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So cool...

Very Slick.

Niiiiiiice!

Does anyone here know how well Avatars of War are doing financially?

One would think that minis of this quality would be being sold over the counter in FLGSs too. I'd certainly impulse buy more of them if they were right up in my face.

I talked our FLGS into stocking them and they DO fly off the shelf!

My FLGS stocks Avatars of War. Some distributors sell it.

Malika, is this the Lizardman whose sculptor had a plog over at Trollforged?

Tempted...oh so very tempted.

Absolutionis wrote:My FLGS stocks Avatars of War. Some distributors sell it.

Malika, is this the Lizardman whose sculptor had a plog over at Trollforged?

Yeah, it's Rikard's miniature!

I was looking into stocking them today and ordered one or two just to check them out. They seem to be doing well as my distributor barely had any left.

Man, that lizardman is awsome! Might just get me to start that WFB lizardmen army I have been thinking about making. Hopfully I can get my FLGS to stock AoW.

This company is 100% full of win, don't think I've seen a single mini I didn't like from them.

This to me is actually one of their most disappointing figs. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly cool looking, but it doesn't look at all like it belongs in a GW Lizardman army. It looks nothing like any of the Saurus. It looks like a Dark Elf got freaky with one of the Cold Ones and this was the offspring. It doesn't even look like a Lizardman Cold One, it looks like a Dark Elf Cold One!

Too big for Saurus, but maybe a Kroxigor Champion?

cool beats GW's one that's for sure.

MajorTom11 wrote:Too big for Saurus, but maybe a Kroxigor Champion?

I dunno, I think he's on a 25mm base.

Oldblood perhaps?

I have their Goblin hero model, it is absolutely fantastic.

Am really impressed with this company. Between the price and how highly detailed the models are, you really cannot go wrong.

Marrak wrote:

MajorTom11 wrote:Too big for Saurus, but maybe a Kroxigor Champion?

I dunno, I think he's on a 25mm base.

Oldblood perhaps?

I think he looks big becuase he looks a lot more like an iconic meat eating dinosaur who are big

Another fantastic model from AoW! I know they have a female vampire but I'd love to see a more feral one from them. Given their record it'd be awesome.

Aduro wrote:This to me is actually one of their most disappointing figs. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly cool looking, but it doesn't look at all like it belongs in a GW Lizardman army. It looks nothing like any of the Saurus. It looks like a Dark Elf got freaky with one of the Cold Ones and this was the offspring. It doesn't even look like a Lizardman Cold One, it looks like a Dark Elf Cold One!

Don't you think that most small companies are going to avoid making something that looks like it might even be considered close to looking like GW so that they don't have to worry about what might show up in the mail?

It doesn't really fit with the current look of GW's Lizardmen, but it's a darn cool-looking figure.

And really, as a Champion model I wouldn't have a problem with it looking different... Doesn't the Lizardman fluff include mention of champions sometimes being 'marked' with different colours or features to the rest of their spawning? Fairly sure it used to be in there, if it's not still.

I love the head, but as Insaniak said, it doesn't fit in with GW's range.

Maybe as a saurus old blood, but then again, these are designed to be used as characters.

Man, those guys crank out some great looking stuff. One day Im gonna have to pick a few up.

Hmm all this talk about GW makes me wonder, if a company obviously makes minis for warhammer, should they be penalized if they make something not exactly for it?

Wow. He'll be joining my ranks very soon

AoW are not GW. So they can put fairy wings and a banana on its head for all they care. Still, Looks good enough to me. Too bad I dont buy dinosaur looking mini's. ha.

Athera wrote:

Aduro wrote:This to me is actually one of their most disappointing figs. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly cool looking, but it doesn't look at all like it belongs in a GW Lizardman army. It looks nothing like any of the Saurus. It looks like a Dark Elf got freaky with one of the Cold Ones and this was the offspring. It doesn't even look like a Lizardman Cold One, it looks like a Dark Elf Cold One!

Don't you think that most small companies are going to avoid making something that looks like it might even be considered close to looking like GW so that they don't have to worry about what might show up in the mail?

Look at the rest of their stuff, it's all dead ringers for GW's style. That seems to be their purpose/goal. Their Daemon Champion is a straight up Bloodletter, no question. Their figs are all super awesome, including this one, it just disappoints me because Lizardmen is my army and this one wouldn't cohesively fit into an army hardly at all.

I really like the crisp sharp colours on this. That alone sells it to me. Top notch.

Anyone else put in mind of Goldenaxe Lizardmen?

I think it fits in just fine with the lizardman range. Who says every saurus has to look the same? Or, give it the stats of an old blood but put in your fluff that it was a special spawning of an ultimate hero that's half saurus half carnosaur

Well, I've just found my Gor-Rok it seems.

it's nice and all but,

Do all generic Lizardmen come from a 'South American based continent' with appropriate racial motifs and symbols?

Stone axe?
Snake symbol (Positively Incan Aztec mayan etc)?
Bright bird feathers?

Is this the norm or have GW yet again polluted the mini gene pool, via market saturation, for the rest of eternity?

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Pretty much the norm. See the Lizard King art from the original Fiend Folio.