So I have to be honest, I haven’t really bought any of the solo miniatures from Games Workshop in years due to their pricing structure and value. I’ve been playing enough 40k lately, however, to make some of these worthwhile to me. I have a handful of Commissar’s already, but I figured I’d pick up another since I like to run large platoons of infantry when I play 40k. My approach has always been numbers over small super powerful units.
The new blister packages that they have are nice since none of the parts are floating and you can make out everything included on the model itself. This model was simple and really had only one option, either Plasma Pistol or Bolt Pistol. I opted for a Plasma Pistol, cause why not?
The sprue quality on these models is far better than their larger counterparts like tanks sized sprues. This model easily has some of the highest quality plastic bits I’ve seen in a long time on a model. Each piece was rather easy to cut and clean and put together.
The only thing that bugs me on this whole model is the oversized hats, I’ve had plenty of IG models over the years, their hats have been progressively getting larger over the years. I’m not sure how I feel about this, but I’m leaning negative. It’s weird, but normally I have an opinion one way or the other on models and am not stuck in the middle on something.
As mentioned at the start, my biggest gripe is cost of this miniature, it’s far higher than other models in it’s size/category but is up towards the top in terms of quality. I’m not sure where it exactly lands in the grand scale of bad to awesome, but it’s certainly not at the bottom. Overall I can’t recommend this one based on price, but it certainly isn’t a bad model either, so I’m kinda ‘meh’ overall on this one. Either way, this commissar will for sure be doing his far share of executing insubordinate guardsmen in the near future.