Reviews

The Desktop Heads of Easter Island

Running Press Mini Kits

Following on from my review of the Build Your Own Stonehenge review, I was given a set of the Easter Island heads also from Running Press as a gift.

Contained in the box are 4 Easter Islands stone heads. They are made of some kind of resin and tecnically already painted. Well they have a grey undercoat on them. The texture of the stones is quite pitted, I would have prefered a smoother finish on them (more like sandstone). The sculpting is, well in line with the subject matter and all 4 heads are slightly different.

Here is a close up of the heads. You can see how pitted they are. But that is really my only criticism of this executive toy. That and I suppose if you pick this kit up at full price (RRP £4.99) then that is a £1.25 per stone head) might go against it.

However I do think this kit has merit from a gaming point of view. You can see from the picture the tallest head is about 55mm high (the shortest just a few millimetres shorter). They could go well as ancient monuments in Pulp or Fantasy games.

We can see the heads here alongside an Otherworld 28mm skeleton.

Or closer to the actual size if put alongside Pendraken 10mm fantasy miniatures