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Of the three Kickstarters I backed in 2019 this one arrived the latest – and that’s ok. Communication was fairly good, there was an update roughly once a month and from the time they knew it they openly said stuff would be late. That was before Corona and since some of their prototypes were in China from what they’ve said, it took a lit longer. But I had enough to do and knew I had to wait so that’s ok.

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I got the Goblins, Goblin command and Wolf Riders. Each of those sets came in a smaller box packed in a big sturdy box. Everything was packed really well and there was additional bubble wrap to pad the minis, which protected everything really well. Each sprue was in a zipper bag, which makes sense:

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Do you see how many parts are in there? These are just the infantry sets. Each Goblin consists of 4 to I think seven parts. If you count the bases. I don’t like integrated bases that much and think they’re unnecessary, but most of them will fit on 20mm bases.

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The Wolf riders have even more parts – the wolves consist of 2 parts each, have another base, riders consist at least of a body, a head and two arms, some come with accessories. There’s a lot to build here.

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Some detail shots. The quality is good. There was a little mold flash and I think I found a single bubble on all of those models. The second to last picture shows the only thing I found were the mold seemingly slipped a bit, but that was easy to cut off.

The iffiest part was removing the feet from the tabs. I had problems recognizing where the thingies to go into the base slots started, but that’s a minor complaint. Just look at the backpack of the last picture. Looks really cool. Incredibly nice details and very crisp casting on all of them.

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Apart from the one shown above the parts of the infantry sets fit very well together and that was very easy to fix with Green Stuff. Some pins and slots are slightly different, which makes a lot of sense, but they aren’t different enough that you can really wash all parts at once when you clean your resin – that would mean you would have to dry-fit and try out a lot of stuff. Washing them bag by bag was tedious but payed off – at least I knew which part to use when all of the time. The Goblins are almost human sized, but I think they’re still the right size. I’ve seen bigger. Next to a small GW night Goblin especially the boss looks hulking though. The designs are great. Not enough of each weapon type to make up big units, but pretty cool for a warband for Vanguard for example. I just need to find a way to bend back the models I transported in my Feldherr tray and that became bent in the progress. It was pretty hot and I live right under the roof so I think that might have caused the permanent warp. Before packing the spears and arrows were all straight. It’s nice and speaks for the material that the models didn’t break though.

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The Wolf Riders are a bit of a different story though. The different halves of the wolves don’t fit together very well and I had to use Green Stuff on all of them. If you’re wondering: I used a gel superglue, which leaves those white traces. It sticks very well and if you are careful you can fill small gaps with it. Especially the shaman doesn’t fit at all on his scenic base. Other than that the designs are great. Having another shaman on wolf is cool, there aren’t a lot of those out there. A small gripe: the leader has two right arm options – which is nice, but for me it’s not enough to warrant having him twice in a set of 6 models.

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Those are not models for beginners. They are very delicate, expertly cast but still easy to break. The infantry has a really good fit to them, the riders are more problematic. The set of 6 riders and 12 infantry Goblins cost $50 each – a price at the higher end of the price spectrum even for the Kickstarter prices, retail will probably be more expensive. The command group was $15 for 3 models, but includes a boss that could be easily used to lead an army. Before shipping the Goblins above cost me 115$. I love the designs of each and every of those little blighters and they are full of detail. If you want to build an army and have an unlimited budget or just want a really cool painting project they’re definitely worth a look.