Forge World Newsletter #248

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**Kanluwen**

Buckle up. Here goes, and I added links+images after the quote to show the new stuff.

Forge World wrote:
Hi There,
With less than 10 days until Games Day UK, we have another Newsletter crammed with exciting announcements for you. This week, we have details of more pre-release items that you’ll be able to purchase at our sales stand along with more titbits about the work-in-progress projects that our Studio team will be showcasing. We can also announce details of an exclusive Forge World Seminar to take place at Games Day.
Remember that you can still order your Games Day ticket, if you haven’t already, and here at Forge World we’re looking forward to seeing all of you at the NEC!

Thanks,
Ead Brown

More Forge World Pre-Releases Available at Games Day UK and to Pre-Order Now:

Chapter-specific A4 Transfer Sheets
Forge World’s Kenton Mills has been hard at work of late, busily working away on a new range of transfer sheets. Some of these have already been released, such as those available now for the Imperial Fists, Iron Hands, and Raven Guard Chapters, but as another Games Day pre-release you’ll be able to get your hands on four new A4 decal sheets for the Blood Ravens, Crimson Fists, Blood Angels, and Elysians, priced at £9 a sheet.
Each decal sheet is crammed with a huge array of squad badges suitable for shoulder pads, jump packs and vehicles. There are also unit designations and unique details such as Librarian rank markings in the case of the Blood Ravens decals, and Vulture Gunship and Tauros kill markings on the Elysian sheet. Each of these fantastic sheets will be available as an exclusive Games Day UK pre-release while stocks last.

Each of the new transfer sheets is also available to pre-order now, if you aren’t lucky enough to be joining us at Games Day UK, and will be despatched in the week commencing October 4th.

New Etched Brass Symbols
Not content with his awesome Transfer sheets, Kenton has also found time to produce a sheet of incredibly detailed Etched Brass Symbols for the Iron Hands, featuring a variety of Chapter and Clan-Company details perfect for making your infantry and vehicles stand out even more.
He’s also recently finished a set of Etched Brass Ork Glyphs to complement the recent range of Kastorel-Novem themed Greenskin kits that we have released. These glyphs allow you to personalise and name your Ork characters and vehicles in typical Orky fashion.

Both of these detailed Etched Brass sheets will be available as a pre-release at Games Day while stocks last.

Space Marine Character Upgrade Set
Will Hayes and Phil Stutcinskas have followed up their work on our recent Power Armour sets and Weapon Packs with this detailed set of upgrade parts to allow you to customise unique Space Marine figures from Sergeants to Captains. The Character Upgrade Pack features 5 bolt pistols and a plasma pistol, styled along the same lines as the Special Weapons Pack, as well as three bionic arms, a bionic leg, a mechanically detailed head, a fantastic right-handed Power Fist and an ornate Power Sword. The sprues also contain a combat knife and a combi-flamer to offer even more conversion options, as you can see here.
The Space Marine Character Upgrade Set will be available as a pre-release item from the Forge World Sales Stand at Games Day UK while stocks last, priced at £10.
It’s also available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing October 4th.

Forge World Show Only Model
2010 Show Only ModelNot content with our staggering array of resin kits, modelling supplies and Imperial Armour books, each year Forge World produces a Show Only figure, which as the name suggests can only be purchased from our Sales Stand at an event we attend. The Show Only figure for 2010 is this excellent Ork Runt Bot designed by Mark Bedford. Only available until the end of the year, this unique miniature will be available at Games Day UK alongside the rest of our Ork range while stocks last, and can be yours for £20.

Perfect for use as a vignette, or for representing a Warboss with a Bionik Body or wearing Mega Armour, the Runt Bot depicts a hulking Orky robot wildly swinging its huge klaws while a tiny Grot perches on a vast armour plate, desperately wrestling with his kontrol pad.

Forge World Studio Displays
In addition to our talented model designers, the Forge World studio boasts a dedicated book production team and two Imperial Armour writers and this week we can offer an exclusive peek at what will be on offer from these skilled chaps.

Alan Bligh, writer of Imperial Armour Apocalypse II and the brand new Imperial Armour Volume 9: The Badab War Part I, will be on hand with an entire box of pens to sign your copy, and rumour has it that he will even be letting slip a few of the dark secrets contained within the forthcoming second, and final, half of our epic exploration of the Badab War.

Warwick Kinrade, the writer of Imperial Armour Volume 8: Raid On Kastorel-Novem, will be laying bare his plans for future Imperial Armour books which might involve snow, Eldar and a popular Space Marine Chapter…

Kenton Mills is one of the Graphic Artists behind many of the colour profiles included in recent Imperial Armour books, as well as the architect of the Transfer and Etched Brass sheets that we have recently released. He’ll be showcasing his work on the Badab War series, so don’t forget to ask him to sign your book!

Graphic Artist Ian Strickland is the most recent addition to the Book Production team, and he will have an array of his colour profile work from the Badab War series for you to admire. He will no doubt be easily persuaded to spill a few secrets about exactly how all the fantastic colour profiles in an Imperial Armour book are planned, created, laid out and printed. No Imperial Armour Volume 9 bought at Games Day will be complete without the signature of Forge World’s professional Yorkshireman.

To complete the set, make sure you seek out Book Production Manager Paul Rudge, who oversees every book project that Forge World embarks on. Rudgie also produces colour profiles and photo art for Imperial Armour books, and his iron fist controls all the technical aspects of making a document into a book.

You should also look out for Graphic Artist Sam Lamont, who is responsible for the fantastic Badab Sector Map on one side of the A1 poster supplied with The Badab War Part I, as well as many of the fantastic photo art and other star maps featured across the two parts of the Badab War series. Exactly what these two will be showcasing at Games Day UK is still shrouded in secrecy, so keep an eye on next week’s Newsletter for more details.

We have prepared a special Games Day UK page on the Forge World website that you can find here which contains more details about everything you can expect to see at the NEC on September 26th.

Forge World Seminars at Games Day UK
We can now confirm that Head of Forge World Tony Cottrell and Studio Manager Owen Branham will be hosting an exclusive seminar, ‘The Future of Forge World’, at Games Day UK, and these will be held in the Westside Bar in the Arena area.

Each running of the seminar is strictly limited to 100 tickets, which are totally free, and will be available from Games Workshop Customer Service staff located at the entrance to the Westside Bar near the Black Library Digital stand and the entrance to Block 12 of the Arena.

Tickets will be available on a one per person, first come, first served basis from the very minute that the NEC doors open. As the title suggests, the seminar will focus on future projects on the Forge World schedule, from Imperial Armour books to resin kits, and it will feature a Q&A session in which you can grill Tony and Owen to your heart’s content!

Seminar One will be held from 12:00 until 12:45 and Seminar Two will run from 1:00 until 1:45.

Place Your Games Day UK Reservation Now!
Forge World are still taking reservation orders for Games Day UK. This is the best way to guarantee that we will have exactly what you want and we’ll have a separate Reservations Collections area on our sales stand so you can pick up your order at any point during the day.

What’s more, as a special bonus, if you place a reservation of £50 or more you’ll receive an extremely rare Show Only Reaver Titan Princeps or Ork Skwadron Kommander free when you collect your order on the day, while stocks last.

To place a reservation, just send an e-mail titled ‘Games Day UK Reservation’ to ForgeworldReservations@games-workshop.co.uk including your name and a list of the items you’d like us to provide or you can also telephone us on 0115 916 8177. We MUST receive these orders by September 20th to allow our heroic Despatch team to pack them in time for Games Day.

We will provide you with an order number and total cost slightly before the event, and we’ll also inform you of anything that we can’t guarantee to have for you. Remember that anything we don’t have, or we run out of, can be ordered on the day with the added bonus of completely free shipping!

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/SPACE-MARINE-CHARACTER-CONVERSION-SET.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/BLOOD-RAVENS-TRANSFER-SHEET.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CRIMSON-FISTS-TRANSFER-SHEET.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/BLOOD-ANGEL-TRANSFER-SHEET.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ELYSIAN-TRANSFER-SHEET.html

**Gamble**

Total pass on the Character Conversion kit.

The transfer sheets are exactly as expected, bu I think they missed on the BA one. They could easily have done a single sheet for each of the sub chapters instead of all in one... well, most in one.

**Muggzy**

Love the new bits but something looks...off with some of these new bits...

Head-->Torso->Legs all look a bit out of proportion, would more waist and neck help?

I think there is a problem with the positioning of the waist or something cuz it makes it look like there is almost no gape between where one's floating rib would be and where the upper thigh plates stat. Probably a blob of GS in there would solve the issue but they look a bit wonky right now.

**Kanluwen**

They're using the Pre-Heresy legs on the first and third, in conjunction with standard plastic torsos on all three(at least I think the first one is a plastic torso. Not 100% sure, as I'm not too big on non-DA plastic Marine stuff).

**BrookM**

More Elysian decals, do I ever fething want those so badly.

**Miss Dee**

Dang you beat me to it.

When I first saw the BA sheet I thought Night Lords.

**Acardia**

I like the combi-flamer. I loathe the plasma pistol. I like the other bitz, I may order a set or two of that to do some converting.

**Kanluwen**

BrookM wrote:More Elysian decals, do I ever fething want those so badly.

I'm getting them for my Cadians, without a doubt. So much better than the standard decals for Cadians.

**Miss Dee**

The Plasma pistol looks like something out of Buck Rodgers.

**AlexHolker**

Could someone direct me to a full picture of the Runtbot?

**Emperors_Champion**

I quite like the character upgrade kit but for 9 quid I would much rather get the brass etching sheet than those transfers! Seems to me to be going backwards a little!

**reds8n**

AlexHolker wrote:Could someone direct me to a full picture of the Runtbot?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/285905.page

I agree with the things looks somewhat out of scale comments as well.

**Bikeninja**

Miss Dee wrote:The Plasma pistol looks like something out of Buck Rodgers.

And that is why it full of cool. Sorry for showing my age. Buck Rogers fan from way back.

I like the set. The arms in particular I like as well as that power. It will look good on a ThunderWolf.

**Alpharius**

I rather like the Plasma Pistol too, actually!

**Nurglitch**

I'm really kind of surprised that they didn't do more combi-weapons. Maybe next newsletter?

**Beast of Nurgle**

I rather like the upgrade pack- those arms and legs would go a long way toward building a Iron Hands army....

With them doing a Badab war book, I'm dying to know what they will do for the Exorcists- even if its shoulderpads, I will break my bank getting them.

**MajorTom11**

I find the upgrade pack makes no sense... looks like a bionics pack specifically if anything, def does not scream special character at me at all. You would figure characters would get something ornate and mastercrafted looking, not plain as hell bionics and weapons...

Nice for Ihands and Iwarriors players though!

**Breotan**

Okay, this is the least impressive release they've done so far. The combi-flamer looks uninspired and the plasma pistol is... odd. Also, why are there five bolt pistols? It'd make sense if they were different but they all look alike.

And since this is a "character" pack, why are there only bionics? No cool stuff like an elaborate storm shield, redesigned thunderhammer, etc. Well, the power fist looks interesting at least.

**ph34r**

The plasma pistol is kinda weird, the power fist looks way to huge... I kinda expected more types of bits. The bionics look good but the weapons are kinda "eh".

**Alpharius**

Yeah, these are good points.

I know when I first heard "Character Conversion Set" I was hoping for bits to turn Marines into Librarians and Chaplains.

Well, maybe later...

**AlexHolker**

Thanks, Reds8n. It doesn't quite live up to what I was imagining, which was more Leader of the Grot Revolution! and less Robork's Sidekick.

**Miss Dee**

Alpharius wrote:I rather like the Plasma Pistol too, actually!

You would

**Nurglitch**

All I can say is out there somewhere some unhappy Champion of Slaanesh can't find its plasma-powered best friend...

**Absolutionis**

Blood Ravens?

Will we be having Blood Ravens in the Badab War IA?

**Sarge**

The legs are pretty neat. I'm disappointed with the bolt pistols and the "ornate" power sword.

**Master Melta**

I am happy with the bionics. I am building an iron hands army, and it seems this is perfect timing.

Much better than the metal ones GW produced.

Plus, that power fist is grand and while I don't necessarly love the combi flamer, at least it exists now.

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I will say this...

The bolt pistols are kindof a crappy addition. They could have had something a bit cooler in there, ccw weapons or another couple of combi weapons/head.

**notprop**

The bolt pistols look like a re-imagining of the original ones from RTB01 beakies ala what they did with the boltgun/special weapon releases recently.

The plasma pistol also looks like an update on an old design to me. GW released a pistol sprue back when Necromunda was released. It included a rather sleek plasma pistol and this is almost identical but looks a little scaled up for marines.

It all looks rather good to me, but I wouls suggest that it should have been named a Sargeants Upgrade pack.

**MeanGreenStompa**

Muggzy wrote:

Looks almost comical...

Is it the camera angle or something?

**Master Melta**

poor choice of helmet for that one I think

**Alpharius**

Hey, at least these bits don't have Red Scorpions symbols on them!