Finally getting round to some frostgrave, been putting together an 'evil' warband having been inspired by the new cultist soldiers.
I also received a free sample of two miniatures from otherworld miniatures given to my by the generous Richard Scott after I inquired about how their miniatures stacked up to northstars own brand.
Now that the miniatures have all arrived i've taken a few pics.
In the first pic we see two northstar with a mantic necromancer in the middle(saw the guy on ebay a while back, thought he'd be great for a necromancer/lich/npc).
Second we have two northstar next to a high priest from otherworlds men of evil range, as you can see the OW mini is bigger than the alchemist despite the fact it has no integral base while the apothecary does, compared to the barbarian they are about equal if you discount the barbarians integral base.
Third we have a cultist next to a templar and knight, discounting integral bases the northstar miniatures are bigger, also of note the high priest miniatures is (if we discount the tip of the hood) taller than the cultist and about the same height as the knight and templar although less bulky.
In terms of quality I would say the otherworld minis edged out the northstar, the otherworld minis had minimal flash and very clean, while the northstar had quite a bit of flash (still scraping it off) also some slight loss of detail in a few, for example loss of detail on assassins dagger hand makes the hand look like some type of weird oven mitt as well as the templar sword and base being slightly deformed(mold slippage?) on the plus side the metal is very strong so weapons are easily bent back into shape without fear of breaking them.
All in all i'm surprised(and ever so slightly disappointed) at how things turned out as originally I was more looking forward to the northstar minis, more than the otherworld minis, as you can see there is no problem with mixing the two ranges for a warband, and I recommend both ranges which I will be buying from in the furture.
Stay tuned for some painte up pics of both manufactures in the near future.