Review: Joe Petrosino - Terrible Kids Stuff by Sergeant BlackArt

Hello Guys

Today we open together, for the first time, a Terrible Kids Stuff model by Sergeant Blackart.

By few months I got this package in my desk, given to me directly by the hands of Lance Corporal Vittorio of S-Team.
I never opened it before, maybe due by the dangerous sticker on the package,

But more possible due by my lack of time.
So now I'll make it directly for the review.

The package looks like this

It's a very nice replica of a wooden box for weapons or ammo, made of brown hard cardboard and printed with the logoes "TERRIBLE KIDS STUFF" and "SERGEANT BLACKART".
In addition, as mentioned before, we find a nice sticker "EXPLOSIVE"..I don't want to think what would happened if I had been stopped at customs, probably the "nothing to declare" wouldn't be helpful.

Let's open the box.

And here we are a mini briefcase FBI style with the word "CONFIDENTIAL"..it gets interesting.

Going on..

..and inside the folder there are 2 front and back printed in full color leaflets and two SERGEANT BLACKART stickers (sure that which one ends up on the my surfboard)
In the printed sheets there are:
- The background history of our character.
- The concept art
- The box art
- The image with the pieces to assemble (very useful in my opinion to instantly check if there is everything inside)

And here we are, just to spend few words on the miniature and on its creators.
Details, however, that you can find in the Terrible kids stuff shop

Joe Petrosino
- Category: Gangster's Planet
A nice steampunk style, with half animal or half machine  characters, set in the era of American Prohibition
To let you point out that all the characters of the line Gaster's planet were inspired by guys really existed
- Concept: Andrea Jula

- Sculptor: Benoit Cauchies
- Painter: Fabrizio Russo

- Material: White Metal
there is a reason in the  in the google search results, beside of the name Sergeant BlackArt, you can read LEAD EATER
- Pieces: 11
- Scale: 1:32 or 54 mm

At this point there is nothing else to add

I remove the protective foam and let the photos speak for themselves

7 metal pieces , a bag and a brooch!! (WOOOOW..Stickers and brooch..These guys are just PUNK!)

And take a better look at the contents inside the bag, custom too, nothing is left to chance. Very good Sergeant BlackArt!

I take the Pattafix (blue tac), the cutter, the sandpaper, a bit of water and the slip of paper illustrated.

And Let's see together this kit in detail.

The first thing that catches my eyes, the animal part of the piece.
There are no burrs on the junction of the two parts, so I try now to make a dry assembly test of the two pieces. QUELLE SURPRISE! ( cit. Sherlock Holmes..Sorry I was not able to hold myself )

The two pieces without pattafix are ​​perfectly united and stable, I could probably fit bust and jaw if it wasn't for the gravity force..Damn Newton!
The legs are strong, so there is also no risk to be deformed during the working processing (drilling, cleaning and glueing.)
Ah, I must not forget to mention that in leg of my model, I didn't find any mold lines.

Let the bust.

There are two very thin mold lines on the sides ranging from ear to the junction of the shoulder, but they are subtle and as you can see in the below pictures aren't really visible. Just one coat of sandpaper soaked in water and everything disappears.
The real mold line is found on the left side of the miniature, from armpit to waistline.

BUT..No problem, I can list 3 possibilities to solve it.

- Leave it as it is, meanwhile, it's an area almost hidden by mechanical arm with the trap.
- You can paint it as if the jacket in contact with the mechanical arm is punctured, burned or stained.
- Arm yourself with Milliput White or Magic Stuff and a bit of patience, once mixed the two-component materials, mix all with water or alcohol and then once it reaches the density of homogenized baby food, lay it on the affected part.
Wait for it to dry and then with sandpaper (I use the 1000 grit) sanded and finished all using the sandpaper wet in the water.

A nice thing about this model is the Buttondown collar, and by concept, sculpture and boxart leaked that the collar is a part of a kind of metal bust. A model to asylum.

Another detail of the bust is the plugin with the hat..

..how many times have we saw helmets or hats worn backwards in the models, but with this model for sure you can't wrong.
Also because the hat has a nice hole gun (which is a historical reference to the death of Joe Petrosino?)

And now the mechanical arm

there are mold lines on both sides.
Don't worry, with a bit of fine sandpaper (1000 grit)soaked in water and with less than 1 minute per segment, you will eliminate perfectly the lines, PIC!

At the end of the mechanical arm is the hand..ehm sorry..the giant trap!
just clean a bit the arch graft with cutter..

..and the two blades are hooked perfectly to the mechanism, almost interlocking.

The right arm

Without defects

Here the rifle to be mounted on Joe's back.

And maybe here I found the only real tiny flaw.

a line of fusion between the two gun barrels, to clean it you will take a sharp blade (a bit of careful to not cut yourself) and with bit of patience you have to carve the flaw like a V.
But there is nothing impossible plus I have to say  is just a nit-picking.

And the last picture there is the bust and the hat with a 1 €cent coin, just to let you know the proportions.

The face as you can see is not really in proportion with the classic 54mm, but it is more close to a 75mm!

So I pin up the brooch to my bulletin board..

..and I start to work on it, in the meantime an idea already jumped to my mind.

I hope the article will be helpful for your choices, if you are still undecided in purchasing.
But I would say that it's worth no having in own hands and no painting one of the models of the Terrible Kids Stuff. They really did a nice work!

Cheers.

Cesare "Trevis_11" Trevisiol