Beasts & The Shambling Undead Head To Battle For Darklands
January 27, 2017 by brennon
It's that time again to check out what Mierce Miniatures has been working on. The world of Darklands welcomes new beasts and warriors ready to bolster your forces on the battlefield.
Leading the way we have some awesome painted miniatures in the form of Gaalgar's Herd. Here we have some neat looking Beastmen in some nice poses with rather cruel looking weapons at hand. Horns are one of those things that sometimes look very weird on models like this but I think they got it right here.
Following along from them we have another monstrous beast in the form of Maatmag...
This monstrous mammoth would indeed be great for Justin we reckon. He could mount up on this fellow and sow havoc across the battlefield. This is an utterly massive model too, and the Darklands range is already pretty huge!
The Shambling Undead
Following on from those beasts we have some more painted miniatures. This time around it's the wonderful Undead that Mierce Miniatures have put together...
The Dead of Black Barrow might possibly be one of the best looking units of undead I've seen on the tabletop. The skeletons look shambling yet deadly, covered in rusted and battered armour from battles long ago. The paint job here helps bring them to life and give you an idea of how you might approach getting them ready for gaming.
Giant Warriors
We then turn our attention to some titanic warriors. The first is the Chaos Giant known as Papworth The Pillager.
I'm not entirely sure on the name as it doesn't really feel like it inspires fear but I think I'd still run from that massive club. They've handled the sense of scale well too here with the swords hanging from his neck and the loot strapped to his belt.
Last but not least we have Tetseenx, the Phoenix Demon Prince.
While this fellow is indeed decidedly evil something about the design makes me think that he's a little nicer than your average demon. The rather creepy looking staff he holds in his right hand is somewhat at odds to the rest of the model though with a comical moon/sun atop it. I'd probably remove that.
What do you think of this month's collection?
"The skeletons look shambling yet deadly, covered in rusted and battered armour from battles long ago..."
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Very nice skelies and I love Maatmag the not-Tzeench war mammoth (I am basing the chaos god affiliation on the eyes on the war harness which match the eye on the demon princes shield). The not-Tzeench Demon Prince himself he isn’t overly inspiring (the head piece on the staff seems at odds with the rest of the mini, Sort of like a bloodthirster wearing an imaculate “have a nice day” Tee-shirt. I love Papworth the Pillager’s name but, Papworth old son, you’re a big boy, stop skipping leg days
@beardragon14: I agree on the staff and a nice example. The shield design is off, too. There are certainly design quality deviations with some Darkland releases. That said, some background insight might help a bit. Darklands’ backstory is leaning heavily on ancient history and mythology. With their own take on styles of course. The Fomoriaic faction clearly poses as equivalent to the Old World Chaos forces. But they are actually based on the Fomor kin and Balor of the Evil Eye of Irish myth. Hence the ever present eye icon. They are “just” ancient and mystical conquerers. No mutating, warping… Read more »
Someone really needs to get Justin the mammoth. I agree about the name of Papworth the Pillager. It should be Warren the Pillager. I also agree that the top of that staff in the Demon is really out of place. The Skeletons have to be among the best I’ve seen and the paint job really makes me want to buy them. Overall this is a pretty nice looking bunch of miniatures.
wow they look great.
who was meant to feed Justin’s mammoth when he went on holiday?
I don’t know… but Justin will be pissed when he comes back.
not as pissed as the mammoth is by the looks of it.
The face on the demon’s staff/axe/jobby has a really cheeky grin. It’s almost emoji-like.
Mierce put out amazing miniature lines and these are no exception. Would love to go back to mass fantasy battles on the tabletop using Mierce’s ranges only it would bankrupt me! 😀
Those are some great looking models. Big ones might be easily best of those but others are also good.
Many of them are nice looking models.
those look great!!! i just checked out their site and i am really impressed…
Really nice miniatures. Too bad their prices are killing this game :/
Minis are nice but the pricing is extremely off putting
Holy smokes your not wrong! :/
That demon looks really great I like the pose and the more naturalistic look
@cladors:
Then you ought to love some of their other takes on demons. They have at least one other version of this exact base body sculpt (Malacant, the original one) and I imagine more in the pipeline.
http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=cat&cre=dkl-ifn&sou=cat
Have fun! 😉
pretty much all the beastmen they do are top notch and are probably my favourite on the market, same with their undead. the mammoth is like wise really good. their demons are a little too obvious for my personal taste and this one looks like they have taken their bloodthirster looking sculpt and added a couple of tzeentch bits and pieces and it shows, bit of an identity crises to be honest. tzeentch is hot at the minute and it looks like they have tried to cash in on the cheap. the giant is quite nice but has a little… Read more »
Beautiful minis, particularly the Giant and the Mammoth. Price makes me do a little sick however.
Just did Aussie dolllar test on them and GW beats them on price by a long way (and it isn’t often I can say that)
Yeah. Ain’t a bug. 😉 Always has been that way. And to no surprise. Their quality usually is top shelf. …apart from those things going awry now and then as evidenced here.
I am really surprised that the Mierce / Darklands miniatures seem to be known of so little around here. It’s british after all and they are around for quite some time now and big at that with all their KSs and the old maelstrom history.
@darnast most people know of them here mate, but I think the maelstrom history you mentioned has a lot of folks just ignoring them regardless of the quality of the sculpts.
it just gives the illusion that they are going under the radar.
it’s old news really and I have no personal axe to grind. it’s a bit frustrating in all honesty as I love the setting and many of their miniatures.
Their stuff looks nice (save the overly cheery staff head). What is the “maelstrom history” of which you speak? They all look pretty solid to me….although I hadn’t really heard of them so maybe that’s what you two are referring to. No body talks about them over here due to some other reason.
@beardragon14 it’s a long story and there are people who know it better than me. but in brief Maelstrom were the biggest online retailer a few years back and they went out of business due I think in large part to GW restructuring how they dealt with online retailers. they made some bad choices in order to save a sinking ship in a panic. the big issue was they carried on taking orders from people which lead to a lot of folks paying for items they didn’t receive. the casting side of things was a separate arm of the company… Read more »
Yes, thanks for the info. Well it certainly explains why there may be ill feeling. I hope they can move past it though as the minis are certainly quality albeit at a price.