Component Quality & Worthwhile Checks

By Digimortal, in Star Wars: Legion

So I recieved my copy today and I am really pleased with the quality despit a few minor niggles, however my biggest joy was discovering all the light sabres were straight out of the box :)

Imperfections:
I am really impressed with the design of these sculpts, injection points are either in the sockets of components that need to be glued together or they are tucked away on some obscure part of the minis. Mold lines are minimal with only a few discovered so far across all the storm troopers, the main area to check is over the helmets, but even this appeared on maybe 50% of the casts.

Everything Present?:
The way everything is packaged is a bit of a mess when you open the box, I recommend you take the time to do an inventory check of your minis and clip the arms and legs on the troopers to make sure everything is present and correct. I unfortunately have discovered I have an spare Storm Trooper Leader arm but am missing the arms for on of my heavy weapons guys. I did buy 2 core boxes though so 3/4 is not the worst result, I'll be sure to raise a request to FFG soon to replace these.

Edited by Digimortal
typos

Almost all of my flgs cores are missing the loose atrt handle

Haven't gone through the rest yet

Edited by Tirion

My Rebel Trooper box is missing the Ion trooper's weapon but I have an extra (headless) body.

37 minutes ago, Tirion said:

Almost all of my flgs cores are missing the loose atrt handle

Haven't gone through the rest yet

Someone had mentioned that the handle is actually in Luke's baggie. I can't confirm since I won't be picking mine up until (hopefully) tonight. Just thought I'd pass it along.

3 minutes ago, nashjaee said:

Someone had mentioned that the handle is actually in Luke's baggie. I can't confirm since I won't be picking mine up until (hopefully) tonight. Just thought I'd pass it along.

Yes, i can confirm that part as well. I almost had a heart attack when I first couldn't find it.

I would definitely recommend you find a large table, clear off everything and then go through all the bags on it (neatly) before losing your mind like I did.

It's nice there are no sprues and minimal clipping required. However, missing and or random extra pieces seem more common..

1 hour ago, nashjaee said:

Someone had mentioned that the handle is actually in Luke's baggie. I can't confirm since I won't be picking mine up until (hopefully) tonight. Just thought I'd pass it along.

Yeah it is normally but most of us didn't have it

My core had an extra Ion Trooper gun/arms and was missing both Rebel Unit Leader's gun arm pieces.

Oh well, request sent to FFG. Thankfully I'll be playing Imperials this weekend anyway.

My core was complete with nothing missing or extra, and overall im also happy with the quality!

most minis went together really well, a few needed some slight adjustments and one of the alien troopers (i think it was) needed a big cut to fit snug.

everything assembled and sleever and packed nice and neat! Gonna magnetise the atrt weapons tomorrow and hopefully get a game in then possibly pick up an expansion or two this weekend :)

3 hours ago, shivore said:

My core had an extra Ion Trooper gun/arms...

The ion arms are what I'm missing. Maybe we should set up a swap shop! ;)

Rebel troopers fared better, looks like it’s all their so just the one missing item across two core boxes.

My expansions arrived before the core set, I’ve opened one stormtrooper unit and everything was in order and started priming that.

opened the first rebel trooper unit, discovered that the tokens weren’t punched all the way through, so there was paper tearing when removing the tokens. Irksome.

I've opened one Stormtrooper box and a core set, so far everything is there. As long as I have the right number of body parts and heavy weapons I'm not super concerned, I built the second squad with all modified poses and will be doing the same with the third.

Alright... my speeder bike expansion has 3 right front nose fins and 1 left. Sigh..

My core set At-Rt had two left arms and no Right arm. Already made a customer service request for it and hopefully my right arm comes in sometime soon so I can begin paining it.

6 hours ago, oddeye said:

Alright... my speeder bike expansion has 3 right front nose fins and 1 left. Sigh..

Ha! I got the other way round! - 3 left and one right

My speeder bikes has 3 right and one left, same as above, the one doesn't fit reverse

From my 2x starters and 1x of every expansion, I had the following issues.

1x AT-RT control arm was missing (from one of my core sets)
1x of my rebel troopers had deformed joint sockets (super tiny, like the melted in) and you cant even come close to seating the arms in. (from the core set)

That's it... could be much worse. Some of the models were a bit hard to press in but not too bad (luke was really hard)

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Edited by Icelom
On 3/24/2018 at 3:12 PM, Morbidskydiver said:

Ha! I got the other way round! - 3 left and one right

Trade ya.. lol.

Speeder bike flight stands missing, apparently already on their way to me.