NECA Aliens Sergeant Craig Windrix

I've been looking to pick up the NECA Hudson and Hicks figures, but I've had a hard time finding them in the wild, or for a reasonable online price.

I found this guy though, who isn't in any of the Alien movies, but has a great back story.

Kyle Windrix is a sculptor who works for NECA and his brother, Craig, was sadly diagnosed with cancer. NECA were good enough to immortalise Craig as a Sergeant in the USCM as a 6 inch articulated marine. Sadly Craig passed away in February this year, but I'm really glad that this excellent figure exists to keep his memory alive.

The sculpt on Sergeant Windrix is great. Great head sculpt straight off the bat, but it's the smaller sculpted details that I love on this guy, like the armour, the boots, and the belt with the accessories hanging off of it.

The articulation on the Sergeant is excellent. The head swivels, there are hinge joints in the shoulders (unfortunately these a re a little impeded by his body armour), there's a ball and hinge in the elbow and the same in the wrists. He has a torso crunch, hip joints, a double knee joint, ankle swivel and pivot, and toe articulation.

Craig comes with three removable accessories: A shoulder mounted cam and light, his motion tracker, and his flame thrower.

All of these are well sculpted, but the motion tracker is the stand out piece for me. It has a little "blip" screen and everything! So cool!

I really like this guy, along with the stellar head sculpt, the paint work is what gives this guy his personality. The camo is brilliant, but the small touches like the US flag on his shoulder above his stripes showing his rank, or the love heart painted on his armour, and not forgetting the penguin on his back ("stay frosty!") all make the Sergeant a real USCM that will stand proudly next to Hudson and Hicks once they're added to my collection.

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Shout out to Fezbongo for taking all the pictures in this review. You can see more of his stuff on his Tumblr!