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New Finecast Dark Eldar Releases
August 20, 2011 by beerogre
This month Games Workshop sees the release of two of the popular models for the Dark Eldar Archon's Retinue... the Medusae and the Ur-Ghul.
According to Darrell, all retinues are just extra Wounds for a more powerful model, but I have to say I like that Medusae model... albeit for a bit of Underdark dungeoneering for D&D... but the Ur-Ghul could easily be represented by some Vampire Counts Ghouls.
Don't you think?
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i personally think the ur-ghul is a nasty sculpt and the vampire counts ghouls are alot nicer as ur-ghuls
They do have a simple look to them. Funny that they are cast in finecast yet they don’t take advantage of it.
Ur-Ghul looks good, could almost use him as a Strigoi of some kind or in a Warhammer Army as a demo model perhaps…but I really don’t like Medusae. Doesn’t look Dark Eldar at all.
They don’t look Dark Eldar because they aren’t,
Any Archon with a brain in his head would never rely on another Dark Eldar for protection
These models are on the smaller 25mm bases. £9.50 each, total value for money! Amazing!
It’s not shown in the pic, but in white dwarf you can see the Ur-Ghul has a choice of two heads, the one not shown poking it’s tongue out. I think more could have been done with the pose; this thing is meant to be sniffing out it’s prey:those holes in it’s head ,I think, meant to be multiple nostrils, since this is meant to be blind. In white dwarf they called it an aggressive stance, but I think the stance should have reflected the character of the model and made it look like it prowling and actually sniffing the air, since that’s what this thing does.
Right now, it just looks like a generic monster body with an interesting head (or two) that could be for any game that needs a monster.
I also think Jes Goodwin has been watching Monty Python and based the stance on the brain specialists:
Second from right in this picture-
And the Terry Gilliam animated version of them-
Also in white dwarf, it shows the Medusae with it’s visor up and a glowing eye-I don’t know if the visor can move on the model or if you have to glue it in one position or the other.
The Medusae is another one of these sculpts that, for what seems to be the reason of laziness, has all it’s interesting detail in the top half of the miniature; the rest being boring old robes or an old dress, lol. Blank areas like this are a “canvas” for the painter to add detail and designs to, but it just looks like they sculpted the top half and thought “Sod it, I’ll just give it a robe and stick some feet out from under it, job done!”. I do see a symmetrical shape in the down-pointing triangular form of the torso and the upright triangular form of the robes, but it just looks like half a mini on top of some robes to me, and at £9.50 I’d want a whole mini with details on both halves of it, not just a pointy bit coming of the torso. Either that or they could have given it a more interesting pose. The main focus is on the brain parasite, so too much detail could distract from it, but if we could have seen some detail hanging from the robes, trophies etc, that would have been good.