Finecast second wave in August

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**AvatarForm**

Flashman wrote:
Kroothawk wrote:Small addition: Seems like we get some metal to finecast models also in July: Lammasu, Taurus and other monsters fitting for Storm of Magic. So August will technically be the third wave.

Are we talking the original Chaos Dwarf Lammasu and Taurus?

I bet those suddenly develop extra detail when they are made in Fineca$t...

Kroothawk wrote:
N'Ferno wrote:The moulds are the same for the finecasat models, so the pieces they come into are the same as well, correct?
If so I forsee quite a few jetbikes coming to my White Scars soon /cackle

Seems like they use the same machines, but need to make new moulds from the same masters.

The Ravenwing jetbike is very special and individual, not very good to have more than once. Have you considered using the much cheaper Kromlech jetbike?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Kromlech-Iron-Shark-Pattern-Assault-Jetbike-/150593603790?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23101408ce

These are atrocious, but I reckon these are how Squats would have liked them...

**bok_choy17**

YAY! More dwarves.

**Kroothawk**

BoLS posted a spreadsheet of June releases with US prices:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0An-qBba7fMe1dHFsSVZpa1lVUjc5R3RuMFliNlI0TWc&hl=en_US&authkey=CN-pqc4F#gid=0
Great Taurus (Box) 35.50 $
Lammasu (box) 35.50 $
Fenbeast (Box) 24.75$
Truthsayer (Blister) 15.25$
Dark Emissary (Blister) 15.25$
Cold One (Blister) 16.50$
Release 23rd June.

They also list these (metal rereleases?):
Dark Elf Supreme Sorceress 1 Fig blister
Warriors of Chaos Sorcerer Lord 2 Fig blister
Warriors of Chaos Nurgle Chaos Sorcerer 1 Fig blister
Vampire Counts Necromancer on Nightmare 1 Fig blister
Vampire Counts Necromancer with Skull 1 Fig blister
Vampire Counts Necromancer with Staff 1 Fig blister

AvatarForm wrote:
I bet those suddenly develop extra detail when they are made in Fineca$t...

Yeah, they start looking like this now:

**Mr Mystery**

I'm expecting new models for them meself. Seem to be part of the Magicy range.

**DarkStarSabre**

Kroothawk wrote: Cold One (Blister) 16.50$

Seriously. Whaaaa?

Just....a cold one?

Here. Have a cold one. IN FINECAST.

**A Black Ram**

..So, now they are releasing mounts by themselves?

Can't wait for a -single- nightmare.

**DarkStarSabre**

Well, there's confusion whether it's a single mount or whether it's a pack of 5.

**Kroothawk**

Cold One is a single mount without saddle, moulded after the new Jes Goodwin Cold Ones. Herds of Cold Ones can be bound by spells.

And yes, lammasu and taurus are delivered without a Chaos Dwarf rider. They are mail order only.

**Flashman**

Kroothawk wrote:Cold One is a single mount without saddle, moulded after the new Jes Goodwin Cold Ones. Herds of Cold Ones can be bound by spells.

So GW have basically invented another supplement that requires you to buy otherwise useless models that will soon be gathering dust when everyone (including GW) has forgotten about Storm of Magic in two months time.

**Gavin Thorne**

Not necessarily. I love the new cold ones for my exodite conversions so getting them in a pack of 5 without riders is a good thing for me, but I do like the Lizardmen cold ones better and I'm probably one of the few that would like to see them available separately from the riders.

**BattleBrother**

Yay, Karmanozav, Hes a great HQ!

**jspyd3rx**

Any idea when we should see the advance orders go up for august finecast release?

**DarkStarSabre**

About a week before release or in WD. Same as everything else recently. And knowing WD it will get it wrong.

**bubber**

jspyd3rx wrote:Any idea when we should see the advance orders go up for august finecast release?

As they are released on the 6th, then I would guess, under GW's current policy, they will appear on the advance oders page on about the 14th August

**jspyd3rx**

Hehe, thanks.

**BrassScorpion**

So GW have basically invented another supplement that requires you to buy otherwise useless models that will soon be gathering dust when everyone (including GW) has forgotten about Storm of Magic in two months time.

It would be funny if it wasn't true. I hate to add to the often irrational negativity one sees on these forums, but I've been at this 2 decades and it is generally how these things go. If you're not going to really enjoy the models for their own sake I wouldn't buy too many of them just for Storm Of Magic because like all supplements it will only be supported for so long and then it's history. Before 40K Apocalypse and the current Cities Of Death, the average life expectancy of a Warhammer or 40K supplement was about 2 years before it became totally unsupported. Things seem a bit better now, but I'd still be cautious about investing too much in it if you're not going to get a ton of use and enjoyment out of it.

**English Assassin**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Ragnar, original PA Njal, Ulrik and Bjorn are the oldest. The Space Wolf Codex was the first Codex GW ever produced - the very first 2nd Ed one. Eldrad, the Avatar, Warp Spiders, Wraithguard and the Phoenix Lords are next (as Codex Eldar was second, Orks third, and so on).

The thing is... do we really want a new Eldrad/Phoenix Lords? They're still great models. They're very '2D' in the sense that their detail is mostly flat across one plane (two-part spin-casting has its downsides I 'spose), but they're really beautiful Jes Goodwin models. I'd hate to see them go.

Putting Abaddon on a 40mm base helps. Even the old metal Loyalist Terminators look bigger on a bigger base. But you're right, he needs an upscale to be as big as his brethren (no way Grimnar should be bigger than him!).

To be pedantic, though Ragnar, Njal and Ulrik are in desperate need of new sculpts - indeed they in fact pre-date second edition, albeit by only a few months - they are not the most vintage models still issued. (Rules for them were originally written for Battle Manual-era Rogue Trader and published in WD 150-something.)

Beating them by two or three years to the title of longest-serving Wh40k miniatures still sold by GW are two of Jes Goodwin's Eldar Warlocks, seen here in the 1991 catalogue: http://solegends.com/citcat911/c2093eldaravatrwarlks.htm.

**MajorTom11**

I dunno, it's easy to say it's a shame to see em go now HBMC, but if they released new hotness JG phoenix lords, methinks you would probably forget all about the old ones, and if not, you could still probably get the oldies anyways! New sculpts are never a bad thing IMHO only rarely does it go dirty bad. I'm looking at you plastic daemon prince.

**BrassScorpion**

Ragnar, Njal and Ulrik are in desperate need of new sculpts

Njal got a new sculpt along with the current Space Wolf Codex and it's still available:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1160027a

**SonicPara**

I believe he means Njal in Power Armour, seen here:

**BrassScorpion**

Yes, I know what he meant, (d'uh!) but the comment ignored the fact that Njal already got a new sculpt.

And for the record, I still like the old one too. I own both of them.

**SonicPara**

BrassScorpion wrote:Yes, I know what he meant, (d'uh!) but the comment ignored the fact that Njal already got a new sculpt.

And for the record, I still like the old one too.

Now I feel like a dunce, my bad. The old sculpt is still quite nice but updates are always fun. The one Marine model that I think really needs a new sculpt is Mephiston and his popped collar of doom, can't stand how goofy that thing looks when the rules make him such a stone-cold killer.

**Stormrider**

SonicPara wrote:
BrassScorpion wrote:Yes, I know what he meant, (d'uh!) but the comment ignored the fact that Njal already got a new sculpt.

And for the record, I still like the old one too.

Now I feel like a dunce, my bad. The old sculpt is still quite nice but updates are always fun. The one Marine model that I think really needs a new sculpt is Mephiston and his popped collar of doom, can't stand how goofy that thing looks when the rules make him such a stone-cold killer.

That's just Mephiston when he's out clubbin'. We don't want to see him when he's got his "get work done" clothes on.

**English Assassin**

SonicPara wrote:
BrassScorpion wrote:Yes, I know what he meant, (d'uh!) but the comment ignored the fact that Njal already got a new sculpt.

And for the record, I still like the old one too.

Now I feel like a dunce, my bad. The old sculpt is still quite nice but updates are always fun. The one Marine model that I think really needs a new sculpt is Mephiston and his popped collar of doom, can't stand how goofy that thing looks when the rules make him such a stone-cold killer.

I see pedantry begets further pedantry. And yes, Mephiston, with his floppy hair and Ming the Merciless collar, has looked faintly daft and out of place since 1993 - something made only more apparent by Asteroth and Lemertes' very up-to-date and dynamic sculpts. Dante's model is likewise pretty undewhelming, but he at least can be kitbashed from modern plastics. Perhaps we'll get a second wave of Blood Angels at some point, or a set of new character sculpts to accompany 6th Edition.

**BrassScorpion**

I see pedantry begets further pedantry.

Pot? Hello, hello, this is kettle!

Seriously, that has to be the most overused word on the forum that doesn't set off the filter for expletives. Every factual correction is not an act of "pedantry".

If people are looking for something, say they wish it existed and do not think it exists, and someone points out to them that it does exists, that is hardly pedantry ("an ostentatious show of knowledge"). There does seem to be an aversion to factual information on the forum at times. Perhaps some people consider factual information "pedantry" when it dispels the tons of misinformation that is usually posted because they prefer the nonsense over real information.

Peace, I'm out!

**Deathklaat**

bleh and double bleh, a resin Master of the Raven wing and here i have been trying to file all of the ravenwing iconography off the metal version for a Nurgle CSM Lord for weeks.

**Melissia**

Lol, no Sisters finecast.

**TBD**

Looks like only six of the items listed in this thread are actually going to be released in august (see: the other thread).