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Preorders are now up:

GW What's New Today wrote:Please note that the Citadel Knife will only be available to purchase from Games Workshop stores and independent retailers – not online – due to legal age restrictions on knife sales in most countries.

Also: Every single old tool is now discontinued and no longer available.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Painting-Modelling?N=102355+4294967192&Nu=product.repositoryId&qty=12&sorting=phl&view=table

a reader on Faeit 212 wrote:I have some info on this weeks releases they are a bit disappointing. they are just hobby tools and a new hobby tool box set thats it i believe there were a few books also but only got a glance.

I can confirm that, and they are very expensive tools, e.g. a knife for 20€, then side-cutting pliers, a drill, set of files, set of sculpting tools, flash removing tool, and said tool box.

I can confirm the following Euro prices:
Knife 20€ (was 12.50 €)
Drill 22 € (was 13 €)
Clippers 24 € (was 12.50 €)
File Set 15 €
Sculpting Tool Set 20 €
Flash Remove Tools 13 € (was 10.50 €)
Tool Set 117 €

Knife is overpowered.

GW already has a very large range of tools. they are high-quality but cost to much

 sing your life wrote:
GW already has a very large range of tools. they are high-quality but cost to much

They are by no means high quality.
Better than the Army Painter ones though.
I get my tools from Maplin or places like that.

 sing your life wrote:
GW already has a very large range of tools. they are high-quality but cost to much

Yeah they're not really. I have a few citadel tools and they're no better and in some cases worse than what I've bought from hardware stores.

Yes, I get very little from GW in terms of modelling supplies. Their current knife is pretty good and the files aren't too bad, but anything else, I buy elsewhere for cheaper and arguably better quality.

Some GW tools are very nice, and I can't think of any GW tools that are junk (haven't used a whole bunch of them), so there is value in knowing you're getting an appropriate tool every time for beginners.

I'll agree with that

the only true bit of junk in their tools has to be the paint 'sprayer' (aka blocky the blocky thing)

You can go to micheals beading section for X-acto Knifes, Files, and Flat sided snips. Not only cheaper, but you can get even cheaper by grabbing on of their coupons to boot....

Their flat sided snips are better then the GW ones since their meant for cutting metal wire and don't knick as easily.

The Drill and moul-line scraper are the only tools from GW that i use actully.

I have some GW tools that have been in my box for 10+ years now and still going strong. But nowadays I get all my tools from micromark.com .. they have everything you could ever need... and a lot of things you'll never need, but still feel like you have to have.

 Blacksails wrote:
Knife is overpowered.

I hear the drill got nerfed.


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 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'll agree with that

the only true bit of junk in their tools has to be the paint 'sprayer' (aka blocky the blocky thing)

It'd be better if it could hook up to a compressor, then it'd basically be a siphon-feed airbrush. The real issue is the canned air because it has a nasty habit of freezing the paint.

I dunno, I have the knife, pin vise, and clippers and they're all loads more comfortable than any of the other knvies, pin vises, or clippers I have.

Though Harbor Freight has a knife for $4.99 that is a pretty close second.

Comfort is worth paying for for some people, I guess.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Blacksails wrote:
Knife is overpowered.

I hear the drill got nerfed.


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 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'll agree with that

the only true bit of junk in their tools has to be the paint 'sprayer' (aka blocky the blocky thing)

It'd be better if it could hook up to a compressor, then it'd basically be a siphon-feed airbrush. The real issue is the canned air because it has a nasty habit of freezing the paint.

It's a new meta, guys. You're going to have to realize that this new edition is all about Emery boards.

 cincydooley wrote:
I dunno, I have the knife, pin vise, and clippers and they're all loads more comfortable than any of the other knvies, pin vises, or clippers I have.

Though Harbor Freight has a knife for $4.99 that is a pretty close second.

Comfort is worth paying for for some people, I guess.

I haven't used their knife, I've used both the new and old pin vice and the older one is more comfortable for me and similar to other pin vices I've used. The GW clippers I have are comfortable... but do more damage to the model than the clippers I bought from a hardware store. You can see it's crushing/tearing the sprue where as the cheapo hardware store one is actually cutting more, so if you clip right up against the model the GW clippers often leave a mark where as the cheapo ones don't. So if I'm using the GW clippers I have to clip a few millimeters away from the model and remove the excess with a knife, using the cheapo ones I can clip right against the model and have less cleanup to do.

Their pin vice is better than what I've seen at my local hardware stores.

I prefer hobby stores for exacto knives, though.

Edit: I can't find this guy on their website, now.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'll agree with that

the only true bit of junk in their tools has to be the paint 'sprayer' (aka blocky the blocky thing)

The sprayer wasn't even bad for what it was intended to be (though what it was intended to be wasn't something that particularly needed to exist).

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Blacksails wrote:
Knife is overpowered.

I hear the drill got nerfed.


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 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'll agree with that

the only true bit of junk in their tools has to be the paint 'sprayer' (aka blocky the blocky thing)

It'd be better if it could hook up to a compressor, then it'd basically be a siphon-feed airbrush. The real issue is the canned air because it has a nasty habit of freezing the paint.

It's a new meta, guys. You're going to have to realize that this new edition is all about Emery boards.

I just want GW to go back to selling packs of those bits for the pin vice by themselves again. It'd make my life so much easier.


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 kronk wrote:
Their pin vice is better than what I've seen at my local hardware stores.

I prefer hobby stores for exacto knives, though.

I like the shape and size of the handle on the GW one, it's more comfortable to hold for long periods of time than my old, thin metal one.

Only qualm I have is trying to line the blade up half the time to it matches the direction of the handle.

For extra pin vice bits, I got this from my local hardware store.. I think it was only like $10

http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Accessories/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=628-01

I wonder if the new hobby drill will come with pins exactly sized to the bits supplied like the P3 set does.

 Blacksails wrote:
Knife is overpowered.

Wait for the FAQ...

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 Necros wrote:
For extra pin vice bits, I got this from my local hardware store.. I think it was only like $10

http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Accessories/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=628-01

Locally I can't find bits that small, I have to go online and get them that way. I'd rather just pick up a pack from my FLGS instead.


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darkcloak wrote:

 Blacksails wrote:
Knife is overpowered.

Wait for the FAQ...

Yeah, when they give it Vector Strike against your feet along with the Rending,and Ignores Cover special rules and an AP of 1 right?

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Necros wrote:
For extra pin vice bits, I got this from my local hardware store.. I think it was only like $10

http://www.dremel.com/en-us/Accessories/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=628-01

Locally I can't find bits that small, I have to go online and get them that way. I'd rather just pick up a pack from my FLGS instead.


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darkcloak wrote:

 Blacksails wrote:
Knife is overpowered.

Wait for the FAQ...

Yeah, when they give it Vector Strike against your feet along with the Rending,and Ignores Cover special rules and an AP of 1 right?

man, i can't even count the number of times i've stood up with my knife in my lap!!!
no hits yet, though...
that knife is rollin' all 1's

cheers
jah

Knives always snapfire (thankfully).

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I just can't believe they removed Pin Vice from the tool kit. I'll bet they're going to re-release it along with the Pin Vice dataslate. GW is going to make me pay $39.99 to be able to drill holes in my model.


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Wow... we're all a bunch of hopeless smart aleks, aren't we?

Don't you mean "fineboard"?

I love this thread.

Ahem, on topic, I have the little drill thing which is pretty good. Most of my other supplies are from other sources.

Does anyone have the old measuring tape? The orange/red one with the Aquila on the side? It was in GW's own measurement units though. Something eerily similar to inches, but not quite.

 Blacksails wrote:
I love this thread.

Ahem, on topic, I have the little drill thing which is pretty good. Most of my other supplies are from other sources.

Does anyone have the old measuring tape? The orange/red one with the Aquila on the side? It was in GW's own measurement units though. Something eerily similar to inches, but not quite.

I've got the plastic red and black one with the Aquila on the side.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

I've got the plastic red and black one with the Aquila on the side.

The one I had was in some sort of overpowered super inch.

Wait, or was it the whippy stick?

I can't remember now.