Deep Cuts Female Gnomes

WizKids has a few unpainted miniatures that people might find useful for 1/72 scale fantasy in their Pathfinder Deep Cuts line.

The first picture is of the Deep Cuts Gnome Female Sorcerers (left) and Deep Cuts Gnome Female Druids (right).

The figures can be used as short magic users, but modification with a hobby knife and epoxy putty to increase the skirt length of the figures in dresses can also be done quite easily to make at least a couple of the figures taller.

I like the clear spell effects, but they look like they can get in the way when painting the figures. The heads of the druids are on the large side, and replacing or modifying them would probably make them look more in scale.

Another useful set are the Deep Cuts Children.

The boy can be used as is, while the girl can pretty much pass as an adult in 1/72 scale (though she has an oddly elongated neck).

I think the neck was supposed to be inserted into the head, but the post was too thick so the head was just glued on top of it. Some quick work with a hobby knife and drill solved the issue.

The figures are relatively inexpensive compared to metal miniatures, but still not as cheap as the typical 1/72 plastic figures we all know and love.

WizKids also produce various halflings and male gnomes, but these figures seem like they would need a lot more work to bring up to 1/72 scale compatibility.

Die Glocke

Die Glocke is a purported Nazi anti-gravity device/time machine that has become part of modern UFO mythology thanks to the History Channel and the Discovery Channel, which link it with the Kecksburg UFO.

Much like the educational content from the aforementioned networks, the replica of the Kecksburg UFO reminds me of a certain emoji.

Kecksburg UFO Memorial
Kecksburg, PA

I have a 1/72 resin model by Tanhauser Gate that I picked up at WonFes last year. It is a single piece model cast in gray resin.

There were a lot of small casting bubbles that needed to be filled, and I had to use a chisel to get rid of several blobs of resin in the recessed areas of the model.

Most of the time, models of Die Glock are painted gray or gun metal, but I liked the gloss black appearance used in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

A hole was drilled in the bottom of the model so I could put it on a clear plastic rod to simulate flight.

New Elhiem Fantasy Figures

Concept art by Greg Taylor

I just received an order from Elhiem that included the figures from their new fantasy line.

Matt has been transitioning from creating weapons and head sculpts using 3D renders to sculpting entire figures digitally, and I have to say he has succeeded spectacularly.

These figures were completely mastered from 3D prints produced by digital sculpts, but they don't have the sterile, artificial appearance of typical CAD drawings, and don't look appreciably different from hand sculpted miniatures.

The first set is the Adventure Party (FAN01), consisting of cleric, halfling rogue, wizard, barbarian, elf ranger, and fighter.

The figures are all tall (heroic 1/72?), but still well within the height range of normal humans. The halfling seems particularly tall to me, but perhaps not so much for someone who prefers the interpretation from the Lord of the Rings movies.

The next image shows the Evil Trinity (FAN03) made up of a lich, wizard, and undead knight.

The wizard and lich are the most impressive in my opinion, because they really don't look like digital sculpts at all. I think the only thing that gives the lich away are what appear to be very faint layer lines on his cloak.

Again, the figures are all tall, with the lich being on the high end of the spectrum.

The final image is of the Female Fighter and Elf Sorceress (FAN04), and the Alternative Barbarian (FAN02) next to the regular barbarian from the Adventure Party set.

The Female Fighter is extremely tall – about as tall as the Alternative Barbarian who scales out to 6' 9" (206cm) by my estimation. The female elf is tall as well, but I'm okay with that.

The Alternative Barbarian is a larger, slightly different version of the regular barbarian. I'm pretty sure the base model was just scaled up slightly to make the alternative sculpt, but unlike the North Star 3D prints that I criticized for using proportional scaling to adjust height, the Elhiem model looks fine to my eye.

Overall, I am very happy with these figures. Some of the sculpts seem a bit tall, and I would personally have liked to see the wizards and human females be a little shorter, but that is just my preference. Also, the figures may appear a bit static for some people, but I like these types of poses for gaming use.

Anyway, I hope to see more figures released for this line, and now that I have a good idea of what to expect, I plan on voting for production of Dark Elves (and maybe the regular Elves as well).