GODDAMMIAT.For at least a year and a half I managed to avoid getting into Four horseman shit. It was always very nice, but it was pricey, and I told myself, for that price, I was gonna get me some more articulation.
And then I got the horse, and I told myself the horse was just a horse. It didn’t mean anything. I wasn’t committing, it was just a horsey fling.
And then I needed some stuff because relatives insist on getting me presents for my birthday. And BBTS had some stuff on sorta-sale on some of their standard base troop-building types, and a couple of them looked neat and/or useful, so I ended up with them. Like this Cosmic Legions T.U.S.C. Science Officer.
Look, I still refuse to get into the lore. I know there’s lore. There’s a lot of lore. But much like I don’t read the data logs in games where I just want to shoot aliens in the face, I also don’t read up on the backstory of toys I’m just getting because they’re pretty. Oh, so pretty.
So Cosmic Legions is the Non-Licensed Sci-Fi line. Four Horseman Studios uses (and possibly invented) this style of indie line now followed by multiple companies - a very swap-em-out mix-and-match approach where everything clicks into everything else so not only can they re-use a bunch of similar pieces in configurations in various paint colors to make “new” characters, so can you. It’s the Taco Bell Menu of toys.
So there are a shit-ton of different T.U.S.C.s and they all follow a similar pattern of armor, chest “coin”, different color schemes and helmets and doodads to make a figure. The Science Officer got picked because it’s in a particularly striking white and light blue (accentuated digitally here but still very nice), with a helmet head, an alien head, two pistols, a blast rifle, an extra set of hands, clear pegs to “holster” the guns (which have pegholes) onto the body (which also has pegholes), and a cool holographic alien skull communications or AI buddy thingy. Again, not reading the lore.
So I did him up two ways, shot him separately, and made like I had two of them in the pic. Did my usual lighting and shadow passes.
What I will say is that the articulation, like many Very Pretty style figures, is just functional enough to not piss you off. The elbows and knees just barely go to 90, there aren’t no butterfly joints to be found, etc. But man, the sculpt and paint details and little touches are just next fucking level.
Like the helmet head has that blue clear canopy, which comes off, and the stuff under it. The weapons are surprisingly lacking in paint hits but these are the entry-level figures so it’s not a big deal. I did accentuate the gun barrel on my own - it’s just flat grey in real life.
Anyway, my point is, from a posting standpoint, this is one Legions figure to go with the horse, but outside of continuity, I am VERY aware that the current count is six, with two more en route and at least one more being seriously considered. That -should- do me for a while, because, much like Gundam, they are similar enough and expensive enough that I can pass on a lot of them. Plus availability is weird because it’s an indie company that’s been doing this for years and what’s in stock from place to place is a tiny fraction of What’s Been Made.
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