Posted by sansovino on 09 Jul 2019, 22:21
I have received today some of the new Strelets sets - mostly the Napoleonics.
The figures are really wonderful detailed, and the poses well choosen, but most figures are quite slim and small like Marc mentioned it in a former reply. The old french guards are indeed too small, why I will use them only in the background. The WW1 french are far more smaller what will reduce theirs use. The french line companies and the prussians are better suitable in theirs sizes.
What me bother still more, is the fact that most figures have very short and slim human arms with nearly not existenting forearms. They don´t offer you much surface to paint and they are looking unreal - 15-20 cm shorter than regular human arms. It´s a weakness which I hope will been corrected in the new batch of new sets of Strelets.
I appreciate the new sculptors and impressive output of Strelets, but they should study better the proportions of human arms - and to have more flesh or body to paint. Actually many human left arms are looking like a combination of upper arms with hands.