Lara Croft Sanix

Video gaming's best-known archaeologist gets the collector-figure treatment here: the British adventurer who turned tomb raiding into a household phrase, rendered as a display piece for a cabinet rather than a gaming table. The appeal of a Lara Croft figure has always been posture and attitude. She is an explorer caught mid-expedition, kitted for climbing and cave systems rather than a careful academic dig, and self-possessed in a way that carried the character through three decades of games, comics and films. The sculptor's name alongside hers in the title is the giveaway that this is fan work rather than an official release, made for people who paint. Supplied as a multi-part kit, it is pitched at hobbyists who finish and display their prints. It sits naturally among other gaming characters on a shelf, and holds its own as a centrepiece for a collection that leans towards action-adventure heroines.