Hooray! The Post Office finally got itself sorted and delivered my Imperial armored vehicles! Want to see? Yeah, you do:
Because the material is transparent and right out of the box the detail isn’t resolving well in the photo, but let me advise you that it’s very, very good. Far better than the 3D model pictures might lead you to believe. Left to right, we have a wayward Imperial Guardsman separated from his Regiment (III. Saturnine Hoplites), then a Not-Land Raider, a Not-Rhino, a Not-Whirlwind, a Not-Vindicator, a Not-Predator, an O8 U.S. M60A3 Main Battle Tank caught in a time warp (for scale), and a nickel (U.S. 5-cent coin), which is about 13/16″ or 21mm across. The grid is 1/2″ (Imperial) square, that’s about 13mm.
They really look great. I couldn’t be more pleased. Next step, of course, is priming, which will bring out the detail I think, but I already have to recommend the Frosted Ultra Detail – the resolution is very sharp and the plastic feels quite dense enough to take paint quite well. They were, naturally, a tad pricier, but as a pioneer in the 3mm NetEPIC world I hope will develop out of this, I felt it only fair to take the long road on this, for the benefit of those who follow. These are going to be Ultramarines, and some may be the start of an opposing force of Word Bearers, as I’ve all but convinced a doubtful opponent to give the system and the scale a throw by promising to stage for him his favorite battle of the Horus Heresy storyline, the Battle of Calth. I’ve already identified (above) a number of suitably Imperial-Guardy O8 vehicles to serve as proxies of one sort or another for primitive Guard vehicles from that time period (Panzer IV’s, StuG’s, , and with these in hand I think we’ll have quite a bit of a show this summer!
Cheers and tons of thanks to javelin98 – you rock! Here’s hoping you expand the horizons and move on with the Not-Eldar, and perhaps the Not-Imperial Guard! The figures are well worth it!
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