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Kirasu wrote:Oh Im sure wyches will be female bodies and .. horse faces. Just like the female high elf mages.

Jes Goodwin will not fail us... will he?

Kirasu wrote:Oh Im sure wyches will be female bodies and .. horse faces. Just like the female high elf mages.

I dont know what females GW uses as inspiration for their models.. but theyre not the kind that gamers dream about thats for sure (Unless you dream about horse faces)

Presumably it's all beauty talent local to GW HQ in Nottingham, England, UK...


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AlexHolker wrote:

Kirasu wrote:Oh Im sure wyches will be female bodies and .. horse faces. Just like the female high elf mages.

Jes Goodwin will not fail us... will he?

Jes sculpted the original Sisters of Battle, the original Howling Banshees, the original Harlequins, and the Escher hive gangers for Necroumunda. They should at least be OK.

I fear the addition of Harlequins to the Dark Eldar. They'll relegate Wyches to second rate status. If anything is iconic to the Dark Eldar it's the Wyches. Unless Harlies are limited to 0-1, or have some other army restriction to taking them I see them taking over for Wyches. Unless Wyches get a special rule that allows them to consolidate/sweep into HtH (which they desperately need), which really fits into their supposed role as close combat masters.
Hellions as plastics? Gotta mean they're adjusting them to be worth taking (or so cheap points-wise that you don't mind losing them).

Harlies would be non-scoring Elites; Wyches would be Scoring Troops. Simple as that.

Kirasu wrote:Oh Im sure wyches will be female bodies and .. horse faces. Just like the female high elf mages.

I dont know what females GW uses as inspiration for their models.. but theyre not the kind that gamers dream about thats for sure (Unless you dream about horse faces)

May I present Her Royal Highness:

JohnHwangDD wrote:
Jes sculpted the original Sisters of Battle, the original Howling Banshees, the original Harlequins, and the Escher hive gangers for Necroumunda. They should at least be OK.

Besides laying down the plans (and sculpting in 1998) nearly all the plastic SM line, a lot of the Eldar line, etc.

He's got a distinctive style and he's amongst GW top sculptor (besides being the oldest one there). If someone can make a drop dead gorgeous miniature, it's Jes. The reason I'm so excited (no pun intented) about DE is the fact that this man can do to any army what Brian Nelson did to the Orks (let's not talk about the SM Scout heads, that wasn't Brian's field anyway).

I also point you to this, http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/208658.page , where you can check out the work Jes has been putting out, sketch-wise. I think it's an interesting look at how his drawings often translate to balanced miniatures.

All the miniatures you mentioned were sculpted in the early/mid 1990's. I'm at a loss to find some more recent female sculpts, but we have the Cold One Knights (female enough? ) from the Dark Elf line.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=cat440050a&pIndex=1&aId=9600006&start=2

I rest assured my next army will be Dark Eldar.

Kirasu wrote:Oh Im sure wyches will be female bodies and .. horse faces. Just like the female high elf mages.

I dont know what females GW uses as inspiration for their models.. but theyre not the kind that gamers dream about thats for sure (Unless you dream about horse faces)

dude, the company IS British... hmmm...

As long as they look "elfish" i don't really care. Dark elves in Space
Now begs the question DE or wait for a New CSM codex?

Watch it them Notts lasses are alright
The sculptors are chained to their benches and never see a woman. All they have for reference are the dwindling memories of their own dear mothers.
That, added to thrice sized heroic scale heads is a recipe for a miniature guaranteed to scare the horses.

Lol, you mean professional mini sculptors don't automatically get the babes?????

I find that hard to believe.

Sadly for them no
Have you never seen the T-shirt slogan:

Mini sculptors do it with Greenstuff!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Watch it them Notts lasses are alright

I live in SoCal, and reasonably suspect we have more attractive women than all Blighty combined.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Watch it them Notts lasses are alright

I live in SoCal, and reasonably suspect we have more attractive women than all Blighty combined.

That's purely opinion.

EDIT: As in, personal preference. Now, I've never been to California (I'm assuming that's what SoCal means) but going off of what I've seen on TV and movies and the like... you can keep 'em.

JohnHwangDD wrote:
I live in SoCal, and reasonably suspect we have more attractive women than all Blighty combined.

Only coz lots of our loverly lasses were taken away as slaves by the naughty SoCal Dark Eldar Raiders :(

(see how I cleverly kept it on topic)

Millions of British women die a little inside knowing that several wargamers consider them un-attractive.

And another Dark Eldar rumour thread crashes into the sun.

Come on. grow up please. Maybe get back on topic?

Reecius wrote:

ShanksD wrote:
That's purely opinion.

EDIT: As in, personal preference. Now, I've never been to California (I'm assuming that's what SoCal means) but going off of what I've seen on TV and movies and the like... you can keep 'em.

Sorry bro, but that there is fact!

There are plenty of beautiful English girls, no doubt (Liz Hurley, Jordan),

The fact you consider a plastic surgery catastrophe like Jordan as beautiful auto-proves ShanksD's argument. I would've accepted Kelly brook, or Gemma Arterton, or Cheryl Cole, but If Jordan is comparable to the ideal Californian beauty then your opinion of beauty is WAY different to mine

I do agree that a lot of inner city British girls let themselves go a bit (Too many fast food joints I reckon). However get yourself to the British countryside and you'll find some absolute stunners. I live in a market town with enough 9's and 10's to start up my own modelling agency.

I love my life

Anyway, Back to the models. I'm hearing about 2 new Ravager varients. The Rampage, and the Slaughter. Are these simply different weapon fits, like the predator Annihilator and destructor, or are they crazy badass new tanks like the Deathstrike was?

Sounds interesting though the names are naff.
Dark Elf tanks would be good ie not made out of paper, but keep the speed of course!

@plastictrees

haha, too true. I'm sure ladies around the world wait with baited breath to hear the geek crowd's opinion of them!

@johnstewartjohn

Yes, let's all grow up and start talking about toys again!

@JohnHwang

Hahaha, that was mean, but funny as hell!

@Leggy

You got me there. Not everyone likes the Pam Anderson look, but plastic surgery is so common here. For us to see a girl with cosmetic surgery is nothing to even bat an eye at, it's normal. But, Jordan is hot to me, no question.

As for actual Dark Eldar rumors, I can say with 100% certainty that the new Warrior models are bad ass. I can't say how I know this, but I do know it.

I have heard through the grapevine that the Wyches are wearing full body latex suits as well.

I can't wait for this book. A race that says, yup, the galaxy is gong to hell. But you know what? feth it. We're gonna rock out and go down in a blaze of hedonistic glory! I like that!

Kirasu wrote:
I dont know what females GW uses as inspiration for their models.. but theyre not the kind that gamers dream about thats for sure (Unless you dream about horse faces)

That'd be Sarah Jessica Parker.

Never mind the quality feel the width

Can someone wake me up when there is some DE news please?

AlexHolker wrote:

Savnock wrote:I just hope they update the reclining-slavegirl figs from the Vect model. They're the material for many a hilarious conversion. Given the de-seximafying the daemonetts got, I'm guessing that sadly won't happen.

Three words.

Plastic. Slave. Sprue.

GW would make millions!

ShanksD wrote:Who wants 'sexy' minis?

Tell you what: you stay with your ascetic Homoerotic superhuman monks and we'll worry about the "sexy" minis.

The less faction-unique armour they're wearing, the easier they'll be to convert for use elsewhere. If the plastic Wyches are all female and don't look like ass, I'll be buying some to convert into Eschers, or maybe even Repentia.

Fixed that for you.

There are pretty gils in every part of the world ...beauty is in the eye of the beholder...



Anyways...I heard from a black shirt friend that UK gamesday annoucment is the dark eldar codex annoucment.

Alpharius will destroy this thread... (unless he has already suffered a fatal aneurysm)

In other news, I know I could probably just look this up... but when is GD UK? Are there anyother events in which more DE info may be officially announced on-or-around that date and has anyone gotten any emails like from the Daemons Wave stuff (I have not, but I'm on the US side of things)

Games day is on the 26th. Unless we're very lucky I doubt this thread will be of any use to anyone until then.

@Mr Mystery: Thanks for the spellcheck (now edited).

Like Fergie, the bottom half of her picture (below the neckline) is far nicer than the top half (buttaface).

She has a face? I didn't initially notice...however once you pointed it out I was impressed she still had all her teeth hehe.

Initially I was disapointed this was so far OT....then the pics cheered me up hehe.

If anyone is going to GD UK PLEASE take pics and a means to post ASAP!!!

Please lets stay on topic.

I look forward to seeing the first sprues and rules. I hope that the codex will allow for multiple competitive army designs. I am liking that GW allowed all the recent codexes from being on trick ponies.

Do you mean that they were not one trick ponies, please,
Adeptus?

From what I understood of the old codex, sorry, current codex, there are various ways to run Dark Eldar.
From the few games I have had this boils down to a poor Wych run army, or a poor Warrior run army.
(Accepted that the general is pee poor )

I also found that the speed thing, rapid fire is in the fluff more than the game play. If they can do like you say and address these issues I will be happy.

Can we at least pretent being in a Dark Eldar rumour thread?

Now On-Topic . . . Dark Eldar announced at Games Day . . . why can't I afford to go? ='[

I would love to be able to see those models, and get them posted up here for you guys. But sadly I will have to wait for internet news like everyone else.

Sadly I currently own over 3000 points of Dark Eldar and don't need much more. But the opportunity to create an all female army of murderous and sexy psycho women? Yes please!

Oshova