Latest Acquisitions
I went over to my FLHS after work last friday and found something interesting stuck in with the scifi kits. Yeah, I wonder why they put these there, anyway since I had been considering picking them up and most places were still on pre-order basis I grabbed them and did a quick pay.
This is almost going to be a mini review, so if Bob wants to do an edit and quick move of photos that is fine by me.
Here's the girls. (Yeah you read that right now click the e-mail linky) :laugh:
They are definitely much bigger than the 1/35th scale versions and the detail is fairly crisp. Some smoothing work is going to be needed as the surfaces of legs, arms, backs and other places that are supposed to be smooth and not have little jaggys aren't that smooth. Nothing major and nothing that "just has to be fixed", but if you fix the base, the paint works better.
The only real things I found that were show stoppers were with Betty (Figure #2) and the flag. The 1/35 scale flag has the curret 50 star flag but that flag is wrong for WW2 and Korea. WW2 pin-ups should have 48 star flags. I can forgive MB on this as they are Ukranian and I don't think they realize that little detail. The material the flag is painted on though is really thick. Absolutely no way it would ever work for anything but a bill board. The flag staff is too short as well. No way the flag would ever fit between the hand and the top. Might as well make a lot longer staff and a decent sized flag.
Overall the figs are as good as could be expected and will be very easy to work with. Some options for hair and "army boots" might have been a good idea and would have been easy to have added.
Only thing I am not sure on is the weapon that Alice (The Army Gal) has. I have to plead "The Schultz" in that I "Know Nothink!" about it. It is very crisply molded and could be changed to another weapon in 1/24 scale if you wanted to do so.
