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I'd Kill for a Moustache like that.

 Theophony wrote:
I'd Kill for a Moustache like that.

and sculpted eyebrows on a mini!

Yeah, those proportions seem off. Quite unfortunate.

The big knees, huge pauldron, puffy sleeves, and bulky scabbard might be making a model with normal proportions look like it's 70% torso, but that's not really an excuse for ol' Moustache McHammerHelm looking so janky.

For what its worth, in real world rennaissance tiny legs and a great square torso was the ultimate power look.

I honestly think he looks great.

If you look at where the belt is, it's about halfway between the bottom of his feet and the top of his head (not counting the crest of his helmet). I just measured, and my belt-line is 55% of my height.
As other people have said, his armor is weirdly proportioned, not necessarily his body.

Can't wait to see him ranked beside regular troops so I can see how much bigger (or not) he is. Not a model I plan to get, but curious if he's suffering from the Bret foot knight size creep.

The proportions do feel a bit off but he rather embodies the Ankh-Morpork City Watch mindset towards their armoury, "One size doesn't quite fit all", where the same armour looks wrong on everybody but in different ways.

He's gloriously warhammery.

Well I like him but Character models are not something I am lacking so I'll probably pass on him.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
The big knees, huge pauldron, puffy sleeves, and bulky scabbard might be making a model with normal proportions look like it's 70% torso, but that's not really an excuse for ol' Moustache McHammerHelm looking so janky.

Having done some quick head-length measurements, if I remember my canon of proportions right, I think it might actually be his torso that’s undersized, it’s just thrown off visually by the excessive size of his gorget, greaves and skirt.

I make it 2 headlengths from floor to knees (which is right), ~2 from knee to waist (also right) and ~2 from waist to chin (when it should be 3). That’s assuming his belt is supposed to be sat on the waist, if it’s meant to be higher it might be 1.5HL for the thighs and 2.5 for the body, which make both short, but the body a bit less so.

For what it's worth a shop on Facebook says Empire Jan 11.

So save your Christmas pennies

Old World Almanack – And for our next trick…

these are all so incredibly wizardly. love the familiars, too! elementalist and necromancer are both just fantastic models

Very nice indeed – dripping with character. Very nice to see some updates of classic familiars (even if I'm a bit sad that's not a Gnome Wizard, but a familiar).

Their release does make me question why GW have made such a point about this being set before the Colleges of Magic have been established, only to release three themed so obviously around them.

Not that it's a problem, of course, but just made me scratch my head a bit (just like the preponderance of Steam Tanks).

Guess that’s three models destined for the Pile of Opporchancity.

They'd be ideal for Frostgrave. I don't do FW, but I might make an exception for the Necromancer if about £23.

 Apologist wrote:

Their release does make me question why GW have made such a point about this being set before the Colleges of Magic have been established, only to release three themed so obviously around them.

Except they arent? Its a battle wizard, an elementalist, and a necromancer. If they have certain similarities to certain colleges its because the magics associated with those disciplins overlap with those of certain colleges.

I like the familiars so much more than the actual wizards.

Lovely models. More to add to the list. This release is going to hurt.

Those are some really great wizard models and familiars - and yeah you can tell the designer had a lot of fun with the familiars!

Mighty fine models and nice to see a nod to the fact that both Middenheim and Talebheim have had official Magic Schools /Guilds for hundreds of years by this point

The druid is a bit Warcrafty, the other two are excellent.

 Apologist wrote:
Their release does make me question why GW have made such a point about this being set before the Colleges of Magic have been established, only to release three themed so obviously around them.

The Amber-ish wizard makes sense, as their traditions date back to pre-collegiate shamanic traditions, but to go with that there really should have been a Jade-esque druid type. Anyone walking around with a scythe and a skeletal sidekick is just begging to be burned as a necromancer in this era.

Such lovely wizards!
I had no idea I needed more spellcasters, but there you have it.

These are genuinely excellent models. Love the Elementalist in particular.

Oh I just remembered you can take hedge wizards in Bretonnia!

 Shakalooloo wrote:
Anyone walking around with a scythe and a skeletal sidekick is just begging to be burned as a necromancer in this era.

Why? You could always say you're a shaman or a priest of Morr, Sure, some people would burn you, others won't. And the Witch-hunters got their licence to torture/burn/kill everyone outside the Colleges of Magic from Magnus the Pious.

He's not a skeleton - he's just one of the lower classes who isn't fed much.. he's just skin and bones...mostly bones but still not undead honest!

The light wizard looks like he could double as a bright wizard. His robes have flame designs. I assume it’s intentional, since the amber wizard also has plant details