Redbox is famous for making sets like Ninjas. Strangely enough this set, made by Redbox, is not Ninjas but was smuggled out of their secret mountain factories and to the Bunker Talk Bunker. These are the Russian Sailors from their Boxer Rebellion Line.
Look at those boat hooks! They are so long and thin and well done. The guy swinging the oar is also really nice. This is a strange box of figures because some of them are flash free, while others are loaded with flash. I did nothing to any of these apart from removing them from the sprue.
These figures are a wide range of poses, but all are basically combat action guys. No one is mopping the deck, chipping paint, or painting the hull. This is a pre-production set. I am hoping the final version will be a bit more cleaned up and perhaps be molded in blue, but I suspect they will be this red color.
At 22 mm these figures are a little on the short side compared to these HaT WWII Germans. I anticipate these sailors will serve with my Pegasus Soviet Naval Infantry. They should work OK as WWII Soviet Sailors and being a bit small should be okay as the Pegasus Naval Infantry figures are thin and not so big as other brands. This will give me a bit more variety for the Naval Infantry and some more "nautical" looking figures.
4 comments:
Hi. I just got into collecting plastic miniatures, and came across your blog. I love it. Excellent updates and you seem to get the strangest figures, which is a nice change of peace from the usual plastic toy soldier. Just a question, you say that some figures have "flash", what does that mean?
Thank you, I am glad you enjoy the blog. Flash is the excess plastic along the mold seam of the figure. When the mold is pressed together plastic is injected under great pressure. Sometimes that will cause excess plastic to slip out of the mold cavity and between the mold halves; causing flash. Mold making is very difficult and expensive, small companies often just leave the flash because it can be too expensive to correct the problem.
oh, ok. Thanks!
You are welcome.
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