Black Hawk- "Zama: Rome vs. Carthage 202BC" (1 Viewer)

Blackhawk seems like a up and coming company thats trying to reach a broad section of collectors.A company to keep our eye on.
Mark
 
That does look very nice and if I am not mistaken they have used the African Elephant from the Britains plastic zoo series.
 
I'm telling you- 2008 will be a great year for Romans collectors.

Little surprised they are waiting till October to get these things to market but whatever.
 
All I am going to say is please PLEASE PLEASE exercise EXTREME caution when purchasing this line. I bought my Elephant back in Nov and it came damaged to me. For whatever reason, these guys booted the packaging. The figures look fantastic so I would strongly urge buying these figures in person.
 
I don't know much about this brand are they 54 or 60mm?.
they have some great looking Punic War sets comming in 09".
Ragnar,
 
I am very excited about this line. I purchased the Elephant, well I ordered him from two different sources and been waiting quite awhile now. I have received the Hastatus., it was better than I imagined but nowwhere near quality of AeroArt or Kolobob. I also received the Iberian Horseman. I really like him, fits well with the East Of India, even my aeroart to a degree. However, the Hastatus does not fit with anything. His paint job and size make him not fit in. The Hastatus seems a bit larger than my other 54mm while the Iberian Horseman a bit smaller, which is why he fits with East Of India. East of India Romans are much smaller than my other 54mm figures. I wish their shields (espeically the Iberian Horseman) were better. On the Iberian Horseman the paint of the front of the shield seems like a decal that was licked and glued on.

Does anyone know if more figures are coming out for the Romans?
 
Hi - In an update to my last post. I jst received the elephant from Zama Collection. While I like him, I am a bit disappointed to thelevel of painting. The colors from the photos do not match at all. Some of the painting is sloppy and scracthy. The elephant itself is the best part. That I could live with and am please with, but the rest of it I am thinking of havig repainted to a better stadndard. Ive been waiting for months and I am disappointed.
 
Andrea need to gets it's painting up a level if it wants to keep the Black Hawk section going because no one will even consider buying them with the rep that their getting.
Mark
 
I agree. Even King and Country and many of the newer Britains are better for the same price range - MUCH BETTER. I just received 2 Grenada Roman Cavalry that look absoloutely awesome - I mean museum beautiful, for $300 each. The BlackHawk elephant is physically larger but scales in comparison. They painted it sloppy, I mean went outside the lines!
 
Hi,

Saw this thread, and it appears things have improved. I bought the War Elephant, the mounted Scipio, and mounted Hannibal all in late 2011; and the paint job was spot on (changed painters?). Wish they consider a Persian War Elephant for my Thermopylae display. Pricewise, they are very reasonable for quality presented now.

Charles
 
There was a new release (second run) of these promising better paint and packaging. A lot of the elephant sets did not survive shipping. I once had to return 4 of the 5 sets i had.
This was to be rectified as well.
I had the whole custer range on display in my army office and just repacked it as i am moving on....i like the concept of these!

Aslo we just got into stock the sitting indian from the new range. I like it a lot.

if you wat some contact us.
Grant
toysoldiertoronto.com
 
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