Nexus Steel Heroes 2

The box and artwork have a very 80's feel. The box illustration is highly evocative of the way Battletech axrylic illustrations were made then, with broad strokes and minimal suggestion of detail. As you can see on the box, at least three companies seem to have owned or own the line: Atlantic, Nexus and now Italeri. i also know that EM4 carries these figures.

The painting above shows the mech scale seemingly different from the stated scale of 1/500 though as far as i can tell though. I'm basing my thoughts on the figures seen near the foreground, assuming these are 6 foot men. But that's the nice thing about sci-fi and fantasy! You can tell the rivet counters to chill:)

Inside, you get a packet of 6 hex slotta bases, a sprue of robots and another sprue of weapons. You get two large humanoid models of the same type, a smaller pair of humanoid mechs and one "chicken" walker type. Plastic's sturdy and crisp. Reminds me of the old warhammer plastic models, but with chunkier parts. Plus, the figures detach easily from the sprues. I found some parts easier to just twist off rather using my sprue sidecutter. The feet have pegs that fit into the slotta base well.

The weapons could be mixed and matched without glue thru pegs and holes although I found the rocket arrays too loose to stay in place. The weapons look nice but I found the number of combinations lacking. Some look good on specific models while the other dont.

Here are some weapons combinations.

And here are some scale comparisons. From left to right is a 20mm figure, followed by a 25mm figure, then a large 28-30mmk figure and finally a 28mm figure. I dont own any 15mm figure but I guess you coulod eyeball the scale using the 20mm figure.

I'm not yet sure how I'll be using these mechs but aside from doing the obvious mechwarrior gaming, I think they could be combat androids for the said scales above. I like the look of the chicken walker but the weapons may need changing.