Model Review: Falcir, The Merciless

Today we take a look at Falcir, The Merciless, a Warcaster for Retribution of Scyrah.

This model was sent to me to review by Privateer Press.

The model comes in five metal parts.

The upper body and cloak are nicely cast with crisp armour details.

There are even elven runes carved into the horn on her helmet.

The cloak gives plenty of space for fans of painting free hand. I would love to see someone paint a mural on there of Ret models in a wood which is on fire! (Often how they are shown in the artwork).

Here you can see the two slots which the power pack fins slot into.

The attachment point for the right arm is this small dent inset into the shoulder. While dry fitting showed me it was a decent connection I pinned it anyway because I prefer to be safe with weapons which stick out at angles from the body of a mini.

The legs attach here and fit amazingly well. This part separation allows the legs of the mini to not be merged into the cloak which gives a much more realistic look to the model.

There is a small amount of excess metal on the back of the horn, which I gently removed with a hobby knife.

The legs are nicely done with minimal mould lines, tiny bit of flashing connecting the bottom of the cloth to the base tab.

The pole axe (don't correct me if this isn't the exact weapon type - I'm not an expert on weaponry) and the backpack parts have slight mould lines which needed filing off.

The back power pack parts fit quite nicely, tilted outwards they slot into the torso nicely.

And here she is fully assembled.

And here she is with Professor Pendrake. She is a really nicely made model and an interesting look for Retribution as they don't seem to have many fully armoured Warcasters including helmets.

And finally I thought I would try something new! 
Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money form supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
Please let me know what you think of this addition to my model reviews. 
I also plan to make similar videos for painted model articles.
With that in mind I have another question for you - should I go back and make these videos for models I have already painted?

If you want to pick them up for yourself you can find them here at The Outpost (a UK webstore I'm affiliated with)

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article.

See you all next time!

Model Review: Dread Harvester Isaiah

Today we take a look at Dread Harvester Isaiah a Grymkin cavalry solo.

This model was sent to me to review by Privateer Press.

It comes in seven parts one of these is resin.

The front half of the "horse" is the resin part. It is amazingly detailed and just a bit horrifying the more I look at it. Between the exposed ribs and the horses head with a persons head coming out of its mouth with a pumpkin head coming out of that mouth in some sort of nightmarish Russian nesting doll of heads within mouths... 
You can see the attachment point for the front left leg here which attaches easily. You could pin it if you wanted but I didn't mind it necessary. 

The attachment point for the riders upper body is really wide and curved which guides the torso into facing the right way. There is a large resin injection port at the attachment point to the horses rear legs. This needs cutting off and carefully trimming around the large peg which fits into the rear legs.

There are slight mould lines and flash on the underside of the leg and under the chin of the "horse". A gentle scrape with a hobby knife cleaned it up easily.

I was slightly unfortunate that the front right hoof had broken off during transport. The bottom of this hoof also has a resin injection port which is easy to trim off and clean up due to being a flat surface.

It did glue back on easy enough though.

The legs are well cast with only slight mould lines which I was able to remove quickly enough.

The left front leg and the tail are nicely made, the leg attaches easier than the tail but still both don't need to be pinned if you don't feel the need.

The upper body has a really nicely sculpted pumpkin head

You can see some light mould lines here, they do cross over the wrappings on the arm which is a pain but they came off easy enough.

The attachment point can be seen clearer here than on the resin horse part. You can see how it helps line up the pieces  

The scythe is very characterful. It has small pumpkins around the top of the shaft and a spike pokes through a skull at the bottom. 

Though the attachment point is pretty good with an oval peg I wasn't sure it would be enough to keep the part on if knocked during a game so I pinned it.

The unmounted version has lost its head!

Its arm is holding out the pumpkin head for the world to see! This is nicely sculpted with great definition on all of the fingers and such.

Like the other arm I pinned this one just to be sure, though this one is less likely to break off in my mind.

And here they are fully assembled.

And here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake. The mounted version really looks like its straight out of a movie poster or the cover of a Goosebumps book! Its very dynamic model which fits in the the faction aesthetic very well.

And finally I thought I would try something new! 
Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money form supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
Please let me know what you think of this addition to my model reviews. 
I also plan to make similar videos for painted model articles.
With that in mind I have another question for you - should I go back and make these videos for models I have already painted?

If you want to pick them up for yourself you can find them here at The Outpost (a UK webstore I'm affiliated with)

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article.

See you all next time!