SCS is for Scary Creature Set!

I could have used that last year . . . oh; I almost did! Having explained - last year - how I bought the Fantasy Creatures Set II from SCS Direct because it was less numerous in the Amazon listings, and that I was hoping to get Set I in the Autumn, when I went back for it, it had totally disappeared (along with all other SCS listings on both Amazon and evilBay), and it wasn't until July/August of this year that it reappeared, but it did and I nabbed one!

Packaging art-work and contents, the contents - like the two sets we looked at last year - are not equally divided between the two colours/'armies' with dark grey suffering severely from outnumbering, nor do they come to the advertised total of 100 pieces.

As seen here, there are four each of the light grey and only three each of the dark grey, except with the Minotaur, but that small victory for darkness is lost to the missing Knight, who's gone AWOL, with his head, so not even biting people to death!

The sculpts; the upper shot shows two which wouldn't look out of place in a ray Harryhausen movie, the Serpent-lady is a vast improvement on the old DFC/Toyco ones, while the lower shots are more heraldic, with a Griffon and a lovely 'Welsh' dragon.

The figures are manufactured in a quite soft, modern, substitute-PVC, and tend to distortion in the packaging/shipping, so I've posed a few Unicorns, they are all the same pose which should - I suspect - look like the dark grey one.

The lower shots have two roman skeletons as they should look (left) and a couple of quite different ones which I'll hang-on to as they are - these sets get split and shared with two other collectors once I've done the images - on the right.

Wizard, Knight, Minotaur and an rather nice Elvin Huntress, the Minotaur would make a lovely foil for a few 20/25mm Greeks in a little vignette, the Wizard is a bit LotR's Gandalf or Asterix druid in execution and the Knight is the weakest pose; he looks like one of Monty Python's round-table questors - hence the reference above!

Ogre/Ork types with one or two heads, a Dwarf and a vastly oversized Fairy/Pixy! The Dwarf suffers from short-shot'ing on his helmet horns, and the Fairy is rather out of place against the others, but they are all nice sculpts.

Brain has started painting his, they are still on the work-table and he pointed out that the camera-flash is a harsh critic, something I've noticed/suffered from in the past, but it gives an idea of how they'll take paint, and if you’re pondering on who/what that dragon is, he's an Alien . . . coming in the next ['newer'] post, in a short-while!