Games Workshop Rune Lord Review

The latest Dwarf releases from Games Workshop have been some of the most heavily promoted miniatures in years!
In fact the first 3 issues of White Dwarf have been almost entirely around these miniatures and the website is wall-to-wall Dwarves.
With the end to metal miniatures, this has been an entirely plastic release including the characters which are released as clam shell packed, single sprue minis.
The multi-part nature of them varies, but these are truly multi-part, not multi-pose that's for sure!
There is a nice addition to these new releases though - and that's the option for different characters, effectively meaning you could buy to packs and have two different looking miniatures.
For a company that held to metal for so long (longer than most of it's competition), this is a very nice way to get well moulded characters...and a few extra bitz for your bitz box! 

~ WARNING - I am not a photographer, so expect dodgy pictures below ~

The Rune Lord himself is a great looking miniature, one I didn't truly appreciate until I saw him buried amongst other miniatures in White Dwarf #2 with the alternate head. Previously I'd found the standard miniature (the one on the packaging and on the website) pretty boring, but this version oozed character.

As you can see, the miniature is nicely laid out on the single sprue with the now typical Games Workshop space-saving economy. 
You can see both alternate left and right arms, heads and the standard body.

A close-up of the heads, both brilliantly done. My blurry photo doesn't really do it justice, but you can see the ornate helmets and varying expressions between minis.!

Here are the alternate weapons; a truly mighty hammer, a smaller warhammer and an arm holding a book - probably A Song of Ice and Fire - seems appropriate for a Dwarf.
The other alternate arm holds a pair of tongs with a flaming piece of metal in it... this would mean more to Dwarf players than I.

Painted pictures courtesy of Games Workshop

The two alternate poses Games Workshop recommend - personally I like the idea of the two hammers...
If you do want to start on the Dwarf army, give the Rune Lord a go. He's reasonably cheap and it will give you the opportunity to build the army around your commander.

Dwarves generally make lovely miniature to paint and I'm really looking forward to getting to this guy - just wondering how he would look with some Green Stuff on him and made into a Chaos Dwarf...?!  

What do you think of him?
have you bought him and painted him up?
Is it value for money and how does he look in your army?

AdDendum

I have only painted very few Dwarves, but I do have this one and he is one of my favourite miniatures of all time. A great miniature and fantastic to paint.