I recently completed painting Sanguinius for Horus Heresy, part of the original Primarch series from Forge World. Here's a quick review on how I found working with it.
Sanguinius, like other Primarchs and notable character miniatures from Forge World, come in a premium box. Always an exciting moment to open!
The miniature is made of 26 resin parts, some extremely small and delicate. You need to be very careful unboxing, reviewing that everything is there in tact.
All the pieces were immaculate, with minimal flash and no air bubbles or other defects. I had to use a small heatgun on a low setting to warm up the spear to straighten it, fairly standard operation for any longer resin piece.
The kit has two weapons assembly options: The Spear of Telesto or The Blade Encarmine. I chose to build mine with the Spear of Telesto. Doing so, there is the Moonsilver Blade's hilt which can be placed in the scabbard, while with the Blade Encarmine option you'd leave the scabbard empty (he's not carrying two swords).
The Spear of Telesto is very thin. Gladly the resin is not super brittle, rather bendy. However it is so delicate it bends on the pressure of the paintbrush, making some of the edge highlighting challenging.
To clean up the parts, I recommend a hobby knife with a fresh blade. Fine cutting, single blade clippers (such as GodHands) were also very useful to cut some of the tiny casting vents off. The Godhands are meant for plastic, but are absolutely fine to use with soft resin.
The instructions are fairly good, but take your time to study. The pteruges were quite a puzzle to get right. Gladly, I noticed the sprues have markings which is which (Left, Right and A, B and C). Gluing them on was the hard part; the contact points to the shoulder pads are tiny and non-obvious. Well timed activator spray with small dot of medium viscosity super glue was the way to get them in place. And loads of patience.
The sculpting on the wings is beautifully reproduced, with very sharp details on the feathers.
A note on subassemblies. Well, I rarely do them, not my thing, I prefer to see the full miniature and paint it as is. But in case of Sanguinius, I regret not doing subassemblies and would definitely recommend at least keeping the wings and the head separate. The wings get heavily on the way for painting the shoulder pads, which resulted in non-mild amounts of swearing. And given the angle of his head, painting the facial details would have been much easier were the head separate. You live and learn.
Overall I love the Forge World Primarch miniatures, absolutely some of the best Warhammer models and some of the best models, period. And Sanguinius is no exception.
