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So my eldar army could get scrapped in the near future because they are going to all plastic?

that kinda sucks for the time I've put into it, I don't like finecast but I also don't want to lose my aspect warriors, and if eldar go whats the point in 40k then, you have 8 human/space marine (im including the inquisition) based armies and 8 (7-6 depending on what we lose) of renegade-ish based armies with tau working with the imperium and chaos space marines just a sharper pointer space marine, it doesn't leave much options.
But if forgeworld takes over the slack and gives up resin it would be more expensive to take? I fear for the future of the hobby and if ill even be in it at all.

 wowsmash wrote:
How do we know it failed?

I'm assuming you're referring to the four plastic Space Marine Captains released a couple months ago?

Out of the 15 or so Space Marine players (including myself) in my area, I've never seen one on the table. The FLGS has sold one off the rack. I bet if you look around a bit, you'll see the same.

 Tamwulf wrote:

 wowsmash wrote:
How do we know it failed?

I'm assuming you're referring to the four plastic Space Marine Captains released a couple months ago?

Out of the 15 or so Space Marine players (including myself) in my area, I've never seen one on the table. The FLGS has sold one off the rack. I bet if you look around a bit, you'll see the same.

So I'm the only guy who bought the assault captain and the dev captain? Nobody else bought them?

After seeing how brittle my Finecast Necron models were, I will happily buy plastic replacements and keep the finecasts away from play tables where the staff or a limb is likely to snap off due to the brittle nature of the pale finecast material.

 ChaosxVoid wrote:
So my eldar army could get scrapped in the near future because they are going to all plastic?

They won't be scrapping Eldar. Eventually all the stuff that's metal/finecast will be re-released in plastic. In some form.

 ChaosxVoid wrote:
So my eldar army could get scrapped in the near future because they are going to all plastic?

that kinda sucks for the time I've put into it, I don't like finecast but I also don't want to lose my aspect warriors, and if eldar go whats the point in 40k then

Why would you assume they're just going to write Eldar out of the game entirely because of this? An army that got an update just mere months ago, no less.

 Sidstyler wrote:

 ChaosxVoid wrote:
So my eldar army could get scrapped in the near future because they are going to all plastic?

that kinda sucks for the time I've put into it, I don't like finecast but I also don't want to lose my aspect warriors, and if eldar go whats the point in 40k then

Why would you assume they're just going to write Eldar out of the game entirely because of this? An army that got an update just mere months ago, no less.

Was just going off of what kroot said somewhere that eldar could be just scrapped away, it was like 4 in the morning. :p

Yeah, just wait 4 years or so and you might get some of your units and HQs back

GW... Buy or sell?

Sell. The only thing GW has is the considerable IP and fanatical cult following (guilty). They've seen the writing on the wall w/Chapter and 3D printing. They want to start franchises outside of us relatively few folks. Video games, MMO, Movies, fluff, digital downloads of codices fluff and eventually miniatures.

Of course I think Kennedywas assassinated by ancient aliens too. So what do I know...

 Azazelx wrote:

 ChaosxVoid wrote:
So my eldar army could get scrapped in the near future because they are going to all plastic?

They won't be scrapping Eldar. Eventually all the stuff that's metal/finecast will be re-released in plastic. In some form.

Yeah.In 3-5 years!

 Kroothawk wrote:
Yeah, just wait 4 years or so and you might get some of your units and HQs back

don't tell me this haha

 ChaosxVoid wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
Yeah, just wait 4 years or so and you might get some of your units and HQs back

don't tell me this haha

Don't pay attention to Kroot. He's probably the bitterest person on these boards.

 -Loki- wrote:

 ChaosxVoid wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
Yeah, just wait 4 years or so and you might get some of your units and HQs back

don't tell me this haha

Don't pay attention to Kroot. He's probably the bitterest person on these boards.

Negative, that honor belongs to HBMC

 -Loki- wrote:

 ChaosxVoid wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
Yeah, just wait 4 years or so and you might get some of your units and HQs back

don't tell me this haha

Don't pay attention to Kroot. He's probably the bitterest person on these boards.

Eldar just got a Codex release. When do you think, the next Eldar Codex will come?
We are talking about a release replacing Fire Dragons, Scorpions, Howling Banshees, Reapers, Warp Spiders, Swooping Hawks, Harlequins, Shining Spears, Avatar, Autarch and Farseer Council, not to speak of Yriel, Eldrad, Illic, Shadowseer and the Phoenix Kings.

So if this rumour is true then the Dark Eldar would have no HQ options available to buy...

..unless we get a wave of replacement plastics in the next six months.

Nice idea but forgive me if I just re-adjust my hat of cynicism and take a fresh grip on the staff of "oh really?"

As long as they only stop Finecast production, AS will be okay. We're only loosing DCA and Crusader, with billions of way to count as.

Nice work GW.
hopefully this new material measures up with FINE cast.

 Aerethan wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:
Don't pay attention to Kroot. He's probably the bitterest person on these boards.

Negative, that honor belongs to HBMC

You must not have been paying attention recently. Even H.B.M.C. has been calling Kroot out for excessive negativity.

I can see it now. They could easily plug the needs in the Eldar codex lineup by a single box set, 5 multipose miniatures, but only enough bits for one of each aspect.

Instant profits!

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I can see it now. They could easily plug the needs in the Eldar codex lineup by a single box set, 5 multipose miniatures, but only enough bits for one of each aspect.

Instant profits!

YES!And we DOUBLE the price.Welcome to the GW directors board.I seem to see a lack of diversity in our product line.So why don't we make....Space marine,space marine,space marines?

My big question: if this is true, why release so many hobbit clam packs in finecast? 60% of the December hobbit releases are finecast. That would imply that they will be transferring those models to forgeworld, and I'm not sure how NLC would like having its biggest license transferred to a niche manufacturer with absolutely zero store presence.

godswildcard wrote:
My big question: if this is true, why release so many hobbit clam packs in finecast? 60% of the December hobbit releases are finecast. That would imply that they will be transferring those models to forgeworld, and I'm not sure how NLC would like having its biggest license transferred to a niche manufacturer with absolutely zero store presence.

Not to be rude, but while you are correct with so many Hobbit clam packs in Finecast...December is also marking the first time(as far as I am aware) that we're seeing plastic character clam packs in the form of Legolas Greenleaf and Tauriel being released.

I mean I can see why people would expect the changeovers to be happening right now, but if this rumor is true then it is not happening until the timeframe of April to June of 2014.
Personally? I do find this rumor hard to accept as feasible but I can see some credence for GW wanting to get more plastic characters out there.

 Kanluwen wrote:

godswildcard wrote:
My big question: if this is true, why release so many hobbit clam packs in finecast? 60% of the December hobbit releases are finecast. That would imply that they will be transferring those models to forgeworld, and I'm not sure how NLC would like having its biggest license transferred to a niche manufacturer with absolutely zero store presence.

Not to be rude, but while you are correct with so many Hobbit clam packs in Finecast...December is also marking the first time(as far as I am aware) that we're seeing plastic character clam packs in the form of Legolas Greenleaf and Tauriel being released.

I mean I can see why people would expect the changeovers to be happening right now, but if this rumor is true then it is not happening until the timeframe of April to June of 2014.
Personally? I do find this rumor hard to accept as feasible but I can see some credence for GW wanting to get more plastic characters out there.

New characters yes, but I'm skeptical about replacing existing figures with plastic versions, just too damn many of them and frankly not enough profit in it.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Not to be rude, but while you are correct with so many Hobbit clam packs in Finecast...December is also marking the first time(as far as I am aware) that we're seeing plastic character clam packs in the form of Legolas Greenleaf and Tauriel being released.

I think, it is also the first time that we see the release of "while supply lasts" plastic blisters and boxes. Sounds very desillusioned.

Captain Blood wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

New characters yes, but I'm skeptical about replacing existing figures with plastic versions, just too damn many of them and frankly not enough profit in it.

I'm absolutely 100% off the cuff speculating here, but I think if we were to see the end of Finecast production in the April to June timeframe, we would start seeing a rollout of new plastic versions of older characters at that same timeframe. I do not think it would be something that would be done overnight but rather gradually.

All I do know though is that I would be absolutely ecstatic to get a plastic Vlad von Carstein who is actually the towering man he is described as to go alongside the gorgeous Isabella von Carstein sculpt.

Kroothawk wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Not to be rude, but while you are correct with so many Hobbit clam packs in Finecast...December is also marking the first time(as far as I am aware) that we're seeing plastic character clam packs in the form of Legolas Greenleaf and Tauriel being released.

I think, it is also the first time that we see the release of "while supply lasts" plastic blisters and boxes. Sounds very disillusioned.

"Splash/Allocated" does not necessarily mean "While supply lasts", from my understanding.

Plus it's not just the plastic blisters and boxes that were labeled as that. It was all of the Desolation of Smaug releases.