The hands arrive before he does. This Count Orlok figure model kit is a portrait bust of the Nosferatu (1922) vampire — Max Schreck's silent-film predator cropped to the part that does the work, head and shoulders above a plinth, talons folded across his chest like a man about to make an offer.
Everything the Camera Lingered On
Cutting the figure at the ribs puts the whole budget into the face and hands, and the sculpt spends it. The skull is bare and domed, the ears drawn into long points, the brows carved as thin arcs that lift into a stack of forehead creases. Beneath them the eyes sit deep and half-lidded, and the mouth hangs open around two long front incisors — the rodent bite that separates Orlok from every dinner-jacketed vampire that followed. The skin is worked all over: pores across the cheek, tendons in the throat, and a web of fine lines running back from the corner of each eye.
The hands are the composition. Both cross at the chest, fingers impossibly long and knuckled, nails curving into points that overhang the coat buttons beneath. Around them sits a heavy double-breasted coat with a broad upstanding collar, sleeves cut wide at the cuff, the weave textured across every surface and a row of domed buttons running down the front. The whole thing rests on a plain stone plinth with NOSFERATU carved across the face in blackletter, cracked once through the corner.
Display Size
6.7" / 170 mm
Kit Details
Material: high-quality resin
Requires assembly
Supplied unpainted
Small enough to finish in a weekend and detailed enough to keep you there for a month. Push the shadows into those forehead creases and let him loom off the shelf edge.
