In box reviews have their uses. Like seeing if I can be bothered with the tracks, or confirming basic assumptions. What seems to be utterly pointless, however, are figure kit unboxings. Wow. a bunch of bits on a sprue. totally wasn’t expecting that. there’s no way I’d buy a figure kit unless I’d seen actual example of built up models.
This in mind, I thought I’d do the right thing and review what is probably one of the most important figure releases of recent times, the Sheep kit, from Mini art.
The kit comes in a box. With pictures of sheep. Which would seem appropriate. Pictures of cows, for example, would indicate a somewhat baffling misunderstanding of barnyard fauna.
Opening the box allows access to a small bag of grey sprues. I think this packaging was designed buy the chaps at Revell. You could probably fit four of these bags within it’s capacious confines. Three at least. There are two different sprues of plastic, duplicated three times, for a total of fifteen wee wooly ovines.
Accuracy looks good, though I no longer live on a farm, so I’m going of memory here. Detail is good.
Parts fit is. uhhmm…
Let’s just say it’s nothing some clamping, scraping and filler won’t fix.
The ears/horns are separate parts, and there will be seam line down the middle of their backs which will need attention. I stippled on some Mr Surfacer 500 to restore the texture.
The plastic is typically Mini Art soft. I managed to lop one of Flossie’s ears of while cleaning up a seam.
There are no spare ears.
It should be noted the the ram comes pre-wethered.
One minor disappointment though. The box-art shows cute bell festooned about the necks of at least two of the models, but they are not included. This would make modelling a Mid-War sheep difficult, but I guess you’d also have to apply Zimmerit for that. I’ll be painting mine up late war, with Regulation Schafsgrau 44 overall.
Wehrabaas.
I look forward to the inevitable Full interior kit. With schurzen.
Haha, Very complete and humorous review. I’ve purchased this kit as well
