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Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 7:14 pm

New releases on the GW site :-)

DingK · **Joined:** Sun May 27, 2012 11:16 am **Posts:** 37

Wow, Elrond's left foot looks horrendous!

werner · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 7:20 pm

Badner wrote:

werner wrote:

I want them both. Normally I was going to wait but after reading the scenario in the WD, I preordered the 'The White Council- Vanquishers of the Necromancer of Dol Guldur' ;-)

On of my current projects is Radagast on Sleigh...

Hi, where did you preorder them? They are not even on the GW website. Or are they only not yet on the German website?

Off topic: Is it difficult to assemble and paint Radagast on sleigh?

My local gamestore

Concerning Radagast, I'm not goin to assemble everything: http://thefellowshipoftheminiatures.blogspot.be/2015/01/new-project-radagast-brown-on-sleigh.html#more

Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 7:21 pm

The Radagast on Eagle is all resin, the eagle is not plastic. Saurmans face is excellent, great new releases IMO

Silver_legion · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 7:37 pm

Hmmmm... I'm not very keen on Elrond at all, his feet are terrible and his face isn't all that great. But oh my Saruman you beauty ! This is a great model, full of life want so bad !

Badner · **Joined:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:04 pm **Posts:** 296

Elrond does not look very good. However, Galadriel and Saruman are looking very good. Saruman is simply amazing, but I think that his face does not look like in the movie. Galadriel could be painted better. I think that she should look more "like a ghost" with a bluish touch. Radagast is not even a new miniature in my opinion. He consists of the plastic eagle with a little bit different wings and the Radagast from the sleigh.

jdizzy001 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:19 pm

Im not impressed. Saruman is cool looking, but the others are meh at best.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:52 pm

Sculpts look pretty good but the painting is poor. Galadriel should have been blue / grey, thats what I would aim for if I get her.

Toxic · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:45 am **Posts:** 54

Not the best looking Saruman, Galadriel looks a lot better than I expected, though that paint job makes her look like shes walked through a sewer.

Radagast is laughable.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:17 pm

Has anyone ever read Patrick Rofus books, i imagine this new Galadriel sculpt to look like Auri,(a character from his books) if you have you will no what i am rambling about.

I must be looking at a different Saurman sculpt, i think its Brilliant.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:22 pm

I've looked again and he could probably be the best sculpt of the three, though Galadriel is a very close second.
Elrond is poor by comparison and I'm surprised they passed it.

Thurin · **Joined:** Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:10 am **Posts:** 40

I don't want to believe the Elrond sculpt is as bad as it looks. It must be an unflattering paintjob photographed from the worst possible angle. I would trust that in general, the hobbit releases have looked better in the hand than on the webpage, but the photos of this set are peculiarly offputting. Could someone who preordered please do a high quality unboxing with lots of photos?

Badner · **Joined:** Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:04 pm **Posts:** 296

Hi everybody,

I just had an idea.There are so many different opinions on the new releases; somebody loves Saruman, somebody doesn't... Why don't we open a trading thread named"splitting boxes"? In this thread you would be able to tell the other members which miniatures of the box you like and which you don't like. This would be the opportunity to find somebody for splitting the box/blister. What do you think, should we create this thread? Or is this against the forum/trading rules?

Bandobras Took · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:41 pm

So Elrond badly needs a rock under that left foot... He looks like he should fall over at any second! :-D

I think the face is probably OK, just not painted to a high enough standard to pick out the detail correctly.

Saruman is stunning! Really nice, dynamic pose

Galadriel just has a poor paint job IMO.

Scib · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:25 pm

Really liking Radagast, not so sure on the white council the sculpts look odd to me

Dr Grant · **Joined:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:50 pm **Posts:** 1339

Having had a better look at the official pictures I pretty much feel the same. Radagast is far too expensive given you can achieve the same with a relatively cheap and easy conversion. I love Saruman and Galadriel looks better than I thought but I'm still not convinced. As for Elrond, I think it's a good model taken at a bad angle, will wait to see some good pictures of how he looks assembled from different angles but I'm holding out hope.

It's at times like this that I wished they still did the 360s for the Hobbit range, they were a great way of really seeing what a mini looked like. Unfortunately, that's just another area of SBG support that GW have let slide.

Very interesting that the White Council set is 14 components, that's a lot of small parts for a 3 model set...

Blue Dragon · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:06 am

I've preordered the Council, but Radagast can wait a few months, though he is growing on me a bit.

VictoryGin · **Joined:** Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:05 am **Posts:** 189

When I saw the crappy pictures from the new White Dwarf, I thought the white council looked awesome and was planning on picking it up right away.

Radagast, uhhhh... Posing is as if they took radagast on sleigh and awkwardly green stuffed him onto the existing eagle. If I wanted a conversion of previous kits I would have made one.

The Saruman pose is full of life, however they appear to have modelled his face after Christopher Lee's stuntman.

Elrond...what a mess.

The Galadriel is a really, really great sculpt (though the face doesn't really look like her, you can pin that down on her being in 'rage-mode'). Lots of character in that one.

Just like the previous White Council box, I am tempted just for one figure. However, it may surface upon release that it is merely the paint job letting the figure down again, in which case I will find it hard to resist this box!

VG

thekingofkings · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:03 am

I realize this is mostly a GW LOTR site, but for those who dont know, Mithril miniatures STILL produces MERP ( middle earth roleplaying) miniatures that fit pretty good

Coenus Scaldingus · **Joined:** Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:14 am **Posts:** 1121

Dr Grant wrote:

It's at times like this that I wished they still did the 360s for the Hobbit range, they were a great way of really seeing what a mini looked like. Unfortunately, that's just another area of SBG support that GW have let slide.

This, by the Valar, a thousand times this. Imagine this would be the only picture you'd have of Elrond (not having seen the (leaked) pictures in WD). You'd imagine he was doing some weird dance, rather than swinging his blade. Another poor paintjob photographed at a strange angle (at least when it's the only pic available) of what may well be a great model.
Galadriel looks a lot better (compared to the WD picture), although the dress sections are strangely angular. Can still see quite some potential here.
Saruman may suffer a bit from the very big robes (as thin sections of finecast are just too vulnerable), but looks good. Better than the Orthanc version.. not sure.
Would love to see 360s of the first and last, or at least some pics from a few different angles...

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