Kimmo
A Fixture
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A recent set of purchases included these four white metal figures by EK-Castings from Studio Siberia. There's an ongoing new release thread in the figure news section here. I was intrigued enough by the apparent quality and decided to have a look at what was on offer. It turns out there is actually quite a lot of interesting stuff to choose from in various scales, genres and so on. I almost did a double take when I saw the prices, I have no idea how they manage to keep the costs down to this degree! I ordered two Vikings and two WW2 Russian figures for a whopping total of just under $17 plus postage. On to the figures...
First up are the Vikings
And the Russians
These are rather incredibly detailed, well sculpted and cast as single pieces. There are very faint mold seams to clean up and the bottoms of the bases have been ground flat and clean, which is a real nice touch. The sculpts are more in the classic vein as opposed to the hyper realistic style seen with most resin figures. This doesn't detract from the figures at all, and I think it actually gives them more character. I haven't done any prep work on them, the photos show the figures as they came in the box. Speaking of; they were well packed in paper, and boxed inside cardboard toothpaste tube packages. An interesting choice of packaging, but reuse is always a good idea, and everything was well protected. Postage costs were reasonable too.
The short and sweet version is that I'm super impressed and will be ordering more at some point. If you're looking for inexpensive pieces to practice on with sufficient character and detail, I doubt you'll find a better alternative. If you like to collect white metal figures, these will certainly fit that bill too. And I think these will also please the more discriminating painters out there as well.
Kimmo
First up are the Vikings
And the Russians
These are rather incredibly detailed, well sculpted and cast as single pieces. There are very faint mold seams to clean up and the bottoms of the bases have been ground flat and clean, which is a real nice touch. The sculpts are more in the classic vein as opposed to the hyper realistic style seen with most resin figures. This doesn't detract from the figures at all, and I think it actually gives them more character. I haven't done any prep work on them, the photos show the figures as they came in the box. Speaking of; they were well packed in paper, and boxed inside cardboard toothpaste tube packages. An interesting choice of packaging, but reuse is always a good idea, and everything was well protected. Postage costs were reasonable too.
The short and sweet version is that I'm super impressed and will be ordering more at some point. If you're looking for inexpensive pieces to practice on with sufficient character and detail, I doubt you'll find a better alternative. If you like to collect white metal figures, these will certainly fit that bill too. And I think these will also please the more discriminating painters out there as well.
Kimmo
