To some degree, I'm actually pleasantly surprised, the figures aren't that bad.
They do not approach the standards of Italeri or Zvezda - or even Airfix - but I think their look suits the period quite well, I suspect they might have been inspired by various paintings and woodcuts from the era.
They remind me a little bit of Games Workshop miniatures, being rather chunky and somewhat cartoonish, in fact, if someone felt like building a Warhammer Fantasy Empire army in 1/72 scale, the Mars TYW range would be a great place to start......
The sculpting is a little...uneven...pretty sure the Imperial Heavy Cavalry, Swedish Heavy Cavalry and Imperial Dragoons were done by 3 different sculptors, but hey, people don't all look the same, either.
Not yet, anyway.
The pikes might present a little bit of a problem, you literally have to carve them out of sheets of plastic, which is going to require an extremely sharp knife and a VERY steady hand.
There's going to be some mixing and matching, since most of the soldiers of the various factions looked more or less the same anyway, and there really weren't any uniforms as such, so just because it says 'Spanish Tertio' on the box doesn't mean they will end up being Spanish.......
I even got a screen shot of Aragorn at the battle of Rocroi in the bargain (Arquebusiers box).
