Ancients in all scales: Eureka Chinese warring states

[Dubbya]

Some very quick painting, these end up in mixed eras and genres collections, but all Roman themed for my first post!

[Pattus Magnus]

They turned out well. How difficult was it to prepare the figures (especially cleaning up flash)?

[Dubbya]

Thanks!

The Strelets are really rough, I don't even clean the flash at all unless there's something that can easily be cut off. HAT aren't as bad, but again I don't really clean the flash. I spend only a few minutes painting them and have so many I'd rather just get on with them haha!

Strelets seem to still be greasy and hard to cover with the undercoat after the usual detergent wash.

[Pattus Magnus]

Thanks for the info. That fits my experience with 1:72 softies, the Strelets figures I have worked on took some effort to tidy up and had more flash than HAT. HAT figures were a bit hit and miss for sculpting- some are quite good and others have faces and soft details like LEGO figures… their kits that need assembly can be a challenge, too.

I have read that giving soft plastic figures a bath in diluted vinegar can help get cut through the mould-release that makes it hard to get paint to stick, but I haven’t tried it. It almost seems like with some plastic it is that the surface itself is just really smooth and there’s nothing much for paint to grab, but that’s a very unscientific conjecture on my part…

[sgzleada71]

I just got the Zvezda 1:72  scale  Successor Elephants.  (I'm usually a 1:56 scale guy.)   I'm pleasantly  surprised w the quality.   Not too soft and minimal mould lines and takes paint fine. 

[Pattus Magnus]

Yes, Zvezda made really excellent 1:72 kits. I don’t have the elephants, but their  Napoleonics I have are consistently excellent. Unfortunately, a bunch of their soft plastic kits went out of production for a while when they shifted to making hard plastic game pieces for their WW2 and Napoleonic games. Those are often nice too, but are like small dioramas and hard to build wargaming units with.

[Dubbya]

Thanks for the kind words guys!

Yes, Zvesda are brilliant and HAT can be inconsistent (I like the republican Romans more for nostalgia).

[sgzleada71]

Zvezda Elephants   WIP 

[AdmiralAndy]

Yes, Zvezda made really excellent 1:72 kits. I don’t have the elephants, but their  Napoleonics I have are consistently excellent. Unfortunately, a bunch of their soft plastic kits went out of production for a while when they shifted to making hard plastic game pieces for their WW2 and Napoleonic games. Those are often nice too, but are like small dioramas and hard to build wargaming units with.

As I recall hearing the original owner was a wargamer hence the art of tactics gaming range, but he died unexpectedly, after whch the range has moved more to traditional modelling and away from wargame intended releases.

Can still get some good wargaming specific releases, but that tends to be with the older items. OFC I may have heard that incorrectly but that's something I saw mentioned about changes with Zvezda.

[Dubbya]

Nice elephants! I'm working on HAT... again, more for nostalgia!

[sgzleada71]

The HAT ele looks nice but not as sharp as Zvezda. 

[Dubbya]

Some Romans done up as generic models for Runequest,  mostly to test basing options.

[DivisMal]

They came out fine. And I am surprised how well all this bronze works on the little guys.

[Dubbya]

They came out fine. And I am surprised how well all this bronze works on the little guys.

Thanks! Yeah, just the bronze alone helps to make them fit the theme/setting.

[DivisMal]

Thanks! Yeah, just the bronze alone helps to make them fit the theme/setting.

Definitely! And they would equally well work as Atlanteans, the Old Race, Numenoreans in many other settings.
Heck, I’m tempted to buy some for my 15mm collection-after all isn’t Tolkien quite specific that the people of old Numenor were quite a tack bigger than today’s men?