DLD vs. GZG

Chen-Song asked about DLD figs.

I'm the proud owner of 4 25mm Kamodos, 1 HFS, 1 TOC, and 2 Civet grav tanks.
These are equivalent in casting quality to the best armourcast has produced
(IMO) and David
even does some pre-clean up so I needed to
do zip nada zilch when they arrived. There are, however, lots of bits. Lots
and lots. These are
actually resin MODEL-kits rather than just three
or four bits to be glued together. I forget parts
counts, but numbers like 60/80/100 might not
be far off in some instances. Of course, as a result, the detail level is
pretty amazing.

OTOH, GZG vehicles (just bought a bunch more
of these) tend to come in 2-8 bits, be easily
assembled, and have a lower (but still decent in most cases) casting quality.

I found the only GZG model I've ever had real casting issues with was the
dropship (the big
one just recently re-released). Lots of little
protrusions to clean up and signs of air bubbling across a lot of the hull
plating. And a lot of filing and pinning at the joints. Most others, the only
thing I've needed to do is put a
turret-rotator pin in.

The only other resins I've bought that I had trouble with were from Eureka and
these were the Cockroach tank and APC. The problem with these is that (in the
case of the grav tank) it is
an oval shape. With under-pour or over-pour
on either mould half (it is bisected at the waist along a horizontal plane),
the ovals don't match up right and you have a lot of puttying or filing to do.
In the case of the APC, the sides slope,
and with underpour or over-pour, the sloping
part on the lower hull doesn't meet very well with the sloping part on the
upper hull. They are very very cool looking kits, but take a fair bit of
patience and work with putty, dremel, etc. to get together with the quality I
demand.

Now, cost-wise, DLD kits aren't cheap (neither
are GZG, but I think David's are more expensive yet). But the Civet and the
Kamodo are excellent kits (in both 15 and 25mm) and you get what you pay for.
I wouldn't buy the little
ARV because 1 rifleman could easily mission-kill
the vehicle (unprotected crew), but the other products are realistic and very
well designed.

Tomb.

> The only other resins I've bought that I had

The resins I own in large numbers are the old Kryomek vehicles. A distributor
was clearing their stocks so I bought four of each type for grav, wheeled,
tracked, and two of each walker. These run a bit smaller then GZGs
vehicles.They also have all their extras like hatches and guns etc. are made
of metal, and the resin hulls are done clean and assemble easily. More
important than that, you can still get them from Grendel