Magnificent Egos...

[supervike]

It doesn't seem that the minis from Magnificent Egos get much attention in the places I hang out... Why is that?

They have a pretty cool website

http://www.magnificentegos.com/

but websites alone don't make a great mini..., and I am all about the minis...

So far nothing has reached up and slapped me as being incredible. The stuff I have seen is all very well sculpted, but maybe just a bit boring and standard.

I'm willing to be convinced otherwise though, since it doesn't seem that I've given these guys a fair shake.

Direct me towards painted or cool sculpts, and I would be much appreciative.

Your thoughts?

[vincegamer]

I had an opportunity to pick up one of these at a swap meet this weekend and passed it. Nice detail but just a boring mini.
Looking at their gallery I'd say they're trying too hard to be trendy (i.e. look like Rackham).

[Ritual]

I don't see much resemblance with Rackham minis. I think they look too generic and non-descript. Nothing that catches my interest.

[EricJ]

definately not Rackham-ish.

There was one Sandra G Dragon thing in the monsters section that was pretty neet though

not that I really like painting dragons...

[LeadAsbestos]

I kinda like the gross anatomy and the other zombie-guy-thingy, but certainly not enough to buy them. Maybe not enough even to pick them up if I saw them on the ground...

Sorry, but not impressed.

[vincegamer]

I stick by my comparison.
Consider big coated guy in Pilgrim hat or super-skinny enormously busty chick with thong and GOW.

[EricJ]

As Supervike mentions, they do have a pretty neet website...EXCEPT for the mini-photos (perhaps the most important part!) which are not the best quality and tend to be rather small :(

[cdukino]

Well with a boostfull (sp?) name as Magnificent egos you would expect something more out of the ordinary. I like a few miniatures they have but they don't really jump out at me in a buy me buy me way. I can't get them easily and they aren't the cheapest figs either... so it's not so much a I don't like them but more a I like others more and gonna spend my money on those.

[Duende]

At least they're nice enough to have a link to the Rotten Harvest contest on their site.

:bigthumb:

[Nathan Caroland]

That is cool, I didn't even know it to tell the truth, it has been a better part of two weeks since I've been there.

Anyhow, about the ME miniatures, I think some of them are spot on, and others just don't grab me so well, but in general, that is most any miniature company out there. I think it is neat that they have spell effects for the miniatures and I can tell you that I would have been all over that should I still be a geek pen and paper player.

That said, I think they are suffering from some paint jobs that could be done a bit better. Some of the ones that I think could be done better are the Undead Beholder and the Dire Wolf Drake thingie (personally, I want that one).

That and they put out the Henchman which is just too cool.


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