The Wonderful & Colourful Characters Of Legendarion!
January 18, 2014 by brennon
Legendarion have some frankly crazy and colourful miniatures on their website. It's not all Chibi-Primarchs you know! See what you think of these strange personalities...
Some of these are frankly insane, amazingly awesome, but insane. Take this final one above, Julian Scarecrow. He is freaky as anything and looks like he'd kill you simply by staring at you and waving his boney cloak about! But that's not all they have on offer...
All their miniatures are funky and original looking with plenty of character oozing out of every pore. I have a sneaking suspicion that not all of these are new sculpts, but I don't know enough and their site is confusing enough as it is!! Either way I decided to show off the entire exotic menagerie to see what you thought.
Above you can also see that they couldn't quite shake their love of Warhammer 40,000 with a Vostroyan Komissar by the name of Anika. She is pretty bloody awesome though and would be great as an alternative leader for your force of furclad warriors of the grim dark future.
The real gems here though are their weird and wonderful new creations with a slant towards the manic. I think there is probably something for everyone here.
What do you think?
@Brennon I’m surprised that you haven’t realized that plenty of these sculpts are for unreleased characters from the defunct Rackham line of games. Weirdly I’m just getting back into collecting some of that (I just got the Nemesis expansion to the Hybrid board game – think fantasy space hulk).
Yeah I knew there was something about them I hadn’t quite put my finger on. Just couldn’t remember the name. Thanks for flicking that switch on.
BoW Ben
Yeah, some of these sculpts are of somewhat dubious copyright legality.
Yeah that’s the thing that makes me sad. I know that their store lists models as either being originals or recasts. But when CMON holds the IP to Confrontation etc, and have not put that much into reproduction, it makes the fanbase rather thirsty.
Cyanide hold the rights to the IP. CMoN jacked the rules Blackball Studios were developing because they weren’t capturing the game and each attempt to improve them wasn’t doing so. They’re pretty much back to square one in that respect and it also appears that the existence of the likes of Aarklash Chronicles and Legendarion causes IP legal issues which are needing to be resolved too, though I’m not sure of the details.
Ah right. Thanks. Well they should really get it all sorted – hell just start by making Hybrid again first.
Officially everything had to be out on hold due the Legendarion and his chinese recasters mates. This is probably a legal mess to sort out properly, legendarion and AC being based in countries where it will be hard to defend IP rights.
Of course blackball’s beta failure was just icing on the cake.
Made from wonderfull concept arts by Paul Bonner or Edouard Guitton…. Used without permission. Neither from the authors, to whom he gives 0 credit, nor form the actual IP owner. Sold thanks to a store in Ukraine and accomplices in Hong Kong…
Can we please stop giving Legendarion that much attention?
He is a talented sculptor but many talented sculptors on the market would have made such wonderfull models, legally, using the extraordinary art of former Rackham graphists.
Except the 2 models (woman with two guns and valhalla guard)… Sculpts are not that nice when concept is not stolen from talented artists…
The last one looks like either Darth Yoda (gone to the Dark Side) or one of the Gremlins out for Halloween. There are some fantastic if disturbing sculpts among that lot.
Yes this company does nice models. Shame they didn’t go through proper channels to get the concept art as it’s just stealing someone else ideas. That alone stopped me from buying what they sell.