A Strange Plastic Review: Ottoman Noble Admirals

Strange Plastic, headed up by Josh Qualtieri, is the Atlantic Digital printed miniatures provider. This means that if you do not have a 3D printer of your own, you can order prints of our Atlantic Digital releases straight to your door through the Strange Plastic website. What follows is the first of a series of reviews aimed at showcasing these printed products.

https://www.strangeplastic.com/c/miniatures/miniature-ranges/wargames-atlantic-3d-printed-models/

Max McDougall, our Digital Products Manager here at Wargames Atlantic, will be authoring many of these reviews. Max is a hobby veteran of more than two decades, and is intent on making each of these reviews as straightforward and unvarnished as possible.

Without further ado, lets turn it over to Max

Greetings Wargamers!

First up in our series of printed reviews will be the Ottoman Noble Admirals Kit, one of our earlier attempts at a character pack. The digital set features both an armored and unarmored body, as well as a selection of heads and arms. The Strange Plastic version gives you all of these parts printed in high quality resin.

As you can see by the images below, the models come in a labeled baggie. These baggies were protected in bubble wrap by a stout shipping box when they arrived.

Upon unboxing and removing the parts from the baggie, I was faced with the parts you see in the following image. Just like any model kit, some clean up is required, although these models come fully cured and cleaned. For example, between the left shoe and the outer garment on the unarmored body, as well as between the sword hilt and the sleeve for the arm directly to the left of it there are small support structures to remove. I removed these with a sharp hobby knife and they came off extremely easily.

3D printing requires supports. I like to explain these structures as "scaffolding" that holds the miniature to the build surface while the print is on-going. Normally parts are removed from the main portion of such support structures during cleaning and prior to curing. Small supports, like those mentioned above, are often left during the clean up process due to either time constraints or potential damage to the piece overall.

There were also a very few pockmarks on the pieces. For example, the head at center-top of the image above. These are usually caused by support removal, and are relatively easily fixed with greenstuff.

After inspecting the parts, I assembled my two noble admirals as you see below. I chose the feathered turban headdress as it was suitably impressive, and gave both models swords as well. As with all resin miniatures I work with, I used super glue as an adhesive, and this also applied to attaching the miniatures to my personal stock of 3mm tall MDF base rounds, though these could easily fit on the Wargames Atlantic 25mm Dual Use Plastic Bases.

The remainder of the parts went back into the baggie and I went off to paint these two. I started with a white undercoat, and primarily used "Contrast" style paints, both from Citadel and Army Painter brands. Ottoman clothing was often rich with color, and this influenced my painting choices. 

Deep reds and rich oranges, with hints of wealth from these noble figures such as the purple of the unarmored model's shoes. All the metallic details were painted with Vallejo metallic acrylics, and the basing material seen on the painted miniatures is Vallejo acrylic basing medium "Dark Earth."

These models painted up quickly and easily. There was no issues with primer adhesion to the resin, and I expect these figures could easily fit in to either a historical or role playing gaming table. And the extra parts mean I can convert more models in the future with somr beautiful sword arms and heads.

We have several of these reviews planned for the future, but I want to hear from you dear reader. What Atlantic Digital Kit on Strange plastic would you like to see next? You can browse the range to decide at the link below, and I'll see you in the comments section of this article and beyond.

https://www.strangeplastic.com/c/miniatures/miniature-ranges/wargames-atlantic-3d-printed-models/

Until the next article,

Maxwell McDougall

Atlantic Digital