"Newline Designs Early Imperial Romans - Please help" Topic
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zirrian | 28 Feb 2016 1:08 p.m. PST |
Hi folks! Does anyone happen to have any scale comparisons of the Newline EIR and some Strelets/Italeri/Esci/Zvezda figures? I'm building an EIR army right now in 1:72, but I struggle to find suitable Auxiliary archers – Strelets' Velites set would be nice, but I don't need that many slingers or Republican Velites. Thanks in advance for any help! |
PeloBourbon | 28 Feb 2016 1:21 p.m. PST |
Hi Zirrian, have you try the Plastique pelisse site ? link Maybe you will find the needed comparison Cheers. |
Hobhood4 | 28 Feb 2016 1:22 p.m. PST |
Yes, I've done this. Newline don't really fit with Italeri/Zvezda/Esci. These last are slimmer, taller and more detailed. I haven't directly compared them with Strelets, but having seen other figures from this maker, they might be a better fit. Newline are shorter and slightly chunkier than most of the 1/72 plastic ranges. Originally I started with plastics. Caesar also make excellent 1/72 EIR Romans – if they are still available. But I encountered some problems. The Caesar figures are dynamically posed but don't rank up that well. The Zvezda legionary set mostly consists of a Testudo. Esci are great, and I found are quite bendable. You can vary arms, and even heads to get new poses, and they hold the modifications. However, they were full of flash and molding lines and I got tired of trying to sort this out. In the end I scrapped all the plastics and just got everything from Newline. They are easier to prepare and paint and rank up really well. The eastern Auxiliary archers are fine. Newline and various plastics would work in the same army but not in the same unit. |
zirrian | 28 Feb 2016 1:32 p.m. PST |
@PeloBourbon: Yep, browsed through it, sadly nothing. @Hobhood4: Thanks. I'm afraid I might have to do that, but I don't really want to…I'm fine with the Strelets figs, only thing they need are a command box to be excellent. My biggest problem are ranged troops like archers and slingers – the HaT ones are terrible, the Zvezda ones come with too much standard Auxiliaries to be useful for me (getting them for WAB, a box of Strelets Auxiliaries are coming already), but it seems I'll need to order a pack to properly judge to myself. An army from Newline doesn't seem to be too expensive, tho…I have a fairly big Celtic army already in plastic and I'm afraid they'd be too small to face them. |
Texas Jack | 28 Feb 2016 2:04 p.m. PST |
I have mixed Italeri Napoleonic Austrians with Newline Designs, as well as Newline´s Roman republican cavalry with Zvezda Roman infantry. Newline are pretty much 20mm, and thus smaller than 1/72. However, if they do not share a base with the bigger figures it all looks okay, and that shouldn´t be an issue with archers and so on. |
zirrian | 28 Feb 2016 2:37 p.m. PST |
@Texas Jack: if those Austrians appeared on Benno's, I think I saw them. Thanks :) |
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