Well then, I guess I spent an evening putting the Forge World Deathroller model together. It's a pretty big kit, in the typical Forge World resin (not my favourite material to work with). It's a fun model, with plenty of detail and pretty high quality overall. The pieces fit together pretty well and doesn't appear to need too much in terms of green stuff to fill gaps.

Step one: open the box full of parts:


It's pretty daunting to see at first, but taking the parts out of the blister and organising it, it's not too bad:


Step one: Get rid of the mould gates:


They're pretty large, but snap off easily with a pair of side cutters. Cleaning the last part involves some work with a scalpel and a fair bit of scraping overall to clean off mould lines.



After some work cleaning up the first set of pieces, I notices the kit has a few parts with "Shims". These are very thin layers of resin (to the point of being translucent) that need to be cut out:


The instructions that ship with the kit are pretty easy to follow, almost Ikea style :) Here are a couple of more images taken during the assembly:




If you have sharp eyes, you'll notice that the little hobgoblin who's about to be crushed by the roller is missing an arm. Unfortunately, this is a part that was missing (see the second image above; I believe it should have been next to the head on the part numbered 17). Here's a bit of a closeup:


I've dropped off an email to Forge World about this, and hope they'll help me out with this particular problem.

This model is pretty large, and while I do remember that I was supposed to put this model on the pitch (with Morg and some other models for scale), I decided not to for this one. Because of how the kit is built, I don't want to glue the dwarf to the seat nor do I want to glue the roller to the base. It'd be a nightmare to paint some of these parts if it was all a solid piece. So, you'll have to wait for the scale comparison until a later date. Sorry :)