The update today is pretty short, but it is the beginning of a new project and so things start out slow. I have a new project called Imperial Assault. It's a Star Wars table top game that has some amazing figures. The sculpts are pretty great and fairly tight for the most part. After cleaning several of them, I can already see a few issues that I have with the material itself as well as the construction and placements of the mold lines.
The plastic used is pretty decent though it has a feel of some other plastic mixes, like the Privateer Press stuff. This means that cleaning the figures is a little bit of a pain and takes longer. Scraping with the x-acto knife doesn't really work and cutting the mold lines sometimes will not remove the plastic, but cause it to stick to the figure.
The fact that these figures come pre-constructed is great for people who want to take the figures out of the box and play right away. The only thing that needs constructed is the larger AT-ST walker. The problem with the pre-construction comes when you are trying to clean the miniatures. The mold lines are in hard to reach places and the chance of cutting something else is high.
The mold lines. I've seen worse on other figures, but these aren't the best. Some of them are alright and they tried to keep them in areas that wouldn't show as much. Others are over important detail to the character and on noticeable parts that can't be hidden. In fact the one crouched female figure in the image down below had a mold line run along the side of her face right next to her hair. Just a millimeter or two over would have put it in a much better spot.
Every set of minis has their problems and sometimes they out weigh the good parts, but not in this case. Yes, there are crazy mold lines and yes, the fact that the figures come pre-constructed is a little irritating to someone like me trying to clean them, but I would still say these minis are great.
More to come Saturday!
Till next time!
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