Corvus Belli excels at offering outstanding lore for their wargame settings, and fantastic miniatures to live out the conflicts represented in that lore on the tabletop. Infinity’s lore has been a lot of fun to follow over the past decade, and Warcrow is proving to be even more fun only a year or so after launch.
Take the Northern Tribes, for instance. Here be orcs. They don’t expect to live long, and rate their value by what they can take at the point of a spear. They live in some of the harshest climates of their world, and share that space with the Varank, outcast elves that ended up in the frozen wastes.
The Orcs of the Northern Tribes are shamanic people, and look to a Wrathmane to lead them in good times and bad. One such Wrathmane is Alborc, who is criticized openly for his willingness to work with the Varank.
Alborc has had visions his entire life that he will lead his people to a better life, but only if he brings the Varank along as allies. Which means you not only get to play really awesome orcs in Warcrow, but some very cool Nordic Elves as well.
The sculpt for Alborc is very dynamic, but, as it’s from the earlier offerings from Warcrow, I don’t think Corvus Belli had dialed in the casting process for Siocast as well as they have now. With those growing pains in play, Alborc suffers a little from casting artifacts that can make him a little hard to assemble.
There’s also some duller aspects of the sculpt here and there, and I really do think that’s part of the early siocast work. The newer boxes of Siocast minis I’ve picked up from Corvus Belli for Warcrow have been fantastic.
Still, Alborc assembled and painted is AMAZING. These figures are so detailed and fun that I find myself looking for ways to challenge myself a little, so for my Alborc I went with a purple and red underpainting layer. I don’t have much experience with this, but holy cow… I love the results!
Now I just have to balance a mad desire to do nothing but Warcrow minis for a while! There’s a lot of grey from a lot of games in my backlog, I can’t get obsessed with just one game, hahahah!
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This was a really nice experiment that led to some attractive results! I don’t tend to think of Orcs and pinks and purples but it works out well! I somehow wasn’t aware of this game until the last week or two and the sculpts look very nice. They’re tempting to buy just for the joy of painting which is why I’d be getting any!
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Thank you! I bought them purely for the fun of painting them, which was a first for me! Normally I think I need a game to excuse the purchase, but I’m pretty sure I’m far more a painter than a gamer these days.
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That’s good to hear. While I do game, realistically, its only a handful of times a year for past few years so I consider myself more of a painter than a gamer as well.
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I think once I hit my 50’s, the painting is so much more rewarding! I would love to get more games in, just making the time and traveling is much less appealing that a good paint session with an audio book.
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That makes sense to me, especially in the winter when the weather isn’t great!
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Excellent work, I do especially like the red in the skull, gives it an almost animated look.
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