Miniatures Review - Wargames Atlantic 10mm "Samurai & Ashigaru”
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Using my new weighted review system, I review the Wargames Atlantic new 10mm hard plastic Samurai & Ashigaru.
Quality of Sculpts - A
Cost - A+
Cleanup & Assembly - D
Paintability - A
Final score: 90% = A-
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For the spears, its worth the extra time to slice, rather than clip. Get a hobby knife with a new blade, saw a few times on one side, flip the sprue and do the other side, and at this size you'll detach the mini in like 10-20 seconds. Longer than clipping, sure, but way less hassle than trying to glue the ends of the pole-arms back on. Also, make sure to start with the spear, rather than the other connection points, so they're not suffering from the force applied when clipping the rest of the figure at the other connection.
Yeah, but you'll just end up breaking them in gameplay later... hard plastic pikes in this scale is not a good idea IMHO.
100% agree with the comments regarding how fragile the pikes are. I have a box and had the exact same issue. A shame as they are the majority of your army. I’d much rather have had the proportions more chunky and more durable.
Great review thanks! We'll keep an eye on pike thickness on the next ones!
your review makes me want to start a samurai army might replace the yari with scrub brush bristles
Great Review. Thank you especially for sharing the painted figs - they look great. I agree that the spears and some of the bows and swords are a bit tricky to get off the sprues. I have found using my newest (sharpest?) set of clippers that I can get them separated without too much sprue left on the model and minimal breakage. I think the big test will come when they start getting pushed around the table. I suspect that any stands going off the table will not survive contact with the floor. Great video. Looking forward to more.
I think I might have to order some surgical scalpels to get these guys as safely off the sprue as possible, but they certainly look phenomenal!
Now, keeping my hamfisted friends from snapping them off is a whole 'nother story!
Glad I found your channel, excellent review and always love to see cross-manufacturer comparisons/insights. Subscribed, keep it coming!
Great review! I'd love to see some of the Forrest Dragon mini's in one of your reviews at some point.
I just had 3 boxes of them come in, good to know about the pikes!
Thanks for the work you put in to the review (includes the great painting, of what are complicated "uniforms"). I hope Wargames Atlantic expand this scale into the American Civil War. Pikes or lances are always problem in plastic or metal and in most scales. What might add a bit of durability to these particular pikes/lances is a thin wash of PVA adhesive.
Thank you for the review, that is very helpful. Hopefully going forward, as they release more 10mm plastics, they will make any spears or pikes a little thicker to improve the durability.
Your paint jobs are really impressive! I just recently painted some of the 8mm stuff from Legions Imperialis and I struggled to get 3 colors on the models. You have some serious skill.
Thank you! To be honest, my first 10mm figures looked terrible. It just takes practice. Small scale is a very different skill set than 28mm. Even 10mm feels like a big jump up from 6 or 8mm.
The LI stuff takes well to contrast paint, or a base coat, wash, dry rush system.
Thy look great, also excited to see their Agincourt range soon enough. I agree with the comments on the strip size for basing flexibility
Great Review. Can't wait to try them. I love your paint scheme - any chance you could do a tutorial showing how you achieved that effect. These guys are tiny and I understand how you are using the contrast paints - but what was the step right after base coating that got you the definition.
love what you did! really digging the models and their scale. Great review.
Lovely paint job on these figures.👏👏👏👏
I'm glad you're posting regularly with the new miniatures reviews, I've been enjoying them thoroughly 😄
Really nice looking figures. Clipping and cleaning up super thin parts of models is always a challenge. Did you clip them as close to the model as possible? You could try clipping off from farther away and then using a hobby knife or some flush cutters to take the extra sprue off nearer the spears, that might help. I have some Lord of the Rings Soldiers that have spears and they were a pain to clean up too.
Great review and lovely miniatures! This bodes well for the upcoming Azincourt set, i think most of the weapons will be slightly chunkier for those figures so maybe that won't be as big of an issue.
I enjoy these reviews. I am getting into 10mm, so I'm glad you are doing the pro and con of different ranges..
Glad to see more smaller scale plastics coming out. Especially in seldom covered periods. I may have missed it, but is there a rules system?
they look great. i hope they will do some other eras in the future
Loving this series, very informative! And as always your paint jobs are fantastic!
I like how honest you were about the clean up and assembly. Other than that, I was impressed with this range. 10mm samurai was the range I didn't know I needed until now!
A wonderful review Chris,very nice
Good to see an actual review with painted figures!
Looks amazing and for the price (and the upcoming ranges, Azincourt, fantasy orcs and more in the sengoku line) i think WGA will have great success in the 10mm world :)
I for sure need some of these for a Nippon Warmaster army. These guys look great.
These look great, I'm interested in seeing what else WGA puts out in the future. It was smart of them to start with something that warlord hasn't done with their epic battles range yet.
Really cool. Have a great paint job. 🖌
Awesome paint job! Thanks for sharinf.
My only gripe is not enough mounted samurai bowmen.
Oh man these look so good.
Great vid, would you be able to do a side by side of them next to warlords pike and shotte miniatures?
Great vid! Thanks for the heads up on the clean up portion.
Would you mind doing a comparison of this with warlord’s epic stuff? Also would love to enter to giveaway! Thank you for the in-depth review
Thanks for the great review. I wish I had seen a similar review before I jumped headlong into another manufacturer's line. (Different time period) This period was something I wasn't interested in at first but might have to take the leap after this review.
Would you be doing a painting video of these figures? I for one, would appreciate it.
These are very impressive for 10mm. They look better sculpted and more detailed than Pendraken (metal).
Thanks for the review.
At the price point having a few pikes break isn’t terrible; especially considering you have more flexible basing options.
Plus I’ve found that using very thin blades snippets that you can get closer to the piece, followed by a flat file, can mitigate the sprue removal for thin bits. Especially used to this for chunky base snipping at 6mm.
The price point is an absolute win, for sure, and a few likes isn't the end of the world.
If you think you have a better way of snipping then off the sprue, I'd love to be proven wrong. I think I have pretty good snippets and was as delicate as possible, however.
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Great review
Im relatively new to table top war games and wondered why alot of pikemen didn't have their pike cast on the model. Seems its not easy to cast in metal or plastic.
It would be nice to see a different period of Japanese history.
The Muromachi period is one such example. Samurai all rode horses and carried bows. Their followers followed in behind them using mostly naginatas.
The samurai were mostly hereditary lords. There were no commoner samurai like in these miniatures' period.
This is the DBMM book III army that has a stand of ladies & boys armed with naginatas guarding the baggage.
Love the review. Hope o get lucky.
Great Review! Cool Figs. Thanks!
I am curious what the solution is with the spears. Do you replace them somehow or apply something to protect them, etc?
I'm really not sure. Removing them all, the drilling holes and replacing with wire piles would be a huge pain.
It almost seems they would have been better with open hands so it would be easier to made yari out of broom bristles...
But I guess people don't want to buy stuff like that these days.
great video
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