Literally just typing this to say that I am jealous and I feel upset not having this box yet. Finally an affordable set of Knights that's not a Bretonian set and you get more than 4 figures. Any way thanks for a great channel and showcasing wonderful miniatures.
Sprue goo, when assembling and applying a good amount of pressure will render the seam gone, you may however end up with a ridge, which a sanding stick will address beautifully. how I assemble my horses. Sprue goo is basically Tamiya Super thin with a bunch of small chunks of sprue dumped in and allowed to melt, quite a nice way to address seams and gaps in plastic models easier to use than green stuff, cheaper as well.
It was definitely worth the wait, I wasn’t planning on picking up their Islamic kits but I don’t think I’m going to be able to resist now seeing how good the quality of these are.
Just received the Victrix Knights and they were excellent. The knights are well sculpted with lots of detail that will paint up well. Size wise close to Firefirge and Wargames Atlantic. The Fireforge horses are chunkier but the Victrix are more animated with 6 different Victrix and only 3 different Fireforge horses, although there are unbarbed horses in other Fireforge kits such as Mounted Sergeants. I have kit bashed Fireforge Teutonic helmets onto Victrux Knights. This is an excellent kit.
Great analysis, glad to hear you agree. I’m excited to see how these kitbash with Wargames Atlantic’s own mounted knights that should be dropping within the next couple of months. What an incredible time to be a medieval wargamer!
Thank you, excellent review, my Victrix knights hopefully are not far away...BTW the Wargames Atlantic foot knights scale well, with all Fireforge Medievals, including the Russian and Swedish troops.
I was just coming to the same conclusion kitbashing some Fireforge Foot Knights with WGA and comparing my Fireforge Russian Infantry. Might warrant a scale comparison video comparing plastic sets from the big 6 manufacturers (Victrix, Perry, WGA, Gripping Beast, Fireforge, Warlord Games)
These Knights look so much better than the Fireforge ones, cleaner castings and less warping on the shields, and most important their Lances are THE CORRECT SIZE!
When I started this hobby last year I was a bit surprised at the lack of good plastic medieval stuff on the market so I went with the dark ages because the Normans most resembled what kind of army I wanted to paint. Glad there's so many good medieval kits coming out this year to fill that gap. Great video, thanks for the comparisons at the end, really appreciated, hope you can show off some painted mounted Victrix and Fireforge stuff in a future video as well. 👍
Lack of good plastic for medieval? Perry Miniatures has had a pretty comprehensive range for infantry and light and heavy knights for both Hundred Years War and Wars of the Roses since forever. Good quality, too! And well researched, since the Perries are history nerds. I'd understand if you said Crusades era...
@@theandfYou’re right about the Perry’s, but also correct that their stuff is all Agincourt and later. Up until now if you wanted plastic models for the 2nd-3rd crusades (or for us Fantasty wargamers, a decent Bretonnian proxy), your only real option was Fireforge.
Seamline on plastic kits like this are easy. Thin plastic glue melts the seam line away, and the just sand it. Do not use liquid green stuff, it is horrible
Thanks for this. I wonder why Victrix decided to have all but one of the horses with their caparisons - correctly - over their tails but that last one, Games Workshop style, with it's tail thrust through a hole. It's not an arrangement period images show and is, if given a moment's thought, highly insanitary. A small thing but still a pity.
I've been waiting your review as soon as I saw these knights were released. That Teutonic/fantasy add on was a pleasant surprise too. Good times for medieval or fantasy knights enthusiasts, we're being bombarded with excellent releases from Victrix and Wargames Atlantic. :)
For the seam I would suggest using sprue goo. I find that the best solution to bad seams. Sprue goo is just thin bottled plastic cement and you guessed it cut up sprues. I personally use Tamiya thin cement.
Tamiya thin is fairly expensive. If you need a lot, like many warhams, it's quite possible to make your own, as it's basically a 50/50 mix of acetone and butyl acetate; which can be ordered from chemical supply shops, or substituted with methyl acetate, which is non-acetone nail polish remover. And since non-non-acetone nail polish remover is just acetone; you can literally just mix acetone nail polish remover and non acetone nail polish remover and get homemade Tamiya thin, and thus sprue goo, for about a tenth of the price. Some people like to buy a bottle or two of the Tamiya first and keep refilling it for the convenience of the bottle. For me, sprue goo isn't that useful, since I do a lot of toy conversions, and they aren't usually styrene, so it is unpredictable.
@@asafoetidajones8181 Yes that is why I use the dregs at the bottom of the bottle. I have one bottle that I keep adding the dregs to and if need be add more sprue. Thank you I should have included that part at the beginning. completely forgot.
Yeah the Fireforge stuff is showing its age these days (I think those Templars are like 15 years old?). It’s more surprising to me that it’s taken this long for someone else to cover the same subject in a serious way.
