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LunaHound — GMT

Geez all the cool Rare units are plastic? but we can only field 2 !!
Unless this isnt plastic? hmm.... we get the rat ogre pulling the bell and lots of plague priests!

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Schepp himself — GMT

Ok, that settles it, I have to get one (or two) of those...

Is anyone seeing the Grey Seer on the bell? I can't quite identify him...

Beautiful model, ramshackle design which I adore (in contrast to the doomwheel for example).

Any pricing on that baby?

Greets
Schepp himself

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Deff Dread red Edition — GMT

Really cool, Skaven just went from a,"maybe I'll buy them,"to a,"I am going to buy them!"

I like the plague priest on the plague furnace, the seer seems to be in a weird position though like he's surfing the bell or something.

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Sgt.Roadkill — GMT

they are plastic, i know the doomwheel is i saw it being put together yesterday

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His Master's Voice — GMT

It's most [i]definitely[/i] plastic, so you can start drooling...

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Ronin — GMT

So cool. The more of these rats I see, the more I wanna start Fantasy to collect them...

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Schepp himself — GMT

Maybe I will kitbash my existing unassembled metal Doombell (is it?) with this kit, could be pretty awesome...

Greets
Schepp himself

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JHall — GMT

Don't forget that those aren't Rare units. They are upgrades for Lord characters (at least they have always been).

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H.B.M.C. — GMT

Of course it's available to other units besides Rare slots.

Like all other new big new plastic kit (High Elf Dragon, Stegadon, Carnifex) - make it available everywhere so people can buy heaps.

Why would you want to limit the amount that can be bought of your great new shiny plastic kit?

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Crazy_Carnifex — GMT

You have another new shiny kit with a bigger profit margin?

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bubber — GMT

Plan:covert to Nurgle!
All hail the plague father

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Neffertech — GMT

That noise you heard was the sound of me falling off the fence about starting skaven.

I loved the last screaming bell model and I didn't think they could improve it. I was wrong, these look fantastic

I'll have to find a way to fit skaven into my gaming budget. And I was gonna just save for tyranids

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DeathGod — GMT

[quote=Schepp himself]Is anyone seeing the Grey Seer on the bell? I can't quite identify him...
[/quote]

He's sitting at the very top of the bell

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EzeKK — GMT

At first I thought Skaven were going to just be another army i'll let pass.

Now, after seeing that Well O' Doom and these bad boys... I'm going to have to reconsider it heavily!

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warpcrafter — GMT

That's it! Skaven here I come. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Die-die Manlings!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ShumaGorath — GMT

If thats as many pieces as it looks to be it's going to be great for conversions.

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LunaHound — GMT

[quote=ShumaGorath]If thats as many pieces as it looks to be it's going to be great for conversions.[/quote]

You get Priest + a Rat Ogre!!

I wonder how much the kit costs -_-

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deffskullz — GMT

Not sure whate else to say besides thats awsome.....

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

[quote=LunaHound]Geez all the cool Rare units are plastic? but we can only field 2 !! [/quote]
Perhaps the Grey Seer can take the Bell similar to Empire Walter?

Then you could field all 3 like Water with double Stank!

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LunaHound — GMT

[quote=JohnHwangDD][quote=LunaHound]Geez all the cool Rare units are plastic? but we can only field 2 !! [/quote]
Perhaps the Grey Seer can take the Bell similar to Empire Walter?

Then you could field all 3 like Water with double Stank! [/quote]

K lemme see what i can come up with for these giant plastic kits.

Heroes and Lords:

1 plague furnace
1 screaming bell

Rare:
2 doom wheels ( or just 1 since i dont want to throw away my warp cannon )

So 4 pieces , it'll look impressive still i think!

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

Actually, with any luck, it goes like this:

Grey Seer Lord on Screaming Bell (like Walter)
3x Heroes on Plague Furnace (like EotG)

2 Doomwheels as Rares (like Stank / Asteg)

Total of 6 unbreakable, ItP War Machines for pure WIN!

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Xenthick — GMT

Madness! The more I see about the new Skaven the happier I am I started an army of them! What luck of the draw, started building army a couple months ago. I was nervous about them nerfing the crap out of the whole army. And now I see the light! And the light is GREEN!!!

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LunaHound — GMT

[quote=JohnHwangDD]Actually, with any luck, it goes like this:

Grey Seer Lord on Screaming Bell (like Walter)
3x Heroes on Plague Furnace (like EotG)

2 Doomwheels as Rares (like Stank / Asteg)

Total of 6 unbreakable, ItP War Machines for pure WIN![/quote]

OO! me like!

( with the doom wheel for $33 USD eg, box of clan rat price ,
do you think they'll turn the bell / furnace into $50 like storm vermins? )

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Cryonicleech — GMT

I'm liking where this is going for skaven, especially the new Doomwheel and Plague Furnace.

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Thanatos_elNyx — GMT

*sniff* Its just so beautiful.
The last one was rubbish so I went to the trouble of buying the old ones online and now realise that I was in error.

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Railguns — GMT

Guys, I'm worried. I might have to buy these. All of them. I might NEED to make a Skaven army. Someone check my lip for a hook, eh?

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LunaHound — GMT

GW is going the right direction , where the models looks like the art work , and not looking like "toys"

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Platuan4th — GMT

*sigh* Looks like I'm restarting Skaven this year...

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Buttlerthepug — GMT

Im thinking Chaos Warshrine conversion?

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Mad Doc Grotsnik — GMT

But....but.....I've already ordered £150 worth of Skaven.

Ouch. My Wallet

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Da Boss — GMT

Wow, those are amazing!
The buzz around the skaven release is a fairly good example that all that has to happen for us to stop whinging and start drooling is quality product.
Good job, GW, this stuff is awesome.

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Cilithan — GMT

We allready had the all plastic Corpse Cart and now these. These models are just screaming to be the base for a Chaos Daemons Nurgle conversion for Epidemius or Ku'Gath or a Herald...

Inspiring models.

Cilithan

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LunaHound — GMT

[quote=Mad Doc Grotsnik]But....but.....I've already ordered £150 worth of Skaven.

Ouch. My Wallet [/quote]

Demote all your current clan rats into slaves!

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Mad Doc Grotsnik — GMT

Hell no! So far, all I hav are 20 Plague Monks. The rest has been advance ordered.

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BOSS_PIMPALOTZ — GMT

Skaven revisited me thinks Im going to try to grab the old Batallion whilst I can.

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LunaHound — GMT

[quote=BOSS_PIMPALOTZ]Skaven revisited me thinks Im going to try to grab the old Batallion whilst I can.[/quote]

Why though? you dont like new sculpts? ( they should have new contents i hope )

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warpcrafter — GMT

Who's Walter?

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LunaHound — GMT

[quote=warpcrafter]Who's Walter?[/quote]
Moo?

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Mad Doc Grotsnik — GMT

Batallion will be as-is right now, just with the new Clanrats instead of the old ones.

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

[quote=warpcrafter]Who's Walter?[/quote]
War Altar - a common abbreviation in WFB.

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mikhaila — GMT

I got the book in last week and have been drooling over the new models. I really like the possibilities of using the plastic parts in the furnace/bell model. Hope that it's coming out in December. It's not on my list of the Oct/Nov releases.

A Skrolk list with 5 units of plaugue monks, 3 Plaugepriests on PlagueFurnaces in the units. a Plauge Catapult are the way I might want to go, just for the modeling and painting.

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LunaHound — GMT

[quote=mikhaila]I got the book in last week and have been drooling over the new models. I really like the possibilities of using the plastic parts in the furnace/bell model. Hope that it's coming out in December. It's not on my list of the Oct/Nov releases.

A Skrolk list with 5 units of plaugue monks, 3 Plaugepriests on PlagueFurnaces in the units. a Plauge Catapult are the way I might want to go, just for the modeling and painting. [/quote]

Requesting MOAR INFO :3

Q:
Are there other ways to add plague furnace / doom wheel outside of the allotted slots?
Whats the content in the battle force?

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mikhaila — GMT

[quote=LunaHound][quote=mikhaila]I got the book in last week and have been drooling over the new models. I really like the possibilities of using the plastic parts in the furnace/bell model. Hope that it's coming out in December. It's not on my list of the Oct/Nov releases.

A Skrolk list with 5 units of plaugue monks, 3 Plaugepriests on PlagueFurnaces in the units. a Plauge Catapult are the way I might want to go, just for the modeling and painting. [/quote]

Requesting MOAR INFO :3

Q:
Are there other ways to add plague furnace / doom wheel outside of the allotted slots?
Whats the content in the battle force?
[/quote]

My books at the shop, I'll check it tomorrow. But from what I recall, doomwheel is a rare, plague furnaces are an upgrade to a plauge priest, which is a hero slot. The bell is an upgrade for a greyseer, as before. Battleforce info that I have says "55 models", and no breakdown. I expect it will have the new clanrats, SV, and a doomwheel. One could hope though for the bell/furnace.

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LunaHound — GMT

Im going to guess the battle force content because im too excited -_-

20 clan rats
15 storm vermin
20 plague monks

-_- guessing no shinny war engines

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

[quote=LunaHound]Are there other ways to add plague furnace / doom wheel outside of the allotted slots? [/quote]
One would think that a Screaming Bell, 3 Plague Furnaces, and 2 Doomwheels would be enough...

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Flashman — GMT

My guess for Battleforce is 20 Clanrats, 20 Storm Vermin and 1 Doomwheel

I'd buy it anyway

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reds8n — GMT

Hmm.. actually I think it's two 20 men regiments of clan rats, one 20 strong regiment of plague monks, 2 rat ogres with handler and 6 giant rats with handler.

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BOSS_PIMPALOTZ — GMT

[quote=LunaHound][quote=BOSS_PIMPALOTZ]Skaven revisited me thinks Im going to try to grab the old Batallion whilst I can.[/quote]

Why though? you dont like new sculpts? ( they should have new contents i hope )[/quote]

Yea I love them I just want a mix of old and new models.I loved the whole Plague Monks,Clan Rats and 2 rat Ogres you got that was a nice Battalion.

I love the new sculpts I think I came across wrong when I wrote that one plus side is that the blasted tails are on the Clanrats moulded on that was the only downside with the old multiparts.

And Plastic Stomvermin yes please matron.!

I just want the old Battalion before it goes OOP.

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mikhaila — GMT

[quote=BOSS_PIMPALOTZ][quote=LunaHound][quote=BOSS_PIMPALOTZ]Skaven revisited me thinks Im going to try to grab the old Batallion whilst I can.[/quote]

Why though? you dont like new sculpts? ( they should have new contents i hope )[/quote]

Yea I love them I just want a mix of old and new models.I loved the whole Plague Monks,Clan Rats and 2 rat Ogres you got that was a nice Battalion.

I love the new sculpts I think I came across wrong when I wrote that one plus side is that the blasted tails are on the Clanrats moulded on that was the only downside with the old multiparts.

And Plastic Stomvermin yes please matron.!

I just want the old Battalion before it goes OOP.[/quote]

It's already OOP. None of the skaven boxes are still available to order. That said, there's still a bunch in various stores. I've got a couple of them on my shelf.

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BOSS_PIMPALOTZ — GMT

Cool Cool the main FLGS in my city centre may hold a few or the one near my City Centre may have to pick one up end of month.

All in all am glad that Stormvermin,Screaming Bell and Plague Furnace are all plastic.

Anyone heard of any other plastics..?? (dont want wishlisting though)

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Flashman — GMT

[quote=reds8n]Hmm.. actually I think it's two 20 men regiments of clan rats, one 20 strong regiment of plague monks, 2 rat ogres with handler and 6 giant rats with handler.
[/quote]

Really? There's a blow... still 68 miniatures in one battalion box would be pretty good going I guess. I just like the Stormvermin and Doomwheel more than I like Plaguemonks and Rat Ogres.

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BOSS_PIMPALOTZ — GMT

[quote=Flashman][quote=reds8n]Hmm.. actually I think it's two 20 men regiments of clan rats, one 20 strong regiment of plague monks, 2 rat ogres with handler and 6 giant rats with handler.
[/quote]

Really? There's a blow... still 68 miniatures in one battalion box would be pretty good going I guess. I just like the Stormvermin and Doomwheel more than I like Plaguemonks and Rat Ogres.[/quote]

Yea I would prefer the Stormvermin over at least one of the units a Doomwheel would work as well but yea thats wishing I guess.

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Railguns — GMT

Still, thats 4 ~$30 boxes for the price of a battleforce, so if you don't have any Skaven models at all yet, it might be a pretty cool deal. -It also has no skryre models in it.

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

2x 20 Clanrats and 1x 20 Plague Monks are a given, as they're standard boxes and bulk out the army. The 4th as Rat Ogres isn't bad, actually, but what are the options?

- Doomwheel -- a Rare that can't be taken in quantity.

- Plague Furnace / Screaming Bell -- Character-only, so no quantity there either

- Stormvermin -- actually, this would have been good, to emphasize numbers, but GW wouldn't be able to charge a big premium on them.

So it comes back to the Rat Ogres.

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Railguns — GMT

It could definitely be worse, I suppose.

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Mad Doc Grotsnik — GMT

Batallion is confirmed as 40 Clanrats, 20 Plague Monks, 2 Rat Ogres, 6 Giant Rats and 2 Handlers.

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Railguns — GMT

I guess you are encouraged to run that as one big unit of clanrats, as opposed to 2 units of 20? So this boxed set is 1 core and 2 special? I wonder if that is as much a deal force-org wise as it is monetarily

ps: That looks like $140 American for those sets individually. What do battleforces go for these days? $110?

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

If you take the right SC, PM become Core, so it's potentially 3 Cores & 1 Special.

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Railguns — GMT

I suppose, but I want to do a techno-magic-industrial Skryre army so that probably won't be an option for me.

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reds8n — GMT

Better snaps, thanks to Messrs. 3dken from BLOS and Scryer in the darkness for digging these up.

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Xanthos — GMT

Well that´s getting bought then.... Have you SEEN the seer riding that thing like a madman? And the smoke!? Ohh the smoke.....

(Cackles maniacally and scurries off to build hordes and hordes of precious rat-rats to go with the bell of screaming-ness)

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Schepp himself — GMT

Damn that grey seer must be freakin high on warpstone... awesome model.

Greets
Schepp himself

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Tailgunner — GMT

Judging from these photos, this may be the best plastic kit GW have done yet. The level of detail, overall design and dynamic appearance (which, as someone pointed out, looks like their best artwork and not a toy) are really exceptional. I will be getting one simply because it looks so good. I don't know what I'll do with it as I don't play Skaven - maybe pay someone who's a better painter than me to give it a first class paintjob. Although I'll see what it looks like on the sprue first.

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Zad Fnark — GMT

Ugh, my current screaming bell is in mid-build right now.

I guess I'll have to see how I can graft on a spare rat-ogre onto it.

ZF-

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

It is unfortunate that GW is using dressed stonework for the models - from an engineering standpoint, it cannot possibly work. Stonework (e.g. stacked bricks) has no tensile strength, limited lateral shear strength, and is only strong against compressive loading. Pulling sideways like the Rat Ogre is doing, or swing the bell sideways would only cause the thing to topple down.

But from a painting & modeling standpoint, the additional textures are nice, I guess...

The Doomwheel is far superior from a "could it sort of work?" standpoint.

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Flachzange — GMT

[quote=JohnHwangDD]It is unfortunate that GW is using dressed stonework for the models - from an engineering standpoint, it cannot possibly work. Stonework (e.g. stacked bricks) has no tensile strength, limited lateral shear strength, and is only strong against compressive loading. Pulling sideways like the Rat Ogre is doing, or swing the bell sideways would only cause the thing to topple down.

But from a painting & modeling standpoint, the additional textures are nice, I guess...

The Doomwheel is far superior from a "could it sort of work?" standpoint.[/quote]

Are you evaluating how realistic the weaponry of GIANT RATS is? roight ...

Thx for the better pics. Still looking cool

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

Sorry, can't help it.

Hard sciences types get a little compulsive that way.

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Balance — GMT

I dont' fault JHDD for nit-picking on that. It's a valid complaint, really. The old Screaming Bell, for example, looks like it was thrown together from stuff the Skaven might have dragged for who-knows-how-long underground through tight tunnels and assembled on-the-spot, without instructions.

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Schepp himself — GMT

I hate the "duuh, it's fantasy creatures in fantasy land, science has no meaning here!!"- argument. There are just that many boundaries a design can push, and sometimes, models go over that line.

I have no problem with this model, but after further inspection I have to agree on the points JHDD mentioned. Either the bell-swinging-thing (is there a proper english name?) is seriously well oiled or the rat ogre will have a problem.

Greets
Schepp himself

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Railguns — GMT

Maybe it's a single piece of stone thats been worked to look like separate blocks? If it bothers me that much I'll just fill in the gaps with gs. The only thing that really bothers me that much about the model is that the smoke coming from the bell is shaped in a way that doesn't make any sense.

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Orangecoke — GMT

Any word on a street date for the kit? Gotta have it, it's so gorgeous.

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mikhaila — GMT

I absolutely agree that a giant stone arch is piss poor engineering, designed by an insane fool, and is bound to come crashing down at some point killing everyone involved.

The question is - Isn't this Skaven Engineering at it's best? What were you expecting, things that worked, and made sense?)

Stupid, Stupid man-things.

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Her Majesty's Buxom Commissar — GMT

[quote=Orangecoke]Any word on a street date for the kit? Gotta have it, it's so gorgeous.[/quote]
21st November.

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Flachzange — GMT

Well, if physics fail to explain the sturdiness of the construction, you can always resort to chaos/sorcery to hold the damn thing together.

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Scottywan82 — GMT

I love the casual way the Rat Ogre is ringing the bell. The pose is priceless.

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Wayfarer — GMT

Ghost ride the bell

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Waaagh_Gonads — GMT

These look great, and the lower half will make a great base for a multitude of chaos warshrines (and orc shrines when they get around to redoing the book)

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Valhallan42nd — GMT

That is probably going on top of my plague tower of nurgle...

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Agamemnon2 — GMT

[quote=Flachzange]Well, if physics fail to explain the sturdiness of the construction, you can always resort to chaos/sorcery to hold the damn thing together. [/quote]
Sure, if you fancy using an obvious cop-out.

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Ozymandias — GMT

Warpstone based mortar, duh!

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Buttlerthepug — GMT

[quote=Waaagh_Gonads]These look great, and the lower half will make a great base for a multitude of chaos warshrines (and orc shrines when they get around to redoing the book)[/quote]

I so totally agree 100% ... Imma have to get like 3 of them for my warshrines... sigh...

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Sidstyler — GMT

[quote=Agamemnon2][quote=Flachzange]Well, if physics fail to explain the sturdiness of the construction, you can always resort to chaos/sorcery to hold the damn thing together. [/quote]
Sure, if you fancy using an obvious cop-out.[/quote]

We can't have that in our fantasy universe, oh no.

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Uriels_Flame — GMT

The new abomination doesn't have a model apparently. The pic in the book made it look like the size of a SoulGrinder, except he's connected to a cart v metal legs.

He's about to crush an Empire Handgunner, so I'm assuming it has to be as big as the Bell/Tower.

I've thought about using corpse cart/soul grinder/warp beast and see how it goes.