quarta-feira, 5 de novembro de 2025

This box art by LW

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I know that LW was (or still is? Does LW still exist?) a miniature manufacturer heavily criticized by the guys from Plastic Soldier Review specially for selling kits that were actually conversions of other manufacturers' works, but, damn... the box art for their "German Knights" set goes hard:


This is one of the best box arts I've seen in this hobby so far.  

The depiction of the knight clad in black armour waving the german hawk flag makes me wonder what this man's backstory is. 

To me, this image fits nicely with Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" (search for it on youtube, it's 100% worth it!). 

The castle walls in the background, the open fields, everything is just right for me in this picture.

I tried to find the original picture (without the text and LW logo), but could find nothing. 

So I asked grok on twitter to remove the texts from the box art. The result was quite good (it slightly changed the knight's face, the symbol on the flag and erased the castle gate):



It makes me wish this set was still widely available! At least I own a copy of the Revell French Knights set which was the base for the conversions made by LW!

Eventually I'll paint at least some of them as German Knights!

2 comentários:

  1. You could try contacting Mars since they released sets last year that were derived from LW figures (https://www.marsfigures.com). The website is not active but the company is, so they may well still monitor it.
    Best wishes, James

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    1. Thanks for your tip, James! I wrote 'em a message asking about the German Knight set and also asked if they have any plans for other cool old sets from LW, such as the Inquisition one, Medieval Mortar and Medieval Russian Knights. Let's see if they'll ever answer me!

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