I must start by mentioning where this mini came from. The Chaos Master was ordered through Slave to Painting (http://www.slavetopainting.com/).Slave to Painting was a pleasure to deal with. Their website is easy to navigate through, just make sure you select the right country so the prices are in the correct currency. The minis were well packaged and as a cool added bonus they came packaged with a Slave to Painting decal and a awesome paint brush shaped lollipop.
Now to the miniature in question, the Chaos Master. I found this mini while searching for a suitable model to use as a Dark Apostle in Terminator Armour to lead my Word Bearers army. The Chaos Master seemed to fit the bill so I ordered one up.
The multi-piece resin miniature comes in clamshell blister pack.
The arms and mace haft are on separate sprues with some small decorative shields while the rest of the parts are loose.
Here is a parts break down with individual pictures. All these pictures are straight out of the pack without any trimming or washing.
First we will look at the main body piece. The torso, legs, and head are all cast in one piece. As you can see there is a ton of detail on this model. While we are talking about detail, the detail is very very crisp and there is almost no sign of mold lines.
The left arm is meant to hold the power maul/mace and represents the model from its shoulder to the wrist plus a couple of the small shields. During transport some of the shields had came off the sprue but were in perfect shape and not damaged.
The mace haft is on its own sprue and though it looks like there is a lot of flash on it this is very thin and mostly on the sprue. It trims away easily and leaves no trace of it behind.
The mace head is a large well detailed chunk of resin on a small round plug style sprue. It trims away easily with a steady hand and light pressure.
The right arm is on a sprue with a couple small shields. This power fist style arm ends in a pointy finger pose that looks great on the model.
The base, what can I say about it? It is a true work of beauty. It is an elaborate display style 40mm base featuring demonic creatures wreathed in flame wrapped around a rock with eldritch symbols carved in it.
This does add so height to the model but to me is more than acceptable because it makes the model look much more impressive on the battlefield.
Clean up of the model was cake. What little flash there was easily trimmed away. The same story applies to the mold lines though there was next to no mold lines on the model and what there was were very faint and did not run through any highly detailed sections. The parts went together quite well. The shoulder joints required a bit of careful trimming to get a good solid mounting surface but this was done quickly with the edge of a razor blade. The three piece arm/mace combo went together very well with very minimal trimming.
As you can see they meet very flush and tight.
There is sadly a minor bad spot with this model and that is on the base. The blue lines point to some minor pin holes in the bases detailing.
Honestly though this is a minor thing. I was thinking about filling them but they were so minor I decided to leave and after painting the base they are pretty much invisible.
When it came to painting the resin took paint very well. I used a spray primer that is the same color as GW's Fortress Grey and it went on smoothly and did not soak into the freshly washed resin. The rest of the painting went pretty straight forward using GW paints.
This is a model that can be painted quickly to get it on the table (like I did) or one can really take their time with and make a true master piece. The resin is crisp and of very high quality. The sculpt is amazing and truly full of presence once assembled and painted up. I highly recommend this model and judging from another model from Scibor that I got at the same time as this one their quality is top notch on all their models. I know I will be buying 6 more termie style models from them in the future to make a squad to accompany the Chaos Master onto the 4x8 battlefield.
Thank you for reading this review. I welcome all questions and/or comments. Until next time may your dice roll those magic numbers you need and happy gaming.
-Manny-
