Maledrakh's The Little Vampire (halfling)

[Maledrakh 10770]

These last few weeks have been very busy IRL so very little has been painted. I did however manage to whip this up the other day.

 

 

The little vampire. aka Vampire Halfling from Kings of War: Vanguard's Undead Warband Booster, by Mantic Games. Off to count some blood sausages. Or maybe slurp some black pudding. Oh, how he longs to again be able to have some hot cross buns...but they burn his mouth so...

 

For some reason my camera did not want to focus properly on the face.

 

 

Printlines?! Printlines!?

What is it with "premium" resin minis and what looks suspiciously like printlines? Has someone failed at the clean-up-of-the-master-print-stage or is it something else that makes such lines a thing? Has someone rushed and cut corners? Why would you release a premium resin model like this?

You can say a lot about Mantic starting out with cheap, "no brand" minis, but that is simply no longer true. Single, normal size resin models clock in at the €10-15 range retail price, the four model booster is a £30 / €40 / $45 box. That is premium pricing. Well, maybe at the lower end of premium but still, premium pricing.

When they charge a premium price, I expect a premium product. Print lines = sloppy quality control. = not premium.

Apart from the print lines on the cape, it is a good mini. I cannot abide the square bases they use for Vanguard, so I printed a 25mm round for it.

 

 

Sneaking up on a beefy snack

 

 

This mini was finished May 25th 2020.

 

Vampire Halfling

from the Undead Warband Booster

for Kings of War: Vanguard

Mantic Games, 2020

unknown sculptor

Made in resin

25mm base.

available from manticgames

 

[Glitterwolf 183050]

Very nice!

[Mutilatedlips 7103]

You painted him nice, but I am trying hard not to laugh at his cartoonish shenanigans. :)

[Venun 2123]

I love this forum for just this reason. You see something you never expected to see, and never knew you needed.

A vampire halfling! that's just amazing!

Great paintjob!

[Peithetairos 1845]

Nice colour scheme and overall paintjob. I really like the face and skin tone.

 

Those lines are indeed curious. Assuming they prototype the master with a resin printer there should be no lines. 

 

As a suggestion to improve the next paint job: I would push contrast overall, especially in the shadows. The metallics would benefit quite a bit of more definition, as the details are hard to make out right now. 

 

 

[IonikKnight 15]

I really like him.  Even if he does remind me of Freakazoid....