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Here is a quick review of a nice metal figure from Scale75.

I love this figure because of the his pose and the story suggested.

The figure comes in an attractive box, inside well packed between foam layers .

Casting is nice, but some cleaning is required because of molding lines.

More attention is needed on some parts because the fit is not 100% percent, but nothing serious.

Easy to fix it. The "worst" part is around the trunk but with a small amount of milliput is fixable in no time.

they need little (if any) clean-up or filler
and they are very fragile and breaks easily, some are porous or with air bubbles, and the entry point where they are cast are thick and very often a pain in .. to remove

3D printing becoming more and more common
today they are perhaps 2 or 3 producers on almost 1000 known ones still in production, who delivers 3D printed figures

Crisp and sharp
Phoenix already in the 70ies produced crisp and sharp perfect fiting figures as Poste Militaire, as Barton/Ceremonial....
Among the ones who produce(d) in resin , some were not crips, not sharp and not fiting good

But let's hope for improvement for all

Horses for courses as they say, a well cast and painted metal figure FEELS like your holding something of value , however, resin feels ...well...like plastic!

Chailey

The casting of scale 75 has never been great the last one I bought had a great pose but it was so poor in comparison to metal models that I plonked it in the trash bin and never even looked that way again .

The 3d suff is moving along at high speed and we are now seeing the same figure in different scales.
Example ; you can get the latest Andrea mounted artillery officer in 54, 75 and 90mm this is a game changer .

I am currently waiting on the delivery of the 54mm version which will be my first 3D figure " No more I like it but its not my scale excuses"

Just a footnote on scales : the first 75 mm figures came out when Ray Lamb was sculpting for Hinchcliff and the reason they got so popular was the extra detail available at this scale, somewhere along the line we seem to have lost this even with the 120 mm stuff ; hopefully the 3D will get us back to where we should be in the larger scales.

Have mostly made Young Miniatures 1:10th busts and have got used to resin. My last efforts in metal go back to Hinchcliffe Napoleonics in the'70s so have forgotten much about them. My recent completion is the Scale75 Coldstreamer at Waterloo. This was really nicely moulded - so much so that I have now bought the Brunswick Officer to go with it. However, at my wife's prompting, I have bought the Alexandros Models Oni-ni-kanobo. This has now arrived and it is a metal figure so I will have to see how it goes.
David

Nice review !
Thanks a lot !

i am just cleaning this figure up as we speak, i like the pose, and i still think that metal figures have a place and with a bit of work and patience, should be as good as any other rein figure.--will have a go and see how i get on.