Monday 28 September 2015

Poseidon God of the Sea

This is a model from the SHQ (formerly Chiltern Miniatures) range of mythical gods. I bought pack EEG3 on spec as it's almost impossible to find any images  - there were some of Zeus on Lead Adventure a few years ago, but that's about it. I do find it quite surprising that this far into the 21st Century some manufacturers don't have images of all their products.
Small boy (for whom it was purchased and painted) loves it - I'm not 100% convinced, but it's a fun figure.





Easy as pie to paint up. He's nice and big and chunky. Here's a comparison shot with a Crusader Greek to show that although he'll be impressive on the tabletop he's not going to totally dominate things.



I've got Hermes (from the same pack) on the painting table to use as my god. He's a lot more "realistic" as a model.
Interestingly the two "mortal" figures (Hercules and Perseus) are the same scale as these - I'd assumed they'd be smaller. As I want my heroes in the game to be of a smaller scale I probably won't end up using them (Perseus is holding Medusa's head and Hercules is draped with bits of the Hydra, so they can't really be used as other Gods - I was thinking one might do for Ares). That said four figures this size for £8 is pretty good value. Even if I only ever use the two I still think £4 each for models this size is OK.

Small boy is of the opinion that as Poseidon is one of "The Big Three" in Percy Jackson (with Hades and Zeus) that his stats of C4 is not powerful enough in OGAM, so he's going to be using a C5 version. *gulp*

6 comments:

  1. He looks great. I'm in total agreement with you about manufacturers not having pictures on their website.

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  2. It will be interesting to see Hermes as I keep considering him for OGAM.

    I wouldn't buy a figure unless I'd seen an image. You have to wonder how many sales have been lost by such an oversight.

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    1. I'll post some pictures of him when I've painted a bit more

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  3. It will be interesting to see Hermes as I keep considering him for OGAM.

    I wouldn't buy a figure unless I'd seen an image. You have to wonder how many sales have been lost by such an oversight.

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  4. He's quite impressive, although from one angle he rather looks like he's popping out of a cake. :)

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    1. Sort of like Erika Eleniak in Under Siege?

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