As it happens, I was sitting around the shop yesterday and it was slow and I've been thinking my Copplestone Future Warriors troopers don't have anyone proper to fight. Oh I've got scavengers and rebels and savages but not in sufficient numbers to give a proper challenge. So I opened up a box of old Defiance Games Panzergrenadiers that probably won't ever sell.
It took me two hours to assemble 15 models. I think they manage to make every mistake you can make with resin, there's parts that are imbedded in the sprue, there's bubbles in the details, I think the worst thing is that they tried to peg the arms but the pegs are lost to the sprue so you're trying to glue a flat spot to a socket. There's lots of mould lines too. Anyhow, the resin is a little stiffer than Mantic's but not terrible.
Once they were done I painted them up, grey, with red goggles and black fatigues under the armour plates. They look okay, decent sculpts, the heads are a little big. I don't think the rocket launchers had these dumb looking things on both ends that I cut off to slim them down. The detail on the guns is fantastic I don't think whoever did the missile launcher could have been the same artist. The outward facing side of the machineguns was miscast and lost all the ribbing and detail.
I've got another box I'll build sometime to get a second squad. I wonder if a modern 28mm Leopard II would be acceptable, I also have a Bolt Action Panther on the shelf I mean it's a dark apocalyptic future not some distant star. I'll have to see if Empress makes one. I have never gotten so much superglue on my fingers as I did building these guys, what a pain two handed weapons are in resin.
It turns out my camera ate my pictures I'll have to take some more.
Not looking to reawaken the Defiance Games debate incidentally. They're dead, so let them lie. Even so, it's a shame Dream Forge didn't manage to convert their grav stug.
experiments with Finger Drills.
