall cover her armour under outfit and the weapons under accessories. The face is meant to be a generic attractive woman, but I can see a fair amount of Angelina Jolie in there and I can also see a little of Carol Vorderman (this will mean nothing to most people outside the UK). But suffice to say she’s an alluring brunette with a determined expression, the kind of gal who’ll chain you to the radiator and have you begging for mercy by the morning…this can obviously be a good or bad thing depending on your preferences. It would be my guess, that with a good re-paint she could make an excellent Jolie ‘Lara’, hell, she makes a reasonably good one without a repaint!

From the front, the sculpting is very strong, with well-observed full lips, and an elegant slim nose, it all looks reasonably natural, but ZC Girls do have a slightly ‘stylised’ treatment. From the side her facial silhouette is again very attractive with full ‘Joliesque’ lips and a gently curving nose with a slight bob, all very nicely done. The only problem is in the physical width of the head, it just feels a little too narrow. It’s a shame as the ears are also beautifully realised and the hair is sculpted nicely as well. It’s in a drawn back style tracing away tightly from her hairline into a plaited ponytail, the ponytail is real hair… well, real fake hair. This part is beautifully carried out, it’s one area SS could have improved on their Lara as I always see her as having that long swaying plait, and here they have done a great job in keeping the work tight, and through a good matching of colour they’ve managed to keep the transition virtually faultless.
She also comes with four hands all wearing assault gloves, one right pistol grip, one right rifle grip and two left hand in a general gripping position for steadying the rifle. I found this strange as I would have thought a right pistol grip would have made a lot of sense for those Jon Woo’esqe’ two arms outstretched classic Lara giving it both barrels look, as it is she can’t hold the left pistol convincingly which is a shame, maybe mine was miss-packed with the same hand twice, but I can only report on what I found in the box. I did manage to get some pretty convincing poses however by using a blob of the ever-faithful ‘Blu-Tak’ strategically placed on the pistol grip.

Paint - ***
As I said above, they have done a great job on matching the colour of the ‘real’ hair, it’s dark brown, streaked with lighter chestnut highlights. The lips are a full glossy pink that catch the light well, with eyes that are also picked out quite accurately, there’s some super fine work on the eyelashes and pupils, not up there with Hot Toys finest work as they lack the glossy wet look, and on mine they are looking in slightly different directions, but luckily it is pretty slight and at least they haven’t used the accursed doll dot!

The armour and weapons also have a few flourishes here and there, just some silver rivets on the gunmetal armour, matte steel on the pistols and steel and gunmetal on the base black rifle. This work is all carried well but there are a few areas of minor slop on the rifle, but I had to really look for it, so all in all a very impressive paint app for a young company.

Accessories - ***1/4
She comes packing 2 Desert Eagle pistols with scopes and torches, thigh holsters, a sniper style ‘futuristic’ rifle with a scope and a detachable magazine and a pair of protective glasses with small torches attached, these fit pretty well for general poses but are not secure enough for play. There’s also a large foam lined and hinged carry-case for the rifle, a nice touch for those assassin customisations, but it lacks any tight detail.

You’ll also find that the armour is packed separately when you open her, so this could be considered an accessory, if you do so, it should drive the score up further, but I’m classing it as outfit. The only things missing that I would have really liked, considering this is so ripe for kit-bashing is a pair of un-gloved hands and some extra un-booted feet (there are feet in the boots but getting them out would be a pain).

So although the accessories are nice I feel she could have done with a couple of extras, perhaps some grenades or more guns to have secured a top score, but still pretty impressive.

Articulation - ***1/2
Her body is identical to the one that came with Janice except for her skin tone which is described as ‘tan’, so for an accurate rundown on the articulation I’d advise reading that, suffice to say the outfit and armour are well designed enough not to hamper her articulation at all. And you’ll get a very good range of poses. The only thing holding her back from perfection is the lack of double elbows and the fact that the boots stop most of the ankle movement, there’s still a few degrees there but the feet can’t stand flat for any wide legged poses.
And here’s a hint for those wanting to swap the chest over, after removing the head and arms (they just pull out) I found a few seconds of hair-dryering made the job a whole lot easier. 

One problem I did encounter was that when I removed the tight top it had left some slight staining on the chest. I tried sponging with soap and water and most of it came off, but not all. There may be a way of removing it all, I’ve heard hints like toothpaste and zit-cream can do the job but I haven’t tried as mine will be keeping her top on! Plus if I wanted a more visible upper half I’d use the alternate chest as the mid torso articulation is covered for a more natural look… well I say natural, if she were real, she’d be packing more silicone than Bill Gates warehouse.