Harald85's Hobby Blog: May 2012

Adepticon 2012 Lord of the Rings Tournaments

A cool display base from the LotR Championship Army:

Stunning tables:

Really nice armies:

The Dwarves about to get slaughtered by the Uruk Hai...

Lord of the Rings, Team Tournament display board:

Pictures from some epic games from the Team Tourney:

Adepticon 2012 Cool Historical Armies

Adepticon 2012 Crazy 40K Display boards

Some crazy display boards seen at the 40K team tourney at Adepticon 2012

In this Space Wolf display, the base actually turned:

Humhum, no comments:

Adepticon 2012 Hordes Display Base

A really cool Warma-Hordes display base from Adepticon 2012

Adepticon 2012 - Cool looking WH Fantasy Armies

Here are some cool armies seen during the various Fantasy tournaments at Adepticon (sorry for the blurry pics):

This was a stunning Ogre army:

Unboxing: Cool Mini or Not, Elf Sorceress on Owl

Here is another Unboxing post of a mini from Cool Mini or Not: the Elf Sorceress on Owl.

The model was pretty expensive (I got it from the CMoN website) and I expected a lot from it. To be honest I was pretty disappointed with the quality of it and would not recommend it.

First off, the packaging is pretty unappealing:

Packing peanuts to protect the mini, seriously? :

The sorceress in itself. She looks well detailed but the staff looks really weak:

Beautiful base, nicely detailed:

Nice looking head too, I would not want to be a Skaven right now:

Check out this enormous mold line running through the feathers, that is bad:

Body of the Owl, looks ok:

The wings were really bad, as you can see from the next 4 pics:

Hard to see but there is a big blob of melted resin right in the middle of this wing, covering all the details and stuff. I was really unhappy with this. I am not even sure how to get rid of this:

The wings are paper thin, there are even holes in them at several locations:

So, maybe I was unlucky with this particular cast but I feel like CMoN could do a lot better than this. Also when you charge that much for a mini, I expect higher quality.