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I agree that the red one does look better. I think it's how they painted the neck of that face the the same as the deamons skin so it blends in and just leaves the face itself. The neck is what really throws if off in the other ones.
cucritow wrote:Here's a pict they have posted on their wiki, showing much more details.
There's also a lot of pictures up on their forum from GenCon.
Is that fightin' Jesus facing off against the Demon?
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BrookM wrote:It's not really transport friendly now is it?
I also find the head rather unappealing.
They have stated that the scythe is built so you can easily make it to be removable, should decide to do so in order to move him around easily. The game designer told me that the blue one was built so the head is removable (and maybe switchable, he didn't want to say more, maybe built his own ?) so that nothing bad would happen to the small parts. He said that his own (the red one) didn't require much special shipment care either.
Not really a fan of the sculpt, especially the head. If the kit is cheap it may be worth the investment for chaosy bits.
I also think that this new company could do a better job of getting painters to make their models look more appealing. Beyond the god-awful head on this model, the paint job looks very toyish.
Yeah...it's too amorphic. All the anatomical cues that people home in on are wrong. I know they were aiming for a "weird" vibe by doing this, but I think it just came across as muddied. No real purpose or coherency. I can't see myself using it as anything other than a base for conversions (ones that include chopping off the whole head(?) and probably green-stuffing that damn ear-thing. The soul-cage is nice, as is the humongous scythe. I know a buddy with a Deathguard army and I'm sure I could convince him that he wants a daemon prince that's almost the size of a bloody titan.
Actually...I want a titan-sized daemon prince. Question is, how do I make a tech-daemon that large?
If I were a Nurgle player, I would totally buy this thing, GS the tits out of it, and use it as a Great Unclean One or Greater Daemon. out of the box, it's not really anything special. But it's a terrific base for some creative sculpting work.
After seeing the red one, I've realized that the ''face'' with the horns in place of the eyes is actually the nose, and the eyes were practically on the torso, and not to mention the neck and downward a little is a mouth, so it's one 'effed up face overall.. Tzeentch comes to mind.
I think the big demon is interesting, but the detail is really, really flat. As in children's toy flat. It is a shame too, as it really had potential. Like the base; it is a big disappointment.
Though the angels on the other hand look pretty neat. I love the poses they have going and the armour designs are solid.
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Yes they are part of a new line of 1:1 scale miniatures being released by Wizards of the Coast after reacquiring the Star Wars license from Lucas. They are pretty nice but unfortunately they are prepainted and somewhat expensive (even though they are still cheaper than GW miniatures at this point)
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terribletrygon wrote:I think the big demon is interesting, but the detail is really, really flat. As in children's toy flat. It is a shame too, as it really had potential. Like the base; it is a big disappointment.
The lack of exaggerated detail isn't so much of a problem... up against the human-sized models, it helps keep him in scale.
The bigger problem is that he looks to have been sculpted in pieces, with no real effort made to match up the detail at the joints.
terribletrygon wrote:I think the big demon is interesting, but the detail is really, really flat. As in children's toy flat. It is a shame too, as it really had potential. Like the base; it is a big disappointment.
The lack of exaggerated detail isn't so much of a problem... up against the human-sized models, it helps keep him in scale.
The bigger problem is that he looks to have been sculpted in pieces, with no real effort made to match up the detail at the joints.
According to the assembly instructions found on their site, most models require green stuff for the joint lines.
I'm not talking about filling in gaps. I'm talking about the detail not matching up. If you look at his shoulders and hip joints, there's a noticeable joint line with completely different detail on either side of it.
Is that the differences in skin texture? I noticed that, and thought it was a bit of a shame. I'm delighted to see big plastic kits from other sources than GW, though. Kudos to them for making a go of it, depending on price it could be worth looking at.
I have an inkling it'll be pretty expensive though...
Looking at all the photos again I've really come around even more. Without any modifications it doesn't look so hot but... DAMN is it going to make an amazing base for conversions. It looks like it's 10-12 inches tall FFS.
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As much as I like some parts, the only really good part, in all honesty, is the scythe. I love that scythe. Everything else is overall, meh. It doesn't help that the thread on the base left me with a bad taste in the mouth over Ex Illis.
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