Sculpting - ****
These are two generic characters, not based on anyone specific though some have said they see James McAvoy in the male agent and Keira Knightly in the female, I admit I can see a ‘little’ of both, but certainly not enough for it to be them. 

They both have strong personalities coming through, if that makes any sense? What I mean is that ‘generic’ sculpts can often end up being bland and lifeless where as both these are very far from bland… or lifeless. 

The male has beautifully sculpted hair and a strong determined expression, the eyebrows are slightly arched and the eyes looking off slightly to the right. The female is slightly more pouty, but still deadly-serious with eyes straight forward, she’s beautifully sculpted, but beautiful as well. 

If she were flesh and blood she’d be a super model, I’m getting a little Natasha Kinski coming through, but at the end of the day I think Yulli just wanted to give us a ‘hot’ girl that’s an amalgamation of many of the ‘hot’ actress’ du jour, be that Jolie, Knightly or Portman.

Now for the surprise, she comes with rooted hair instead of sculpted, (as will The Spirit Silken Floss figure) it’s a thing that polarises 1/6 collectors, though I have to admit I like both for different reasons. I still have many Takara fem figures and a couple of ZC Girls, I like them a lot but the aesthetic of the face sculpts is much more ‘doll’ like, meaning the rooted hair can make some feel they swerve too closely to the Barbie camp, this face sculpt however is very far from Barbie like. 

As I said, pouty but deadly in a good way, her mouth is slightly open, her nose rounded but well formed, her eyes are quite far apart making me think of yet another ‘beauty’ Uma Thurman (see, I said… they’re all in there!) whilst her hair sweeps across her face from a left side parting. The ears are fully sculpted but mostly covered by the hair. It’s often difficult to get the hairline right on rooted figures but HT have created an invisible ‘step’ so the hair is in effect counter sunk, a simple idea that works pretty well. The hair colour is one of the sticking points for some ‘military’ collectors as well, it’s an unusual tone. It looks like someone with mid brown hair has given it a plum rinse, it’s striking, there’s no two ways about it, but would a Secret Service agent necessarily want ‘striking’ hair ‘if’, like Marcus Brody they are required to blend in… disappear!
You may notice in some of the pics I decided to tie the hair back, I just used some fine string and I feel it was appropriate for a female officer in the field to do this, and what ever you think of the choice of colour it still can’t detract from the fact these two are sculpted beautifully, and if you go for the Sideshow version she’ll be blonde anyway… do they let blondes in the secret service?

Paint - ****
Apart from a few flourishes here and there on the accessories all the major work is on the heads. Both have subtle skin tones with the guy being slightly darker and having the airbrushed stubble growth. The eyes are super glossy and well picked out, as are the mouths, the girls being glossy as well meaning the sculpted details catch the light even better. They haven’t fallen into the trap of making the girls eyelashes too glam, it’s kept simple making her look far more like a woman on a mission rather than a date, so like the sculpting it’s all flawless, top marks.

Articulation - Him **** Her ***1/2
Well he comes on the standard True-Type (TT) so apart from any restrictions from the outfit (and that’s really only from the jacket) he’s very poseable. 

She comes on the newly developed female body, not quite as articulated as the male TT as it lacks the same range at the shoulders, and has no double knees, but the thigh is sculpted in such a way that the knee is in effect covered. I’m sure HT can and will eventually improve on this, but the aesthetic works very well. The torso is covered in a rubber material with a solid armature beneath, so although at first glance you’d think it is totally immobile, there is actually tons of movement in both her abdomen and neck. The hips move freely on universal joints, there are cut thighs and pinned and rocking ankles, her double-elbows can bend back on themselves completely and the hands (sadly only gloved) are on cut-ball joints with pins.

Accessories - *** 3/4
HT military figures always come with a decent selection of goodies. Some have more than others but they’re never what you could call lacking. 

I’ve said before I’m no expert on firearms, in fact I’m very far from it, and I have to say the P90 that the female operative comes with looks more like a sci-fi fantasy firearm, but it’s a real world weapon, and the G36C that the guy has feels like real world Pulse Rifle… which is a good thing, to me anyway. 

All the weapons have articulated elements the P90 is literally covered in gizmos, torches, a transparent top loaded magazine, scopes etc (the scope and mag-light style torch even have flip up dust covers) I also found that by twisting the suppressor, it can come off leaving the snub nosed version of the weapon. The male officers G36 has a folding stock, removable magazine, the bar running along the top has a handle that flips sideways for cocking, the top section and front can all be stripped down, hell even the safety catch works! 

Both the P9‘s have removable magazines and cocking mechanisms, all top sculpted stuff and very well put together. Here’s a more concise list of exactly what they get:

She has-
Handmic
Radio & Pouch
Tactical Gloves
Flashlight w/ Pouch
Pistol Magazine Pouch
2 x P90 magazines
Gas Mask Pouch
Sunglasses
Patch
P90
M9 Pistol w/ Holster
Ankle Knife

He has-+ Unifo
Low Profile Headset w/ Radio
Assault Gloves
Watch
Carbiner
Handcuff
Flashlight w/ Pouch
Pistol Magazine Pouch
Gas Mask Pouch
Utility Pouch
Goggles
G36C
M9 Pistol w/ Holster
Ankle Knife

The only things that are sorely missed are some un-gloved hands! Neither figure has any, but in fairness HT never said they would! 

There are plenty of male hands floating around out there and as most HT figures come with a good selection you wont be found wanting for the guy. However, unless you have the POTC Liz Swann (and are willing to remove her hands) you are going to find it difficult finding bare hands for the female, another set would have been cool, especially as I think this is gonna be many a kit-bashers wet dream come true, making this the only factor keeping them from a full score!

Outfit - ****
Like in accessories they share a lot of common elements (though obviously tailored differently) but have differing vests and main weapons, I shall ‘*’ the unique items-

She has
Tactical Jacket
Body Armour
Tactical Vest*
Police BDU (combat shirt and pants)
Tactical Belt
Cap
Assault Boots (mixed media)

He comes with
Tactical Jacket
Body Armour
Secret Service Vest *
Police BDU (combat shirt and pants)
Face Mask * (elasticised collar style)
Duty Belt
Cap
Assault Boots (mixed media)

I found that the body armour bulked up the female figure too much when I put her vest on, so I decided to leave it out, its more of an either or situation. But apart from that all the rest of the outfit fitted fine. Well I say fine, the bulky coats restrict quite a bit of the articulation and cover up so much of the cool kit I prefer both without them on, but they’re ideal for other kit-bashes, and although the cap fits the male well, the females silky hair means it struggles to get a good purchase, you’ll find plenty of positions where it sits well, but only for posing and photography, if you move her around too much it can easily get displaced.
Like other military figures you will have to do quite a bit of kitting up. The fiddliest bit on these is getting all the pouches on the belts, but although fiddley it’s all pretty straight forward. The vests are distinctly different, hers is similar to the one pictured here with a zip ‘n’ clip front and lace up back, it has no wording on it, but comes with a Velcro US flag patch. 

Where as his is a plain zip front with larger pockets and pouches on the back. It also has some white-out writing front and back saying WHITE HOUSE DIV, SECRET SERVICE and a printed Secret Service badge on the left hand side chest pocket.

The jackets, vests and BDU’s have working pockets throughout, I was very impressed by the jackets as they bear no less than eight zip up pockets (actually I just discovered a couple of pockets are non-working) plus two inside pockets, a zip front, two zip side panels and a drawstring bottom.

The boots are cool too, as both are wearing properly constructed mixed media footwear, they have rubber soles, leatherette uppers and working laces. I think this is the first HT figure I’ve had with fully realised footwear. I love the fact that this makes the ankle articulation so much better, and in this case they actually look pretty convincing too.