[Kickstarter] Diehard Miniatures: Chaos Incursion 2

[Grumpy Gnome]

A small KS, easily overlooked, for old school 28mm metal sculpts.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diehardminiatures/diehard-miniatures-chaos-incursion-2/description

[barbaric splendor]

I am in - love the snakemen!

[beefcake]

female snake with breasts makes no sense to me though. Mixing mammal and reptile? To each their own though. But I do like the style of snakemen though, arms and no legs. That ticks my box. Lots of stuff to like in there.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Bookmarked so I can keep an eye on the stretch goals.  Those still-locked warbots look nifty.

[Robosmith]

Some of these sculpts are really nice but pushing the cost. A unit of 5 cav costing 32 quid is too expensive to build a proper army around. For single character models this is great, but everything unit wise isn't cheap enough to really dig into unfortunately. Might have been different if you could make your own unit rather than having a fixed set. They're so different some of them don't appeal at all and that makes the price more of a hindrance than paying a bit more for units you really like.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

About a week to go, and I see they unlocked some of the stretch goals early.  Everything except the not-a-Slann xeno-cavalry figs are available now, including those snazzy warbots I was drooling over. 

[Verderer]

A couple of those chaos dudes look familiar. I could swear that the ape guy is GW, and I should have one someplace? 

[Chief Lackey Rich]

A couple of those chaos dudes look familiar. I could swear that the ape guy is GW, and I should have one someplace? 

Half of Diehard's made up of Oldhammer sculptors from back in the day.  They're good at emulating the style, for the obvious reason that they helped invent it.

[Verderer]

Fair enough, though it's not just the style, even the pose and details seem very much identical, from memory. But hey, i am not saying there's anything wrong about that.

[Hobgoblin]

Fair enough, though it's not just the style, even the pose and details seem very much identical, from memory. But hey, i am not saying there's anything wrong about that.

Some of them are tributes/homages to Citadel originals (including the winged goblin, the chaos dwarf and a couple of the beastmen, I think). To my eye, those ones are not as good as the others - principally because they're not quite as good as the originals. That winged goblin, for example, is fine - but the Perry winged goblin is much nicer. I think the original Diehard stuff is much better.

That said, if I were missing the Citadel original, I'd probably snap up the Diehard fellow as a pretty decent stand-in!