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 Post subject: GD's Gwaihir review + assembly
PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:47 pm 
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Hey guys, might be my last one for a few days. I present you Gwaihir:

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Games Workshop shows how finecast eagles are really done with this figure, it's body in one piece rather than the 3 piece plastic to finecast deal we got for Radagast. On first inspection everything seemed in order, no missing pieces. I have to say apart from the odd missing piece and brittleness on weapons I really do enjoy modelling with resin now and is probably my favourite material to assemble, providing the kit is up to their usual standard.

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There were some minor bubbles around the front of the wings and a few air pockets at the bottom of the wing feathers so I had to be quite careful to finely shave the mould lines in that area or risk exposing the bigger air pockets. I did expose a few but nothing a little bit of green stuff can't fix.

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Everything was a breeze working with Gwaihir. If anything the wings were a tiny bit difficult to match up to the body but admittedly in trying to fix it I did cut in the wrong areas or just a little bit too much off and as a result there's a touch more green stuff in the wing to body join than you would normally have if you don't make the same mistake I did.

I would recommend getting Gwaihir for the eagle fans out there. The pose is excellent and putting it next to the other eagles I would say it looks slightly bigger (as the windlord should be) due to the wingspan.
Gwaihir Rating:

Assembly - 7/10
Quality - 7.5/10
Looks - 7.5/10

Score - 73%

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 Post subject: Re: GD's Gwaihir review + assembly
PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:21 pm 
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Can you post a compare pic between Gwaihir and the plastic eagles? Being almost twice the cost as them, he doesn't seem all that worth it, but if he's a whole lot bigger, he might be.

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