Four Horsemen Studios Mythic Legions

Iiiinteresting, thank you both.

I could spend some money at Uncle Jim's Workshop. Too bad his Japanese eave and God of War boat set are out of stock. Those would be great for my gaming shelf.

How durable is resin compared to plastic? I'm a bit concerned about the longevity.

I might spend a lot of money and get Elijah from BBTS, and the knight sword, helmet, shoulder, and skirt armor from Uncle Jim. I'm definitely in for his God of War Ragnarok-style Mjolnir regardless.
 
Yeah get a knight using the Valiant Knight build. The recent knights all use it: Sir Gideon v2, Sir Elijah, Sir Enoch, Sir Aldaric, Sir Andrew, the Armory Knights, and upcoming figures: Blue Shield Knight; Silver Knight 2 (probably cheapest option?), Iosef,


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TheSameIdiot said:
How durable is resin compared to plastic? I'm a bit concerned about the longevity.
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Resin is pretty durable. I've ordered a lot of resin accessories over the years and the only piece I've broken was the morning star from Uncle Jim. I was being careless and lost my grip and it flew across the room and onto the hardwood floor. I lost maybe a millimeter from one of the thin spike tips, but it's so small, you'd never notice unless I pointed it out. And I've dropped plenty of other pieces like swords and spears without any damage. I have several painted resin pieces from five years ago that still look the same as when I painted them.

But there are a few things I'd caution you about. Unpainted resin parts left in the sun will get brittle, but painting them stops that from happening. Because resin pieces are printed in layers, going from one extreme temperature to another (say from boiling water to ice water to try and fix a warp) can sometimes cause cracks to form between print layers. And resin is generally less flexible than plastic unless you're printing with special, flexible resin like RESIONE. This can sometimes be an issue with pauldrons or skirts if you want big, dynamic poses.
 
Wound up with Uncle Jim's GoW Ragnarok-ish Mjolnir, two swords, a bucket helmet, and the full knight kit. I'll probably wind up replacing the resin knight body with an official ML Knight 2.0 (likely Elijah because I like the gunmetal armor color), but I threw in the full kit because it was only $10 more than the piecemeal parts I wanted.

I'll eventually start a customizing for dummies thread in the Customizer's Workshop subforum (yes, we have one of those). In the meantime, how should a weathered set of armor look? I guess this is a question for @Damien in particular. Dark Souls is known for its grit and grime. The armor sets are tarnished (pun intended), the swords are twisted, rusted, or brutish, and the characters and enemies live in a place best described as hell. Should I start with a silver dry brush? Or try a brown wash? I don't want to go full Toy Biz, but I also want to make it clear that this dude has seen better days.

I feel like I'm a real Legions collector now.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Wound up with Uncle Jim's GoW Ragnarok-ish Mjolnir, two swords, a bucket helmet, and the full knight kit. I'll probably wind up replacing the resin knight body with an official ML Knight 2.0 (likely Elijah because I like the gunmetal armor color), but I threw in the full kit because it was only $10 more than the piecemeal parts I wanted.

I'll eventually start a customizing for dummies thread in the Customizer's Workshop subforum (yes, we have one of those). In the meantime, how should a weathered set of armor look? I guess this is a question for @Damien in particular. Dark Souls is known for its grit and grime. The armor sets are tarnished (pun intended), the swords are twisted, rusted, or brutish, and the characters and enemies live in a place best described as hell. Should I start with a silver dry brush? Or try a brown wash? I don't want to go full Toy Biz, but I also want to make it clear that this dude has seen better days.

I feel like I'm a real Legions collector now.
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I think the Knight Kit might be sized for the 2.0 mythic legions bodies, which are slightly shorter slimmer builds than the 1.0 knights (like Elijah, Valiant Knight, Silver Knight, etc.).

There are loads of options in that range as well though (often the robed characters also have a 1.0 armoured body underneath the soft goods), and I feel like a new standard knight builder is likely to show up very soon on the 2.0 body, in the same way that the valiant knight did a while back for 1.0.

Also weathering is absolutely lots of fun, and you can't really go wrong with it. There's tutorials on youtube as well if you're curious, and often you can scale up the painting techinques from tabletop minis.
 
You’ll get more realistic weathering if you think through how something got weathered. If they are walking through mud, their shins down are probably going to be grimey-er than their upper body. They will probably take more blows to their front than their back so the back shouldn’t have as much damage. Do they carry their sword on one side all the time or their shield in certain place. Thinking of how everything is worn and used will help you know where to add and where to leave alone. And being asymmetrical is key to realism!
 
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Can anyone recommend a good painting for dummies tutorial? YouTube or otherwise.
Picto Nocturne said:
I think the Knight Kit might be sized for the 2.0 mythic legions bodies, which are slightly shorter slimmer builds than the 1.0 knights (like Elijah, Valiant Knight, Silver Knight, etc.).

There are loads of options in that range as well though (often the robed characters also have a 1.0 armoured body underneath the soft goods), and I feel like a new standard knight builder is likely to show up very soon on the 2.0 body, in the same way that the valiant knight did a while back for 1.0.
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What?? But... those are new figures? Why would they put new figures on the old body? Am I missing something here?
 
4H put out some promo photos of the werewolf without all the crazy armor on him and I'm way more sold on him. As is often the case, sometimes their "barbaric" armor can be too busy for my tastes and less is more. One of my favorite figures from them at the moment is Tharnog, the brute-scale orc shaman, but I have him with no shoulder paldrons--he's draped in the fur cape and holding someone else's spare sword like some retired old champion fighter who found peace out in the wilderness on his own or something. once I popped off his elaborate leather and moose-horn shoulder armor I liked him way better. Think the same will go for the werewolf.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Can anyone recommend a good painting for dummies tutorial? YouTube or otherwise.

What?? But... those are new figures? Why would they put new figures on the old body? Am I missing something here?
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The 1.0 and 2.0 is more like a separate set of compatible parts. So, the newer knights are on the 1.0 bodies, but they've updated the articlation by introducing new parts into the line.

The 1.0 type figures tend to have a larger build, whereas the 2.0 are a bit slender. So a lot of the chunkier knights are 1.0, while more of the elves, wizards, and female knights are 2.0. There's also a couple of larger scales (for ogres etc.).

The line is built around that idea that you can take apart the figures and mix and match parts to create new looks/characters. The newer parts are better designed, but they're still compatible with the older stuff and each new wave released tends to introduce some new bits and pieces that are compatible in the 1.0 or 2.0 system.

They've got a section on the website that explains it in a bit more detail and probably explains it a lot better:

https://sourcehorsemen.com/updates/...r-how-do-you-pop-mythic-legions-figures-apart

Their marketing guy used to do some customs videos, which were pretty useful. I used this one to muddy up some skeletons:


This is another one I found that was helpful for rusty weapons:


The videos on painting miniatures posted above are great too, as the same techniques/paints, etc. can be applied to figures. They're quite calming to watch as well. I really like this one, which shows how dry brushing can make really convincing looking metal:



Might be information overload but hope it helps!
 
docsilence said:
4H put out some promo photos of the werewolf without all the crazy armor on him and I'm way more sold on him. As is often the case, sometimes their "barbaric" armor can be too busy for my tastes and less is more. One of my favorite figures from them at the moment is Tharnog, the brute-scale orc shaman, but I have him with no shoulder paldrons--he's draped in the fur cape and holding someone else's spare sword like some retired old champion fighter who found peace out in the wilderness on his own or something. once I popped off his elaborate leather and moose-horn shoulder armor I liked him way better. Think the same will go for the werewolf.
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The more I looked at it, the less the armored look worked for me with the werewolf. I had actually planned to skip him when I made my preorder this weekend. Now? It's a lot tougher a decision. He looks so much better without the armor. It's too bad the lower leg armor isn't removable, too.
 
GrumpyMatt said:
The more I looked at it, the less the armored look worked for me with the werewolf. I had actually planned to skip him when I made my preorder this weekend. Now? It's a lot tougher a decision. He looks so much better without the armor. It's too bad the lower leg armor isn't removable, too.
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Yeah I'd love to be able to just have full-on wolf legs, but the bare upper body with some sort of cast-off, didn't fall-off-when-he-wolfed-out armor on his waist and calves still works for me better than his fully armored look. Way more happy with him as a figure overall like this.
 
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