Children of the Hydra's Teeth

These are older models from Wargames Factory, released by Warlord. They are not your chunky Mantic gaming pieces. They are… delicate.

The feet being separate from the legs actually wasn’t too bad. They kind of clip together and the bar between them makes it easier to glue them onto bases. Working with skelliebobs in the past, I’ve learned you start at the feet and work your way up using the base to give you stability. Each set of legs is numbered with matching feet so it was quite quick to get them done.

The torsos go on easily but when I got to the arms, the problems arise. These are very thin things with small contact points. To get the best poses it is better to put the weapons in their hands before attaching them to the body but the extra weight means I had to sit holding each arm while the glue set enough. In the past, I’ve not attached shields before painting minis but this is an army to paint as easily as possible so I stuck them on at this stage. The heads went on last with a nice contact point.

Once the glue had totally cured, I’m happy enough with them. I don’t know how much they’d hold up to being used as gaming pieces but, if they were on a movement tray, they might be okay. I don’t have any plans for them to hit the table though so I’m content that they look good.

To be clear, none of this was as painful as a Legion B1 battle droid. It was just a bit fiddly and my patience isn’t great right now. I was getting disproportionately frustrated but that really is more me than the kit. I have decided to just build them one sprue at a time though – partly because I have six painting handles so everyone can have their own and partly because I don’t want to ram a plastic skeleton into my wall.