Back for a more detailed review about the models.
I have washed, cleaned, filled and drilled these plastics and here are my thoughts about them.
First I washed the pastics in water and dish washer just in case then I picked up mouldlines( very small and discreet) with a hobby knife and to be honest the plastic doesnt behave well with xactos since the results look messy, so I opted for sandpaper for the most part of the cleaning and it worked ou in the end.
The mini design is very clever since all loose bits have somekind of already sculpted pins, so you dont need to pin anything really because everything fits very well and is very strong.
For example a arm has a plastic bit at its end that looks like a pin and the body part has a very deep hole to accomodate the arm... very clever.
I had to use super glue since normal plastic glue doesnt work on these.
The assembly with the alread sculpted pins only needs 1 small drop of glue and thats it, its all very simple and quite fast.
I only assembled and glued the big fat fella the rest of the warband I just assembled with no glue and it holds okish.
The plastics are diferent from the normal plastic kits we work everyday, they seem to hold detail better and sharper and they bend a bit making them more resistant... well if you employ a big stress on them they will snap like any other plastic.
The best way I can describe these are: they mix the resin capacity for accepting detail work and the flexibility and durability of plastics in one formula.
But its not only good news there are some problems... first one is avoidable since the pin design system kind of solves it but your normal plastic glue does not work well on them.
And the matter for bigger concern is that much like those Forgewold warping issues these plastics, specially the very thin parts suffer from warping also... so you really have to steal your wife hairdryer to warm it up and correct them.
And some fotos with some scale clarifications...
This foto shows a bit of the pin system, check out the deep hole on the arm pit... this arm once glued there will not go anywere.
The first mini I assembled and based ready for painting.
Some scale shots
Check out the warping on the spears, not good... funny thing notice the huge gap on frog torso? the arms design have a huge kind of pin that goes there and makes it so simple and fast to assemble.
Finally a familly pic and by accident noticed that the starter set box is done in such a way that your assembled troops fit in just nicelly, making it easier transport them, dont know if it was planned by Kraken but its cool nevertheless.
Overall it was a pleasure and quite refreshing to work with these new plastics and experience the clever model design... Cant wait to assemble all other sweet miniatures in this army deal... I will be busy for many months with just this box.
