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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Kickstarter Loot - Crocodile Games Wargods of Olympus - Amazons

So this one is a bit delayed, about two months so not bad in the grand scheme of things. The Amazons, along with the Automatons, are part 3 of Wave 1. Still to come are the Athenians (sculpted by Fitz) and the Corinthians (sculpted by Todd Harris) which come sometime early in 2015. Then the rule book which requires all the sculpts to be finished will follow and complete Wave 1. Wave 2 consists of the rest of the Trojans followed by the rest of the Amazons. Still looking at not being fully delivered till late 2015 is my guess. I might see if I can still jump in on the Amazon cavalry that's part of Wave 2.

Excerpt from the update in the Croc Kickstarter:
"The Amazons and Automatons are BY FAR the largest single release that Crocodile Games has ever done - with over 50 individual production molds, thousands of miniatures to cast, sort and pack, and over 200 pounds of metal used thus far! But the work is not yet over, as we still need to get these to our backers. Indeed, it is a bit like Santa's Workshop around here, and we are trying to get as many rewards shipped before Christmas!"
I received my shipment notice on Sunday (12/21). I anxiously started tracking the shipment figuring that even though it was being sent via 2 Day Priority Mail that it wouldn't make it till Friday. It was picked up by USPS on Monday, arrived sometime early, early this morning in Aurora and was out for delivery around 7am. I kept doing the F5 dance on the keyboard until it showed up as delivered on the doorstep at 12:15. This was confirmed by the youngest spawn.

Since I'm in Ft Collins this week they brought it up for the family Christmas Eve celebration at my parents' house.  I found a quite place to do the now traditional Kickstarter loot un-boxing pictures. I maybe re-considering some of my painting entries for Genghis Con and ReaperCon. The quality of the casting and the sculpting is awesome, mold lines are light to non-existent and the number of poses is great. This kickstarter was well worth backing. I'm extremely pleased.



Helen of Troy, Titan Hunter, Oracle of Delphi, Bronze Owl




The command set

One of three Amazon Hoplite units that I received. My pledge came with one and I ordered two more

Front and middle rankers depending on which arm you use.

Rear rankers, I love the variety in the poses


An Amazon Hero, Champion and a casualty

Archers


Archer captain on the right

Peltasts or light infantry armed with javelins

That's the captain with the sword

I also ordered two sets of front/middle/rear rank hoplites to increase the size of my units

And a couple of things I decided to tack on

A Sobeki from Wargods of Aegyptus that I didn't have and the demigoddess of Athena

The sculpting is stunning.



9 comments:

  1. That Athena figure is beatiful!

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    1. She is pretty stunning. I think Fitz may have out done himself on this project.

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  2. Lovely minis, across the big pond we are still waiting for the delivery ;-)
    Thank you for showing the minis right after delivery, as I am usually missing pictures like these on the Croc page :-(

    cheers Thomas

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    1. My pleasure. Yea, the Croc could use their forum more effectively!

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  3. Very jealous, mine have not yet arrived. I cannot wait to get these and then jump them to the front of the painting line! Thanks for the pics!

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    1. You can probably out paint me at this point. I have competition pieces on my plate and those are going to get priority although I might try and sneak a couple in anyway.

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  4. That oracle! wow.

    The massed regiments of Amazons are going to look amazing.

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    1. I think they are going to look really good. I'm tempted to start on them now but I really have to get these competition pieces done first.

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  5. Hello. I`m a collector of fantasy models. I'm interested in Helen of Troy and Oracle of Delphi. Could you find some copies for me, or could you make me some offer? Thank you very much

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