Deadzone... Any Good? Any Pics of Finished Forces?

[Knightofspades]

@ Knightofspades:

Dark pictures make it hard to see, but they look good - I especially like the bigger models where I feel the extra effort in your painting really shows.

Thanks I tried to take brighter pictures today. In natural light with the lamp right over and with flash but it got no brighter. I need to check the settings on my cell phone I guess.

[Rhelyk]

@Rehlyk - that was some ace work on those Enforcers! Love the Halo-esque helmets-where did you find those?

Those are actually Halo heroclix models I did headswaps with, picked up a bunch off ebay for around $1 a piece

[obsidian3d]

The biggest challenge with the resin plastic is indeed the cleanup. When I was building my Marauders and Plague, I did quite a bit of converting as well. Chopping that stuff up and modifying the pieces to get more variance takes a fair amount of patience. I did the same thing with my Corporation troopers that I received in the Project Pandora boxed game.

I think in the end it depends on your perspective. For me:

Pros - I like how resilient the resin plastic is, the cost per model is low, and it holds detail well. When primed and painted it looks good.

Cons - cleanup takes a lot of work. It's HARD and therefore more difficult to customize. You have to use super glue (which doesn't matter to me but bothers some).

I'm actually sad that the new Dreadball figures are single piece because I have to chop them up if I want to modify them. The fact that they're plastic however means that it's easier to do than if they were restic. I'm not sure what the plans (if any) are in terms of material for Deadzone's future models.

[eilif]

I've found restic minis pretty easy to convert with a razor saw and superglue.

They are a bear to cleanup though.