Here is my quick review of the figures...
The pros.
The quality of these figures are amazing. They have all of the details you would expect to find on Imperial Stormtroopers. The helmet is spot on in design. The level of detail is amazing. You can see the "mouth" crack and the eye holes on the helmet. You can tell what kind of weapon they are carrying.It's hard to get closeup pictures to see the details, but here is the best I could do.
The first phot shows some of the pictures with a simple wash. The second photo shows my poor painting skills, but does a good job of showing how you can pick up the details (if you have the skills)
The other thing that is amazing is the number of variants of the figures. There are riflemen and light repeating blasters, and even some missile weapons. Several figs have the shoulder pauldron that marks the officers. For the light repeating blasters there are 4 or 5 variants, and at least 3 for the missile guys. For the riflemen and officers it is hard to tell because some of the variants are subtle differences from the others. I would have never expected to see all f these variants, and it is a wonderful addition to the line!
Now for the cons.
The printed resin is good and does a great job of showing the details of the figures, but at this scale there is occasionally a little graininess. You have to look close to find it though! Most will never see it unless you paint with magnifying glasses. The other downside of the resin printing is that the figs are just a little fragile. However, I don't know that they are any more fragile than metal 6mm figs. (I have broken a few of those also). I have broken two of the figures. Unfortunately the officer in the picture above is now KIA. I broke his weapon off when I was trying to reposition him on the stand. The glue had partly dried and I tried to remove him, and then "snap". Another one I broke off of the base when removing him from the sprue.
Conclusion.
These are amazing figures and are a pleasure to paint, and I would highly recommend them to anyone wanting to do Star Wars in 6mm!
Here are some more pics.
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| With my Darkest Star Rebel Proxies |
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| With my old Rebel and Stormtrooper Proxies |
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| People wander if they work with X-Wing miniatures, and they are a perfect match! |
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| My First finished platoon! |
did you print the xwing ?
ReplyDeleteNo, the X-wing is from the X-wing miniature game which scales very well with 6mm figs.
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