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@guru- cheers for sharing! These guys look so great! I'm planing on giving them a more weathered look but the kits look amazing.

Oh man, John Blanche concept art for these guys? I want a print or two....

I'm loving some of those names The "Decksweeper" deserves it's!

*eats hat in frustration at having to wait for the Overlords*

Oh, very nice! The more background lore I read on them the more I want to buy them.

I like that they actually weaponized gold by taking advantage of the strange properties of the metal realm. The Dawi finally overcame their goldlust and mastered their limitations at alchemy.

 Carnikang wrote:
Oh man, John Blanche concept art for these guys? I want a print or two....

I hear that!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
I'm loving some of those names The "Decksweeper" deserves it's!

Indeed, I like it also because it looks to be based off the pistol version of that, the "duckfoot" , that captains used to discourage mutineys. (Though it also resembles some of Da Vinci's multi-barreled gun designs as well.)

The term 'aether' makes sense.in this context too, given the real-life concept from the Victorian era.

I like the models, but they're nothing on John Blanche's concept art.

 SJM wrote:
I like the models, but they're nothing on John Blanche's concept art.

I'm quite the opposite, but then I've always thought Blanche was overrated.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 SJM wrote:
I like the models, but they're nothing on John Blanche's concept art.

I'm quite the opposite, but then I've always thought Blanche was overrated.

Blanche is an acquired taste. He's quite nice though. Always willing to give you pointers if you want to paint like him.

I feel his artwork tells a story... and it's very good for chaos or creepy stuff.. But as much as I like the redmetal ship it makes them seem far more sinister than an 'order' army should be.

THis is the first army that I feels can make AOS its own thing. Most previous AOS armies either looked like they could fit in WHFB (Orruk, Khorne guys, Sylaneth) and/or were simply atrocious (Sigmarines, Fyreslayers). But this one is maginificient looking and different enough from everything we ever saw in WHFB.

This could be an inflection point

Lots of new pics and info here. Looks like warscroll cards preorder on Apr 8th with release on the 15th.

http://www.tga.community/forums/topic/8194-behold-the-kharadron-overlords/?page=21

jearrington wrote:
Lots of new pics and info here. Looks like warscroll cards preorder on Apr 8th with release on the 15th.

http://www.tga.community/forums/topic/8194-behold-the-kharadron-overlords/?page=21

I saw maybe 1 pic that hasn't been posted here, and the dates were already posted.

Sorry, but I thought it was the fastest way to show the other pic and provide evidence of the dates for the warscroll cards. Did not mean to clutter the thread!

No sweat, nice to have a round-up link anyway.

Welcome to the forum, by the way!


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 streetsamurai wrote:
THis is the first army that I feels can make AOS its own thing. Most previous AOS armies either looked like they could fit in WHFB (Orruk, Khorne guys, Sylaneth) and/or were simply atrocious (Sigmarines, Fyreslayers). But this one is maginificient looking and different enough from everything we ever saw in WHFB.

This could be an inflection point

Haha, I hope that doesn't mean you'll get mad at any regular human army that gets released.

Not too impressed at all by the artwork of the duardin standing in front of the suit. Looks like some fanart from deviantart or something. Just not a fan of the digital art where it lacks a certain texture and sharp painterly look.

They have all their in house artists coming up with the ideas and concepts like Blanche, and a couple others. Then models are made off the concepts. But final codex/book art has to be based off the models, and is often outsourced to freelance artists or something. The result is art that is okay, passable. But doesn't achieve anything great or inspire.

I remember when the art used to be rich and overloaded with little details and character. Now I just look at it for a second and then flip the page.

I think the problem is that.

Before, they make the art first, and then the models. You had art with no model asociated.

Now, freelancer artists and all that, have to make art corresponding to the models, and to take inspiration they look the models. And the proportions and details that work in a model of 3cm, just doesn't work translated to a complete drawing.


PD: GW, bring Kopinski back T.T

 Galas wrote:
I think the problem is that.

Before, they make the art first, and then the models. You had art with no model asociated.

Now, freelancer artists and all that, have to make art corresponding to the models, and to take inspiration they look the models. And the proportions and details that work in a model of 3cm, just doesn't work translated to a complete drawing.


PD: GW, bring Kopinski back T.T

Creativity and quality died when GW moved from good art to soulless glorified product advertisements.

Take a book, pull out the best 25% of images, make 2/3 of them black and white, and delete the rest. That is what we used to have. The gorgeous artwork is still there in abundance, people just like to complain that not all of the art is that good. But really even that is not the case. Actually take a paperback codex or army book and look through it. A lot of the art is nice, but the majority is recycled with the nicest pieces being used over and over in successive generations while other pieces which don't look as good fill in the gaps. The fluff is the same way.

Or in other words: pull off your rose goggles and realize we have more now than we used to.

 Verviedi wrote:

 Galas wrote:
I think the problem is that.

Before, they make the art first, and then the models. You had art with no model asociated.

Now, freelancer artists and all that, have to make art corresponding to the models, and to take inspiration they look the models. And the proportions and details that work in a model of 3cm, just doesn't work translated to a complete drawing.


PD: GW, bring Kopinski back T.T

Creativity and quality died when GW moved from good art to soulless glorified product advertisements.

The way I see it there are four problems with current GW art.
1. Colour only. 2. More art. There is at least 5 times as much art as before. 3. Only art of existing minis. 4. competition from other companies.
Seeing black and white sketch art of characters without minis in the new warhammer quest made me very happy. Hopefully we will see more of this in the future.

Wait, how's number 2 a problem? [Edit]:Hmm, I guess quantity over quality?

Anyway, agreed on the awesome sketch art of things outside the model range.

Alot of the artwork is hit or miss instead of the past's constant hits (aside from the rpg stuff) but there is alot of it and some pieces are really gorgeous or just well done so I can't really complain.

I will agree there are more misses than before (and some of the early ones were objectively terrible). The older books had their misses as well, though the avoided that somewhat by building up a base of good art carried forward from previous editions. I'd say ten years ago only the top margin made the cut, now it all goes in.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Take a book, pull out the best 25% of images, make 2/3 of them black and white, and delete the rest. That is what we used to have. The gorgeous artwork is still there in abundance, people just like to complain that not all of the art is that good. But really even that is not the case. Actually take a paperback codex or army book and look through it. A lot of the art is nice, but the majority is recycled with the nicest pieces being used over and over in successive generations while other pieces which don't look as good fill in the gaps. The fluff is the same way.

Or in other words: pull off your rose goggles and realize we have more now than we used to.

yes we have more, but a lot of the new ones are not up to par (curse of the wolfen was particuliarly full of atrocious art). But i disgree about the dwarf in front of his armour. I think it is a tremendous piece

Am I the only one looking forward to painting the Flying Spagetti Monster on the side of my midget ships?

Are the artist really freelancers? The custodians and sisters of silence look so exact to the art that it almost seems to me like the used the CG model used to make molds for the art.

(which kinda has me wondering if there is a CG Emperor just waiting to be made into a mold based on the Emperor model on the cover of “master of mankind”...)

GW makes use of a mix of freelance and inhouse artists.

Yeah, I see alot of them on Artstation and Deviantart ranging from the new stuff to 6th edition, Wrpg characters and old novel covers.

Especially after FFG stopped doing 40k and the like artists on DeviantArt are showing off their work now a lot now.

A better size comparison between the Kharadron airships (the Ironclad is MASSIVE), Blades of Khorne prices, and some Shadow War stuff: http://www.miniwars.eu/2017/03/white-dwarf-abril.html

Because posting images, and not just links, is important.





EDIT: Imgur is worthless.

The little one looks so cute next to its big brothers