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Hi,
on 30th October, GW will release a new plastic painting station. It can be seen on the monthly release poster in your FLGS or GW store. It is black, slightly smaller than the current wooden one, on small stilts, with carvings for about a dozen paints, brushes and two water cups and priced 26€. Has grips, as it is meant as a mobile painting station in contrast to the other wooden one.

Already on 2nd October, there will be a rerelease of the mega-paint set:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat470002a&prodId=prod900170a

My wood one works just fine! But cool anyways!

That's what she said.

Ah HA! I needed to get one of these. Very nice, I'm looking forward to seeing it.

It can be seen on the monthly release poster in your FLGS or GW store.

I found this to be funny. What is this 'Monthly Release Poster' that you speak of? I order 2-4 times a week from GW, and haven't seen something like that in years.

I get my news the same way everyone else does: when it goes up on the website.

The wooden station also has grips mind you.

I think we've come to grips with the grips.
Stilts! Stilts are the future mind you!

Well last month I trashed my wood one since it was taking to much space, its not a pratical thing to store around, so I guess I will skip the plastic one also.
Why the full set of paints is limited? I would probably end up getting one later in the future, but all this limited thing will simply stop me of doing that.

The "Limited" thing is purely a psychological sales push. Buy now, enjoy the profits and no regrets later, that's what they are going after.

I hope so, Im kind of a sucker for shiny & packed full paint sets, just dont want to buy them now in a hurry.

BrookM wrote:The "Limited" thing is purely a psychological sales push. Buy now, enjoy the profits and no regrets later, that's what they are going after.

Instant commitment. Plus it does save you a few quid buying them all at once. Can't wait for my one to get here! Mmmmm! Every paint I need. Until they run out :(

Actually, not counting the sand and static grasses, you save a pretty respectable £53!

Even better, I managed to squeak mine in with discount. Wahey!

What do you need a paint station for? can't you just throw your paints and brushes and models and bitz all over your desk in a big messy pile like the real painters do?

mikhaila wrote:It can be seen on the monthly release poster in your FLGS or GW store.

I found this to be funny. What is this 'Monthly Release Poster' that you speak of? I order 2-4 times a week from GW, and haven't seen something like that in years.

I get my news the same way everyone else does: when it goes up on the website.

I'd imagine he's referring to a GW hobby center where if I'm not mistaken they do in fact have monthly poster ads.

i think i may get one of these bad doys i loved the wooden one and think that a smaller version would be great for in front of the telly

i wish they would put a small battery powered led light on it though

@oni
any new updates on the blog?
such as goth orks and downloads?

Isn't 26Euro kind of expensive? I can't see myself paying more than $35-$40 for a product like this.

Current one is £20 if I think, so prices should be about the same I'd reckon.

Necros wrote:What do you need a paint station for? can't you just throw your paints and brushes and models and bitz all over your desk in a big messy pile like the real painters do?

That's the way my desk is now The reason I want one is because I'll have another little girl soon, compile that with the fact that I work from home...I want to get away from my desk a bit So, having that paint station so I can work on stuff while spending time with the family is nice. That and my desk was expensive and I've absolutely ruined it with Jewelers Saws, glue, files and exacto knives

Why buy GW's rubbish one when I can zoink my fat cash on this beauty?

http://www.miniaturescenery.com/CategoryPage.asp?Code=CAT_ACCP

Wow Nads that is very very nice. I have saved that as a favorite and will probably make a purchase before years end. I love the modular ability of it and the masters just makes me want to buy a crap load of paint to fill it hehe.

That paint station is awesome Nads I will be getting one myself.

Mr Mystery wrote:

BrookM wrote:The "Limited" thing is purely a psychological sales push. Buy now, enjoy the profits and no regrets later, that's what they are going after.

Instant commitment. Plus it does save you a few quid buying them all at once. Can't wait for my one to get here! Mmmmm! Every paint I need. Until they run out :(

Actually, not counting the sand and static grasses, you save a pretty respectable £53!

Even better, I managed to squeak mine in with discount. Wahey!

It also has to do with production runs. It is far easier/profitable to schedule a run of 2000 paint sets once a year. Order 2000 foam specially cut, allocate 2000 figure cases, allocate 2000 of each paint pot, tool, brush, etc. Have them all shipped to where they get assembled, then put them on pallets and ship them out to the various countries.
The mega paint set traditionally sells good in the holiday season, and not as well the rest of the year. They make a bunch, and then they run out. They make more the next year.

Plus I suppose it helps prevent 'dead stock' should they introduce new paints or brushes or some such!

croggy wrote:
@oni
any new updates on the blog?
such as goth orks and downloads?

This week has been a little crazy for me, but I hope to have an update on the Goff's within a day or two.

Why the heck would you have bought the wooden painting station?

I don't see what's wrong with my newspaper laid out on a table next to my small cardboard box filled with labelled paints...

Henners91 wrote:Why the heck would you have bought the wooden painting station?

I don't see what's wrong with my newspaper laid out on a table next to my small cardboard box filled with labelled paints...

The press-board (wooden) one is actually quite nice. I can pick it up and move to almost anywhere in one go.

$40? Are you kidding me? I'll either stick with my $5 wooden tray:

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?pageName=search&flag=true&PRODID=xprd74525

(and they come bigger than that, still under $10.

Henners91 wrote:Why the heck would you have bought the wooden painting station?

Yeah, $40 for a plank of wood.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Henners91 wrote:Why the heck would you have bought the wooden painting station?

Yeah, $40 for a plank of wood.

But....HANDLES!!!

yeah,
I like the GW wooden paint station, price seems good when it does every thing it's ment to.

I may buy the new plastic one too if it looks good and is easy to carry about, it might be good to paint in the main room every once in a while.

Panic...

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Why buy GW's rubbish one when I can zoink my fat cash on this beauty?

http://www.miniaturescenery.com/CategoryPage.asp?Code=CAT_ACCP

This may be a paint station, but not a painting station which is a structured working place not a paint rack. As a paint rack, I prefer this: http://www.paintier.com/ . And the wooden painting station is quite handy to transform my computer working place into my hobby working place.

BTW can't find the wooden painting station on the GW website, so this may be a substitute for it.