Reply To: Thoughts on Warlord's German Veteran Infantry figures

[jamescutts]

I generally like the new Veteran German Infantry set, as others have pointed out a generally useful universal German sprue for most of the war. I’d agree the included wall has influenced it perhaps a bit too much, in some ways its a Starlingrad German set. Otherwise though great choice of options, very crisp mouldings.

As for any suggestion Warlord sculpts are using AI, categorically not the case at all. The studio team has a small but dedicated and prolific set of sculptors, the Verteran German Infantry are sculpt by Wojciech (whos also done the upcoming Russians much to his dislike being Polish, there’s apparently some hints of this in the sculpting) they are very much sculpted and they have said as much in that commando comic book heroic style. I think its a style some love and others hate, personally I’m ambivalent, if i enjoy the building and painting process thats the main thing for me.

I was never really a fan of the older Warlord sets with seperate arms and weapons, to me they where just a bit too fiddly to assemble, however I very much agree they are amazing for kitbashing, and still do pick up spues of them now and again (except the british).

Personally for 28mm I’m finding I really like this style for Bolt Action, I’ve a load of the awesome Paul Hicks Empress metals, those are by far the gold standard for me, but I love these plastic kits, their fun, kitbashable, and cheap enough i dont mind experimenting with them.

I think if your after late war German Grenadiers then the new Victrix plastics are probably by a long way the best plastics for that, but there a limited range and sadly with the passing of the sculptor possibly going to stay that way?

The Perrys for WWII i have a love hate relationship with, there great value (though now £28 RRP) lots of options on the sprues and the accurate in sculpting. However there very specific to a single theatre don’t fit in that well with a lot of other stuff, and their metals which are great sculpts generally are not the best castings, often requiring a lot of cleanup.

Wargames Atlantic I want to love, because they do great stuff, but anything with a firearm in the set to me just looks comically awkward in posing, especailly when it comes the firing etc with how the arms place, they also tend i find the be not quite a flexible as they first look. There some weird mix of trying to get the anatomy and proportions right but posing in a comic book style. I do like their Partisans kit though, mainly as nobody else does it!

I will admit though back to the OP that I just didn’t find myself that enthused building the Veterns, but I put this down to boredom of yet more Germans that look pretty normal vs the DAK or winter FJ sets because they are good sculpts (style aside) and very good crisp moulds.

 

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by jamescutts.