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Ariadna – Uxia McNiell €7.00This female personalitymodel comes in two pieces(right hand with shotgunand the rest of the model)and had much less cleaningrequired than the heavyweapon trooper above. Thefirst thing I noticed aboutthe model was what Ithought was her thin waistline.She is not bulked upwith a backpack and extrastraps so has a normalwaistline. The belt that holds her pistol’s holster doesadd to the appearance of an even smaller waistline butafter examining the figure it looks in proper proportion.Her chest armor and belt are what makes it look thinner.While she fits in with the look of the rest of the Ariadnaarmy she also has some differences. The main ones beingthat she’s wearing what looks like a knit sweater andhat. Not like she’s off to deliver Christmas presents oranything, I just thought it was a neat difference. Her lefthand holds a set of binoculars and there is a knifestrapped to her left boot. Her backpack is smaller thanthe other Ariadna troops that have one and, in fact, hersis actually two smaller packs instead of one large one.Once glued into place the shotgun rests between one ofher small back bags and her hat, right across her backand the model is in a more relaxed pose than in the middleof a firefight. Her hair is in pigtails, like Pippy Longstockingand the face is up to par with the rest of themodels in this line.Yu Jing - Zhanshi €7.00Here is my (Brian’s) first review of miniatures forMark’s publication. He asked me to look at this modelbecause they are produced by Corvus Belli and I ownquite a few of Corvus Belli’s 15mm figures; Carthaginians,Numidians and Ancient Spanish. This figuremeasures up to what I have come to expect in terms ofCB’s quality of production. Zhanshi is the hacker forthe Yu Jing faction of the Infinity 28mm miniaturesgame. Bottom line: this is a very nice figure. I found nomold lines and the only flashwas a small amount on theleft thumb and pinkie. Themodel is molded in twopieces: a torso and a left arm.The arm and joint fit togetherquite cleanly. I had todo no work to get a good fitwhen attaching the arm tothe torso.sculpted. There is plenty of detail, but not so much as tomake an amateur painter nervous. The model is VERYfemale. She fits in quite well with the genre and the restof the Yu Jing figures. Being a hacker, the model hasplenty of high tech gizmos on her person to go alongwith the assault rifle that she carries. Zhanshi is lightlyarmored, but not defenseless. This figure also has potentialto work in any kind of game that is post-modernand/or militaristic in nature. So, if you like armed, scifi,female figures then this one is just for you.Yu-Jing - Guijia €25.00Guijia is a mecha-type robot for the Infinity 28mmminiatures game. When I pulled this big boy out of thebox I was suitably impressed with the work that CorvusBelli did in producing this model. I was momentarilyworried when I counted the number of parts for the figure:eight. But, once I started fitting the parts togethermy anxiety departed.The model is divided into the head, torso, legs, rightarm, left arm, and three spines. The quality of work onGuijia was truly outstanding. I had to do very littlework to clean the parts for assembly. The only realmold line I found was along the upper edge of the bigass gun that this thing carries. That line took less than aminute to remove. All of the joints fit together perfectly.This was very surprising. On models of this sizeI’m used to doing some carving on the concave parts ofjoints to get them to fit the male portion of the connection.But, I just applied the glue, held the parts togetherfor a few minutes and voila, a beautiful joint.You could pin the larger joint is you like, but I did notand I have had to do no re-gluing even though I havehad less-than-gentle moments with it. From opening theThe figure is very well22