But, back to the miniatures... Over the next week I will post reviews of each of the Rebel minis sets, starting with the US Sniper team pack (next will be the Insurgent/Fedayeen as they are higher on my to do list, my US troops are getting a bit bored with no OPFOR around).
The pack consists of four sniper teams, two armed with M24/M40 style bolt action rifles and two armed with M107 "Light Fifty" SASRs. Each team has a spotter using a spotting scope and a sniper with a rifle, both are in a prone position, they are modeled as a single piece.
Figure detail is good with 'boonie hats', basic belt gear and scale appropriate uniform detail.
Weapon detail is a little loose but it is pretty easy to tell the two different rifles apart (the slight differences in bases helps) and for table use the detail is quite adequate. [Photo: Left to right, M24/M40 team and M107 team]
Both flash and mold lines were pretty much nonexistent on the pack I received, only requiring one or two nubs to be removed by clippers and file from the side of the base.
Now, what are they good for? Well, they won't work as Squad DMs but any time you have call for a sniper team they should work just fine. The M107 team is only really usable from about 1990 onward as the weapon didn't enter US military service until then but the Bolt action armed teams are usable for a significant period (the M24 entered service in 1988), at least from the late 1980's and might, depending on the rest of your collection, even be passable as Vietnam era snipers since the uniforms are generically Modern US.
Size-wise they appear to be in line with the rest of Rebel's Modern US line and look fine laying next to my old QRF US troops.
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