Victrix Historical Miniatures Review

Transcript

Today I want to do a quick review of the Victrix Historicals—the Dark Age Archers and the Norman kit.

What You Get

There is a ton of plastic in these things. My LGS has them for between $30 and $45, so you’re looking around $40 per kit. This is two kits—the Norman Warband has a little more variety, but the Dark Age Archers and Slingers kit, even though it’s all the same sprue, has a ton of options: bows, slings, melee weapons including axes, spears, and I think even a sword or two. Really cool heads and satchels and all sorts of customization bits.

Plastic Quality

The plastic feels like hard GW-quality plastic to me. Very easy to clean up—just the back of the X-Acto or a dedicated mold line remover, scrape those real fast. On some of these figures, I didn’t even have any mold lines to clean up, which is pretty shocking these days.

Build Speed

I cleaned up and built a single model in under 3 minutes in real time. I don’t remember the last time that happened. It almost takes me longer to clean up a 3D print. These are so easy to work with.

Cavalry

The set comes with four cavalry models. One of my horses just didn’t line up, so I’ll need to gap fill it. But the other two went together pretty straightforward—even with just plastic cement I was able to handle the gaps. These were definitely the best riders I’ve ever put together. A lot of rider kits are super janky, especially compared to the Riders of Rohan I just built, which were terrible. These Victrix models versus those Middle-earth models—night and day difference in quality, especially for the price.

Bases

I’m using Wargames Atlantic historical bases. A lot of these historical figures have the foot blob, so these bases are pretty shallow and work great for that.

Verdict

Hands down, in terms of money for quality, amount, and poseability of miniatures: 10 out of 10. Best models I’ve ever purchased for the money. Even with just two kits, I got a lot of different variation using the bodies and various weapon options.