Plastic White Lions and Dragon Princes - Review

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Orlanth wrote:DRAGON PRINCES

- £18 for five.
- Two sprues, one large, one small with horses and riders on sprue, plus seperate bases.
- Five in the boxset as what is now standard.
- The horses are not slotta but their hooves rest on minor scenery elements.
Each steed is in two halves with molded on rider legs and high backed saddles. Heads with reins attached are a further two pieces. Each horse and head is different and the heads appear to be interchangable so multiple boxsets give a good variety.
- The standard bearer carries a huge pennant on a short banner pole. This can be topped by one of two distinct standard dragon headpieces that look really good.
- There are six molded shields and six sword in scabbards for each knight, plus a seperate very long and delicate sword in hand for the champion. This sword is one of the piecest pieces in thr set.
- There are six dragon helmets, many of them with very large wings, one detachable plume and IIRC one naked head.
- The torsos are in two parts with a single oversized bat winged shoulderpad. Given little work you could make Blood Dragons of much of what I found here.
- There are five lances, and five seperate small pennants with crenelated edges. I can see problems getting the pennants to stay on the lances similar to the problems Silver Helms have.

This is a really nice set. each and every one looks like a hero. I have twelve of the metal Dragon Princes and am happy enough with them, yet these miniatures so completely outdo the older miniatures that despite my poor budget limit I will retire my old Dragon Princes and replace them with these ones.

I got to see a set of Dragon Princes at my GW. They really are some of the nicest models I've seen GW do, IMHO. They are ridiculously OTT, but then, they're kinda supposed to be.