To start with, each set comes in a nicely presented glossy card box showing a coloured rendition of one of the figures on the front, and a rear showing renders of all the miniatures contained within.
On opening the box you find it's very full!
All these goodies spread out;
So there are the minis (all nicely wrapped up in protective bubble-wrap bags), bases, accessories, dice (in three colours), cards, stat sheet, tokens and a mini-rulebook. That's a LOT for such a compact box! Now, what I was really interested in was the minis themselves. Here they are;
Great castings,and although there are various air escape and moulding spurs, none seem to interfere with any of the detail on the figures and they're easy to remove. I also had a character - Major Beauregard and his Clock-o-dile!
Really looking forward to putting that beast together!
The Prussian Empire set and character are of similar ilk in terms of box contents and quality;
The difference here is that you get two huge Teutonic Knight figures in resin;
Plus the Prussian infantry and officers, of course;
So after my usual light detergent wash and brush-up, I assembled the minis and put them in their bases for painting.
This led me to notice two things;
1) My Vierling specialist was slightly miscast at the back of his head and needed quite a bit of metal removing to remedy
2) Some of the arms on the metal minis are a B***H to get to stick together! Notably the FSA scouts (as you'll see when I get to painting them later!). Pinning such tiny model parts is not going to be easy either.
Still, overall the figures are extremely nice. A quick coat of white primer, and here they are;
Next up is painting, but I'll save that for another entry!
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