Lately I've been painting a crapton of Warlord Bolt Action figures.Many of my post have not been very, lets say nice, about the quality of casting and or sculpting.
Well I got some of the old Bolt Action classic range today and I gotta say....WTF were Warlord thinking?
These figures are bar none the best figures I have yet to receive from Warlord.Clean cast with no flash in "normal"(read not spasdic hollywood type) poses.When you buy a company with product as good as these are how do you not keep up the quality? Don't even get me started on the old BEF range either.Beautiful figures they are so what do you do with them? Why cut off their heads and replace them with flashy ones with awful mold lines that don't fit the bodies of course..
Now some of the newer ranges are nice(US Airborne,Italian Paras,Polish) but even they weren't near as nice,especially in the casting, as the figures I got today.I even like the chindits that others have not.
The French,FJs,US Marines and Brit airborne however leave a lot to be desired.
I hate to seem like I'm "hating" on the company.The vehicles are nice game pieces at a pretty good price and the ruined hamlet is great! They run a nice forum too and Black Powder is my ruleset of choice for the whole H&M period.
But they need to get some sh...stuff together man!
Rant over.
Pete