AoW43 Herald of Pestilence

[forthegloryofkazadekrund]

AoW43 Herald of Pestilence, aka the poop daemon

Recommended Retail Price: 11,95€

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[MalusCalibur]

Very nice indeed - about time we had something other than Dwarfs and Greenskins from AoW again. An understandably perfect figure for Nurgle armies.

[baphomael]

I like him, he's like a mini great unclean one :P

[Wintermute]

Here is the official press release from Felix

AoW new release: Herald of Pestilence

Our heroes range is expanded this month with a new Daemon: a Herald of Pestilence.

This new Daemon has been designed and sculpted by Felix Paniagua.

The miniature comes with a 25mm plastic square base and a little daemon slave emerging from…

[loveless]

Well, it does what it says on the tin.

Quite nice, but I'm pretty sure this enforces my thought that Felix should be doing all of the sculpts.

[Avian]

He looks like a Scibor sculpt (in a good way ).

[azhagmorglum]

nice sculpt, I like the forward arm very much and the face also, though the skin on the belly could do with a bit more details. Just nitpicking here, the model is great !

[Malorian]

Great model!

If only I played daemons...

[Karak Norn Clansman]

I wonder if GW regret letting mr. Paniagua go. It's a good herald, about on the same level as GW's new plastic Nurlge hero.

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Wow, that's an awesome figure! I don't really seriously play any of the GW core games anymore, but I played Nurgle in every system back in the day and I may have to grab this guy just for kicks. Besides, if I ever do break out the old armies he would make an awesome Daemon hero. Could also make a great possessed in a Mordheim warband!

[Sheena Easton]

Great model! I might buy it just to paint.

[Deamon-forge]

really nice model. mite have to pick it up at some point

[FieldFactory]

Maybe u must do it something different of GW

[GomezAddams]

Its pretty nice but a bit soft in detail - I can't decide if thats a good or bad thing really, but given the sheer amount of pestilent daemons out there I guess theres something for all tastes.

[xxRavenxx]

I like the model, but my first thing to be done when it arrives is to file off its ass-nurgling and fix that up. Its a little too immature for my taste.

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

I like the model, but my first thing to be done when it arrives is to file off its ass-nurgling and fix that up. Its a little too immature for my taste.

Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking, too.

[jack da greenskin]

Wish felix would consider sculpting 5 monopose plaguebearers in plastic. Hopefully cheap, sell like hot cakes, no ip infringement as "plague daemon" is pretty generic.

[xxRavenxx]

So. Yesterday (its 00.07 now...) mine arrived.

Trimmed the nurgling off his butt, assembled him, did a little bending to move his skull chains out of line with his sword, and then started filling him.

He needed a LOT of filling. The join for his head had barely any "meet" and needed a big blob of superglue (I use artificial hardner, so I can use superglue as a basic filling substance). I then had to plastic putty 180 degrees round him, to fill in the hefty gaps where his L shaped torso pieces met, and finalise it with a coat of liquid greenstuff (applying liberally to his ass to smooth out where I chopped/filed off the nurgling.)

I think the join on his body could have been more thought out, but at least the pieces were two obvious joins, the filling work was plentiful but easy, so I really didn't mind that.

Hes got some lovely spine growths out of his back that aren't shown well in the photo. Which is a shame, as they're a much nicer feature than "butt monster".

My last comment is this: He's REALLY big. I didn't realise how big till I got him. In terms of 40k, he's 40mm base big, to be honest. He dwarfs a 25mm round one. This is again, not remotely an issue for me, and I like that he's going to stand out while leading my plaguebearers. Its just something I did not remotely pick up when looking at his online image.

Anyway, he's now fully painted and sat ready for his debut game of 40k (next week I hope).