It has been a while since I posted a collection update, mostly because up to this previous month the purchases have been rather miniscule and unimpressive. Not for lack of trying, mind you! The fervor and desire to collect all things Rackham is still very much omnipresent, but it seems like we've reached a point where the market well has gone dry. Rare things seldomly drop, sometimes when they do they are region specific (curse you, the seller who doesn't want my money when I'm not from your home country), and overall it is becoming a challenge. The hunt continues though, I suspect we'll see a surge of things coming from people's attics and basements once Monolith starts making the revival more and more imminent.
The solitary box up until May was Cardinal Aerth. It landed in my lap while visiting a random online store in search for some miniature paints and they had the good cardinal for dirt cheap. I love these boxes which have two versions of the same character and Aerth himself is an interesting chap. The sculpt is a bit cartoony with its unreasonably large sword, but the whole miniature is just full of life and grandeur somehow. It's a fine addition to my small, but increasing, Griffin collection.
Like the Mounted Standard Bearer, Sardar Tillius is one of the rare Alahan designs I really like and just looking at it makes me want to paint just so that it can be on display at all times. The sculpt has a lot going on, but it is all so subtly done and it doesn't seem overwhelming. I particularly love the armor design and the lion.
The Master of Carnage I was so excited about, especially since he was a very cheap pickup from the same seller that had Tillius... up until the point when upon delivery I realized that I already own this particular MoC version... I was absolutely convinced that I own the other one, but my apparently poor collection management got the better of me. I'll probably offer this one for trade on 7 Hills.
One other Confrontation blister crept in along with some other online store purchase and this one is rather special. A humble Familiars of Air blister which happens to be my very first mispack! Yes sir! It's rather funny, since I was making a big purchase of some other miniature related stuff and the store happened to have the familiars for 2 euros, so I just tossed it in there. The image just showed the card side and although it arrived NIB the blister contains only two minis, missing the little guy holding the book. Not so tragic as it was a cheap purchase and this particular blister is still fairly common, plus I guess mispacks are themselves a rarity... it makes an interesting story, at the very least! It is funny to me how many times in the past I heard stories of terrible Rackham quality control and how pieces were often missing from blisters and boxes, but this is the first time I notice it in all my purchases so far. Probably jinxed it now!
Speaking of random bits and pieces, I came across this local sale featuring various loose bits of Confrontation models, primarily containing banners of all sorts. It was cheap and I think this lot will be useful for a couple of conversion ideas I have, so I just went for it. Surprisingly, it also features one complete Bregan, an incomplete Apostate of Darkness, and a Galhyan missing an arm and sword, all of which weren't even listed in the lot.
All of the above mentioned pick-ups were between February and April, but then May came along and a big boy dropped...
...one of the biggest boys, in fact. The Cynwäll Dragon finally landed into my hands! I've been eyeing and dancing around it for months on end, but the English versions have been relatively hard to find, either not complete, too expensive, or not in Europe, aka not cheap. This one however I found for around 80e, which is quite on the cheaper side by today's standards, so it was time to pull the trigger. I didn't realize how huge the Dragon is, just the fact that the box is bigger than the usual Confrontation boxes made me squeal. Similarly, happy to add the Construct Warrior to my collection, both for the expansion of my Cynwäll roster and for use in Hybrid.
I was also very excited to get the version of Phidias which I was missing, primarily because I plan to use both incarnations for the bingo "character" challenge. Aside from that I love the sculpt, as it continues the Griffin vibe inspired by "Brotherhood of the Wolf". It is crazy to me how minimalistic the design is, but so evocative and effective, displaying that recognizable Rackham charm.
Last but definitely not the least, I've gotten another Kurujai, this one finally in English. This one was eluding me for quite some time. More than a year ago I ordered one from a seller expertly hidden in some backwater parts of eBay, but it turned out the person couldn't actually find where they stored the blister and so had to cancel the order to my great dismay. Then some time ago I found a French one on the cheap elsewhere, but it always bugged me that I don't have the card in English, a similar pain I'm still experiencing with my Erhyl who I also own in French.
A minor side note when it comes to Daikinee, people who know me also know by now that they are my favorite army and that I have a wild ambition and dedication to collecting them. I've purposely so far omitted writing about many Daikinee purchases I've made in the past year or so, but soon enough I plan to make a dedicated post for all of those as part of a bigger blog project. More on that later.
Also, I've used this bigger purchase as fuel for completing one bingo entry, namely I've painted the Earth Elemental for the "paint a mini within 48 hours of receiving it" and I've actually managed to pull it off.
No comments:
Post a Comment