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.
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. 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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
