"My prejudice against plastic has ended" Topic

I have said elsewhere that I wasn't a fan of plastic miniatures rather recently on these boards. The lack of heft and the many mould lines were a major influence in me switching to metal early on.

Well, I decided I would give plastics one more shot this week before I try selling some of the sprues I have laying around to recoup my losses. In this case, it was a sprue of Agema Miniatures Republican Romans

My current project obsesssion are Polybian Romans. In trying to find models that would work together, I bought from a lot of different manufacturers with occasional disappointment when I realize that not everyone has the same concept of 28mm. Or discovering that I really don't have the dexterity to paint 15mm models.

Using my new mould line remover in a slow and steady manner and having the knowledge that you're supposed to use a BLUNT instrument to remove mould lines, I found it…actually kinda fun and not too difficult. I then went back to my Victrix sprues, those that caused much grief months ago, and found it much more manageable. Best of all, not only do Agema and Victrix match up quite well together, but the both of them look nice standing next to my favorites like Aventine.

Sometime this weekend I hope to start priming and painting the first batch of 8-16 republican Roman triarii, made up of Agema, Victrix, Aventine, and Gripping Beast. I'm thinking of using a variety of colors for the soldiers' tunics to reflect their wealth and I'm rather excited to start.

I still prefer metal figures, but at least I won't dismiss plastic outright anymore; especially when big projects are planned.

Welcome!

I too have become a recent fan of plastic 28mm figures. It is indeed a renaissance for gamers! Kit-bashing has become one of my favorite hobby related activities now.

A BLUNT instrument to remove mold lines? I would not think a hammer would be a good tool for that.

Welcome to the wonderful world of easy carry, easily kit-bashed figures!

Is there a problem with broken bayonets, rifle barrels, and other bits, especially when allowing others to command your troops at an off-site venue?

If so, how difficult is it to effect repairs between games?

One thing I do use are metal "pikes" instead of the plastic ones. There will be blood. But all my WWII figs I use (Warlord Games) for demo's plastic glue right back together so long as I can find the missing item.

Your mileage may vary.

Not me. Plastic is evil and must be destroyed!! Metal rules.

Grattan I am with you. Out side of plastics are way to fragile, they don't take paint the same. I don't begrudge those that love plastics, but I do get tired of all the bases of broken musket miniautres.

Chris

I have bought mostly plastics for years. I hated the broken bayonets on metal figures , swords that were hard to keep straight etc. I went to plastics and despite some of the things mentioned above won't go back heavily into metals. To each his own, just my $0.02 USD
Paul

And the ranges are expanding at an amazing rate. The mix and match between makers can be tricky but I expanded on my WW2 winter Germans in great coats. Using warlord. I had winter Soviet too. So I used some of those great coat Russian arms with blitzkrieg German K98 to make even more variation. Now I had limited options from the German kit as I was doing pre1942 Germans so most arm combos were ruled out

So welcome to machine. The plastic one. Shoot the wargame Atlantic ww1 Germans and WW2 weapons and German heads- green stuff some mustache and we get Hungarian guys. The world is wide open in Plastic

JH

I don't have anything against plastics per se, I just don't want to build a model every time I need a figure, especially when I want hundreds of them. I would be much more interested in them if they were single piece castings. I have no interest in kit bashing. I am happy for those who are happy.

I just got into 54mm Hard plastics from Expeditionary Force about 3 tears ago. I started out with their Roman range then expanded it into all their ancients. I Enjoyed painting them so much that I started on their WWII in the Pacific Theater. Wow, these were also very enjoyable. So much so that I have just begun their War of 1812 range. So nice, so much detail but being 54mm easy to paint. They also provide great games for us. I have had no problems with breakage of any kind except when an ancient figure with a shield is dropped on the wooden flour, their shield sometimes pops off. Just a bit of glue solves the problem and its good as new.

I used to be only into metal but now…WOW!

I've become enamored with 54mm plastic toy soldiers recently. I find them very easy to paint and they look very cool in large units.

There are some very nice looking hard plastic 28mm figures available today and they are very appealing; however, I don't like having to assemble the figures. Drives me nuts. That's why I use the 54mm figures because there is no assembly required.

I'm still a 28mm metal fan first and foremost.

Plastic figures, so passe – 3d printed resin is the new wave! ;)

@79thPA – no model building either!

I like 54mm plastics as well, and I have quite a few of them.