Model Review: Stone Lord Guvul Godor

 

Today we take a look at Stone Lord Guvul Godor who is a fighter class hero in Riot Quest and a Mercenary Command attachment for Horgenhold Forge Guard in Warmachine and Hordes.

He comes in three metal parts.

The main body is nicely detailed with next to no mould lines. The armour style is very similar to the forge guard unit he attaches to, but more finely decorated with fligree and gems. 

Nice deep connection points for the arms means I don't think pinning will be necessary 

The arms with hammers have slight mould lines running up and down the hammers but nothing too bad. An interesting detail I didn't notice on the renders during the Kick starter are the faces on the head of each hammer.

And here he is fully assembled.

And here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake

Though I mainly picked him up for Riot Quest, I do own a unit of Forge Guard and I will paint him up with a similar colour scheme so he fits in. 

I wanted to also note the new packaging for this wave of Riot Quest minis. Fully cardboard with a Replaceable front panel (which is the art card with the same section of fluff for the mini) means that every Riot Quest mini can use the same packaging. As well as there being no plastic packaging! 
This does have the slight downside that shipping them in padded envelopes could lead to the packaging being crushed where as the old plastic blister packs had no problems with this. But that's a small price to pay to be more environmentally friendly.

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

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Convergence of Cyriss Themed Talon Light Warjack Painted

Something a bit different from the Riot Quest I have mainly been painting lately. A Convergence of Cyriss themed Talon light Warjack made using a Cygnar Lancer

I originally started this conversion a long time ago when I was working towards a goal of a Bart list with loads of Talons, each themed slightly differently to represent the person who maintained them.

Once Nemo4 became a thing I figured that it made more sense if it was for him, so here it is.

I painted it with the same colour scheme I used for JAIMs and Destructotron, which will be my CoC scheme for any other models going forward from here.

I don't know which CoC jack this head is from,,, I just know it was given to me in a bits box swap. I carved off the recessed area the Lancers head would have attached to and added this using green stuff to smooth the transition between the pieces. 

For the shield I carved off the Cygnus and added some cog parts. They don't serve any purpose other than looking CoC like...

A while back I got fed up trying to fit Warjacks into my case so I started magnetising everything. Previously I only magnetised multi choice kits.

Here is the Talon next to my Cygnar Lancer for comparison.

And here is Professor Pendrake for the scale shot.

What do you think of my CoC themed Talon? I'm really happy with how its turned out and am looking forward to painting some "actual" CoC jacks as well as Nemo4 some point soon.

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Iron Kingdoms Requiem Kickstarter Live

 It should come as no surprise to anyone who follows my blog that I love the Iron Kingdoms. 
I've GM'ed the IKRPG for years now and stream it on twitch weekly (though we have taken a break recently due to Uni workload... we will be back soon!)

So you can imagine how excited I am that Privateer Press is relaunching the IKRPG as a DnD 5e compatible release.

The kickstarter for it went live less than 24 hours ago at time of writing this and its already more than doubled its goal (which it met in 75 mins I think) and smashed loads of stretch goals.

I think its well worth highlighting just how good a deal the Early bird special is a free GM screen worth $20 is nothing to sneeze at.

And unlike a lot of kickstarters I've seen this early bird special is time based not capped at a certain number of people! Anyone can pick it in the first 48 hours. (Roughly 28 hours left at time of writing this) 

Here are a few of the awesome creatures that will be in the Monsternomicon 

I'm getting the books for sure but be aware there are digital only rewards as well should you just want the pdf versions!

Oh and the adventure included in the bundle features the Iron Kingdoms "first" character Alexia! 

She was the main character in Privateer Presses first project 20 ish years ago the DnD 3.5e books called "The Witchfire trilogy"
I love Alexia she is my favourite character in the setting. 

You can find the Kickstarter here! 

Model Review: Bumbles

 

Today we take a look at Bumbles, who is a Guard class hero in Riot Quest and a Trollbloods solo in Hordes. He comes in three parts, one resin and two metal.

The lower part of the model consists of the hind legs and right front paw. It's nicely detailed with minimal mould lines.

foot beans!!! Its adorable that they bothered sculpting these on, given that they are barely visible once its on a base.

The attachment point for the upper body is huge and the way its shaped makes it naturally want to fit in the proper way which is good.

The left front leg is nicely cast and the armour plating is interesting as the patchwork nature of it means they are all slightly different.

The connection point is a huge peg which leads to a very secure attachment as the other details have a sort of resting point which keeps it in the right position.

The upper body and head are resin and it is very nicely cast. 

You can see here the attachment point for the left front leg, which is great.

I really like all the different styles of armour plates, I plan to paint them to match many different factions colour schemes.

There is an unfortunate mould line across the armour plates, I did manage to clean it up pretty quickly though as the placement of it on the back ridge meant I could use a hobby knife and file to first gently slice then file it. Its pretty much next to impossible to spot now and once painted you would never know.

The face is adorable... Bumbles really doesn't look like he would eat you right???

The resin injection ports are large and on the bottom which is fantastic. They did lead to a small goof on my part however...

When I was unpacking all the Winter Wasteland to check if it was all there, I didn't put the upper and lower body together because these ports were in the way, which led to me not noticing that the front right paw was included on the back leg so I thought it was a missing part.
I even ended up asking friends on socials and eventually someone put me right and I calmed down...
I felt silly, but wanted to share this as - well... everyone is human and mistakes happen!

And here he is fully assembled! 

And here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake.

I really like Bumbles sculpt I think it has a lot of character. I have placed him towards the back of the base so there is space for me to add some basing details like some food... I'll figure it out at some point soon.

The quality of Bumbles is really nice and its a lovely addition to anyone's collection of minis. 
I am really looking forward to painting it and matching armour plates to mine and friends factions colour schemes.

I wanted to also note the new packaging for this wave of Riot Quest minis. Fully cardboard with a Replaceable front panel (which is the art card with the same section of fluff for the mini) means that every Riot Quest mini can use the same packaging. As well as there being no plastic packaging! 
This does have the slight downside that shipping them in padded envelopes could lead to the packaging being crushed where as the old plastic blister packs had no problems with this. But that's a small price to pay to be more environmentally friendly.

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

Its available on the 26/2/21 so pre-order now to avoid disappointment! 

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!