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That troll is cool. Nice, dynamic pose!

And those horses are terrible...

 malfred wrote:




Epic Abby

Stuff like this and the Journeyman convinces me that they really need to go back and re-sculpt more of the older Warcasters. They've really come a long way in a pretty short amount of time.

 malfred wrote:
http://privateerpress.com/hordes/gallery/legion-of-everblight/warlocks/absylonia-daughter-of-everblight



Epic Abby

Malfred, stop that. You are making me want to try Legion.

 Tanakosyke22 wrote:

 malfred wrote:
http://privateerpress.com/hordes/gallery/legion-of-everblight/warlocks/absylonia-daughter-of-everblight



Epic Abby

Malfred, stop that. You are making me want to try Legion.

Pffft, there is evidence that you can't get over certain stylistic things with the faction

Nice!

Apparently she'll have Conferred Rage (like Butcher2) and from her description it sounds like she'll give some sort of mutation ability to her beasts, which would be cool. I think she has a lot of potential, can't wait to see the full spoilers this weekend

That's actually a pretty big miniature. That's a 40mm base she's on.

I think a couple local legion players will get her and I'll end up playing against her. I'll stick to my skorne for Hordes.

Wow, that is a pretty awesome looking model! Can't wait to see what she does.

I really wish PP could put out models like that and Horgol more often. They are about 40/60 hit/miss with me, maybe 35/65. I love the game so much, but I hate having to buy the models. :(

 Wehrkind wrote:
Wow, that is a pretty awesome looking model! Can't wait to see what she does.

I really wish PP could put out models like that and Horgol more often. They are about 40/60 hit/miss with me, maybe 35/65. I love the game so much, but I hate having to buy the models. :(

I just finished a painting comission for the entire convergence of cyriss line released so far and I know exactly what you mean. The metal models are mostly okay, but the plastics are especially inconsistent. The cyriss light jacks were my least favorite thing to paint ever and the small based models had horrific mould lines and everything needed heat treatment to straighten out the weapons. I was originally going to do Cephalyx but when I found out just how much the initial release is plastic, I decided to stick with the eDeneghra tier list with Cephalyx instead. I have 75 points of Cryx, 75 of Khador, 20ish of Mercs and I got a bunch of metal skorne in a trade, so I'm pretty much good for WM/H and have moved into historicals in a big way instead.

eAbby looks great though. Too bad the model will be paired up with things like banana-hands scythian and the terrible hobgoblins they call nyss.

 frozenwastes wrote:


eAbby looks great though. Too bad the model will be paired up with things like banana-hands scythian and the terrible hobgoblins they call nyss.

Oh man, yea. The only things that can make me want to buy GW lately are Nyss heads; I am told Wytch heads swap nicely for them.

Agreed, both on PP plastics and their high "miss rate" on sculpts. It's crazy for what is now a really established company bringing in a lot of revenue to continue both trends... and to top it off, duplicate, non-poseable sculpts in every unit, even most small ones!

I would love if they would move away from PVC / restic... it works fine on larger jacks and beasts, imo, but does not lend itself to small infantry well at all. But I think they're moving much more towards it, instead... a local friend who picked up Cyriss said the same thing about those models, and that's one of their newest lines

How's PP's customer service then?

As good as GW's when it comes to replacing miscasts?

I don't know about miscasts, but I have never had problems getting them to replace missing cards or parts.

Yes. You send them an e-mail. A short time later you have all your replacement parts.

That's not service btw. That is required by the law in any country. If you as a company fail to deliver the product (or parts of it), you are OBLIGED by the law to fulfill it.

If you've never had miscasts, that's a pretty good indicator of overall quality, maybe?

 Alpharius wrote:
If you've never had miscasts, that's a pretty good indicator of overall quality, maybe?

I haven't had miscasts, but have had poorly mixed/set resin, which I find way worse since you can figure that out too late (have one colossal that I needed to brace with scenery so it would stay standing up). Their QC and replacement policy/communication is about on par with any medium-sized minis company I've gotten stuff from.

Well, I also haven't gotten any of the models known for miscasts, so there's that. My plastics are limited mostly to Circle wolves and argusses and skinwalkers. I have heard locals complaining about Cyriss stuff a fair bit, but I have no personal experience.

In terms of replacement of missing bits and service, it is true it is required, but how they go about executing that requirement has a huge amount of leeway. PP never asked questions about replacing cards for me, and only asked if I could send a picture of the two right arms I got with Megalith. In all cases the turnaround time was very quick, which is good compared to some companies that have given me a run around for a few weeks (CMoN).

Cyriss seems to get the most flak in regard to bad castings.

My trolls have been all over the place in terms of plastics quality. I've got some Dire Trolls that were flawless, while others were just covered in flash in all the worst places.

I've got champions that were great, and warders (basically same mold) that I have yet to touch because the rampant flash and mold lines on them has not made me want to even open the box up again, they were going to require so much work!

Champions/Warders are one of their better units too. I had a miscast champion and a few card issues. They sent replacements within 3 days of getting the email.

 Wehrkind wrote:

 frozenwastes wrote:


eAbby looks great though. Too bad the model will be paired up with things like banana-hands scythian and the terrible hobgoblins they call nyss.

Oh man, yea. The only things that can make me want to buy GW lately are Nyss heads; I am told Wytch heads swap nicely for them.

I don't buy GW stuff much anymore, but I'm thinking of adding Nyss Hunters to my cryx and instead of getting the actual models, I might just get a box of dark eldar wyches. Instead of bows they'll have strange crxian pistols and their general aesthetic will probably fit pretty well.

Locally I've seen someone use glade guard as Nyss Hunters. I've also seen Dark Elf corsairs in a Legion army.

PP makes great rules and a good portion of their miniatures are awesome as well, but it's sad that I'm honestly considering playing the game with GW models after having left 40k and WFB long ago.


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 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Cyriss seems to get the most flak in regard to bad castings.

When I started the entire faction commission, I started with the large jacks and the medium base infantry and they were all fine. Then I got the light jacks to paint along with all the small based plastic infantry. That's where the problems were. Though I have heard from people who have had really bad mould lines on their heavies. The ones I worked on were flawless.

EAbsylonia:You now want to start legion
Me:No, I want to finish my khador and do trollbloods
EAbsylonia: But look at me
Wallet: Dont listen to her, you already started IG, dont listen to her

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/mercenaries/units/cephalyx-dominator



http://privateerpress.com/hordes/gallery/circle-orboros/solos/una-the-falconer



http://privateerpress.com/hordes/gallery/skorne/solos/tyrant-zaadesh



I really love Zaadesh's sculpt. It's got great movement and a certain simplicity yet complexity. The proportions are also very well done.

Whoa, I picked up Una the Falconer for a friend at AdeptiCon, but had never seen the painted pic... that model is sweet!

Was that friend not me? Or did you just forget to tell me?

That Cephalyx is looking like he's doing Maximus' "Are you not entertained?" pose. Like there isn't enough bloodshed on the field as it stands...

That Falconer is going to be one of those pieces that I bet sees a lot of action in painting competitions. It just looks really nice done up nicely. Too bad I can't paint one that nice (nor do I want to start yet another faction).

 Wehrkind wrote:
Was that friend not me? Or did you just forget to tell me?

It was one of our local press gangers (Andrew) . Sorry, next time I'll check if you want something! (I didn't offer but he texted me while there to see if I could nab it)

 RiTides wrote:

 Wehrkind wrote:
Was that friend not me? Or did you just forget to tell me?

It was one of our local press gangers (Andrew) . Sorry, next time I'll check if you want something! (I didn't offer but he texted me while there to see if I could nab it)

Eh no worries. I think Jin was supposed to get the Circle releases for me, but was hung over and still wiping the powder off his nose by the time they sold out.

Just wanted to check because I had just put in a MM order Monday for Una and the lights and didn't want to find out there was one waiting for me at your house

 Wehrkind wrote:

 RiTides wrote:

 Wehrkind wrote:
Was that friend not me? Or did you just forget to tell me?

It was one of our local press gangers (Andrew) . Sorry, next time I'll check if you want something! (I didn't offer but he texted me while there to see if I could nab it)

Eh no worries. I think Jin was supposed to get the Circle releases for me, but was hung over and still wiping the powder off his nose by the time they sold out.

Just wanted to check because I had just put in a MM order Monday for Una and the lights and didn't want to find out there was one waiting for me at your house

It wasn't just on his nose.

Just saying.

All the solos and unit attachments from the skarlock commander to the iron fang kovnik to the cephalyx dominator have all gone into crazy land in terms of prices. I just got the blister of three overlords and they were $22 for three models. $18 for one? No sale.

Can't wait to get Imperitus. I've been proxying him in games and he's So Good.

I've swapped Nyss Hunter heads for various Dark Eldar unhelmeted heads on several units and I think it looks really good, depending of course on which heads you get your hands on. I've got a unit I'm going to put the Scourge masked heads on eventually, but not gotten around to it.

I love Una's model, except the staff. That stick of hers is just way too busy with the birds on it like that. Plus she's apparently stupid strong to hold it up off the ground like that.

Are you actually emailing PP for missing parts or are you using the portal? I've never had a miscast metal or resin part, and while their plastic is a crap material, I've never gotten any with mold lines or other issues that made it nessisary to replace them. I have had missing or wrong parts multiple times but filling out that missing parts form portal on their site always gets that fixed in short order.

I have used the portal, and I think emailed them once or twice, though I don't remember why I emailed them... either way, neither experience was memorable other than "Well, that went well."