These are good value with 10 figures in 10
poses, all new and while I'd agree with everything Shaun said a while ago aboutthe sculpts
I'd add that while there is [also] an obvious lack of ribs, the real reason they look
so skinny or cartoonish is the lack of hip-bones under the bandages, but that's
more to do with the skeleton models we've got used to in the Toy Soldier
collecting world; the real mummy's - when they are found - are very skinny!
Strangely: the pen & ink artwork on the rear of the
card shows fatter chaps!
All ten, both sides, cool as a burial
chamber! Two unarmed, two swordsmen, two axmen, two apprentice Death's with
their scythes and a couple of ex-ninja's equipped with fighting-sticks, one of
which looks to be a giraffe's shin-bone!
I quite like the two unarmed ones, while
the one is trying really hard to scare Scooby-doo
by waving his arms around and murmuring "whoo-hoo", the other is stood there, going "Hank, dude . . . really . . . it's not
working . . . "
Close-ups of the 'scarer' pose and the base
mark, these are a standard polyethylene type with enough flexibility to take
rough play, but relatively un-glue'able. The 'pipe-cleaner' legs are probably another factor in their cartoonishness!
I gave the 'armed reconnaissance troop' a
scorpion light MAFV (multiple-armed fighting varmint) for 'fire-support' from the pending
insects/regular return post!
While below them a quick comparison with one
of last year's Previews Exclusive Nazi
zombies and one of this years SCS Direct
zombies, you can see they are all pretty much of a muchness height-wise, and
paint would bring them all together, better. The SCS are a bit chunky and the Nazi has more or finer, etched surface
detailing.
Cheer's Brian, perfect timing!
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