I bought two packs of the ancients from the new US manufacturer of the old Vendel figures (Molon Labe/Sgt. Major.) Maybe I was just unlucky, but both packs were pretty poorly cast. In fact, the pack of staff slingers is more or less unusable. It looks like there was a chunk of the mold missing, so one part of the face around the eye is just a horrible lump -- almost like the Skaven figures that have chunks of warpstone jammed into their eye sockets, but less defined. No hope of making them look human. The other pack (hypaspists) was better, but still had a lot of flash - more than any other figure I've seen from any manufacturer in a decade or so. I haven't even bothered with trying to clean/paint them, so I don't remember if the two sides aligned properly or if there was any slippage in the molds. Below is a pic of the hypaspist -- I don't have one of the staff slinger.
EDIT: I just packed these figures up, I had it backwards. The hypaspists, shown below, are the ones with the messed up eyes. It's the left eye, you can kind of see the lump projecting out in front of the helmet in the photo. The staff slingers look somewhat serviceable.All of those figures are in "straight out of the package" condition -- no cleaning/filing done to any of them.
I was going to order a bunch of figures from them, but wanted a couple "sample packs" first. Good thing I did!