New Blue Moon Zorro boxed set

[Tom Reed]

I just saw this on the Miniatures Page.

http://www.bluemoonmanufacturing.com/view_product.php?product=BMM215

[Mancha]

Kind'a sad, having seen Malamute's stuff.  Zorro and the soldiers look pretty crummy.  The civilians, however, are nice.  Too bad they don't come by themselves.

[Hammers]

Apart from not being *by a fraction* as nice as those in Malamute's catalog, they do not do much to improve matter by keeping that resident miniature painter on staff. Very shoddy paint work.

[Calimero]

@ Hammers, I think that your 100% right about that… I’ve bought several figures fromm Blue Moon Manufacturing (thru Old Glory USA) and I’ve painted their Mommy set as part of a commission work and the figures are much better than one could imagine looking at the painted example they provide… 

I also think that Malamute at Boot Hill have nothing to fear from them… they might even make the period more popular… 

[warbeads]

 

Normally Zorro figures fire me up but  these... don't.   

Wow, bummer.   

I will put these on the "maybe, someday" list.

I am not a great painter and these require a better paint job to excite me.  LOL, me a paint critic??!

Gracias,

Glenn

[matakishi]

The mounted Zorro is in a class of his own 

[Tony Adams]

This is the "Mission California" set that any members of the Old Glory Army will get for free with their first purchase for the new fiscal year of their membership.

I haven't been too impressed in the past with many of Blue Moon's figures but there are some that look useful. It would be hard for anyone to beat Malamute's Boot Hill figures, which are just beautiful.

Getting these out there may spark more interest in the period though.

[Yankeepedlar01]

They're awful! No, that's not quite right, I meant rubbish!

[JollyBob]

The mounted Zorro is in a class of his own 

Yeah, the class where they have you playing with plasticine all day.

Those are just crap. No, be fair Bob. Like Mancha said, the civillians look quite nice under the crappy paintjob, but the rest of them are a big Null Points from the Cumberland Jury.

Malamute, you are completely safe mate.

[Hammers]

The mounted Zorro is in a class of his own 

You're right. The Masked Pinhead Rides Again.

[Gluteus Maximus]

All the many staff at Boothill Minis can sleep soundly, then 

The best thing for the mounted version would be to whip his head off and use him as a 19thC Californian Headless Horseman, although there may not be much call for one of those.

It's quite odd, as the chap at the bottom of the pic holding a sword has a distinctly Dixon-style pumpkin head 

[dodge]

They look odd and out of proportion,

[Alcide Nikopol]

I like the vehicles from Blue Moon's Highways & Byways line, but most of their miniatures are a little too lumpy and funky for my taste.


A.Nik-

[warbeads]

 

Well, I must publicly retract some of my misgivings.

I joined the Old Glory Army, ordered an adobe house and got the Mission California figures.  They are indeed the Blue Moon figures.

First, other then one wasp-waisted young woman, these are very useful for NPC and villager figures.  And I'll use her, too, just not in the "front rank" as it were.

State of the art, No; acceptable, certainly.

Second, somebody, pardon the harsh words, needs a painter better than me.  That should be easy, no?  Apparently not.

Third, between the MAW/Pershing/etc. "Mexican" figures from OG and these figures (plus Monday Knight, Cowboy War, and other "makers of Mexicanos") I can have a decent population "on the board" for Gloire, Gutshot, Matchlocks on the Warpath, and Supersystem (in the 1800's) games.  I do seriously need, well, want, more Apaches/indios.  And time to paint - Winter is coming...

Gracias,

Glenn

[aecurtis]

Interesting that these get slammed while the Boot Hill figures are frothed over.  Both are cartoonish, in different ways: some of those Boot Hill figures don't even measure 4.5 heads tall.

I would like to see a range of well-sculpted figures for this genre.  It's a pity that with two cartoonish ones out, there will be little incentive for anyone to do a proper one.

Allen