It came from the pit.
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:57 pm
My Hellpit Abomination came in the post yesterday, so I spent some free time yesterday and this morning putting it together.
The kit is very nicely designed. The pieces all fit together smoothly, though due to the big-gribbly-monster nature of the set, it isnt always clear which mutated rat head goes where so I had to do a lot of dry fitting. Some of the seams are hidden away cleverly, but some are fairly obvious. Wherever I could, I used a file to try to blend the edges together a little so when I paint it, they shouldn't be too noticeable.
As you can see:
It is indeed a big, rat-ish, gribbly beast of doom and does exactly what it says on the tin.
Now the negative points. Apart from two variant arms, a couple of variant rat heads that go on top and a different weapon piece on the main head, there are NO extra pieces in the set. No bits or extra things. Whilst it is possible to construct a second HPA using the variant pieces, the two models would be in exactly the same pose. The model has zero wiggle room for making it look different without taking a saw and green stuff to it in large quantities. Each piece has to fit 'just so' or the model wont go together.
Overall, I would say 7 out of 10. Its big, scary and an abomination but there is no versatility in the kit.
The kit is very nicely designed. The pieces all fit together smoothly, though due to the big-gribbly-monster nature of the set, it isnt always clear which mutated rat head goes where so I had to do a lot of dry fitting. Some of the seams are hidden away cleverly, but some are fairly obvious. Wherever I could, I used a file to try to blend the edges together a little so when I paint it, they shouldn't be too noticeable.
As you can see:
It is indeed a big, rat-ish, gribbly beast of doom and does exactly what it says on the tin.
Now the negative points. Apart from two variant arms, a couple of variant rat heads that go on top and a different weapon piece on the main head, there are NO extra pieces in the set. No bits or extra things. Whilst it is possible to construct a second HPA using the variant pieces, the two models would be in exactly the same pose. The model has zero wiggle room for making it look different without taking a saw and green stuff to it in large quantities. Each piece has to fit 'just so' or the model wont go together.
Overall, I would say 7 out of 10. Its big, scary and an abomination but there is no versatility in the kit.
Large blocks of high S troops will take it down though. Large blocks of troops > big monsters.