Unleashed - Painting Review

Hey Guys,

Lokius has the Unleashed box set! I was pretty excited to see this first hand and before it is available to the masses. Something that is quite rare for us Aussies.

This set has so many models from PP and have mixed with RPG. Where could they go wrong?

This is a write up of my impressions of the Unleashed models.



1. They come with no assembly required.

Pro:

• No assembly

Con: 

• They are already on the base, making it hard to paint underneath. Also it makes it hard to paint the areas behind weapons.

Note: 

• Still requires "greenstuffing", there was still a sizeable gap on some of the minis
• Also still requires cleaning of mold lines. And there is ALOT of cleaning.... Also these lines just seem to fall on the worst places! Over detailed surfaces, faces ugh.

2. They are made of a different plastic to the regular PP minis.

Pro:

• The plastic is quite flimsy and bendy, this makes it easy to... pull an axe away from the rest of the mini to paint underneath
• Nearly impossible to have pieces snap off

Con:

• Even with a primer, the paint was really difficult to brush on! Even when painting straight from the pot, it pooled and didn't stick properly (when I airbrushed the minis this was less of an issue)
• Soft plastic made it harder to clean

Note:

• Needed a very sharp blade to clean the minis as you basically have to carve rather than scrape. 
• Airbrush = awesome

3. The detailing on these minis was appalling in my opinion, when painting the player characters I ran into a multitude of issues. "The Chief" being the worst... the edges are not crisp, one sleeve was completely forgotten it was flat with no folds and just kind of... ended, the whelp had weird legs that made no sense also the face on the whelp appeared to be the play-dough face a 5 year old could make (two dents and a denty curve, kindof), the axe kind of just melded into the skirt with me having to draw a line where one starts and the other ended on both the shaft and the head. Suffice to say I was not at all impressed with the detail!

Painting these minis is arduous at best and I would not recommend it without an airbrush. Good luck cleaning the minis without compromising detail, and managing the areas blocked by weapons or bases is near impossible. I didn't enjoy painting these and was disappointed the quality of the minis was not up to the regular PP standards (ignoring pGrissel of course.)

I will do a picture dump at a later date of miniatures I have painted.