Impressions: 2.0

 UPS (after a week of incompetence & drama) finally found & delivered the last smallest box of Austrian German Fusiliers from Hat Industrie.

My latest impressions of the figures;

Still very happy to have them, and can’t wait until they are all fully assembled and organized.  So far I’ve only been been able to organize 1 Regiment of 3 battalions (IR #17 Reuss-Plauen; the largest regiment at Wagram).

But I have to say…

DAMN it’s lot of work taking the figures & their pieces off the spru and then assembling the figures.  For all figures this requires cutting them and their equipment off the very complicated and interconnected spru and gluing on the backpacks.  

These separate backpacks I’m used to, so NBD.  BUT the reloading figures separate arm is an unnecessary pain in the ass.  Must say the construct is well thought out and executed with the arm’s peg nicely fitting into the figure’s shoulder arm hole.   But the extra time & effort cutting the separate arm from the spru and then the hassle of applying a 2 part plastic bonding glue to secure such a small is just such a hassle.  

Having now done 60 of these I dread having to do the same for almost 400 more reloading figures I’ve purchased. 

Still looking so forward to seeing them all assembled into units!

Cheers