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 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So any price yet?

I'm thinking $22

It's 12€. So... 15$?

Figures. I was thinking $10 probably yes, >$20 definite no. $15 is a possibly maybe?

Caveat, albeit belated?

Didn’t realise GW had changed their clippers again.

The ones I was thinking of are the all metal ones. Had the spring go in my pair, but they still get the job done, and haven’t blunted despite me using them quite a lot.

Would I pay £31 for GW’s current offering? Nope. But, having almost exclusively used Citadel branded ones my entire hobby life, I at least know what I’m looking for in a set. No round tips, decent quality metal, spring handled, and longer handles. Mostly because I have massive hands, and struggle with overly dinky clippers.

I've still got my yellow handled GW clippers - the spring went in them so I got some replacement ones on ebay - the spring also went in them (way faster...) and I've just not bothered with another pair since. Sure I've no spring but they clip and that's all I need

I had a pair of the yellow handed ones where one of the tips (the whole angled, bladed tip) broke.

I think it was part of a dodgy batch, as the Stores I worked in at the time had a few returns with the same issue. But that was a literal lifetime ago.

I was also thinking of the cheap GW clippers that I have five pairs of from the Hachette Part works, but it also appears they don't actually sell these.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Caveat, albeit belated?

Didn’t realise GW had changed their clippers again.

The ones I was thinking of are the all metal ones. Had the spring go in my pair, but they still get the job done, and haven’t blunted despite me using them quite a lot.

Would I pay £31 for GW’s current offering? Nope. But, having almost exclusively used Citadel branded ones my entire hobby life, I at least know what I’m looking for in a set. No round tips, decent quality metal, spring handled, and longer handles. Mostly because I have massive hands, and struggle with overly dinky clippers.

i went to check these out. $52 USD for clippers? thought i landed on the aussie site by mistake, but nope, it wasnt.

the're really gouging people hard these days.

Admittedly, GW does have a cheaper alternative:



In the description of the 'premium' ones they do go on about how they'll last longer, won't break and have finer control etc., so who knows? Maybe they're worth it if they'll last forever. The cardboard shoe soles conundrum.

 Laemos wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Caveat, albeit belated?

Didn’t realise GW had changed their clippers again.

The ones I was thinking of are the all metal ones. Had the spring go in my pair, but they still get the job done, and haven’t blunted despite me using them quite a lot.

Would I pay £31 for GW’s current offering? Nope. But, having almost exclusively used Citadel branded ones my entire hobby life, I at least know what I’m looking for in a set. No round tips, decent quality metal, spring handled, and longer handles. Mostly because I have massive hands, and struggle with overly dinky clippers.

i went to check these out. $52 USD for clippers? thought i landed on the aussie site by mistake, but nope, it wasnt.

the're really gouging people hard these days.

I haven't tried the latest updated version of the Citadel clippers, but I still own one of their older versions. When Citadel clippers were all I knew, I never really got the appeal of them. Then I got Tamiya clippers. Ohhhhhh, that's what clippers are supposed to do. I use the GW ones for brute work, but Tamiya for precision. I got a deal once for Godhands, and those really, really are something special. I know their brushes have gotten slightly better, but I still view Citadel hobby tools as low tier tools with a premium price.

(But hey, we use the tools that we have, and whatever works for you, works.)