Unboxing – The Imperial Knight – Part 1

Games Workshop’s Imperial Knight! It’s flying of the shelves everywhere, and I couldn’t really resist it. To be fair, it’s been a long (long, long) time since I build anything this size.

No time like now to get stuck in.

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#1 – Imperial Knight – Box Contents

The Imperial Knight comes in a typical GW box (no big surprise there!). It has a little drawer-box for the sprues, as well as an outer sleeve with a variety of paint-jobs on the back.

The contents of the box consist of 3 sprues, the base, a transfer sheet and the instructions. It’s not a lot of plastic really, though a good number of smaller bits (like little 6-or-so little eagle heads to go on various end-parts), several spare face-masks and other tit-bitzs like this.

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#2 – Starting to Build the Imperial Knight

The legs are obviously the first part to build. They come almost exclusively off the first sprue, which keeps things easy.

As noted elsewhere on the internet, a main caveat to this kit is that it really only comes with one fixed pose for the legs. Even though there are several bits to its, hydraulics, pipes, etc.. they are all made asymmetrically to build the leg-pose you see below (and on the official GW pics).

I suppose it doesn’t matter much, if you only build one Imperial Knight. If you want an army of them, with some variety in among the legs, you’ll need to break out some converting-tools.

The arrows show some of the hydraulic bits that are glued in separately. For better or worse, each piece only seem to fit one exact spot (so the left one and right one, for those below the pelvis, are not interchangeable, for example).

If you stick to the instructions, it goes together like a charm though.

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#3 – Thoughts?

All-in-all, I would say that the Imperial Knight has clearly been designed to be easy to build, the large-walker kit for people (like me), who are a bit daunted by large, complex resin kits and possibly even the more modular DreamForge Leviathan.

This one goes together step-by-step (and I highly recommend following the instructions closely, unless you have your personal hobby-battle-plan), and if you follow these steps, it’s as easy to build as a Rhino.

The trade-off, it seems, is poseability and modularity, but hey… one can’t have everything.

I am having fun with this one.

Are you building a Knight (or already finished one)?

Leave a comment and let me know!

Z.