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Originally Posted by Wulf Corbett
I gave up on the minis after a starter pack & two boosters. While the sculpting is decent, especially on the figures, sometimes it's way off - the 6 pounder A-T gun is awful, with truncated, simplified trails. Worse yet, the tanks and figures are not to the same scale - the figures are decently 15mm, the tanks closer to 12mm. And as for the paint job, I couldn't disagree more - most of the minis are painted with just a few base colours - usually just a single colour for tanks - then a very heavy and unsubtle black wash for weathering. It looks quite effective from a distance, or while they're still in their plastic 'bubbles', but at playing range or closer they look poor.
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In my mind I was comparing the paint jobs to other CMG products I have seen, so I was not expecting the quality level of hobbyist painted figures. And I'm not normally a historical minis player, so a sculpt mistake that's obvious to you is invisible to me. As a collectible miniatures game, I find A&A to be good stuff but I can't really offer a useful opinion to the hardcore historical minis folks.