Part two! Yesterday we took a look at the Black Diamond starter that I picked up at GenCon (and yes, I totally acknowledge that Ninja Steve unboxed the Black Diamond starter awhile back, I just wanted an excuse to show off my Leopold Magnus :P), but it’d be a pretty piss-poor showing if the starter was *all* I walked away with.

The folks at Ninja Division took a little more of my money as I picked up some of the other Black Diamond models. In particular the character model Sophia Drake, the PC-9 Breaker team, and the Darkspace variant of the Iron Chef, who normally makes omelettes for the Star Nebula Corsairs. Accordingly, lets peek at come more Relic Knights components, and see if you can guess which one I painted before we get to the end of the article. If you follow Lost Hemisphere on Facebook you’ll already know the answer; no helping those who don’t know!

Let’s start with the Iron Chef, because… I have no idea if he’s a cat, a bear thing with a kangaroo tail, I’m at a loss here. What he is, though, is a six component model that will, in the end, mount to his base via the currently unattached foot and balance with the tail. Each piece is keyed, making assembly quick and easy once you’ve cleaned up your components. These are plastic, so some mold lines to need to be shaved off, but they’re pretty straightforward.

No glue, the pieces are being held in by their plugs. This variant on the Iron Chef has him channelling the Corporeal Serpent or somesuch from some newfangled vidya game 😉 The little cigar and the carrots strapped to his chect make me smirk a tad.

The PC-9 Breaker Team is two Diamond Corps troopers on a single 50mm base, one of whom’s holding a dirty great shoulder mounted boomstick, while the other likes to jog. While there’s a few more fiddly components, assembly is once again very straightforward and parts are easily identified.

I’m showing the models without their Diamond Corps shoulder armour because I only have one hand to hold the model when I’m holding the camera in the other. The Breaker Team models do require cleaning up of plugs such as the one attached to this fellow’s foot (indeed, both members have a channel on one foot that’ll need to be clipped).

I kinda want to name this fellow Forrest. Run, Breaker Team Ammo Dude! Run!

And then there’s Sophia Drake, who comes in an absurd number of components to account for her model projecting across every plan you. I’m not going to fully assemble her for component shots because there’s no way I can hold her together with one hand and take pics with the other 😛

Be very careful when trimming components off of that sprue that you don’t accidentally snap a piece. Test fitting is also a bloody good idea.

Seven components in this pic and she STILL doesn’t have her arms! But as you can see, the model is posed across several planes, which will make for a very dynamic – if cartoonish – pose. And yes, I’m aware that I just quantified a pose as cartoonish for a game deriving its visuals largely from anime.

And finally, a painted model!

Bam! Iron Chef!

I’m not entirely sure why I wanted red Black Diamonds, other than that I have a can of Army Painter red primer that I need to use up. The base is, of course, Dragon Forge Design, with a bonus crystal I picked up at GenCon which looks totally out of place since I’m not using the standard Black Diamond colour scheme. Mea Culpa!

Each faction in Relic Knights has a handful of extra models currently available to add on to the starter, with more on the way. You can check them out at Soda Pop’s online store, or hassle your local store staff until they give in. 😉