![]() ![]() Armed only with a trusty crossbow and old-fashioned trench coat, you have to reach the bowels of a dying country riddled with hordes of blood-soaking monsters. You are the legendary monster hunter on a mission to survive the slaughter through the Dead Kingdom. It’s time to stop this and put everything back in its place! The monsters have completely lost their fear! They have made a real mayhem, hunting down living people and destroying them. Once that is done the poses are poor and the detail no better, while they do not depict anything that has not been covered before by several producers.Story: You will have to survive among hundreds of monsters thanks to your weapons and accuracy. These are pretty basic and will need a lot of trimming to remove all the unwanted plastic. These figures began life as a Valdemar project but they look nothing like any output from that company. The animal also suffers heavily from flash, which is a fate it shares with the human figures. It has a very simple saddle which is not even half the size it needs to be to accommodate the mounted knight, who would occupy the whole of the horse’s back as he has a cloak which makes no allowance for the saddle. It is extremely tall and has an almost smooth caparison which does not look natural. This is particularly true of the horse, which is poor in many ways. Some flat areas such as sword blades have a far from flat surface, but other areas that should be anything but flat are largely flat and featureless. While some effort has gone into surface detail and texture the general standard is pretty weak with not particularly convincing folds in clothes and some poor detail. The sculpting too leaves plenty to be desired. The choice of poses is not good and some are hard to explain such as the man in the top row holding an axe but with his left hand in the air for reasons that we cannot guess. The result is quite clumsy and very two-dimensional. There are no separate parts except for the mounted knight's standard, so pains have been taken to work weapons and shield into the single-piece model. The poses are really flat and often very awkward. The opportunity could have been taken to depict some of the more localised characteristics of these men, particularly the very cold climate they often had to face, but that opportunity has been missed. All these weapons are quite appropriate, and indeed there is nothing on any figure that could be described otherwise, although equally there is nothing that distinguishes these men from others elsewhere in Europe. Most carry a sword or mace, but one man holds an axe and another is operating a crossbow. The figures in this set are a pretty diverse bunch, with most wearing mail and some form of surcoat (plate armour was less common than in the West). ![]() Also there were some differences due to local conditions, and of course there was a more obvious eastern influence. In general arms and armour in the Baltic area mirrored the fashions of Western Europe, but appeared a little later. Such conflicts lasted for much of the later medieval period and encompassed many nationalities, so the target in terms of historical accuracy is very large indeed. Yet after the First Crusade those in the Holy Land were failures and the Christian position quickly deteriorated, whereas the northern crusades promised much better prospects and had much more permanent consequences.Ī title such as 'Baltic Crusades' covers a very wide range both in time and geography. The crusades in Palestine will be familiar to many but those in the Baltic are much less widely remembered today. ![]()
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