Hot damn that scaling looks great! Now to decide if I'm good enough with super glue to actually assemble a mini....
I felt the same way you did . . . because of TRO67 & PP, I bought minis at that point . . . tons of little bits that could end up all sorts of ways. After putting together a Solitaire, I put the PP Marauder, Marauder IIC, and Scylla into ziplocks to wait . . . for over a decade based on my moving! When I started playing again at a table and getting new minis I bought stuff with no more than 3 or 4 pieces. Then came '45/50 and some of them were so nice looking while I wanted to put them on the table. I started checking . . . and the new ones are much better built for assembly. The ONLY problem I have had with recent minis is the Havoc P6- I cannot get the butt flaps to stay and so I abandoned them. But the Juliano has a LOT of parts, easy to put together- mine has a dynamic running pose.
I recently got a handle with two gripper arms that lets me position pieces on a base as it builds and holds them in place while the glue dries. I was cranking out minis after I got that, put together over a dozen in the space of two weeks. I could glue 6 pieces a day- 2 before work, 2 after work and 2 before bed- without even trying. If I was home it was more like 10 or 12 pieces. Went through a lot of the minis that were still in blisters or ziplocks from IWM. Now I am down to stuff I want to try some more radical changes- like cutting legs free of the bases on the Starslayer & Falconer.