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Can someone snap a scale pic vs the khorne guys from AoS?

Yes mine turned up and I have to say I was pissed to find no spear arms, I mean they were previewed from the start and was the only reason I wanted them.
That was my hole thing the mammoth with Howdah and a spear attacking female warband, I mean what use are swords on an attack mammoth ?
Well I have to say this has left a bitter taste and has put me off future backing of any more KS, now the hassle of selling or trying to find conversion parts to use them.

I will say I like the resin miniatures though they turned out better than I hoped, not a fan of the sorcerer as I don't find she fit the theme compared to the rest.

overtyrant wrote:
Anyone have an idea of what to use these ladies as in AoS? I'm thinking marauders but not sure what to proxie the bears and dragon as.

Right now, the ones I'll be doing will be for Conan, either boardgame or RPG.

Looking good, I may just add them to my pile of 'honest I will assemble and paint them before the children go to college' pile.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Looking good, I may just add them to my pile of 'honest I will assemble and paint them before the children go to college' pile.

Ah, so like me you have a "lying to myself" pile, I see.

 lone dirty dog wrote:
Yes mine turned up and I have to say I was pissed to find no spear arms, I mean they were previewed from the start and was the only reason I wanted them.
That was my hole thing the mammoth with Howdah and a spear attacking female warband, I mean what use are swords on an attack mammoth ?

Not defending the decision to not include spears, but at least it should be pretty easy to cut off the hands of the close combat arms (some even come with loose hands already) and replace them with spear holding hands cut from other kits.

A box of infantry from Perry, Fireforge, Gripping beast etc, gives you plenty of spare spears if you use other options, so it's reasonably easy to find someone who'll part with their spares if you have no use for such a box yourself.

 Zywus wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:
Yes mine turned up and I have to say I was pissed to find no spear arms, I mean they were previewed from the start and was the only reason I wanted them.
That was my hole thing the mammoth with Howdah and a spear attacking female warband, I mean what use are swords on an attack mammoth ?

Not defending the decision to not include spears, but at least it should be pretty easy to cut off the hands of the close combat arms (some even come with loose hands already) and replace them with spear holding hands cut from other kits.

A box of infantry from Perry, Fireforge, Gripping beast etc, gives you plenty of spare spears if you use other options, so it's reasonably easy to find someone who'll part with their spares if you have no use for such a box yourself.

You can also buy packs of 24 spears from Fireforge with the choice of getting them in lengths of 4cm, 5cm and 6cm. I'm strongly considering ordering a batch once my KS package arrives today and I can judge the scale of the minis in person.

I'm also hopeful that they fit in well with CMoN's Zombicide BP because that should mean that they'll fit in with the Massive Darkness troglodyte box set which I was hoping to pair with my KS pledge to make a quick KoW army.

Should be plenty of Warhammer bits out there to pillage, especially from Empire and Chaos armies.

I know I'll be dipping in to the Wrathmonger/ Skullreaper bits as always.

I may try some of the spears I have from some Gripping Beast kits, but those spears might be a little on the short side for these ladies. Javelins maybe?

And people thought I was crazy to buy 40 sprues' worth of Mantic Men at Arms weapons.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
And people thought I was crazy to buy 40 sprues' worth of Mantic Men at Arms weapons.

Even a broken clock is correct twice a day. Unless you're FutureBob and you knew this was going to happen and came back in time to capitalize on it without warning the rest of the community so as not to disrupt the timeline too much.

Sucks about the spears.. but if I'm honest, I hate plastic spears and would likely have drilled out the handles and put in brass rod. Mine are supposed to turn up today.. hopefully I did not miss that delivery while I was at the pool.

Here is a scale shot with the AoS khorne guys

Cool, thank you for the pictures Smokestack! They look like they scale pretty well with the gw khorne guys.

DHL said my shipment was supposed to get here today, but it is 8 pm and it hasn't shown up. When I check their tracking website the last listed event is listed as getting held up by customs, so I suspect that I won't be seeing them for a couple days yet at the earliest.

 Gallahad wrote:
They look like they scale pretty well with the gw khorne guys.

Not so sure about that. :-/
In that first pic, she's again half a head taller than the Khorne guy, and those are pretty hulking.

Mutter wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
They look like they scale pretty well with the gw khorne guys.

Not so sure about that. :-/
In that first pic, she's again half a head taller than the Khorne guy, and those are pretty hulking.

That khorne guy is leaning forward running while she is standing straight.

 Gallahad wrote:
Cool, thank you for the pictures Smokestack! They look like they scale pretty well with the gw khorne guys.

DHL said my shipment was supposed to get here today, but it is 8 pm and it hasn't shown up. When I check their tracking website the last listed event is listed as getting held up by customs, so I suspect that I won't be seeing them for a couple days yet at the earliest.

Same here in San Diego

 Zywus wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Also, we never did get proper "nice" shots of the sprues in the end, did we?

There's pics of the sprues on the pre-order page.

Thank you for the pics. No excuses for SW not putting them in an update for backers, though.

Anyone else still waiting on Shipping Numbers? I'm concerned that I haven't heard a thing and they've all taken off for the rest of the month...

I got a shipping number much like the others here, only to find out that my ladies are still in Greece.

Thank you, Smokestack. Looks like they're pretty big girls.

I can't say I'm especially happy with DHL. They said my stuff was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but they never did. My package cleared customs in the morning, then just sat in Los Angeles all day. They only just updated that the package was at the local sorting center this morning.

 Azazelx wrote:

 Zywus wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Also, we never did get proper "nice" shots of the sprues in the end, did we?

There's pics of the sprues on the pre-order page.

Thank you for the pics. No excuses for SW not putting them in an update for backers, though.

Anyone else still waiting on Shipping Numbers? I'm concerned that I haven't heard a thing and they've all taken off for the rest of the month...

Considering how many people are hearing something but it's turning out to be inaccurate I don't know that I'd be worried just yet. My notification came via text number to the number i provided via.. uh.. actually I am not sure how they got my cell number but that's how I got it..

You had to give a phone number with your delivery address as sheildwolf knew they were using a courier and lots of those require them

(but not specifically a cell phone number though so that might explain why I never got any tracking if they're texting it)

Yep, my notice with tracking came via text. Be aware, they're apparently going to send a second notice once your package goes out for delivery, too. I just got a second text notifying me.

Interesting, I never got any notification... just the DHL guy knocking on my door.

 MLaw wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:

 Zywus wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Also, we never did get proper "nice" shots of the sprues in the end, did we?

There's pics of the sprues on the pre-order page.

Thank you for the pics. No excuses for SW not putting them in an update for backers, though.

Anyone else still waiting on Shipping Numbers? I'm concerned that I haven't heard a thing and they've all taken off for the rest of the month...

Considering how many people are hearing something but it's turning out to be inaccurate I don't know that I'd be worried just yet. My notification came via text number to the number i provided via.. uh.. actually I am not sure how they got my cell number but that's how I got it..

Usually when I have a FedEx or DHL package coming, I get an email from them. It's not like a couple of hundred packages from one company in Greece (or wherever) is going to overload their logistics operation. It'd barely be a blip on their radar.

Yep, same boat here... got the text message, expected delivery friday, nada. Latest event on the tracker is customs, so who knows.

At least you got some confirmation that it was sent!

Do they all have the standing there pose? Wouldn't have minded a few walking/charging or attacking poses!

So...who wants to sell me their set?

So mine arrived. No issues with DHL. Delivery was to Australia.

The heroes are really nice. I think they did a great job with them.

The plastics are meh. Too large, not enough variety of weapons, long necks and static poses. I don't feel they lived up to the promise of the initial renders.

The wolves are just terrible. The heads are enormous and don't fit the bodies without a load of green stuff work. They also have really derpy smiling faces and don't look in the least intimidating.

Wolves are going in the bin and I'm already making arrangements for the plastics and heroes to be resold.