Plakit Lara Croft

A stylised take on gaming's best-known raider of tombs, the British archaeologist-adventurer who has spent her career shinning up ruined temples and has been a fixture of the medium since the mid-nineties. The vinyl-figure treatment keeps the silhouette that everyone recognises, the plait and the adventuring kit, while simplifying the anatomy into clean planes and rounded volumes instead of chasing realism. That stylisation is the point. It belongs with designer-toy shelves and character collections rather than with sober display busts, and it holds its shape from across a room. A good pick for anyone who grew up on the games, wants a desk-sized piece with a bit of personality, or is filling out a shelf of gaming figures. It prints from a single file, so it is a one-and-done model rather than an assembly job.