Figures received!
I pledged for the UNIT-2 (Boonie-hat Marines) and received my package yesterday.
COULD NOT BE HAPPIER
Some observations:
-The metal is a firmer ""whiter" metal than I am used to from other 28mm casters like Stan Johansen or TAG. This certainly minimized bending on the M16/M4/M27 rifles. And those that WERE bent straightened without snapping.
-The heads have exceedingly long necks, useful for altering so i can "pose" the head, and trim the necks to fit correctly, ditto the neck sockets, deep… without being TOO DEEP.
-The detailing is fantastic with next to no mold lines to speak of on the figure. The intergal square base needed ome pliers work to flatten, as well as a little TLC with the metal file to allow to glue to my choice of bases (1" washers from Zorro Tools link ) But this was minimal and FAR less "prep work" than I am used to
The miniatures are a bit "heroic" scaled to my eyes, perhaps a mm and a half taller than the TAG russians and Stan Johansen Arabs, but proportioned the same and easily explained as "Yeah… 'dem Marines are BIG sunvab****'s". They will look fine on a table with them.
My two packages (I assume to be marine TAKE and Marine HOLD) come with 4 heads and 2 bipods, with me having to guess which rifles get the bipods. Fairly obvious since most rifles have foregrips or underslung grenade launchers.
-these bipods are VERY fiddly and a cast-iron B**CH to glue in place. Luckily it was 2 out of a total of 8 MARINES. If I were assembling a company worth I would not feel at ALL remiss in simply forgoing most of them. (Not every Marine wants to "FOB out" his rifle anyway.
The SAS guy was a nice addition, and will get some use as a generic spec-ops guy. (Embedded CIA/spook/whathaveyou) Beardy dudes in MARPAT are pretty universal.
All in All, a FANTASTIC set and I look forward to getting some modern Russians in the same level of detail and quality!
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