I’m taking a break from my big ork army to get ready to paint up my fantasy armies and start unit basing my stuff. But between those two (and tidying my gaming room) I found a box of Citadel Fyreslayers for Age of Sigmar. I don’t play AOS, I’ve never played AOS, I have quite a few AOS books and I bought the first 3 starter sets and may buy the 4th too.
WHFB died in my community with 8th and I don’t know when AOS started in my community as I’d left by then. Playing too much KoW and generally collecting lots of Mantic stuff.
But AOS Spearhead? I could in theory play this semi regularly. Health and other facts notwithstanding.
Anyway, they were really nice to assemble but they come on identically numbered frames and they lack the clarity of the more recent Mantic frames. But they do go together really nicely but way too many silly little pieces to put together.
Assembly: 7/10 (-1 for the frame numbering, -1 for the silly little pieces, -1 for dropping more than one belly banner.)
Quality: yep, it looks really good. Not their best work. 9/10 (-1 could use more variety)
Painting: first time getting my airbrush setup and to get some experience before I prime 200 orks and a lot of dwarfs. They look great when primed. My first time doing a zenithal spray of bright white. These are fun to paint with airbrush and with a regular paintbrush. Lots of contrast paints here. The new Army Painter Fanatic paints too as well as Speed Paint 1.0. Citadel paints too for the dwarf flesh and a wash for that flesh tone. I have enjoyed using their new skin tone additions to their ranges. 9/10 (-1 some tiny details that don’t add anything)
Price: $115 for 26 models. Good but not $4 a model good. Should be $30-40. 34/100 (35 divided by 115)
Total: 59 out of 130. I think that’s 45%
