Another Age of Sigmar Soul Wars Project

Starting off with the Lord Arcanum, so far the only guy from the box assembled. I tried using some liquid green stuff on the head and torso, with shall I say, mixed results. It’s stuff and it’s green but it sure ain’t liquid. And some regular green stuff under the rock because of course, I had to use the Shattered Dominion bases.

I initially was going to try and convert him by swapping his head and torso with the Knight Incantor. Then I looked at the pieces and dropped that idea quick.

I’m going to digress here a little. Even if you don’t think the new sculpts are busy and flimsy and have too many pointy bits (and I happen to think they’re guilty of all three,) that still doesn’t change the fact that for an amateur like me, trying to convert without destroying them is impossible. And this really bugs me because I remember when GW was all about converting. White Dwarf used to have Catachans with Ork arms and guns, Kroot with wings, Grimgore Ironhide in a chariot (Ok that last one was mine and never saw the inside of White Dwarf). One time I saw a Storm of Chaos era Archaon converted into a hero of the Empire, seriously. The new models are so wildly posed (like everyone’s flailing about in seizures) and have so many overlapping details (like the end of a staff fused to a cape in the case of the Lord Arcanum above) that you can’t even do a simple arm or torso swap.

There used to be a sense of freedom… and now it’s gone. Makes me wonder how long it will be before GW minis start coming pre-painted because our peasant delusions of creativity could never do proper justice to their glorious, Wagnerian vision of heavily over-armored juggernauts hitting each other with axes or hammers.