Quick Review MaxMini Plague Beast

I recently visited the excellent gaming store Fantasia while on a family trip to Umeå. They had a wide selection of games and miniatures, mostly GW products as would be expected but also quite a few of the independent makers of resin and white metal figures, Maxmini, MAS and the like. thumbs up for that! I bought a MAS resin tracked servitor thingy which I gave away and a MaxMini Plague Beast for myself.

"Taken my arms, taken my legs, taken my soul, left me with life in hell!"

I am kinda dissappointed with it actually. It is quite odd to see such quality of sculpting combined with such terrible posing, something that is quite difficult to see when just looking at the blister.
The legs are posed in a way that makes it look like it's floating or balancing on it's tippy toes. The built in bases under the feet are not parallel to the ground, but bent inwards, forcing you to either convert the miniature, "hot bend" the feet or make som kind of custom base to fit the crooked miniature. This is not really obvious while looking at their websites pictures, but it is evident in the preview pictures that was released. I don't know if their master looks like this or if their mold is warped, but I see people around the forums having the same problem.

"WHAT'S IN THE BOOOX?"

On the upside, the parts fit together really well, with almost invisible seams, and the only miscasting was on the strap on the beast's chest, which I could ignore or easily fix with 401 or greenstuff. The details on the skin and face are very crisp, and if you are the converting sort you could easily just buy it for the torso, making your own Varghulf, Chaos Spawn or Daemon, Karanak or similar if you will.

Bubble on the center strap, wouldn't really show when assembled

I will try to bend the legs somewhat to repose and make the feet even before I assemble it, if not, I will probably cut it up for some future project.

Hopefully there will be more frequent updates from now on, me, and Pixel as well to some degree, have had some hobby burnout lately, with this whole GW Leadership fuckup-deal adding to that. Part of me want to boycott them, but I love the IP too much to really quit. I will not be doing the Nid-army that I had planned though, instead I'll save that money for when CSM get their new release in a few years. Fuck it, I have enough unpainted and unbuilt stuff for my army to tide me over.

Three kilogram of resin F*CK YEAH!!!

Finally dryfitted and glued together... not even close to done with the upper body though.

Today I recieved a parcel from Wayland Games (one of the few, if not the only, stores that actually ship in reasonable time…) with a new razor saw and one of those Filla-Glu kits. Which meant that I was able to start assembling the Warhound.

Now let me tell you this... it's a b*tch! The details and everything is wonderful. But putting it together is a royal pain in the backside. It really doesn't help that the "instructions" is three double sided photocopied papers in low resolution black & white. One could've thought that for £300+ they at least could've included a CD with a piece-by-piece, step-by-step instructions.

On the table... shoddy instructions

Not to mention that it's resin. So everything is slightly warped, which means that you have to spend 30 minutes dryfitting -everything- before gluing it all together. And even then you f*ck up a little. Thank God for slow curing cyanoacrylate!

I did get some time to paint a little more on Buzzgob yesterday… it's a ton of metal parts on him... I'll have to spend a day just washing them in different colors in order for the figure not to look like some weird kind of tin-man.

Buzzgob after washes...