BrickTW Review

[KimT]

Mkay, I've previously reviewed some of BrickTW's parts and since then BrickTW has released new parts in their shop.

I ordered some and a while after a neat polybag of custom parts arrived.

Love the card

This batch of BrickTW parts included plenty of neck-wear stuff and a skirt.

As you can see from this quick overview of the included parts, they look pretty good and certainly adds variety to your evergrowing Asian / Chinese armies.

The weapons is a little spare in this round - but we did get plenty of those in the last batch.

I really like the arrows

A closer view on those 6 new types of arrows.

From left to right - Exsanguinate Arrow, Iron Case Arrow, Cross Arrow, Flame Arrow, Tore Tooth Arrow & Month Hook Arrow.

Hair Pieces:

With the order I also got some hair pieces.

First up for a little photo session with our ever happy Mexican is:

Qin General Hair:

What general would want to be without this?

Female Hair:

As good designed as it may be, it's a little off compared to the design of regular LEGO hairs and I think it might "stick out" too much in a crowd. But since I've got no pics of this hair side by side with regular hairs, then I have nothing to back up that comment.

It's still good and mold-wise it's damn near close to perfect.

General Hair:

Another general's hair.

Though I have no idea why this should be solely for generals - but that goes for all the hair pieces.

I think they'd all be usable for both civilian and military figs.

Intellectual Hair:

Apparently you have to be an intellectual to get a hair style like this?

Civilian Hair:

The civilian hair looks more like a hat to me.

Some kind of medieval hat...?

End of headgears and on to neck-wear and skirt.

Female skirt:

Now this is one great body wear part.

A skirt - finally we get one that's plastic instead of cloth (sorry Hula-Girl, but yours suck).

Female Clothing:

A great torso part.

Get this in a variety of colours and your female figs are much more female than before

Only bother is that skin and clothes are same colour.

And here's our Mexican once more.

All dressed up for fun.

I wonder what kind of party he's going to?

Female Civilian Clothing:

Same as the other civilian clothing part.

Adds variety and more femaleness to your figs.

Bamboo Raft Battlegear:

Now this is awesome.

A kick-megablocks battledress made from bamboo.

I see plenty of uses for this one and not solely confined to Asian MOCs.

It'll fit almost any kind of army in any Fantasy setting.

Terra Cotta Warrior:

Terra Cotra Armor may be the name, but I instantly think of scale-mails and padded leather armors.

Great piece, plenty of uses.

Three Kingdoms Soldier:

Looks a lot like the bamboo raft armor.

Again great design and very useful.

Zhu Bajie a.k.a Fat Man:

I have no idea what Zhu Bajie means, but to me this is a fat man's look.

Sumo wrestler anyone?

End of Part 1

Claw:

What's not to like about this amazing ninja-like weapon?

I'd love this in black on a bunch of ninjas

Spear:

The plastic and design has a nice "feel" to it.

The attachable spear point is an awesome addition.

It can be attached to plenty of stuff like bars and such.

I see many possibilities in use for that one.

Shield:

So many poses available due to that great handle attachment by BrickTW.

Arrows:

So many great ones.

Now all I need is a zillion to go with my elven bows from Brickarms or whereever I got them a long time ago

[Baylego]

Great review Kim T! My favorite new parts are the skirt and the hairs.

[Artifex]

Thanks for the review and the many pics, mate!

[XimenaPaulina]

Great review KimT! Those highly-detailed weapons are lovely, especially the various type of arrows. The different hairpieces and outfit parts look good too, they're certainly useful if you're into oriental MOCs.

[prateek]

Excellent overview. These parts are really cool, although I wouldn't have any uses for these. One thing I'd change is to make the breasts lower

[Aanchir]

Nice review. However, I personally think some of the minifigure parts are more detailed than I prefer. For instance, with the length of the skirt you might as well just use a 2x2x2 slope brick, thereby keeping with the simple contours of normal (unskirted) minifigures. The fat man torso could also easily be handled with simpler contours. The female clothing and female civilian clothing are more the sort of thing I expect of LEGO, even though given their sparse detail and the extra height and thickness they add to the body you might as well just use printing.

The armor and hair pieces are definitely my favorites. They feel like the sort of thing that would be perfect if LEGO were to create a historically-authentic oriental theme.

[Admiral Croissant]

The hair pieces are nice. Indeed the civilian hair looks more like a hat. But as a hat it's a very nice piece

The weapons are great too. I especially like the claw. The spear is also nice.

Although the armour torso's look good, I'm not very fond of the colours.

The female torso's are not so good IMO. A torso mold like that would look better than a removable part on a torso. Minifigs have a small neck, but with that part even the small neck is gone.. But the skirt is good again.

[BrickArtist]

Fantastic review! Thanks KimT. The only thing I might reccomend is more fitting minifig models. (Like the feale body part on the mustache guy looked... )

[KimT]

Fantastic review! Thanks KimT. The only thing I might reccomend is more fitting minifig models. (Like the feale body part on the mustache guy looked... )

Yup, but "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"

[Lord Starkiller]

The First Hair Piece looks a bit Dodgy and Rough, but the Shield is Awesome! Pitty the bit were the Minifig Holds the Arrow isnt Skin color.....

[KimT]

The First Hair Piece looks a bit Dodgy and Rough, but the Shield is Awesome! Pitty the bit were the Minifig Holds the Arrow isnt Skin color.....

I have to disagree.

What if your archers wore black gloves? Then "skin" would look very odd.

And what's skin anyways? Yellow, flesh, brown??