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Anyone think he'll have rules?

Probably.

Maybe even rules for Betrayal at Calth?

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Maybe even rules for Betrayal at Calth?

Possible.

But will his 40k/30k rules have a point cost?

That model is rubbish. Gary Morley circa 1995 rubbish

It's a Forge World model.

Good for ebay flipping then.

Oh, look at that, he won't be available when I am at a GW store. Oh well, I don't really like the sculpt. Helmetless Marines are fail to me. Though, if he is like BC Centos, perhaps he has options for both.

I like the model apart from the head, I just don't get what it's in aid of, and it seems weird for a forge world model to be limited edition in GW stores.

Sell of FW Products over GW soon maybe?

I don't see why FW should produce a Model for a GW event?

I bet he'd look cool with Typhon's helmet

Is that a World Eater badge with a chest Aquila? ....like.... wut?!

I wonder what this dude will do in 30k - hoping for some sweet rules for the World Eaters!

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:
Is that a World Eater badge with a chest Aquila? ....like.... wut?!

I wonder what this dude will do in 30k - hoping for some sweet rules for the World Eaters!

I doubt the WE badge is molded on. But yeah, it is kind of a weird combination.

Well, it could be a loyalist, or it could be very early on in the heresy.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Well, it could be a loyalist, or it could be very early on in the heresy.

The only people who really wore that aquila were the EC and Garro, if I recall right.

He could very well be a Terran veteran, who would sometimes sport such iconography to denote their involvement in the early days of Unification and the Great Crusade.

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Well, it could be a loyalist, or it could be very early on in the heresy.

The only people who really wore that aquila were the EC and Garro, if I recall right.

It was rare outside the EC (if it even is a Paletine Aquila, it's quite hard to see well), but others did have it. Unification veterans mainly I think.

Dang renaming-BS. I was looking for a big ole cyborg, not some lame marine.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Well, it could be a loyalist, or it could be very early on in the heresy.

The only people who really wore that aquila were the EC and Garro, if I recall right.

It was rare outside the EC (if it even is a Paletine Aquila, it's quite hard to see well), but others did have it. Unification veterans mainly I think.

That was the raptor head thing (raptor imperialis?) with the lightning to mark a Unification Wars vet, I thought.



The EC and Garro sported the actual emblem of the Emperor. From the miserable circe 2000 cell phone camera picture we can see, it looks like this:



Which is the Palatine Aquila... which is again, pretty much not that common. Wonder if they will explain it at all or just handwave it.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure the palatine Aquila is used elsewhere rarely but I dunno where off the top of my head. Also, I don't think Garro has the Palatine Aquila, he just has an eagle on his armour.

It's all quite confusing.

 ImAGeek wrote:
I like the model apart from the head, I just don't get what it's in aid of, and it seems weird for a forge world model to be limited edition in GW stores.

The why is puzzling me as well. Especially as its a FW HH model not a main GW 40k one. Could GW be finally releasing the Calth kits separately or/and a 2nd HH boxed game at the end of June?

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
I like the model apart from the head, I just don't get what it's in aid of, and it seems weird for a forge world model to be limited edition in GW stores.

The why is puzzling me as well. Especially as its a FW HH model not a main GW 40k one. Could GW be finally releasing the Calth kits separately or/and a 2nd HH boxed game at the end of June?

Either of your scenarios would be great. I would love to get ahold of some of the models from Calth(Contemptor, Cataphractii, Chaplain-type dude), but I don't need Tacticals. If they did a box that was Imperial Fists vs. Iron Warriors in Mk. III armor, that would be awesome too.

 ImAGeek wrote:
I like the model apart from the head, I just don't get what it's in aid of, and it seems weird for a forge world model to be limited edition in GW stores.

Maybe he'll come with 2 head options. One can hope, at least...

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
I like the model apart from the head, I just don't get what it's in aid of, and it seems weird for a forge world model to be limited edition in GW stores.

The why is puzzling me as well. Especially as its a FW HH model not a main GW 40k one. Could GW be finally releasing the Calth kits separately or/and a 2nd HH boxed game at the end of June?

Sad Panda mentioned the latter will be released end of 2016. The clampack re-release of the Assassins was 7 months after EF. So we could see the Betrayal at Calth miniatures like Mk4 released in boxes in June as the game came in November 2015.

Was really curious about the gemstone paints, and hadn't seen much review on them, so figured I'd post this here.

It's basically a thickened glossy translucent ink. Attached is a picture that shows the blue applied over a coat of a very light silver.

The effect works ok. I don't know that it makes a good gemstone effect though. The blue is a bit dark for a lenses effect, but still looks alright nonetheless.

A cleaner job can be done with a mixture of paint and a gloss coat, but if you want to save multiple steps, it works pretty well.

piperider361 wrote:
Was really curious about the gemstone paints, and hadn't seen much review on them, so figured I'd post this here.

It's basically a thickened glossy translucent ink. Attached is a picture that shows the blue applied over a coat of a very light silver.

The effect works ok. I don't know that it makes a good gemstone effect though. The blue is a bit dark for a lenses effect, but still looks alright nonetheless.

A cleaner job can be done with a mixture of paint and a gloss coat, but if you want to save multiple steps, it works pretty well.

Yah seems to be okay for speed painting armies but by hand even relatively average/poor painter(like myself) can likely do better job by hand.

Could see that being a lifesaver with eldars though...If I ever get around building smallish eldar force(good thing smallish MEANS small in 2nd ed!) that MIGHT be handy.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
That model is rubbish. Gary Morley circa 1995 rubbish

Hey, it's not that bad.

Okay, I've got my hands on some and the new plastic bases GW is putting out are some of the best ever done. Not even white knighting here. These things are genuinely awesome. They're thicker than the standard plastic "blanks" and they're being sold very close to the same price. They also appear to offer greater variety of individual base designs than the 3rd party guys, with certain exceptions.

I don't know if GW will ever do xenos bases but they did release the Tau fort thing so I guess anything is possible.

 Breotan wrote:
...They're thicker than the standard plastic "blanks"...

Hmmm, I'd expected them to be exactly the same. There'd presumably be no manufacturing difference, as the embossing would only be a fraction of a millimetre. Surely no accident though, so I wonder what the reason was.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, container rules are in WD too

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