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This is something of a "niche" product, which is a polite way of saying that the implications of the description are accurate. Hot Pack #1 and, more generally, the products it samples, are primarily designed for sex appeal, only secondarily for usefulness (outside of the Hot Chicks RPG, of course).
The first two pages consist of assorted figures, most of them with several different outfits. You could use them all as separate characters, but in some cases it's just progressively skimpier versions of a single outfit.
The first page has modern-day women in various outfits, some with equipment, some just standing there. The second page does the same for men, although there seemed to me to be less variety there.
The third page features "techno-terrors," androids and aliens. It's designed for a horde, with a base creature type and small variations on the model to call shots when they're used on the tabletop. Maybe it's the power of suggestion but a lot of these looked like naked women to me, too, enough so that I'm not sure I'd use them outside of very specific contexts (half-completed Dr. Evil fembots, maybe?)
The fourth page has the characters from the adventure "The Peril Pits of Doctor Vore," which I haven't read. The bad guys here are very useful and are very distinct characters (more on this in a moment). There are also more groups of modern-day women, this time in clothed/stark naked versions, and a couple of pits filled with grisly things for the villains to push them into.
The difficulty I have in recommending this product is that well-designed paper minis tend to suggest characters. Some kind of suggestion of personality. I don't get that from these, at all. The small size keeps them out of the Uncanny Valley area that a lot of Dakkar's Poser-style artwork falls into, but there just isn't much life outside of the PPoDV villains.
There are better selections of paper minis on site -- there are even better Poser-style paper minis -- but last I checked they were all fantasy. If you're looking for sorta-photographic-if-you-don't-look-closely minis for a modern setting, well, there aren't many other options. And the figures ARE usable, even if the first couple of pages are dull and the last two just weird.
If, however, you're specifically looking for minis for the Hot Chicks RPG -- or, for that matter, Macho Women With Guns -- well, here you go. Won't find better.
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