Harvinger Studios, Savage Crucible

I didn't order any of the series 2 via the KS. I ended up loving wave 1 though, so I'll be sourcing some of wave 2. 5ktoys will be offering them, so I'm just waiting on them getting their stock in.
 
Nashorn arrived today, I don’t remember getting him from the kickstarter but he looks pretty damn good.
 
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Mine got dropped on my doorstep today. Tracking sat at "Label Created" starting on June 9, then between 1:26 am and 12:59 pm today tracking updated 6 times. Whatever. They're here now.
I love the little D&D cards.
Opened Frazetta's Warrior. I was worried about those ugly clips on his shoulders until I figured out they were for the cape. They attach beautifully and are nearly invisible. Damn near lost a fingernail trying to get his shield in his gripping hand. Gave up and used the grabbing hand. It works just as good. Love the scabbard and how it attaches and hangs.
Opened Who-Man. No weapon storage. As much as I hate the absurdity of that shield, I'm excited to hear @Damien absolutely unfold over it. I think I like the screaming head but kind of wish he had regular eyes. The fire-glow effect looks good.
Neither of them seem to be able to stand worth a damn in vanilla poses.
 
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Red Ogre said:
As much as I hate the absurdity of that shield, I'm excited to hear @Damien absolutely unfold over it.
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Believe it or not... I actually don't hate it. I don't.. you know.. like it. But I don't hate it. They took a very weird ancient Greek shield shape, squished it down to the size of a rotella, and faced it with the design elements and spike of a Scottish targe... I guess? I'll give it this; you could, in theory, use this shield as a shield. And 'you could use this' is more than I can say for many, many fantasy armors, shields, and weapons.

The sword actually bothers me more because generally speaking we don't put little spikes right above your hand. That seems stupid, and stupid. And also stupid. But honestly, I'd also like the sword design if they ditched the wee tiny spikes, made the handle the size of his actual hand, and shortened up the blade a tiny bit. Be a really cool fantasy version of European bronze age/early iron age swords.
But everyone needs to make everything some big two-handed sword for some reason. I don't know why fantasy artists of all swords seem to just hate single-hand swords, despite them being ubiquitous from the Bronze Age until the 20th century.

A big reason I didn't go deeper on this line so far is actually how much I hate the overdesigned nature of the armor/weapons. It's just.. too much. It's VERY stereotypical 'I'm an artist, not a historian' kind of shit where they just overdesign the fuck out of everything (because they don't know/care how any of it functions) and turn something cool into something borderline unusable or stupid looking because artists seem to fucking hate anything that isn't way too complicated. It's not really a pet peeve of mine because that implies a light dislike. I actively fucking loathe this practice.

That, and the fact that these guys seem to think a sword blade is usable when it's riddled with gigantic rents and chips and cracks. It looks fucking stupid, but again - artist brain goes 'put even MORE detail on it! That'll be cool!' It's not cool. Your characters' swords are going to break as soon as they use them. Fucking knock it off. To be fair, I don't think D&D He-Man has that problem, but the lizard guys do and I hate it so much.

Anyway... not what you expected, but I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless.
 
Does anyone know why there aren't any cheaper barbarian slate figures for Series 2 as there were for Lemurians in Series 1 and are for the fish men in Series 3? Lots of extra barbarian heads, weapons, and armor from these (and from Mezco) for which I'd love to get some appropriate bodies.
 
I think they've said it came down to not being able to do a minimal paint app version that still looked good.
 
domu said:
I think they've said it came down to not being able to do a minimal paint app version that still looked good.
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THat doesn't make much sense to me. It seems they could release a barbarian painted to their satisfaction but less loaded with accessories than their standard releases and if the pricepoint is intermediate to the unpainted buck and the standard releases, so be it.
 
bat said:
THat doesn't make much sense to me. It seems they could release a barbarian painted to their satisfaction but less loaded with accessories than their standard releases and if the pricepoint is intermediate to the unpainted buck and the standard releases, so be it.
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They actually already had this set up anyway. There were three price points of figures; Full figures, 'savages' (painted but with fewer accessories/armor pieces), and 'slates' (mostly blank figures with painted faces). So, I also don't understand the logic of not being able to make that work with a human character. But I also do recall that being the reason they gave.
 
Damien said:
Believe it or not... I actually don't hate it. I don't.. you know.. like it. But I don't hate it.
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Thanks to convincing reviews... I ordered a couple of the Series 2 figures. Goddamn it. I wasn't gonna. I was only gonna get the monstery types. God. Damn. It.
 
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