Ok... I admit it... I'm slow!Seriously! I've heard a lot of people glowing about hard plastic minis but I hadn't really looked at one outside of a starter set, or a giant creature kit, in modern times.
I now see what I've been missing!
First... and most important... you can do insane stuff with figure design in hard plastic. There is no way you could produce these Death Marshals ,doing their acrobatics and coffin-fu, in white metal or even resin. Not only do they defy gravity but, with the exception of the extrememly delicate sword of Lady Justice... yeah I snapped THAT right in two just getting it off the sprue... but the things are durable and take paint exceptionally well!
The set itself is done in the lavish Wyrd style with great art on the package, good assembly instructions, truly dynamic posing, and game rules (unit cards) all in one box.
I picked this up... because flaming coffins!... and because I hadn't done Wyrd plastics yet. I have a couple of factions from Malifaux 1e. in metal and they were very awesome although the designs were sometimes a bit ambitious for the material. With their obvious mastery of the hard plastic medium I'm expecting to be amazed right regular like!
While I'm a fan of Lady Justice and The Judge the real show stoppers, mini wise, are the Death Marshals!
Now I must wander back to the table and get back to work!
I love these mini's...I actually own some reserrectionists, and don't even know how to play the game...
ReplyDeleteExactly! I played a couple of games of first edition a few years ago because a couple of friends were doing it. I love the background fluff and the character stories (especially Rasputina.. so I have some Arcanists as well :> ) and it made a great excuse to paint some really cool models! I ran Resurrectionists too! But.... FLAMING COFFINS! I just could not resist picking them up!
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