Having just acquired the “Aliens” muscle set from
Super7 I thought I’d start by painting up the two largest pieces, being the
Queen Alien and Ripley in the P-5000 Powerloader. Having spent some hours
painting them I thought I’d give you my review of this set.
As with the first set of the “Alien” figures released
last year they appear to be by the same sculptor. The details are a little soft
and I guess may have lost some sharpness from the original masters during the
manufacturing process. Big up to them though for taking on the Powerloader,
this cannot have been an easy sculpt to process (and paint!) without resulting
in the usual ‘blocking’ one sees where a number of gaps appear betwixt body
lines and other detail.
In my view, given a quick look, the detail does not
jump out of this set in its raw form, in perhaps the same way as their MOTU
range. From my painting perspective it is all the more important to obtain a
fair likeness to the characters they portray. The Alien Queen is overall a nice
piece and is justifiably a larger figure than the other Aliens in the set. I
have another batch from this set currently in my painting process, pictures of which
I will post in due course.
Finally I would like to thank my mate Seth over the pond for assisting me in obtaining this
set. We here in the UK can’t easily (or cheaply) obtain all these American manufactured
goodies.
