Why
Searching
for different other sci-fi producers of 6mm miniatures I have arrived
on the website of Strato Minis Studio. At the time when I discovered them, they already had a pretty complex range. It developed even more, coming to include watercraft miniatures, aircraft miniatures, infantry, other special miniatures and of course land miniatures. As it developed I started to be more impressed and I started to collect these miniatures, that were filling what other companies did not produced or what it produced with a very good design. As an important advantage to consider, Strato Minis Studio was based in Poland, which made acquiring products from EU definitely more cheap and faster than from United Kingdom, ”the country of 6mm miniatures”.
How
Almost all of the miniatures are from resin. They can be
cleaned and glued fast and then painted easily. The website of the Strato Minis Studio
has many photos of the miniatures, even painted examples, and this helped a
lot in the process of identifying the miniatures and identifying a way to paint the miniatures in an original (not necessarily better than the examples from the site of the producer). In general, the miniatures were painted with Vallejo paints. I have used mainly 3 types of paint schemes: metallic, jungle and desert.
Results
Review
The miniatures produced by Strato Minis Studio can be categorized in aircraft, infantry, land vehicles, battlemec.. sorry:) .. hardbots, watercraft and accessories. I was and still I am impressed by the design of miniatures and by this variety (the types and subtypes of miniatures). Let us take the examples of land vehicles. If we look at how they can move we can see that we have many options: wheeled, tracked, hover and grav. On the topic of their functionality, we have civilian and military miniatures. On the civilian side of miniatures, not that often encountered in the offer of a manufacturer of sci-fi miniatures we have civilian cars (many variants) and construction unit vehicles and different containers. If we are only interested in military units, then we will not be disappointed: we can collect fighting vehicles, troops transporting vehicles or support vehicles, simple or complex vehicle, with electronic warfare, command and recon capabilities, self-propelled guns, artillery, missile and rocket launchers, anti-aircraft, machine guns, guns, laser guns, plasma guns, sonic, engineer and other support vehicles vehicles (a subtype of vehicles that again will prove complex). From the point of view of armor we can choose from vehicles with no armor or with light, medium or heavy armor vehicles.
At the time of working at this review of miniatures,
the website of Strato Minis Studio was on hold: no more orders could be
made on the webshop and basically the shop was closed. Now finishing this review, a big announcement was made: the whole
ranges of Strato Minis Studio (miniatures and games - like Hardwar) were bought by a big company (a story of success in
itself, starting small, and constructing good games one after another
and also having an eye for original and well games): Modiphius
Entertainment (especially known for their RPGs, but they also are
producers of miniatures, miniature wargames, boardgames and
accessories). The story of Strato Minis Studio (whose site does not work
anymore, now it returns only the site of Modiphius) continues and the
future really looks interesting for these miniatures and wargames alike.
Click on the links to access the
galleries of the ranges of miniatures, totalling 100+ miniatures and thousands of corresponding images.
Strato Minis Studio: Accessories and Buildings
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