Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Wargames Factory Vikings

My next batch of Vikings finally rolled off my assembly line the other evening.  These are from Wargames Factory.  Compared to the Gripping Beast hard plastics that I posted about earlier, the WF are more dainty and the weapons are much slimmer.  In this respect I like the GB figures better.  However, WF has a bit more versatility in both posing, and in weapon selection.  The quality of the sprues were both the same; excellent.
Once again I used Little Big Men Studios shield transfers and they were a cinch.  I cannot for the life of me understand the griping on TMP.  If I can easily install these with my huge tennis racket sized hands, then anyone can if they just give it a try.  I have now used the LBMS transfers on both the WF and GB miniatures without any modifications so there you have it.  They work for both.  This was something I was having trouble getting an answer on when researching.  Anyway, the bottom line is that I am please with both the WF and GB hard plastic Vikings and I think for anyone doing a serious Viking project, having both adds a lot of versatility.  Here are some snaps of the finished product.  I chose to use some unorthodox poses.




While on the painting table, my Vikings already managed to get into a scrap with my genestealers from my Space Hulk project.  Had a tough time breaking that fight up.

6 comments:

  1. Those vikings are nice and then bang you get genestealers, nicely done.

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  2. Very nice; I too like the GB vikings more (they look more Norse) but built my own from Wf and found they nice enough.

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  3. This is the only blog-site I know where a post about Vikings cab be hijacked by rampaging Genestealers! Totally bonkers and totally brilliant!

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  4. Your Vikings are awesome! Thanx for the kick in the arse b/c now I gotta start painting mine!!

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  5. The Fury of the Northmen in all their splendour! Love the unorthodox poses - very cinematic. I quite like my WF Vikings and Saxons too.

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