A little something I threw into my last order from Crooked Dice - "Bold Planner B," clearly intended as the villainous Hans Gruber (played by the late, great Alan Rickman) from 1988's DIE HARD.
A former member of the Volksfrei terrorist organization, Gruber organized a heist to steal $640 million in bearer bonds from Nakatomi Tower during the annual Christmas party. Unfortunately, NY cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) was present in an attempt to repair his relationship with his wife, and was able to foil Gruber's plans.
I clipped the figure off his tab and glued him to a resin "industrial" base I'd grabbed off Etsy to represent the roof of Nakatomi Tower.
Because it's set during a Christmas party, there's a lot of chatter on the internet about DIE HARD being a Christmas movie. I'm not that wild a fan of the film - it's fine, but not anything I feel an urgent need to rewatch every year. My wife does consider it part of her Christmas traditions though, so I painted this up as a pre-Christmas gift for her.
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