Are you kidding?

Ok, this may be just because I am writing this in frustration, but I HATE the Darkson Design AE ww2 models!! They are the biggest pain to put together! None of the pieces, none, fit well. I am going to have to use green stuff for everything. Plus, everything is so tiny that when you hold it to stay together to glue your fingers glue together and it becomes annoying as hell. Seriously guys? Also, some parts of the models, say the end of the guns, are so so so very thin. They are bound to break anytime. I almost just wanna give up and throw these damn things away. ugh


The bottom of the models is also too big. There are tons of extra metal you have to cut off. There is metal pieces everywhere. My wife is gonna kill me. Thanks Darkson, thanks alot.

AEww2 minis

I have recently heard about the skirmish based gamed called AE WW2, by Darkson Designs.The basis of the game is pretty cool, what if WW2 had not ended. What if the Nazis continued their crazy experiments and search for relics, and succeeded. I loved the idea of the game. I ordered the rulebook and the starter sets for the Americans and the Germans. The rulebook is fantastic, full color, great story, and rules that look like alot of fun. The models look awesome, except for the US Mech, what looks like crap.

I got the starter set boxes in and was surprised at, how do I say this, at how crappy they are. The metal is extremely dirty and really needs work done to it. I have scraped and scraped excess metal off of them constantly. They are also a pain in the but to put together. The guns also look goofy. They are big and bulky.

  

 These are the boxes the models came in, it surprised me how small the boxes were.

You get the rules on a double sided sheet.

 Here are some of the German models, you can see the amount of clean up it takes to get em going.

 Here are some of the German weapons.

 Here are some of the US weapons








Some more of the German troops

Here is the American forces, including the big, bulky, plain mech.










All in all, pretty disappointed in the models, especially the mech. I would have to find something else to take the place of that crap model. The rulebook states that Pulp City models work very well as heroes and what not with the game. I think this model, Iron Train, would work real good to replace the mech.

 It has a more "realistic" feel to the technology they would have had in the period, if they had the technology at all for such a device. Hell of alot better than the model that comes with the starter set.

Once I finally get the models put together (taking forever) Ill post the pics of them up.