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GW are reopening their foundry in a limited capacity. And a rather awesome new Catachan is being made available via Indies!

Trying to get the pic, but my email isn’t behaving, bare with!

Here it is:

Description for now? Carl Weather from Predator with binocs and a Powerfist (clearing up a Rumour Engine).

GW are sending a bunch to Indy retailers, free of charge.

You know what do folks!


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 Aenar wrote:
Here it is:

You’re a star!

That's fantastic

If it bleeds, we can kill it. That is a fantastic sculpt, easily the best Catachan character they've ever released.

Crushesh hope of those ork players who thought the rumour engine picture was ork model. There's that binoculars.

OMG just spotted the glowing green blood on the leaf!

Definitely Catachan Carl Weathers!

Yup, that's a fantastic model, right there.

ooooohhh. Now that's a model I want!

I really need that model.
Easily one of the best guard sculpts in a long time.

Absolutely incredible. GW are going nuts with the Catachan references here, he looks exactly like Carl Weathers and even a bit like Apone from Aliens, 2 of my favorite movies ever. Also the blood splash on the leaf; another awesome reference. I'd been eyeing up Catachans for a while now, then when the lady model was shown I was hooked... and now this guy, oh my god! I've gotta have him!

Now since this was a rumour engine pic before the virus struck do we think this is a hint that the catachans might be getting a fresh wave of plastic?

Or was it going to be an event only model with nothing further to come?

(if they were to get new minis of this quality i'd certainly not say no)

I suspect was always going to be a re-opening model alongside Ripper Jackson?

 LiftForSwift wrote:
Absolutely incredible. GW are going nuts with the Catachan references here, he looks exactly like Carl Weathers and even a bit like Apone from Aliens, 2 of my favorite movies ever. Also the blood splash on the leaf; another awesome reference. I'd been eyeing up Catachans for a while now, then when the lady model was shown I was hooked... and now this guy, oh my god! I've gotta have him!

This gives me hope for a new catachen box that don’t look like clouds in the shape of people.
The command squad showed it’s possible and the 2 new sculpts just reinforce that.

It just needs some... purple and wyrm symbols and it would be perfect.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I suspect was always going to be a re-opening model alongside Ripper Jackson?

Reopening of what? This model was designed like last year so certainly not intended as corona reopening when it was designed. Likely original use was another event exclusive or store opening model but got repurposed due to corona.

General store re-opening, and new stores.

Dillon! You son of a bitch.

Have to say that's very generous of GW to basically give a limited edition model away to the indie stores to mass order for customers!

 Overread wrote:
Have to say that's very generous of GW to basically give a limited edition model away to the indie stores to mass order for customers!

I don't think it's mass ordering. Seeing it's said as limited edition model I suspect each store gets X copies and that's it.

tneva82 wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Have to say that's very generous of GW to basically give a limited edition model away to the indie stores to mass order for customers!

I don't think it's mass ordering. Seeing it's said as limited edition model I suspect each store gets X copies and that's it.

It could be related to their average order value,

For example, and example only?

A FLGS which orders say, £1,000 of stock twice a month would get fewer than one which orders say, £10,000 worth of stock once a month (I imagine Element easily meets that), as those amounts strongly suggest different customer volumes. It also suggests higher or lower potential overheads.

This isn’t altruism. This is GW looking to plug financial holes in their big spenders. A way to give them a neat cash injection so those sweet, sweet wholesale orders are maintained. That’s very much worth a short term hit in their own pocket, even if it means thousands upon thousands supplied. The physical production side of GW’s enterprise are quite low. Oil prices are stupid low, so plastic wholesale has likely followed suit. Running a machine for a day or three to produce? Well, they’re gonna run that machine anyway.

Remember, FLGS provided some solid profit margin. GW need only produce, and send out large boxes. Man and machine hours are therefore limited, and there’s no store cost passed on to GW.

Hopefully supplies won’t be low!

Cool sculpt, I can dig it.

Love that mini, Hope I can get it :(

That is one fantastic miniature.

Would be an auto-buy were it available through regular channels. I wonder how much it'll end up going for at FLGS?

Awesome model, And the prospect of GW doing something at all for Astra Militarum feels huge right now.

To bad this bad boy cant hold his own against anything he go up against. Like any IG officer you put some love in, he will die gloriously like a hero in every battle.

 Snrub wrote:
That is one fantastic miniature.

Would be an auto-buy were it available through regular channels. I wonder how much it'll end up going for at FLGS?

Whatever they feel they can get away with?

Yep, that's a cool model.

tneva82 wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Have to say that's very generous of GW to basically give a limited edition model away to the indie stores to mass order for customers!

I don't think it's mass ordering. Seeing it's said as limited edition model I suspect each store gets X copies and that's it.

Yep - one of my FLGS just said they're getting 3.

Is the green thing on the leaf just a Predator reference ? It looks a bit like a rune or something to me.
And I checked, he does look like Carl Weathers in Predator, but like... 10/20 years laters? Imo he looks quite older, his hair and beard is graying, his mustache is fuller, and his wrinkles are stronger.
Also is it just me or does he have both a powerfist, and a choppa/machete on his back?