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PresidentOfAsia wrote:

Anyways these are awesome! Never expected it to be cosplayers from China though(I mean Warhammer 40k is not even that well known throughout Asia outside of Japan, even in Korea where the poser game Starcraft is considered a national sport)

actually there are at least hundreds of core players (who has mini armies) in china with more and more dawn of war series players too
there are already dozens of independent retail store of GW miniatures in china and there will be one official in july

btw, china's warhammer fans almost make blame wars with china's blizzard fans every day, especially dawn of war fans


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Enclave wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Surely it is some official sponsored promotion for the forthcoming SoB White Dwarf codex.

I just find it hard to believe that anyone in China would be able to find so many 40K enthusiasts including so many girls, and motivate them to the effort needed to make all those costumes and learn the songs, choreography, and so on.

他们仅仅是一些在读和刚毕业的大学生罢了。年龄最大的也不超过25。
他们花了一年多时间制作全部道具，所有的开销均是自己负担。他们的团长……就是那个带雷电爪的终结者——五年前就开始计划这件事情。

现在他们几十个人已经山穷水尽，天天吃盒饭，可能连7月上海的Chinajoy Cosplay的决赛路费都给不起。
这些女孩大多都是中间那些男孩的女朋友，同学，社团朋友……

translate:

they are just some college students, and some of them just graduate from colleges. the eldest among them are just 25 years old
they use one whole year's spare time to make all costumes, with all cost paid by themselves. their group leader, the one with lightning claws, started to make plan of this event before five years

now they are all out of money, some of them maybe cannot afford train tickets to shanghai's china joy national finals
those girls are mostly those boys' girlfriends, college classmates or friends in cosplay groups

porkuslime wrote:

Fezman wrote:I wonder if anyone's ever attempted a Chinese-themed Space Marine chapter...in a universe with space Vikings the idea seems likely enough.

White Scars?

The white scars are mongals

No CSM? I'm dissapointed...
Joke they made a really good kob. I wouldn't make a cosplay of w40k, but wearing a chaos power armor looks cool... ^^

IronChaos wrote:No CSM? I'm dissapointed...
Joke they made a really good kob. I wouldn't make a cosplay of w40k, but wearing a chaos power armor looks cool... ^^

I like CSM,too.Perhaps I would be able to cos a thousandson after a thousand years......

FEMALE SM !! They DO exist

Beautiful Asian women, AND 40k? Damn Im living in the wrong country

Awesome effort! Some of the best 40K cosplay I've seen.

The termi chaplain wins, followed by the cannoness.

That was really impressive. Honestly I've never seen better 40k fan work.

WOW just wow.

Do the members also play 40k? Or just Dawn of War?

Does Beijing still have a couple of shops?

That's some epic costume work. I like the Cannoness the best. The termie with Lightning claws in a close second.

Well done...though the singing is unnerving and Lelith seems out of place.

Those are some of the best costumes that I've seen but I did appreciate the aforementioned Black Templars as well as Finnlock's work shown here on Dakka:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/284267.page

Hopefully they'll get to the finals and win.

他们仅仅是一些在读和刚毕业的大学生罢了。年龄最大的也不超过25。
他们花了一年多时间制作全部道具，所有的开销均是自己负担。他们的团长……就是那个带雷电爪的终结者——五年前就开始计划这件事情。

现在他们几十个人已经山穷水尽，天天吃盒饭，可能连7月上海的Chinajoy Cosplay的决赛路费都给不起。
这些女孩大多都是中间那些男孩的女朋友，同学，社团朋友……


translate:

they are just some college students, and some of them just graduate from colleges. the eldest among them are just 25 years old
they use one whole year's spare time to make all costumes, with all cost paid by themselves. their group leader, the one with lightning claws, started to make plan of this event before five years

now they are all out of money, some of them maybe cannot afford train tickets to shanghai's china joy national finals
those girls are mostly those boys' girlfriends, college classmates or friends in cosplay groups

OK, this is going to sound totally crazy but what the heck.

Have you tried contacting the British Council, they're a British government agency based in Beijing whose whole job is to promote UK culture in China.

It's a long shot but with the right pitch (this will get news coverage, it will promote a popular line of British games/video games/movies) and the request is modest it could just work.