As I mentioned earlier I receive my
much anticipated package of Diego’s Space Raiders 2 Kickstarter mins a few
weeks ago. I pulled a few out to get
onto painting stands to proceed with gluing and painting. As promised here is a review of a few of the miniatures from the
package.
I decided to grab out 5 of the figures to paint up a small crew. I had to get two of the Picsean figures out since they were my main motivator behind supporting the Kickstarter in the first place. These are actually from his first Kickstarter which I missed out on. Lucky for me he made them available through the second campaign.
I decided to stay
old school or better put “Oldrogue” and stick with some of the similarly themed
Rogue Trader mins from the package. I
grabbed two of the Minotaur in Space figures. Rounding out the party is the cyber ork with the Predator style shoulder
cannon. Seems like a well-rounded
landing/excursion party. Review wise I
couldn’t be happier with the figures.
They are very crisp casts, hats off to whoever Diego is using to mold
and cast these up! I only had one figure
that had any signs of flash, one of the bulls around his naughty bits.
I can carefully perform a “flashectomy”
with a Xacto knife so not a major issue.
If I were to be critical, and I mean really nitpicky critical, my only
complaint would be the bases or lack thereof.
More specifically the slota-tabs.
Not that I am huge fan of slota-tabs but it does give you something to
hold onto when putting them on a painting stand or a base. GWS has lulled me into accepting that all
figures would have them resulting in my total lack of pin basing skills. Again I was feeling adventurous and with
reckless abandon I jumped right in and was able to get the larger models
attached without issue. As long as you
don’t count the fact that I drilled all the way through one of the Minotaur’s
hooves!
No worries it is a very easy
“green stuffing” fix. I'm not sure what the metal mix is on these figures but they were very easy to drill, somewhere between old soft lead and the very hard tin mixes, again well done to whoever is casting these! The fishboys
were/are more of an issue. Again
partially on me. My smallest pin drill
to date is 1/16 of an inch which sounds small but is nearly as big as the feet
of the Picsean.
Way too large to
drill/pin the feet for attaching to a base or stand. Easiest solution is get off my lazy butt and
get a mico drill set, which I will certainly get prior to permanently attaching them
to a base. My quick solution is the
clothespin base I made for the Diehard Miniatures Son of Slomm figure.
This will get me started while I look into
micro drills. Again overall I am
delighted with the quality of the figures from the sculpts to the casting to the
character. All of them are incredible
and I’m looking forward to my Pantheon of Chaos figures, my Greenskin Wars
figures, and my Space Raiders 3!
