Kingdom Death are in for a Stormy Knight
November 3, 2013 by dracs
Hello and welcome to the Kingdom Death weather forecast. First up it looks like we are all in for a truly impressive Stormy Knight.
The Storm Knight is another fantastic sculpt from Kingdom Death, the billowing cloak and streams of what I guess is cloud really give the impression that this knight is surrounded by a whirling tempest. My one worry would be that all that swirling vapor looks rather fragile and could easily be broken.
After that violent storm things start to ease up as the Sun Warriors break through the clouds.
These are two more fantastic miniatures, full of flowing motion and Asiatic character. Their poses and flowing robes really create the sense of grace and even almost of flight about these two. Of course, we won't be able to get them in Ireland as the Sun never comes here.
Finally, we have a new pin-up which I couldn't think of a weather related pun for. Here's the Variant Pin-up Saviour.
While not quite as impressive as the other three minis, this variant is still pretty nice. It is well sculpted and carries plenty of character and should be an interesting painting project.
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky stormy weather.
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The Storm Knight is breath taking! Kingdom Death are blazing a trail in character conception, costume design and cinematic effects; all this and dark fantasy cheesecake!! All next level stuff 🙂
Aaaaand it’s gone.
The limited edition stuff is very frustrating… It’s sold out even as the news goes online.
I understand what you mean; I woke up yesterday to an email saying they were out, managed to grab the Sun Warriors, and then discovered the Storm Knight (my favourite of the three) was sold out. Luckily, I checked back just as another 100 were added to the site’s stock, but it was close call. The best way to get the news is to sign up to their newsletter. They don’t spam you, and you get the news as soon as it’s available …
They didn’t last long after the newsletter went out. I understand why Adam runs KD like this, and I certainly wouldn’t want to him to overstretch like Avatars of War have done this past year or so, but it’s still frustrating.
Oh, I absolutely agree; I am a great fan of Kingdom Death, and I currently point out to people that he’s running it on a very limited scale, and I’m just lucky that I’ve managed to grab hold of one of all the LE miniatures that have come out for quite a while! I love the business, and like you say, wouldn’t want him to over-extend
Indeed… One regrets not to have larger quantities, but quality is real. I am lucky to own a Lion knight and a Flower knight myself.
What genius, what brilliance ! What artistry seldom seen in miniatures !
I don’t understand the limited edition stuff myself. They sell so well you would think they could get some more regular production going.
Makes me worry there won’t be a whole lot of KD: Monster to go around outside of the KS backers.
There are very good reasons why Adam runs KD like this. His capacity to produce resin minis is very limited and he chose to take his time building the line rather than overstretching and risk going out of business. KD:M is mass produced plastic rather than resin so shouldn’t have the same issues.
Fair enough point. Wouldn’t mind seeing a couple of the more popular sculpts added as regular production or maybe semi-regular product. (A run every other month or something like that).
Shouldn’t have the same quality either, alas… but the delays in production seem to point at at least decent quality, unlike some other games (*cough*sed*cough*wars*cough*).
We shall see… But at least the game, setting and miniatures are original.
Just wow, I’d say these are pricy if they are running a limited edition. It’s like a collecters edition with every model.
The price is reflective of the costs involved divided by the small numbers that are manufactured. It’s a shame that Warren didn’t get the opportunity to film Warlord’s resin production process when he was up there on his roadtrip (at least I assume he didn’t). By comparison to spin cast metal it’s a very time-consuming and labour intensive process, making the per unit costs high and the output low in comparison to metal.
Echoing Romain’s sentiments, these minis are of exceptional quality, and whilst a matter of taste, if you do like them then they’re well worth the cost.