Pathfinder Battles: Iconic Heroes Set #4

This set costs $5 more than prior sets, yet contains the same number of miniatures. Those miniatures are smaller in size compared to the prior iconic sets, have worse paint jobs, and the pegs come out of the bases. This is a poor quality product.

the old paint jobs from the previous sets are A+ to this

kindergarden marker??? and that's just from the website picture......not wasting my money. and 31$ denaros??? for looka bunch of minis like a totem pole come a apart gang.

sorry paizo.....but fire the artist/painter quality control.
Just put all the pictures of the sets and pictures......your dude eyes are going....or hes drink to much cough syrup

Crowe - high-quality, well-detailed face, excellent detail on tattoos. No complaints here.

Jirelle - the detail (other than the face) is more what I'd expect from the regular Battles line. The face is pretty good, though.

Lirianne - Body is closer to regular Battles quality, and the face is a little weird (probably as a result of the hat's brim dipping low).

Hakon - great detail, especially on tattoos and robe.

Shardra - I was initially surprised at how bulky her mini is. A lot of the detail is good, but the paint for her leg actually splashes over onto her armor... I've never seen an Iconic Hero with such a major paint error.

Kolo - surprisingly excellent detail for such a little thing.

Shardra's paint error and Lirianne's/Jirelle's decent paint jobs cost the set a star, but it's definitely still worth the price (especially with the subscriber discount).

Having taken a look at the pictures of these on the website I was worried they were going to be lower quality than other sets. Thankfully when I found a box at my local gaming store and took a look inside it was clear these worries were unfounded.

I would give this 5/5 except that Lirianne has much less detail on her clothes than I expected and her face is shaped funny. She's still pretty good and a welcome addition to my collection (there really aren't enough gunslinger minis), and the rest of the figures look fantastic.

These hold up to the general quality standard shown in this set and are worth picking up for any collector.

The digital renders for this set had my hopes flying really, really high. I've gotten all of the Iconics sets to-date (it's a great feeling when you're a PFS GM and have them to loan out to new players who in turn get excited about having the exact mini on the board!), and thanks to a holiday gift, was able to grab this one too.

After tonight, though, this may be the last Iconics set I buy.

Apparently a few sets ago the physical sizes of the minis changed (got smaller) compared to the minis that came out with other boxed sets and I just didn't notice until recently - something I'm not a fan of, but if it was to help the quality, I could live with it. Unfortunately, I fear that the smaller size combined with the complexity shown on the digital renders isn't working out very well. Hakon's facepaint looks somewhat comical, as does whatever that is on Crowe's forehead (just a blue smudge, I'm afraid), and Lirianne's hair looked like it was attached to the underside of her hat.

The worst part, for me, was the knowledge that I was paying $5 more for this set...and two of the pieces immediately fell right out of their bases when I first turned the box upside-down to start cutting at the tape - Jirelle and Lirianne will both need superglue to get their feet-pegs to go back into their bases. I had been hoping that with an increase in price, there would be an increase in quality as well, but t'was not to be.

As an avid lover of all of the Pathfinder Battles minis since the Rise of the Runelords set, this one caught me way off-guard with just how disappointing it was. I always feel bad leaving negative reviews, especially for a game and company I absolutely adore, but...yea, this one was a really big miss with me.

Edit - Jan 2018: I'm seriously not sure what happened, but every set since this one has been back to 5-star amazing quality. Outliers happen everywhere, I guess. As such, I'm going back to this review and bumping it up from a 1-star to a 3-star review, in light of the last 2 years of amazing product ever since this one.