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How do!

Can’t resist a bargain, and figured this was worth sharing. Maxmini are offering a £20 mystery box of Fantasy style models. Guaranteed to have 40 resin models, at least one Monster, and no duplicates

I’ve ordered one, because at 50p a model and kind of wanting random “schedule fillers” for my 2024 hobby odyssey, I’d be a fool not to.

Here’s your link to the good stuff https://maxminishop.com/collections/just-in/products/fantasy-mystery-box

Even if they need some gap filling (might be factory seconds?), it’s still 50p a model. Like the good old days.

TWENTY POUNDS.

Good grief, at those prices you can't afford not to. Ah jeez Doc I am not very happy with you right now. I have some pondering to do.

It’s the sweet, sweet siren song of your wallet calling to you.

Or possibly the mating call of a Womble.

I think you need to order one to riddle out the source of that call.

For science.


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Oh, and it’s £20 including shipping

Do you want a bargain, or do you want to risk Great Uncle Bulgaria frottering your leg?

There are some miniatures from them I'd like but I'm not the guy that wants to have 40 random minis I'd possibly have no use for.

Seems mine is in the process of packing.

I’ll do a pic or three of the contents once it’s received.

I took a punt and seems like mine is on the way too, cheers for the heads up Mad Doc.

You’re welcome

I fancied some random minis for painting, and possibly gifting.

Mine is arriving tomorrow it seems.
Ordered last week

Hmmm I would need to buy five to get free shipping...

Also you know it's gonna be halflings, that's 70% of their range

16 halflings. 7 orcs, 17 undead, 2 spiders, 3 frogmen, and one large lizard guy.

I've had mine, a lot of flash, some broken bits, some mis-casting, some mould left on the items too.

Is that the same with others?

Edit:

I have (approx) half a lizard guy (legs and weapon), 2 spiders, 9 undead halflings, 17 regular halfings, 5 human undead, 3 frog people, 6 orks, 2 large goblins

I have pretty much the exact same, including just two bits of a kroxigor type creature, with no torso and head. I’m guessing this is supposed to be the ‘monster’ in the box.

Sounds like ours is basically the same.
One really bad flash right down the casting where it looks to have spilled out.
Rest just minor bits to remove from usual casting.
Nothing broken.
Are you sure you didn’t get the top half of the lizard dude?

Yeah the Kroxigor is not all there unfortunately, he’d have been a nice addition to my lizardmen, too.

Lord_Blackfang was right about it being heavy on the Halflings, but I think they’ll be slotting in with my Ogres as counts as Gnoblars, so it’s not a total bust.

I like mystery boxes but the prevalence of halflings stops me from ordering. never liked the little guys.
they have really cool fantasy ranges though.

Same, missing Koroxigor torso, and I've checked all the models.

The website doesn't allude to the fact that these are seconds, or miscasts, but there's quite a few large mould lines, or stuff on the figure which relates to pieces of the silicon mould deteriatoring (I have a halfing with a net, and half his face is just some strange flat protusion).

It's fair enough, I was just exciting about getting random things, and forgot that it's Halfling central over there. I'd have loved a vampire halfling though!

I expected half halflings.
I don’t have any prior so they’ll be for something, not sure what.

All the undead (halfling or otherwise) will be fine to slot into my Vampire Counts/KoW Undead or whatnot. So that’s of use.

The frogs I just like so will paint up.
Well I’d like to say same with everything in the long run.

Was considering getting one of these, not so sure now after the posts about what people got.

I can understand getting ones that require a bit of cleaning and filling in a few areas, but having some outright miscast, broken or incomplete sounds pretty bad. They should have mentioned that's the sort of quality you might get on the page if they're using it to sell the rejected ones that they couldn't sell normally.

Mine has arrived, as others mostly halflings, loads of flash and clean up needed.

About 20% of the small models have snapped weapons with no weapon bits in the bag so looks like snapped before added, and the large ogre has about 1mm mould slip all around.

Just received mine.

So far looks like my luck is in, as I’ve not noticed anything particularly awful. Monster is a big old Ogre, a one piece wonder. It is of course otherwise mostly Halflings.

Another arrival here

All in all, bit of a disappointing bunch of crap if I'm honest, quite a lot of flash to clean up on almost everything

As per the majority it's mainly halflings, about 3 orcs, 2 frog people, some undead halflings, have about 3 broken off weapons

Large monster was one of the lizard men, looks like I got lucky though as I've got legs, body and weapons, does have a nasty mold lines on the torso though

?

Seemed like a fun thing to buy, but I skipped it. I don't need a ton of Halflings, and I'm sitting on Reaper Bones 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, with 6 to ship soonish.

gak. I have a lot of stuff to paint, still.

I didn’t even know they did a Bones VI actually.
I have loads of stuff from V though also.
Maybe some of this can combine in to those bits to be useful in some kind of game as a skirmish warband or something.

But as Doc my stuff was all good aside from one with a chunk of flash. Rest of the clean up was all minor bits I’d expect on plastics and resins from anyone.

I ended up sending them an email about the missing lizardman torso, I was expecting dodgy casts and broken weapons but the ‘monstrous’ mini was the one thing they specifically mentioned as being present in the box and is really what clinched it for me. I have a feeling I’m gonna get told to do one but I do want the rest of my lizard!

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I ended up sending them an email about the missing lizardman torso, I was expecting dodgy casts and broken weapons but the ‘monstrous’ mini was the one thing they specifically mentioned as being present in the box and is really what clinched it for me. I have a feeling I’m gonna get told to do one but I do want the rest of my lizard!

Monstrous mini is a bit of a con too, those lizards are a set of 3 usually, what you've actually got is the equivalent of a £4 model !

I think that is their Monstrous mini sized thing though.

It wasn’t Monster which are the huge kits nearer 20 for one of them.
If anyone ordered thinking they’d get one of those I guess more fool them.