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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: redzed on October 28, 2013, 03:35:11 PM
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Any reviews, opinions, pics/comparison pix on Plastic Soldiers Company's 28mm WW2 Russians? :)
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No pics but here is a short and some what terse review;
They are shite, don't waste your money.
Here's the somewhat longer version of that review.
I bought a box, with a view to using them for conversions. The figures are fairly soft when in terms of definition and detail. Facial detail barely exists.
The posing is strictly Airfix 1969, Stiff and awkward. Now some people like that so it may be a bonus. Overall there are much better offerings in plastic. Their one possible advantage is that they don't require so much fiddling around glueing them together.
The proof of the pudding is, after announcing with much fanfare that they would be releasing all their boxes in 15mm, 20mm and 28mm, the Russians and the associated heavy weapons kit were the only ones released. I think they acknowledged that it wasn't their finest work themselves. It's a pity as the pricing was good, their 15 and 20 mm stuff is fine and I was hoping they would have produced some T-34s in 1/56.
My advice? Buy the Wargames Factory Russians they are light years ahead in terms of detail. The PSC ones are nominally early-mid war figures and the WF post 1943 but unless you are absolutely determined to have folded down collars in plastic I'd choose the WF versions every time.
As an aside. I did get some use out of them. I used the helmeted heads for some conversions of the Eureka Zanla figures for early 1960s Egyptians. They were the only cheap source of Russian helmeted heads at the time. Were I to do it again then, you guessed it, I'd used the WF ones.
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lol cheers :)
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Would you like me to send you a few so you can see for yourself?
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no. please keep them ;)