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 Formosa wrote:
This has kinda rekindled my want for a Pontus glaw/kanja the sharp model

FWIW Glaw already got a model in a BL diorama with him and Eisenhorn.

I'm terrible with cameras, but even I know to wait for the thing to focus before hitting the button.

Yikes...

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
It looks like he has hair, so it's the younger xenos book version of him.

Malleus actually, he doesn't get that staff until the second book.

Its a model version of the cover to the Omnibus (At least the printing I have)

Yes, young Eisenhorn by Karl Koppinski Clint Langley (oops!), but given the equipment on display, it's during the events of Malleus, as he didn't have the staff in Xenos.

 Elbows wrote:
There is already a really nice third-party version available, and likely for a lot less - but it is nice they're paying some lip service to the guy.

That's nice, I prefer to buy the version from the company that actually owns the IP they're using - and also the model that actually fits in with the GW aesthetic.

Eisenhorn, huh? Nice.

warhammer community now has an artical about the mini, it will have rules in the box. So thats a no for the codex(personaly wasn't expecting one). https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/29/black-library-celebration-coming-soongw-homepage-post-3/

mini is resin and will have rules in the box

So he's a store exclusive. Interesting.

Lovely sculpt, digging that he has a proper compact bolt pistol as in the novel.

Nice model. Fairly good duplicate of art as well. Collar shorter(or head taller) and funnily enough shoulder pads looks like smaller than in art. That's weird for GW with their huuuge shoulder pads One would expect reverse!

 Kanluwen wrote:
So he's a store exclusive. Interesting.

So he'll also be available to order online. That's now confirmed by the GW web team.

Love Inquisitors so yes to that model for me!

Looks really good. The shorter collar and smaller pauldrons is really an improvement as well.

It's really interesting just how much this model resembles the Inquisitor scale miniature from 2001, and when you compare photos of the two miniatures it's difficult to tell that they're in different scales.

I like the model but the smaller collar and pauldrons exaggerate the size of the head. Hopefully it's just the picture and it isn't as out of scale IRL.

@ Zingraff
I loved those old 54mm Inquisitor models and I wished they released a young Eisenhorn (from the artwork above) along with the older one they did.

Also, Black Library released a limited edition 30mm Eisenhorn diorama way back when. The model being discussed here looks so much better, IMO.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/29/black-library-celebration-coming-soongw-homepage-post-3/


,, Mini is made of resin.

40k rules included !

 Myrthe wrote:
I like the model but the smaller collar and pauldrons exaggerate the size of the head. Hopefully it's just the picture and it isn't as out of scale IRL.

It probably only looks bad if blown up to that size and placed next to the more realistically scaled drawing. Heroic proportions really only work at their native size. If you don't have a problem with other GW models, I don't think you'll have a problem with Eisenhorn.

That is a lovely model. Just a pity it is resin not plastic, would've been great for conversions in plastic.

Do we know what kind of resin? Do they still do finecast, or is it all FW resin nowadays?

 Haighus wrote:
That is a lovely model. Just a pity it is resin not plastic, would've been great for conversions in plastic.

Why so? Is resin all of a sudden difficult to work with?

Do we think that the pink skull in the base is to represent the demon from Malleus?

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
This has kinda rekindled my want for a Pontus glaw/kanja the sharp model

FWIW Glaw already got a model in a BL diorama with him and Eisenhorn.

that doesnt look like a GW model, the one I just checked, looks 3rd party, and the models are pretty awful lol


I want this


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 mace_ace wrote:
Do we think that the pink skull in the base is to represent the demon from Malleus?

Profaniti?

 Formosa wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
This has kinda rekindled my want for a Pontus glaw/kanja the sharp model

FWIW Glaw already got a model in a BL diorama with him and Eisenhorn.

that doesnt look like a GW model, the one I just checked, looks 3rd party, and the models are pretty awful lol


I want this

We all do mate. Most of the BL diorama models were made by trainee sculptors and it does show on a fair few of them.

Haighus wrote:That is a lovely model. Just a pity it is resin not plastic, would've been great for conversions in plastic.

Do we know what kind of resin? Do they still do finecast, or is it all FW resin nowadays?

If it's coming from GW, it'll be finecast. The more resent finecast models like Veridyan and Slambo are much better than older finecast, though it does still have its issues.

Grimtuff wrote:

 Haighus wrote:
That is a lovely model. Just a pity it is resin not plastic, would've been great for conversions in plastic.

Why so? Is resin all of a sudden difficult to work with?

I always have issue with the paint flaking on resin and finecast models (one of the issues I mentioned above) regardless of the type of primer I use. It's also tough for me to get resin/finecast to bond to plastic if I'm trying to kitbash with it.

Probaly not washing enough. At least my 30k armies don't flake

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Haighus wrote:
That is a lovely model. Just a pity it is resin not plastic, would've been great for conversions in plastic.

Why so? Is resin all of a sudden difficult to work with?

It is definitely more annoying and requires more work to make stable joins than plastic. Also often far more brittle and fragile. I vastly prefer plastic when it is high quality. I've only come across a very few resins that were relatively easy to work with, Anvil Industry in particular. Vic minis is decent.

Otoh resin details are better and for characters cheaper than plastics. You would propably be looking some 5 pounds more with less details

tneva82 wrote:
Otoh resin details are better and for characters cheaper than plastics. You would propably be looking some 5 pounds more with less details

I dunno. With the amount of crisp detail they can get onto GW grade plastic models nowadays, it really isn't noticeable for someone of my mediocre painting skills. Also, it doesn't really help if the resin has poor QC like finecast used to.

Price is a valid point, but this is supposed to be 25euro anyway? That is about £20, which is well within the price range they have for individual human-sized plastic characters. I think the price would likely be similar, because the mark-up is so high anyway.

Resins are okay. They've come a long long way. They can be a bit brittle and the mold injection points are a pain, but they can be a little more 3D than styrine without a lot of extra pieces. It definitely works better on larger stuff though. The more bulk a model has the better.

 BrookM wrote:
Lovely sculpt, digging that he has a proper compact bolt pistol as in the novel.

But no trigger discipline