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Not a brand new figure, but as I've just dug it out of the grey army and seeing as there appears to be no previous review of it on pF, I thought it was worth a quick look in its own thread. Not really a "review" – more just some observations that may be useful to someone.
So: This Saxon is a one-piece casting except for the right hand holding the sword, and the bottom half of the sword scabbard. And I'm at a loss to understand why they've done the scabbard this way, because there is hardly any surface area for the bottom half of the scabbard to key onto when you fix it in place, and it's too small to pin. Consequently the joint is very fragile, and anything but the most gentle of gentle touches will knock it off during painting or handling (I've managed to knock it off twice already). Probably best to not even risk breathing on it too heavily.
It would have made much more sense to cast the complete scabbard as a separate piece to fix whole onto the figure's body.
Also, NONE of the groundwork or the raven depicted on the box art is included. You only get a small (approx. 3.5 cm x 2 cm) and very basic metal base.
Other than those caveats, it's a nice enough figure. The quality of the metal casting is very good, the detail is nice and crisp and with minimum clean-up needed (just a couple of faint seams on mine). It's boxed as a 54mm but measures out at 60 mm.
If you liked the earlier Latorre Saxon release, you'll probably like this one.
- Steve
Not a brand new figure, but as I've just dug it out of the grey army and seeing as there appears to be no previous review of it on pF, I thought it was worth a quick look in its own thread. Not really a "review" – more just some observations that may be useful to someone.
So: This Saxon is a one-piece casting except for the right hand holding the sword, and the bottom half of the sword scabbard. And I'm at a loss to understand why they've done the scabbard this way, because there is hardly any surface area for the bottom half of the scabbard to key onto when you fix it in place, and it's too small to pin. Consequently the joint is very fragile, and anything but the most gentle of gentle touches will knock it off during painting or handling (I've managed to knock it off twice already). Probably best to not even risk breathing on it too heavily.
It would have made much more sense to cast the complete scabbard as a separate piece to fix whole onto the figure's body.
Also, NONE of the groundwork or the raven depicted on the box art is included. You only get a small (approx. 3.5 cm x 2 cm) and very basic metal base.
Other than those caveats, it's a nice enough figure. The quality of the metal casting is very good, the detail is nice and crisp and with minimum clean-up needed (just a couple of faint seams on mine). It's boxed as a 54mm but measures out at 60 mm.
If you liked the earlier Latorre Saxon release, you'll probably like this one.
- Steve
