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Avatar Somer Review

Welcome to my review of my latest Avatar from Malifaux (Wyrd Guys). This time it is Somer and Peaches or Avatar of Indulgence;

The Box

As you can see it is a pretty standard Wyrd box which is the smallest possible box you will see for the size of the miniatures. And like all instances of these boxes you will need to deal with bent parts on occasions but from my experience nothing great than you get from other companies. As usual you get the miniature artwork on the front which matches the book. So overall a feeling of familiarity.

The Bits

Thats a lot of bits……..

Now comparing this to the aSeamus kit I have also reviewed Somer takes the number of parts to the next level with a lot more metal than resin in this kit than the Seamus one.

The Cards

Like all Avatars Somer comes with the standard 2 rule cards. Which is much easier on old eyes ;)

The Miniature

So first a confession I was not a fan of the miniature when Wyrd first previewed it something didn’t sit right but not one to let my gremlins suffer I picked him up anyway and I must say I am mightily impressed with him now (will teach me not to trust Wyrd).

First up the resin piece (back bacon)

It is the same resin we saw with aSeamus and is well finished although the detailing is not as impressive but expected due to the nature of the miniature.

What I will say is this is one BIG pig.

The Build

As you would imagine this is not the most difficult of miniatures to put together. Everything fits relatively well but some GS work is needed to fill in the odd gap going on with the metal-to-resin pieces.

The one issue I had with this build was that I had to find pictures on the internet of the finished miniature to see how the moonshine still fitted onto peaches perhaps I was being daft when I put it together but I needed the pics to get everything right. Although not essential a little diagram would not have gone a miss.

The Scale

The usual scale picture with the usual characters as you can see this is the fully painted mini for a change I forgot to take pics of the bare metal/resin like I would normally do.

The Finish


Fat Spider Bases Review

Time for another review and as I do enjoy them so much some more resin bases for you to have a butchers at. This time from….

So who is fat spider? Well his name is Alan and he lives in sunny Yorkshire close enough that he can be seen at Leeds gaming clubs (that one I never have time to go to :( ).

At fat spider they offer many resin based terrain pieces from bases through to buildings that will fit in with 28mm scale games. So if you are interested click the banner to get to their website.

Anyway onto the review, today I will be looking at the Cracked Earth & Rocks Lipped Bases. Which I will be partaking in all 3 sizes offered (30, 40 & 50mm).

First up upon receiving the bases in a very timely fashion (something FS pride themselves on) I found that they are in excellent condition with no flash and no ‘bubbling’ that can be seen when resin is used finecast.

50mm – Looking good

40mm – nice

30mm – good variation

As you can see from the above pictures they look pretty good. I am very pleased with this bases and can see them being another company that I like to use for such things.

I can no fault with them at all and the price for them is another plus as coming in at just £3.50 for what you see is a great price in my opinion. But enough about that now for some shots with the bases in use :)

Overall

I would recommend fat spider bases to anyone they are of high quality and Alan is a great chap to deal with.

Fat spider are going to be one of my go-to guys for resin bases and I hope to get hold of some of those buildings soon as well :D


My look at Agrax earthshade

So as you know I love Devlan mud ;)
So time has come to try the new pretender.

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So we have 3 ork heads all base coat of Desert Yellow (like all my orks).
On the left we have old faithful Devlan mud.
Middle is 2 coats of Agrax Earthshade.
Right is a chaos black plus earthshade mix.
So thoughts…..disappointed if i start a new army I could see me using earthshade but it is no replacement for Devlan. This is a huge problem and feel I need to look for alternatives.

Side note the reds on show the left is mechrite red and right is closest current red – Khorne red. I shall not say a thing.


Muskets and Tomahawks

http://www.mikehobbs.co.uk/?p=2386

Sounds very interesting :D


Legends of the High Seas – First Impressions

On my travels around the internet I noticed that Tales of a Tabletop Skirmisher has been looking at a new pirate game…

Always one to look into such things I thought I would share AArrrrrrrrrr..

A couple of days ago, myself and a couple of gaming buddies tried out Legends of the High Seas for the first time. So I thought I would post up my first impressions of the game.

We went for a basic setup (on the dinner table) using the basic rules. Land battle, movement, fighting, shooting and courage. So we could learn step by step we left out Fame, Fortune, Ships and campaigns for this game.

Keep reading HERE


Pericles Class Fleet Carrier – Review

Welcome to my latest miniature review for Dystopian Wars, today I shall be looking at the CoA fleet carrier.

What do we get in the blister then? Well as you can see below we get a good chunk of resin & metal which includes everything for the ship and also the 6 tiny tokens that it allows you to bring to the game.

As with all SG kits they are well made with amazing detailing going on all over the place and as you can probably see from the pictures hardly any cleaning up is needed.

The top section I like as for such a large ship it only has a small bridge always amuses me.

You get 6 launch railings for the ship each of them slightly different this is a nice touch and is always nice to see effort made to make sure something is not always the same.

The rear of the ship with the what I assume is the drone launching/loading mechanism just shows off SG eye for detail as once built you will hardly be able to see this part of the miniature.

Ignoring the fat fingers trying to hold up an unglued miniature you can see that it is certainly a unique ship almost gravity defying.

Finally a scale shot against the battleship to show not only the size of the carrier but also the height that the launch frame gives it. A very nice miniature overall..

Final thoughts

As with all the SG kits the Pericles works very well, with hardly any work needed for the cleaning it up although you will need to be careful when gluing it together ;)


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