Feora, protector of the flame

My history with War Machine was a short one. I picked up an army, played a few games, and decided it wasn’t for me.

One of the few models remaining is this war caster whose name I had to look up before filling in the title for this article.

From memory this is a two-part metal figure with the flame base as the third part. An impressive model and one that was fun to paint up. The official colours for her faction are white and purple, but I preferred to use green as a contrast to the flames.

I gave her main weapon a glowing metal effect which I think turned out better than it seemed as I was painting it.

I have maybe 2 more War Machine models in my collection. I liked the range and the sculpts, but their manufacture is something out of the 1990s. A lot of the metal figures have fiddly small parts that must be pinned to assemble well – one figure I bought and immediately gave away featured an outstretched arm in three pieces. No thanks.

Other models make you join resin and metal pieces together – an exercise in futility. Blended models belong firmly in the past, in my opinion. Perhaps they have changed in recent years, but I notice their games slipped out of ICv2‘s industry sales charts a while back, and have yet to return.