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Well I had a grand day out at Warhammer World. Woke up early for the Grand Prix, then off to see the FW stuff. Very impressed by all the new models. Especially the Ork Kopter, especially with the Kommando-esque models on it. They look freaking awesome.

Having never seeing the Storm Raven mock-up before I took my opportunity to have a chat with the designer. Had a lovely chat about how he wanted to base it on the Thunderhawk, just smaller, but how this made it look un-proportional etc. Basically having great chats all round =D also I must say, that of all the concept art, the one they picked is possibly the best, but my favourite looked kind of like a Star Wars transport (as seen in Episode II) which I quite liked. But yeah, the 2 prong look is awesome. =]

Very glad that FW is a lot more open about what they do than general GW. Makes for a lot more excitement to be made about things.

Finally. A lifta-droppa for a Battlewagon anyone!? That's freaking awesome!!! =D

Oshova

Any details on the new Elysian stuff? I'm really hoping that they have some new D99 or similar Veteran unit rules.

Fateweaver wrote:Yeah, I'm loving the "beakie" love that the RG Sternguard are getting.

That commander is just ace.

If I was richer and wasn't already planning to do BA than RG would be my marine army.

Though I'm already planning to save up for the new XV-9's. Those things are ace.

Better pic of the XV-9's than what's previously going around.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=85667&d=1269783988

Shas O' R'alai... Really?

I just got back! Have to say it was well worth the drive, there were so many new releases on display, especialy for the Orks, which made Squil a very happy Warboss!

The queue for the sales stand was stupidly long and took the best part of 45 mins to get to the front (after 10 Mrs Squil buggered off to the bar!) but it was worth the wait as it was well stocked, appart from the new stompa upgrades, apparently there had been a "cock-up" as they were ready to go but hadn't been packed. The upgrade deal (not sure if it was on the day only or not) is/was a bargain at £125 as the stompa alone is £60 and to buy the upgrades seperately would have cost £88 so thats a saving of £23
FW must have taken a stupid amount of money on the day as I saw at least three people walk away with titans.

the stompa head is £28 as is the claw arm. The lifta dropper arm is £32. I know a lot of people have said they are underwhelmed by the upgrades but in the flesh they look the business, the claw is huge. It was just a bit of a shame that the belly gun plate wasn't ready to go on sale/pre-order

Other Orky goodies included weapon sprues, a Chinook style kopta complete with kommando upgrades (heads and backpacks), there were some mega dred upgrades and the cream on the cake were to grot tanks which were a stroke of genius

Sorry to say I wasn't paying too much attention to the other releases, however I did have a nose at the mock up of the Phantom titan, with the "wings" it looks considerably tallet than the Reaver, but head hieght is roughly the same so I would imagine the same will be true of the price.

One thing I did see which I haven't seen mentioned was an epic scale Minotaur.

All in all it was a decent day out which left my wallet considerably lighter than it was in the morning.

These two photos jumped out at me from Warseer's member "Grimstonefire"(who I get a sneaking suspicion posts here too )


Fully painted Ork "Warkopta" in Blood Axes colors. Refer to my avatar for commentary.


Again. Needs no commentary other than the avatar.

So can I have IA8 now? Because I want it. Now.

The grot tanks are great!

Why do I get the feeling the Imperium is in for another hammering in this IA?

Because we can't have them actually winning now can we Dysartes?

That warkopta looks flimsier than a DE Raider and an incredibly lazy design (engine... long plank... deffkopta cockpit... yup i'm done here)

It's Orkish.

What do you expect?

I spy autocannon Tarantulas. Ace.

And I do hope that the Elysians win this one, they've already lost two of their (soon to be) three IA books.

Nah Brook, those are the standard Lascannon Tarantulas.

They just photoshopped on a flare effect that blurs out the end of the muzzle that we usually see that screams LASCANNON LASCANNON LASCANNON

Kanluwen wrote:These two photos jumped out at me from Warseer's member "Grimstonefire"(who I get a sneaking suspicion posts here too )

Beat me to it!

Whilst I happened to be posting about this there was some talk about WHFB things, but for the moment I will need to see what someone else who went will post (as he heard the majority of the conversation).

My same post, copied and pasted

Some pics. I make no apologies if any of these pics are bad quality, most of them are good I think. If anyone is so inclined to load them up as attachments feel free.

Nothing completely new here, from the glimpse I did of the earlier pages in this thread or elsewhere.

Yes! I lured him out! Quick, someone get the nets!

Great photos though man. Seriously. Well done on getting those.

Did someone happen to notice the price on the Raven Guard Marine Upgrade kit?

And how many torsos are in it?

NAVARRO wrote:Well the Phantom titan still looks undetailed to me

I doubt it will ever be as detailed as yours Navarro

According to Warseer's RCGothic:

The Phantom Titan from the Photos is made from a polyurethane foam, and is Will Hayes Sketch model only. It is NOT a resin final, nor even a working model, and as such has no joint articulation nor any fine detail besides what is pencilled on.

Legs, hips, groin and knee joints from the actual model were displayed right next to the sketch up. The actual working model has some pretty amazing double-articulated knee joints, and the hips are looking pretty impressive as well. It was posed standing on one leg like the revenant, and from all signs the final model will be freakishly dynamic.

"The Phantom will definitely be available this year."
"For Games Day?"
"It's Possible."
- Tony Cotterell and myself.

Sources say it will be 2'-2.5' feet tall. I'm stoked that it looks like Jes' Epic concept art:



(Thanks to Warseer's Charax for posting the above pic. Been searching for it for months.)

Good Lordy....FW have definitely pulled their finger out on this one. @Squil, I'm with you on that one mate, I'm a happy bunny too with all that ork kopta-ness. Thanks guys on getting the pics uploaded. You've made my evening

Alpharius wrote:Did someone happen to notice the price on the Raven Guard Marine Upgrade kit?

And how many torsos are in it?

Making a wild, out of my arse guess on it based off the Red Scorpions kit:

16 GBP for enough upgrade parts to do 10 models and have some spares leftover.

OR
25 GBP for a complete(all the parts, including plastic sprues) 5 man squad.

If they make a Warlock version with cool retro (non-Revenant!) head...

I'll have to start saving now.

A couple more shots, a bit blurry though :(

I think someone else loaded up the Ravens upgrade set, though I'm not sure if you can see the back of the backpacks in their pics (too lazy to check). You can see it in the reflection here if you zoom in.

I like everything other than that ork waaaghkopta.

It's fairly dreadful, ork is ramshackle not flimsy. My bloodaxes will be getting a looted valk or stormraven instead.

lmao @ "No it's not the Storm Raven".

Also...his name is Shas'O Rly.

Dysartes wrote:Why do I get the feeling the Imperium is in for another hammering in this IA?

Kanluwen wrote:Because we can't have them actually winning now can we Dysartes?

Losing is more grimdark.

Big thumbs up for Forge World once again!!

Sidstyler wrote:Losing is more grimdark.

It may be more grimdark, but for a series of books titled Imperial Armour, it isn't half getting tiresome.

These are my photos from the today: HERE

I think there may be a couple of things in there not already posted, or at least higher-res versions of some existing stuff

I managed to pick up a Runtbot, but had to queue for an hour surrounded by exceedingly whiffy indivuals to buy it. The FW stand was rammed all day, they must have made quite a killing from it! Finally I have a Warboss stand in for my Mek-themed army.

For me the highlights were the new Ork models. The Warkopter and Kommandos especially! The Kommandos are conversion kits of heads with gasmasks and backpacks full of kit, looks like Micro Art Studios have some competition!

The Mekadred was also rather pretty, it'll be interesting to see what the rules are for it's various killy bits!

The Eldar titan was freaking huge, at least 6 inches taller than the Reaver, probably more. They had alternate leg pieces on display so you can pose it as though it were running.

Edit: Remembered more stuff

Warseer.com wrote:Phantom Titan

I'm looking at this model, and thinking it's a bit off. Head's not right, and the shoulderpads seem to lack presence.

Still a very nice model, at least as a base for additional work..

Does anyone know if the Kommando upgrades will be available for sale, seperate from the 'Kopta?

The impression I got was that they'll be available separately.

I don't know for sure, but I imagine they will be seperate. It seems that most troop upgrades (renegade militia and chaos marines) are stand alone packs. It is possible they may choose to combine them with the weapon sprues?

When I asked a few of the guys at the tables said that all of the new Ork stuff was in the process of being cast and to expect it up on theonline store in the next month to six weeks, possibly sooner if they pull their fingers out.

Morskul wrote:I managed to pick up a Runtbot, but had to queue for an hour surrounded by exceedingly whiffy indivuals to buy it. The FW stand was rammed all day, they must have made quite a killing from it! Finally I have a Warboss stand in for my Mek-themed army.

I'd blame a good chunk of your queuing time on FW only having 1 credit/debit card machine up and running - when, at times, there are five staff members waiting to put a transaction through, the speed with which you can clear a queue is going to drop.

Apparently they only have one portable card-reader - I'd invest some of today's profit in at least one more, if I were them