I ordered 6 packs of British from the above range last weekend and they arrived yesterday. Great service. I'd thought I'd post a review of them as there doesn't seem to be one anywhere out there.
It's fair to say that I opened the packaging with trepidation. I hadn't heard of MJ Figures before and the images on the web were a little distant, making it hard to get a good look at the figures. Well I was in for a surprise, a very pleasant surprise.
I'll describe the contents of each pack and then talk about the quality of the sculpting etc.
The first pack was Brit Para's 1 and contained 10 figures with 9 variants in berets. 9 are armed with SLR's and one with GPMG. They are wearing a variety of light kit or bergans. They are all moving / advancing except one SLR man kneeling offering cover to his mates.
Brit Para's 2 contained 10 figures 2 in beret and 8 in cammo covered helmets. The beret ones are armed with SLR's and 6 of the helmeted figures have SLR's with one LAWs and a scoped SLR in the prone. The LAWs and a helmeted SLR are kneeling, the rest are moving/advancing. The beret sculpts are duplicates of 2 in Brit Para's 1.
Brit Para's 3 contained 4 para's with berets and SLR's, one with GPMG and 5 para's in helmets one of who has a LAWs the others SLR's. They are duplicates of the above poses but have bergans on.
Gurkha Pack 1 contained 11 figures in helmets all different poses in light kit. Theres a prone GPMG and SLR and three kneeling one with SLR one talking into a handheld radio and one unarmed. There's one stood looking through some bino's or rangefinder and 5 moving or firing with SLR's. One is about to toss a grenade and another has a kukri drawn. (I have filed this off and he looks like and NCO calling his troops forward.
Royal Marines Pack 1 contained 10 figures all in different poses. There is a prone GPMG, an officer using Binos and 8 SLR armed RM's moving or firing. All are in light kit.
British SF contained 10 figures and a base of 2 sets of sub aqua kit piled up on the beach. One of the figures is just the head and shoulders sticking out of the ground, obviously on OP duties! The remainder are all moving and armed with M16's or sterling SMG's. They wear a mix of head gear, including woolly hats and parkers with hoods up and snow balaclava's.
All the figures are crisply cast with creases and raised detail and with defined facial features that really bring out the character in the figures. There is a really good mix of posses and I can't wait to paint and base these chaps. They are nice and bulky and stood next to my Peter Pig modern USMC although a fraction taller fit in well with them.
Although sold as Para's, Gurkhas and RM Cdo's all the figures mix in well together allowing you to have units with few if any duplicates. They are also ideal for 1960's – 1980's BAOR and any other NATO troops armed with FN's. Infact although the figures are armed in the main with SLR's, at a distance in this scale they can pass for SA80's. This is a god send as there is, with the exception of QRF's figures, no Modern British with SA80's, giving these figures even more use.
So, overall I am mightily impressed with these figures and can't help but wonder why I'd never heard of them before. They match up well with the later Peter Pig stuff in quality and work out cheaper. I'd recommend them.
ColdBitz
(Just a satisfied customer with no connection to MJ Figures.)