Wild West Exodus - Models & Build

Apologies for the delay to posting this up, but as we took the pictures to show, I thought it should go up even if it's a few months late! Back in the closing quarter of 2015 we did an unboxing of Wild West Exodus, and covered our first impressions both here and on the podcast. To give you all unfamiliar with the game an idea of the model quality, here are some pictures of a build of one of the figures, and a few other shots.

Firstly, here are the parts for one of the outlaws - the parts are nicely cast with good detail.

For the most part, sprue attachment points are on joints or hidden parts, showing thought has gone into assembly and final look of the model

There are some seams to clean up, and I deliberately chose this figure as it's probably the worst offender from the set - showing the worst you'll have to do...most don't have seam lines anything like this large. This guy's overcoat is the part that needs greatest cleanup, but it's nothing more than a few minutes work.

The legs join at the knee, using parts designed so you can't get them wrong, and largely hide their own joins

Next is the head, attaching via the neckerchief

The arms have positive pegs on the body to slot into, so again you can't really get assembly wrong

Finally the right arm with the gun moulded on goes in place, completing the assembly. Now I want to paint these parts before I do this (after cleaning up the seams etc), but the parts have a good enough fit that I could dry-fit them to show you what he looks like with it on.

In fact, the fit of the parts is well worth mentioning - here's the Outlaw specialist, complete with sniper rifle;

This mini has not had his gun/arm assembly glued on - it's just dry fitted...that's impressive...

You get some interesting poses in the set...like this cross-legged lawman

The mini I was least taken by on the box renders was the Outlaw bike. In reality, however, this is quite a nice little model and I think it looks good. I've not glued the guys hat on deliberately...he's not the subject of a horrible accident!

Now these are very different minis from anything else I possess, and painting them I wanted to give them a dirty, brown look similar to the raiders in Fallout 4. It has to be said that they take paint very well, and look great painted up. here's a Lawman I've used as a testbed...

Not finished - but you get the idea. I think he's coming up well, and seeing the painted minis makes me want to play the game, which is always a good sign!

Wild West Exodus 2-player set unboxing

So back in September, after hearing good things several times on Jaded Gamercast about Wild West Exodus, I found myself in the possession of some excess funds (from selling a bunch of 40k stuff) which I decided to grab the 2-player starter set of WWE. Unfortunately it turned out there was some problem and it never arrived, as regular readers/listeners will know we moved and then, out of the blue, it arrived whilst Oscar and I were at Reading Warfare.

So, here's the box - the two-player set is using the age-old outlaws and lawmen matchup that I'm sure many of us played as kids;

The front of the box has some nice comic-style artwork whilst the rear of the box sports the contents;

Now this set cost £64, and you get 28 figures, so on models alone the set works out at around £2.30 each, which isn't bad. Moving onto the contents, the box is end-opening and contains the rulebook, construction guides for the models, stat cards and a bubble-wrap pack which has the templates and tokens in;

Looking into the bubble wrap more closely....

Here you can see three clear plastic templates, four silver and bronze coloured 10-sided dice and a sprue with the tokens in gold-bronze plastic. The templates are pretty thick and sturdy, seems like they'll last a long time and they have a real quality feel to them.

Now onto the minis - you get three main sprues plus two small ones (each with a single special support character)

Having a closer look here, these are very nicely sculpted and cast figures, and I can see why JG were keen on them.

Now I know pretty much nothing more about the game, so it will have to wait until a future post to talk in any way about that, but my original impression is pretty positive. Next I'll be building the minis and coming back to this when that's done...watch this space!