Forgeworld Newsletter 268: Pictures of new Phantom Titan

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**Kanluwen**

Alpharius wrote:I WANT it to be a MARS Pattern Warhound that eventually gets made in plastic, but sadly, doesn't the other one (Lucius? Wolf? Something-or-other?) make more sense, in all of its boring squareness?

...DO NOT DISS THE SQUARES!

For they bring right angled death!

**Tacobake**

A thread in the not-so-distant-future: "Guess what I bought today..."

**D.Smith**

Either i need to win this in the charity raffle at the FW open day or I need a hell of a bonus

**Just Dave**

D.Smith wrote: or I need a hell of a bonus

Not a banker are you?

**D.Smith**

Lmao no

if I was i'd be able to afford the whole FW catalogue lol
I hate bankers (the big bonus earning ones, any normal people reading this that work in a bank do not be offended

)
.....hmmmm a similar word comes to mind lol

Dan

**Daston**

Looks amazing! May have to talk my bro inlaw into getting one for his army

Now Imperial chaps have a mid sized Titan, Tau have the Manta, Eldar now have their largest war machine....when do Orks get a slasher gargent or great gargent????

Guess we will have to wait till they put the other clans in a IA book.

**Savnock**

Daston wrote:Now Imperial chaps have a mid sized Titan, Tau have the Manta, Eldar now have their largest war machine....when do Orks get a slasher gargent or great gargent????

Honestly can't see FW sculpting a $1000 fig for something that most folks could model out of a few plastic garbage cans and toilet paper tubes.

As for the Warhound rumor: This will make fielding full maniples of them a lot more practical, and would further the Apoc arms race quite a bit. The FW [maybe WD?] datasheets that allow Warhounds to actually act as scouts would become a lot more practical and powerful...

And back on the original topic, the Phantom is a thing of beauty, and a good number of Eldar players are pretty impractical aesthetes at heart- so the numbers they sell will probably be decent. I'm very, very tempted to waste this year's tax return on that thing.

**BrookM**

P-p-p-p-p-plastic Warhound?

**CrPhoenix**

Well this is defo a reason to stop smoking. Thats at least 21 pound a week saved XD get there eventually

Any clue when its gonna be offically released on the site?

**blood angel**

578 US for the body. 83 US each for the weapon arms..

Still needz it!

**BrassScorpion**

Latest from Forge World, Newsflash - AdeptiCon 2011:

AdeptiCon 2011
Forge World’s Stephen Green and Kenton Mills will shortly be winging their way to the Westin Lombard Yorktown Centre in Chicago, IL, for AdeptiCon 2011 held on the 1st - 3rd April.

AdeptiCon attendees can pre-order the immense Eldar Phantom Titan, which will be on display in the Vendor Hall, and also purchase our Event Only MkIII Armoured Boarding Marine and Chaos Dwarf Hellsmith miniatures.

We’ll also have limited stock available of the Shadow Spectres Exarch, Eldar Lynx with Pulsar and Lynx with Sonic Lance, plus a few unreleased models for you to see and pre-order well in advance of their scheduled release.

As well as getting a chance to be the first to get a look at these new models, you can also meet Kenton Mills, one of the talented graphic artists responsible for Forge World’s range of Decal sheets and Etched Brass symbols. This man of many talents also produces many of the colour profiles that adorn the Imperial Armour range and his work can be found in Imperial Armour Volume 8 as well as our best-selling Badab War series. Kenton will be happy to autograph copies of these lavish books at the event.

If you have any queries about the Forge World presence at AdeptiCon, please don’t hesitate to contact us either by telephone on 011 44 115 916 8177 or by sending an e-mail titled ‘AdeptiCon’ to Forgeworld@games-workshop.co.uk.

Phantom Titan Pricing Update
With the very first Phantom Titans being boxed up for the Forge World Open Day at Warhammer World this weekend, we can now confirm that the Titan body will be £350 ($578), while the D-Cannon and Pulsar weapon options will be £50 ($83) each.
We will have a limited number available at the Forge World Open Day, and AdeptiCon attendees will be able to advance order the mighty Phantom Titan for despatch well in advance of the pre-order date for this magnificent kit.

Forge World Open Day Reservations Deadline
We are currently finalising our Open Day stock, and there is still time to place a reservation order for collection at the event on Sunday 3rd April.

Please call the Customer Service team by 2pm on Wednesday 30th March, as after this point we can’t guarantee we’ll be able to pick and pack your order in time.

The Forge World Customer Service team can be reached on 0115 916 8177 between 9am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.

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**The Dreadnote**

£450 doesn't seem that bad really.

**BrassScorpion**

The Dreadnote wrote:£450 doesn't seem that bad really.

Wow, people have really gotten inured to Forge World prices if that doesn't seem "that bad". Not that I've never bought an overpriced FW model, I have, but I never deluded myself that the price was not that bad. LOL.

**AgeOfEgos**

I think that's cheaper than a Reaver after you consider weapons.

**spireland**

I think I've narrowed it down to why I'm not a fan. Needs more cowbell.

**The Dreadnote**

AgeOfEgos wrote:I think that's cheaper than a Reaver after you consider weapons.

Yeah, about £100 cheaper.

**BrassScorpion**

AgeOfEgos wrote:I think that's cheaper than a Reaver after you consider weapons.

And the Reaver is not exactly priced to move either. I'd love to have one, especially a Chaos Reaver, but I think I've purchased enough criminally overpriced FW models to last me for quite a while.

**The Dreadnote**

What kind of price would you be prepared to buy it at?

**Tacobake**

That is honestly surprising it is so "cheap" maybe it does not weigh as much as the Reaver.

**BrassScorpion**

What kind of price would you be prepared to buy it at?

Well, I bought a Chaos Warhound back in 2005 at the Battle Bunker HQ store in Maryland, but I don't think I'd do that again. The time it takes to build these kinds of models as well as the high cost is something I'd like to avoid with so many other projects to do. I suppose if FW suddenly reworked their entire price structure to where a Reaver was equal to or less than a Warhound currently costs I'd be tempted, but even then I'd probably have second thoughts about it because of the time and care these models take. Maybe after I finish painting my Chaos Warhound, Eldar Revenant, two Hellblades and a lot more of the ton of regular GW stuff I own I'll revisit the issue. Those Reavers are really nice looking, but with so much else to work on I can't justify the insane expense.

**DX3**

I'm in.

I had budgeted $1000 for this.. so, WooHoo!
(Heck, throw a new Lynx in my shopping bag!)

**Cypher's Sword**

If you look cloesly at this pictures of the head from the back it kinda looks like the face/head plate comes off to reveal the "skull" and pilot. If I wasn't a low budget gamer i would start an eldar army with this lol.

**Kanluwen**

Cypher's Sword wrote:If you look cloesly at this pictures of the head from the back it kinda looks like the face/head plate comes off to reveal the "skull" and pilot. If I wasn't a low budget gamer i would start an eldar army with this lol.

They're two different heads, actually. You can tell because the skull-faced head has the exact same characteristics as the 'standard' head, just with the blank face replaced by the skull face instead.

**Cypher's Sword**

Kanluwen wrote:
Cypher's Sword wrote:If you look cloesly at this pictures of the head from the back it kinda looks like the face/head plate comes off to reveal the "skull" and pilot. If I wasn't a low budget gamer i would start an eldar army with this lol.

They're two different heads, actually. You can tell because the skull-faced head has the exact same characteristics as the 'standard' head, just with the blank face replaced by the skull face instead.

oh well in that case, I'd love to see a battle damaged skull faced version. i remember buying the battle damaged gundams back in the day for like double the price and thinking that they were the coolest thing since the self flushing toilet.

**Tacobake**

Dakka_X3 wrote:I'm in.

I had budgeted $1000 for this.. so, WooHoo!
(Heck, throw a new Lynx in my shopping bag!)

Yeah honestly that is much, much cheaper than I was expecting. I mean it is my first Forge World model but man what a beaut.

**CaptKaruthors**

I'm totally looking forward to the rules for this. Hopefully they'll be as kick ass as the model itself.

**midget_overlord**

Cypher's Sword wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
Cypher's Sword wrote:If you look cloesly at this pictures of the head from the back it kinda looks like the face/head plate comes off to reveal the "skull" and pilot. If I wasn't a low budget gamer i would start an eldar army with this lol.

They're two different heads, actually. You can tell because the skull-faced head has the exact same characteristics as the 'standard' head, just with the blank face replaced by the skull face instead.

oh well in that case, I'd love to see a battle damaged skull faced version. i remember buying the battle damaged gundams back in the day for like double the price and thinking that they were the coolest thing since the self flushing toilet.

My money is still on it being the inside of the head. Just like the revenant, you can open it up to see inside. Just like the warhound and the reavers as well. There is no point in having the pilot being exposed, and seeing how all forgeworld titan have accesible crew compatements, it just makes sense.

We'll all find out on sunday when our friends start posting pics of the event either way.

**Daston**

Would love a second head, would be great for an imperial diorama of a dig site or something

**Kanluwen**

midget_overlord wrote:
Cypher's Sword wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
Cypher's Sword wrote:If you look cloesly at this pictures of the head from the back it kinda looks like the face/head plate comes off to reveal the "skull" and pilot. If I wasn't a low budget gamer i would start an eldar army with this lol.

They're two different heads, actually. You can tell because the skull-faced head has the exact same characteristics as the 'standard' head, just with the blank face replaced by the skull face instead.

oh well in that case, I'd love to see a battle damaged skull faced version. i remember buying the battle damaged gundams back in the day for like double the price and thinking that they were the coolest thing since the self flushing toilet.

My money is still on it being the inside of the head. Just like the revenant, you can open it up to see inside. Just like the warhound and the reavers as well. There is no point in having the pilot being exposed, and seeing how all forgeworld titan have accesible crew compatements, it just makes sense.

We'll all find out on sunday when our friends start posting pics of the event either way.

He's referring to this photo(click spoiler to see it; only photo I readily have is a collage and it's the inset part within the first image).

Spoiler:

It's pretty clearly the "inside of the head", and that it opens up to let you see the pilot within.

Now, it's entirely possible that the main 'head' part that we see in the inset is an entirely separate piece, over which the bananaheaded, guardian faced bit locks over.
We'll have to wait and see on that I guess.

**Commander Cain**

Even thought I may not be a fan of eldar personally, I have to say that FW have produced an excellent model, the proportions are much more appealing than the other eldar titans. A great model overall. it seems to be lacking something but I can not place my mind on what it is.

At £450 I know I will never buy it but I am sure there are people who will be prepared to pay to get the model due to its superb detail.