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Kanluwen wrote:So rather than skull towers, we get Elf towers.
Brilliant!

One step at a time. First we deal with the skull addiction, then the tower addiction
To be fair, Escenorama is working on regular Elven house.

I like that Monolith Icon tower. It looks like it'd work well as LotR terrain..

What we really need is more gamer orientated terrain.

http://brandlin.blogspot.com/2011/05/pryn-gul-tower-back-in-stock.html

Now you can gorge on snacks and claim it's actually for your hobby and is therefore actually an investment.

And not gamer gluttony.

..well, not the first tube anyway.

reds8n wrote: What we really need is more gamer orientated terrain.

http://brandlin.blogspot.com/2011/05/pryn-gul-tower-back-in-stock.html

Now you can gorge on snacks and claim it's actually for your hobby and is therefore actually an investment.

And not gamer gluttony.

..well, not the first tube anyway.

Not to forget that with Christmas stock in shops all those confectionery tubes needs to be recycled

Don't think of it as gamer gluttony, think of it as doing something green

Kroothawk wrote:We don't need cross-over terrain so much, we need Fantasy terrain other than skull towers. Something like this:





Or anything from Warhammer Online.

Oh GORGEOUS! Oh look at you! That DE tower is just what my girl is looking for! Now if we could get some wall sections to go with it, I could make a straight up DE fortress...

Gotta love that DE tower.

Nagashek wrote:Oh GORGEOUS! Oh look at you! That DE tower is just what my girl is looking for! Now if we could get some wall sections to go with it, I could make a straight up DE fortress...

There are. But these models are some kind of ceramic (and not cheap), so can break if the girl is too young:
http://www.monolith-icon.eu/store/index.php?products=product&prod_id=70

Heh, the "girl" in question is my girlfriend and 24. But slightly clumsy, so Ceramic walls might be less than ideal. I like them though.

Update time:

BramGaunt wrote:November White Dwarf will feature a HUGE new piece of terrain for WHFB:

The...

Skullvane Manse.

Its Huge. Huge like "look at the size of that thing!" it features an astronomy-tower and yes, it also has some huge skulls. I guess it's aproximatly as high as the mage tower, but it is at least three times as wide. You will like it.

reds8n wrote:"Lair of the Astromancer" I think.

Yap, that's right.

This thing looks like it could make a decent Inn if you convert it. The picture I saw was pretty blurry, though. The skulls appear only to be around the tower itself, and they don't look that bad.

Skullvane Manse is the best name, ever.

Kroothawk wrote:
Skullvane Manse.

Really GW!?

@Kroothawk: Some nice terrain, there.

Hi guys, GW here, we heard you liked skulls so we put more skulls in your skulls!

George Spiggott wrote:I hope it will be a giant skull shaped tower made entirely from human skulls on a base of skulls. GW scenery has always been lacking in the Skull department IMO.

So sigging this...

We really need some leaked photos. I'm having difficulty envisioning the number, quality, and placement of skulls on the Skullvane Manse: Lair of the Astromancer.

I finally got the garden of Morr and am really impressed how much you get for £20 (20% off).

If this Skullvane Manse (Cranium Street, Skulltop Mountain, Nogginshire, SKU 11X2) is anything like that in quality and value I will be very interested.

GW terrain has been very solid lately. I will likely buy it, but I'm behind on stuff, so the question is when.

Good news:
Astromancer=practicer of astromancy=Celestial Wizard
So his house might be an observatory like e.g. featured in this art for Warhammer Online:


And Bramgaunt said to that:

That's REALLY close to the actual building, minus the water, add some giant skulls under the tower.

I am really excited! A long wish come true!
Remember:

approximately as high as the mage tower, but it is at least three times as wide. You will like it.

Hrmh.

Yeah, I can work with that. Prepare for Vampirifaction!

GW's skull obsession is now beyond satire

I have to wonder why call it "Skullvane Manse" if it's an Astromancer's lair.

Kanluwen wrote:I have to wonder why call it "Skullvane Manse" if it's an Astromancer's lair.

Because "Astromancer's Lair" doesn't put together a bunch of random words in a vain/dumb attempt to sound gothic?

Man are you gonna regret those words if it turns out the lair has a giant windvane in the form of a skull, Flashman!

Kanluwen wrote:Man are you gonna regret those words if it turns out the lair has a giant windvane in the form of a skull, Flashman!

Yes, I suppose I will

Wow! I can make a replica of Kharazhan for my Mordheim league to raid... I mean, play in...

>.>
<.<

Flashman wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Man are you gonna regret those words if it turns out the lair has a giant windvane in the form of a skull, Flashman!

Yes, I suppose I will

Be that as it may, you're probably safe from feeling regret over this, I think.

Even highest tech Fantasy stuff will look like primitive Steampunk terrain, while lowest tech 40k terrain will look like prefab gothic terrain.

Interesting that this comment comes from the UK where the entire modern civilization is built on, in and around ruins of 5,000 years worth of previous civilizations. Even in modern societies there are places where more primitive looking buildings are still around. It's why I visited Colchester on my one visit to the UK, to see the Roman ruins. And the castle there built by William The Conqueror after 1066 is built on top of the ruins of the Roman Temple of Claudius that was destroyed by Boudica. Even in North America we have ruins of previous civilizations like ancient cliff dwellings.

BrassScorpion wrote:

Even highest tech Fantasy stuff will look like primitive Steampunk terrain, while lowest tech 40k terrain will look like prefab gothic terrain.

Interesting that this comment comes from the UK where the entire modern civilization is built on, in and around ruins of 5,000 years worth of previous civilizations. Even in modern societies there are places where more primitive looking buildings are still around. It's why I visited Colchester on my one visit to the UK, to see the Roman ruins.

It is true and makes it rather brilliant.

I tend to use Fantasy/LOTR Scenery for games of 40k. Just because it fits.

Skullvane?

AHAHAHAHA!

Y'know, I'll forgive the Garden of Morr. It's a graveyard, so the presence of deathly images is fine. The skull-encrusted islands in Dread Fleet? They were pretty dippy, but what's a game with pirates without a place called 'Skull Island'?

But Skullvane?

Maybe 'skulldanium', that naturally occuring resource that you can see just under the ground on the Realm of Battle Board, is a real thing in the Warhammer World, and they use it as their main building material?

If I want some 'skulldanium', wouldn't I be finding it in a skull vein?

Skulls in Warhammer are like matryoshka dolls, there are skulls in your skulls in your skulls. "2 pound your skulls, 2 pound your skulls!" In the Warhammer World there's a vendor on every corner of every town flogging them.