One of the most highly anticipated products from the Deadzone Kickstarter were the new hard plastic Enforcers and Peacekeepers. If you were a backer you will already received yours, but the good news for all Deadzone fans who missed out is that these will be available in retail very soon.

Thanks to the good folks at Mantic Games I've got my hands on a set of each to test out, so lets take a closer look!

The New Plastic Components

The Enforcers and the more heavily armoured Peacekeepers each come on 2 sprues which assemble to make 5 miniatures with a variety of weapons options.

The Enforcer set comes with 5 bodies and pairs of legs and 9 different helmets in a variety of styles, so you can make multiple poses.

There is also a multitude of different weapons options, including 5 laser rifles, assault blades, pistols and heavy weapons including an incinerator, burst laser and energy gauntlet.

This means you can assemble a more traditional unit of rifle armed enforcers; an assault unit; or even a heavy support squad.

There's also a number of extra plastic components like ammo packs, pistols, grenades & knives to further customize the unit.

The Peacekeepers have a similar wide array of components, including 5 Defender Shields, incinerator, burst laser and lots of energy gauntlets and wrist blades. There's 7 different heads, including one with a raised visor.

Check out the gallery on the Mighty Ape Hobbies Facebook Page to see all the sprues close up.

Clean Up & Assembly

The extra difficulty of cleaning and assembling the earlier plastic resin enforcers put some people off, so its great news that these new hard plastic miniatures are much easier to work with. You can use either plastic cement or super glues for them as well.

The legs and torsos for both sets are labeled A-E and have been designed together in sets of the same letter, especially in the case of the kneeling Peacekeeper miniature. Tip: I found the best way to assemble the legs and torsos was to glue one leg to the base, let that set and then attach the torso and finally position the second leg.

The weapon arms are ball-jointed, which gives a lot of different positioning options, including holding rifles across the chest and again these were quick and easy to assemble. The only tricky part is matching the correct length arms for the two handed rifle grip but this was still really straight forward.

The heavy weapons were also really easy to attach, and the incinerator comes with an additional fuel tank for the back of the miniature which lined up really well.

As with all miniatures there are some mould lines to tidy up, but these are much easier to remove than on the older plastic-resin enforcers.

The Assembled Enforcers

The Assembled Peacekeepers

Final Thoughts

Having worked with plastic-resin and resin figures a lot in other projects, it doesn't bother me as a material and it offers some advantages when it comes to conversions and reposing, see our Working with Plastic Resin Blog for more info.

However these new hard plastic miniatures were fantastic to work with and will definitely appeal to more gamers. Both the Enforcer and Peacekeeper set give heaps of different poses and weapons configurations and the details are really crisp and clear.

As I've said in previous Deadzone blogs I'm a fan of the style and design Mantic have used for the Enforcers and having great quality plastic kits available will make it really easy to expand out my collection!