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 Furyou Miko wrote:
While they were working on the Dark Eldar overhaul, I believe Dark Eldar were completely unavailable for about two years.

They were direct only just like Sisters are right now

andrewm9 wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
While they were working on the Dark Eldar overhaul, I believe Dark Eldar were completely unavailable for about two years.

They were direct only just like Sisters are right now

Still, none of the sister models is unavailable right now. And they are still all metal. Either they have enough stocks of everything or they cast it up on the spot when they get an order. Who knows. When I bought my repentia (2 squads) I first got a mail they were out of stock, but they still shipped em a few days later.

 Shandara wrote:
Still, none of the sister models is unavailable right now. And they are still all metal. Either they have enough stocks of everything or they cast it up on the spot when they get an order.

They cast more when needed, AFAIK. I ordered two blisters of three SoB to fill up my force and received them with white Citadel backing instead of the GW paper. Straight from the mint I guess.

Spetulhu wrote:

 Shandara wrote:
Still, none of the sister models is unavailable right now. And they are still all metal. Either they have enough stocks of everything or they cast it up on the spot when they get an order.

They cast more when needed, AFAIK. I ordered two blisters of three SoB to fill up my force and received them with white Citadel backing instead of the GW paper. Straight from the mint I guess.

If true, then it's a very good sign. Shows that they have no immediate plans to discontinue the Sisters. Why else would they bother spending metal to keep making them?

On a related note, it's actually kinda cool to think that every Sister I've ordered from GW so far was casted specifically for me.

I recall reading somewhere that all mail order only minis are "cast on demand". They don't just keep churning out metal Catachans and Valhallans either.

The more obvious sign that GW does not plan to do away with them anytime soon is the revamp of their store page, as well as the release of WD articles. The new Minidex is a crutch, but there was no reason why GW should have invested any resources at all into this army if they just wanted to let them disappear.

They may not plan to get them a proper Codex or revisit their miniature line (I'll believe those rumours when I start seeing official announcements), but at the same time there is absolutely no reason to assume that they would suddenly pop out of existence just because a few haters keep proclaiming so since about five years.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
While they were working on the Dark Eldar overhaul, I believe Dark Eldar were completely unavailable for about two years.

Are you sure? I thought you could get them direct order at that time?


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Spetulhu wrote:

 Shandara wrote:
Still, none of the sister models is unavailable right now. And they are still all metal. Either they have enough stocks of everything or they cast it up on the spot when they get an order.

They cast more when needed, AFAIK. I ordered two blisters of three SoB to fill up my force and received them with white Citadel backing instead of the GW paper. Straight from the mint I guess.

This may have been true at one time but I doubt it is the case now. If someone in the US orders a metal model you think that the US branch calls in an order to have it cast up in the UK? That doesnt make sense to me. Is there any confirmation that GW is casting ANY metal models anymore?

I bet when the current SoB metal models are sold out that they will become unavailable until GW decides to revisit the army.