Strange Plastic Review: Armored Ottoman Infantry

Greetings to wargamers everywhere. Max here again with another review of printed variants of our Atlantic Digital kits.

This time we have the Armored Ottoman Infantry set. Just like the last set from Strange Plastic, this one came in a plastic baggie wrapped securely in bubble wrap, and no bits had any damage. Speaking of bits, lets take a look.

The baggie containing all the bits included by Strange Plastic:

All the bits, laid out on a hobby mat.

As you can see, there are enough parts to build 5 miniatures. When I was removing the bits from the bag, one of the left arms skittered off the table and, despite a thorough search, I have been unable to find it. Which is why only four left arms are seen in the photo above. (Hudson: A common danger with multi-part plastic sets whether printed or God's own hard plastic!)

Unperturbed, I carried on with building and painting for the review. I left off one of the models, determined to finish him when I find the missing arm. Or use him in a conversion, whichever comes first.

Here are some closeups:

As you can see, all the bits have retained the gorgeous detailing of the digital parts, and have very few, if any, support marks or remaining support pieces. This meant the kit went together very easily, with little clean up required.

Once the glue was dry (I used medium thick viscosity super glue purchased from my local store) I proceeded to prime the models. Due to the vast majority of the models being covered in heavy armor, I elected to go with a black primer. Not wanting to waste bases, the shields are tacked onto spare water bottle caps with blue-tack. I flipped these during priming to evenly coat both sides of the shield.

After an enjoyable two hour painting process, here are the painted results:

All paints used were Vallejo brand. Basing material is also Vallejo brand, specifically the dark earth basing acrylic medium.

If you fancy painting up a warband (or warhost) of Ottomans for yourself, check out the Wargames Atlantic Digital prints page over on Strange Plastic.

And if you have a printer yourself and want to print and paint your own, the files are available from our MyMiniFactory storefront:

While you are on MyMiniFactory, why not browse the Tribes page and see if one of our competitively priced tribes tiers is worth a subscription? You can navigate to the tribes section via the tab at the top of the page in the link above.

Until my next printed review...Happy Wargaming!

Maxwell McDougall

Atlantic Digital Products Manager