Model Review: Lord Azazello

Today we take a look at Lord Azazello who is a Rogue class hero in Riot Quest and a Minions Warlock in Hordes. He comes in two metal parts.

The head with his headscarf/bandanna and sword arm are all one piece which has some lovely details like the runes carved into the sword. If I had one criticism of the part it would be that the bandanna looks a little blended into his head. But I'm sure this will be made easier to see once painted.

There is a rough mould line running down from the face, into the beard and down the arm. It took me a while to gently clean this up as I didn't want to damage the beard detail.

The attachment point is large and fits well. I found no need to pin this model. 
I think this attachment style was a smart choice and allowed the model to have the sword arm and scarf at angles which would have been impossible in a single piece model but also a pain to assemble if the scarf and arm had all been separate parts as models would typically be in the past.

Here he is fully assembled, he has a real swashbuckler feel to him. A lot of people have come to call him pig zoro.

And here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake, Azazello is scaled decently with other humanoids and other Farrow.

I bought him just for Riot Quest but... I do own a Gator army so it wouldn't be hard to pick up a few Farrow beasts to play him in a Minions pairing.

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Model Review: General Thunderstone Brug

General Thunderstone Brug is a Specialist class hero in Riot Quest and a Trollbloods solo in Hordes. He comes in two metal parts.

This sculpt is very nicely detailed with lots of small decorative aspects like his medals and sunglasses which really add character to the model.

There is a round dent for the arm to attach on the shoulder, which seems like it would hold the arm in place securely.

The great coat he's wearing looks to be from a trencher so I will paint it to match my trencher army.

I think I'm going to paint the medals to match a mix of my Grandfathers WW2 medals, and my ones (I'm ex Navy for people who don't know)
It will be a challenge to paint coloured stripes onto something that small but I'm keen to give it a try.

They even sculpted wrapping lines on the cigar he's holding! I've a few models which have cigars but I don't remember any of them having this level of detail. I will be trying to improve my "lit cigar" painting as well with this one.

The arm piece is holding a heavy pistol which is nicely detailed, the shoulder armour is definitely from a trencher officer and has a hidden detail. The rank symbol on the shoulder pad is for a Major, though Brug calls himself a General so it seems to be a self appointed rank and just a random piece of armour looted from some unfortunate soul...

The connection point looks good and with the armour place almost hugging onto the body I see no issues at all with getting it to stay on securely.

Very slight mould lines on the underside of the gun arm, nothing which took more than a minute to fix.

And he is assembled, I really like the pose and am looking forward to painting him. 

And here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake. He's the perfect size for a Pyg.

I'm looking forward to painting him up with his gear and uniform in the same colours as my Cygnar due to it being "looted" from them.

I'm tempted to convert up the IKRPG Pyg models I have and paint them at the same time as him... (curse my batch painting obsession) but I'm going to try and resist the urge.

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The Terrorizer Painted

The Terrorizer is the first Skorne Warbeast I've ever painted (though I will eventually paint some more for my IKRPG collection. Its always good to gave a variety of minis available as a GM) I find it a refreshing change to paint something mostly organic as mostly I've painted Warjacks and humans in armour.

I gave him a blue headband because the katana screamed Leonardo to me!

It was nice to paint up the sculpted woodgrain rather than having to attempt to paint my own, made it much easier. I picked a deep purple for the Skorne weapon which is one of Morghoul's Ripper weapons I believe. I think this will be the colour I use for any Skorne models I paint going forward.

It was hard to see on the model before I started painting it, but there are lots of scars all over its body made at the hands of the pain giver beast masters! I painted these a slightly pinkish grey using reference pictures I found online using elephants as a guide.

Here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake! 

Overall Terrorizer was a fun model to paint, and was pretty quick (at least for me) to finish which is always a bonus. 
I only really plan on using it in Riot Quest, as I don't play Skorne and think it might break immersion for me if it turned up in the IKRPG... 

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Model Review: The Wastelander

Today we take a look at The Wastelander who is a Rogue class hero in Riot Quest and a Minion solo in Warmachine and Hordes. It comes in two metal pieces.

Considering how few pieces this model is made from the bodies pose is really nicely dynamic, the flowing scarf really helps to sell this I think. The wide open stance also evokes memories of action films with epic sword fights!

There is a mould line running roughly through most of this model, luckily its not too thick and filed off quickly.

The same mould line also runs down the legs.

There is a small amount of flashing on the end of the left arm, which is easy to clip off. 
Its faces is partly obscured by the right shoulder pad and the large hat its wearing this does make me a little worried about painting the face well.

The sword with both hands feels like a delicate part. I was very worried about bending it as I've found once something like this is bent you can never get it back straight again. 

There is a small peg on the wrist of one hand to help attach it to the main body, I did find it a bit tricky to get it to glue on securely but some patience got it done in the end. I didn't want to pin it given the small size of the piece.

And here it is fully assembled! I really like the pose, and I'm a big fan of its atheistic. I think it will be a fun model to paint for sure! 

And here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake... yeah... its small. Efaarit are not very big people it seems, the only other examples of them are the Efaarit scouts, which are riding a strange beast. I don't own any so I can't offer a scale shot to see how they compare to the Wastelander. But I have heard that they are also small compared to a human.

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