It has begun.

As I have said in other areas, I was planning on passing on RWM because of painting and assembly.

But it looks to be a great game, and I'd hate to miss it for lack of prepainted/assembled minis.

This is my journey.

I got 2 core sets and we are on day 3 of assembly and washing.

I ordered the army painter sets 11 days ago and don't have a shipping notification and they have not responded to email request for information. But

The Waiqar Archers have been particularly painful, the archers where you glue both arms in. Hate those guys with a furious passion, they look at me and say; "We TOLD you so! You KNEW you were gonna hate this"

The best way I've found to deal with those are to glue the left arm in place, without hopefully mangling the bow and arrow (they go around corners now, awesome!).

Wait for them to dry, glue right arm in - any better suggestions??

Its too late for mine, they are a mess - but maybe other newbies would benefit from the experts here.

Calvary, the reanimate infantry, the heroes went together fine, even the spearmen - I was careful to glue the stronger of the thing (shield or sword arm) on first, let dry then come back to the other side.

Some parts snap in and hardly need glue, others...Jeoshephat!

So the difference is the difference in the hobby: "YAY! New game is here!", 3...days...later..."YAY, I now have the ugly grey miniatures to put on the board..."

It'll be great, just a slightly different hobby - not so much "instant gratification"

Excuse me while I go give the Daqan a bath...

Welcome to miniature wargaming!

Assembly is a real chore for some folks, but it looks like you're past the worst. As for painting, stick with it, it's worth the effort. Even a basically painted army will look great on the table. The more folks playing runewars with painted minis, the more folks will paint the minis and the more attractive the game will be to onlookers and potential players.

Also, don't be afraid to simplify and even drop some detail steps. Once you get the base coat, and an accent color or two (maybe 3), you may be able to go strait to the dip step. I only used 4 colors (not counting the colored spray basecoat/prime) on my Daqan spearmen, 5 on the Golems, 6 on the horsemen and 7 on Kari.

Carry on!

I guess my answer would depend on what kind of glue you are using. I got all my stuff glued together in about 45 min using gap filling super glue. For the archers I had to clean a lot of flash off of the pressure fits before gluing them in.

35 minutes ago, flightmaster101 said:

I guess my answer would depend on what kind of glue you are using. I got all my stuff glued together in about 45 min using gap filling super glue. For the archers I had to clean a lot of flash off of the pressure fits before gluing them in.

That worked for me as well

I spent about 5-6 hours cleaning up mold lines and joins, dry-fitting, and glueing my single starter together. That is significantly less time than I have ever spent assembling 50 models...probably by a factor of 10 at least.

In the future, when you pick up expansions, take the time to test the joins and trim them down with a hobby knife if necessary. Superglue is great stuff, especially the gap-filling or extra thick versions, but an arm that is sticking out too far because the peg wasn't trimmed is pretty hard to hide.

I'll second eilif and say to stick with it. In the long run it is totally worth it to have a painted army on the table, especially when random people walk by and make comments like "wow, that looks cool" and you know you haven't even finished all the details on something yet. Trust me. ?

Aside from cutting off the flashing first, that's basically the same way I built my archers. They were annoying, because I only have a slow cure super glue right now, but it wasn't too bad. Your bent arrow problem is a really easy fix. AP suggests using a cup of hot water, but it's actually faster to use a hair dryer. Use the warm setting, heat the area to be reshaped up, reshape it, then blast it with the cold setting of the hair dryer and it'll be hard again in a couple seconds.