Blood Knights

Let's not just call them Blood Knights.
Instead let's call them '£60 Knights'
Especially after 8th Edition rulebook I find it hard to squeeze these overly priced guys in my recent army list. After new releases, my attention turned away from them, and now I see them as 'two Terrorgheist' worth of money and half the maneuverability.

Anyway...

Thanks to my fantasy enthusiast wife, I've got them as birthday presents. Painted them as they deserved, coated with satin varnish...
Here we go:

Notes on the Models:

These are 2011 production Finecast's.
Handling the resin is far more easier than the metals, that's true.

As a material there is no downside of the resin, but apparently Citadel Miniatures displayed poor manufacturing techniques on their first productions.
There were too much flash on the sprue and there were yellowish casting residues which penetrated into the actual model, causing awful defects.

Talking as a mechanical engineer and a machine manufacturer: These faults and defects are generally results of converting a company's casting systems to a newer one. New machines or new molds etc... They need some time to calibrate and to perfect. Over time Citadel will get over these initial failings and manufacture better models.

In addition to these, the box had some missing parts.

The standard bearer's horse had no spike on its champron (fancy word for horse helmet).
Fortunately Games Workshop here in Edinburgh employs very nice people and they offered fixing it. They took one of their own Blood Knights from the storage and removed the spike on its pauldron (another fancy word for shoulder armor).

By using some green stuff it was done.
Also there was a missing shield, which one I don't remember but, still the guys in the shop supplied it.