25mm Mayfair Games Teen Titans

A few weeks back, I posted up some 25mm superheroes from the mid-1980s. I got another box in the mail, this time the Teen Titans. The box came with six heroes and four villains and I managed to get the heroes painted up.

First up are Wonder Girl, Nightwing and Jericho. There are lots of variant costumes available to choose from but I took the earliest ones (which is what the minis were based on).

Overall, the sculpts are nice, if a bit thin and static. The second set included Cyborg, Starfire, and Changeling. I can see why the sculptor would have chosen the flying pose for Starfire but her shooting a bolt of whatever out of her fist would have been a more useful pose. Changling shifting into a lion is a nice effort.

Overall, these are decent enough figures. The omission of Raven and Kid Flash are notable, although at least the Titan box contained a few women. They more or less scale alright with the Justice League figures. Maybe the Titans are a bit thinner but I guess we could write that off as they're not quite fully grown. 

The scale difference between the 25mm Mayfair figures and more modern 28/32mm sculpts (these being heroclix) is quite marked. 

I'm not sure if I'm going to get another post up before I take a summer break. If not, happy summering and I'll see you in September!

25mm Indiana Jones by West End Games

A few weeks back, I posted up some 25mm Indiana Jones figures from 1984 that TSR had produced. I ran across a different range of six figures (from 1994) produced by West End Games and finally got a hold of them.

There were two, three-figure packs produced before the line went out of production and they used slotta bases (hexed, although I swapped in round).

The first pack had Indy, a reporter, and a student. The second included an older professor, Sulla, and a spy. These figures were a bit fine boned, lacked motion, and every hand is clenched into a fist. But, otherwise, they were nice figures. Oddly, no one is holding a gun.

Usually, the assumption we make about scale creep is things get larger over time. Below, you can see the slotta based figures from 1994 against the 1984 figures on washers. The older figures are clearly beefier and bigger (although they were also sold as 25mm).

I suspect that WEG kept using the old armatures they used to sculpt the Star Wars line into the 1990s while TSR had moved onto bigger ones in the mid 1980s. Leia, with a slightly lower base, is a good proxy for the student. On the left is a modern (Pulp Figures) 28mm woman.

We see something similar here with Ben Kenobi and the older professor (who I painted to look like Indy's dad). The modern Einstein is again from Pulp Figures.

I couldn't find a Star Wars proxy for the reporter but the two modern figures illustrate the thinner and shorter nature of the older sculpt.

The WEG figures do fit in well with the 1985 supers I painted recently from Mayfair Games.

Up next: I'm not sure. I'm slowly winding down my painting for the summer and will likely take July and August off from posting.