Re: [minis] alien figs and opinions on them

>As Christmas approaches I face the annual battle of trying to decide
what I 
>should subtly hint about from the vast list of figs I would enjoy
having ;)

For me, it's Vendel -- http://www.vendelminiatures.co.uk/ -- love those 
Goblins of theirs.  But I'm telling myself to be more reasonable this 
year....

>So this year I was wondering if anyone had any experience with the Vor 
>shard miniatures, Kryomek, or the Dirz tigers from Confrontation. They
all 
>look like prime alien material to me. If any kind soul could let me
know 
>what they think and any reports good or bad on the companies that sell
them 
>I'd be might appreciative.

I've got me a bunch of the Kryomek figures -- they were released pretty
much 
simultaneously in the U.S. by both Grenadier and Stone Mountain
Miniatures, 
and I've never quite been able to figure out how *that* worked.  Now
Simtac 
carries the line, and they've added a bunch of things to it, and....

Anyway.

The Kryomeks themselves are nicely sculpted, and 28mmish in scale.  Most
of 
the figures are much bigger than human beings, and even the smalled
minis -- 
the "Hellions" -- are about 6 feet long in scale.  The biggest ones are 
*real* big, maybe 40mm to 50mm tall?

A lot of the figures have arms or heads cast separately from the body,
but 
the fit tends to be very good.	At least, I don't recall any problems in

assembly.  The resin vehicles are cool, and have lots of nice texture
for 
the drybrushing fans out there.

Um.  What other kind of stuff do you want to know?  Like I say, I have a

small ton of 'em in a box somewhere.

John Crimmins

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