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@grantinvanman – While many of the 1970s Minifigs are rather crude by today’s ultra-mega-detailed standards, they do have qualities that modern minis cannot match, at least not in my eyes. They look like something out of fairy tale or saga, while modern minis look like something from a video game. Pick your preferred aesthetic….And the Aureola Rococo ‘Elves’ – based on Rodney Matthews paintings, especially ‘People of the Pines  and Twelve Towers at Dawn, inspired by Michael Moorcock stories, and bearing some resemblance to GW’s Night Goblins are actually quite intricate little fellows that wouldn’t look out of place in games such as Moonstone, for example.

More on resin: I am neither clumsy nor careless, but I had a hell of a time with the resin figures that come in the basic Carnevale starter set. Even just during cleaning and prep, one of the ladies of the evening broke off at the ankles several times, so did the harpoon carried by one of the fishermen, which also had so much extra resin clumped on it I decided to turn a casting sin into a virtue, leave some of the excess on the harpoon and paint it as lagoon scum still sticking to the tip. And don’t get me started on the gondoliere’s oar, which quite literally hangs by a thread…..