New Heroclix Sculpts

[Faust23]

Is is just me or has the quality of sculpts and paint work on the latest Captain America set jumped up across the board?

I'm very pleased.

[manic _miner]

 I do hope so as the Gears of War 3 ones are due out soon.

[Weird WWII]

Yeah, but they are getting bigger and bigger.

Brian

[Faust23]

yeah, the inconsistency of scale has always been a sticking point for me.  They seem a little better at that as well.

[wellender]

Baron Zemo is tiny. 

I wouldn't say they are getting better.  I've been collecting them since the begining.  Some of the older sets are much better.  I would say they are getting better than we have come to expect over the last several years.

[abhorsen950]

I've heard the miniatures were getting loads better! I've only got two and that's the same model in two different paint schemes. A Wolverine figure to be exact. Got givben to me in a comic book store not far from me. I think it was as the range was crashing out. Good to see it back up and running. My favourite miniature game I think. Just because it covers my comic book love.

Less of me chattering anyway. I'm going to have to go and pick up a starter set now!

Cheers,
Steve

[Faust23]

Overall, by way of sculpt quality and certainly paint jobs, the game pieces have improved greatly over early sets. 

[Heldrak]

You guys want to post some examples of these improvements you're talking about? The latest sets look like the same old thing to my untutored eye...

[bubba242]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oAscwUbJHag/ThHDrPaUvdI/AAAAAAAAFDo/GFLssrKCv-U/s1600/New+Captain+America+Set.jpg

This is a set list for the new Captain America set.

Overall, the quality has varied for heroclix. The general rule of thumb ( and there are some glaring exceptions ) is that the rarer the figure, the better the sculpt.

If I had to offer a comparison, I'd use the new MODOK figure in the latest set.

http://northwestclix.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/m-o-d-o-k.jpg

Now, here is the original MODOK from 2004.

http://www.collectorsquest.com/uploads/blog/2010/03/modok_heroclix.jpg

Both are excellent, but the modern take is almost three times as big.

I suppose it depends which characters you're after, what you want to do with them and if you're willing to do a little repaint like at this chaps site to achieve their full potential.

http://www.steve-dean.co.uk/2007-images/wizkids-marvel/a-marvel.htm

Cheers,

bubba242

[Myrlyn]

Reposting to bring in some of the images:

old	new	old repaint

[wellender]

I like the old one much better actually.

[Grimmnar]

I like the old one much better actually.

Especially after the repaint. :-)

Grimm

[aircav]

That repaint is fantastic, makes the old one lookso much better 

[leonmallett]

I love MODOK, and the repaint truly does him justice. Superb.