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Irradiated Baal Scavanger




Hi!
I have seen many discussions over Warhammer Visions. Is there any specific topic on WD weekly and pictures of it? I am mostly interested in the Paint Splatter section and have not seen any pics of either WD Weekly or Warhammer Visions.

How is WD weekly?
   
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Basically it's the magazine equivelant of that movie Elysium. Short and uninspiring.
   
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Seattle, Washington

It's a sales pamphlet. A collector/painting guide for what ever is new. Not interesting unless it features a faction that you are interested in. I think the first issue is crap, but I don't collect dwarfs. If there was a savage new Chaos kit featured or Marines or a super heavies issue or Blood Angels, I would be all over it.

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Cary, NC

I'm gonna disagree (well, for one, I like dwarves, so...). The weekly doesn't have some of the things that we have grown to hate in White Dwarf. It doesn't have pages of store listings, for one! Score!

It also has stuff that we wanted in White Dwarf, like rules! The first edition actually has rules for Belegar. Real, actual rules.

It's not an amazing magazine, but it is much more focused about what is coming out right now, so it should be much easier to figure out whether a particular issue is for you or not. Do you want stuff on the new Dwarf sets? Buy it! Don't care about dwarves? Don't get this one, but another will be out next week!

Look, I miss the 'old' Fat Dwarf more than anyone. I loved getting card models in the magazine, or posters, or stand-alone games (I still have a complete ork Brew House Brawl!). I loved seeing techniques for scratch-building and I loved seeing people making and using terrain that wasn't a RoB gameboard and GW ruins. I loved when they had other people actually writing articles for White Dwarf, and not just the staffers.I loved detailed, turn-by-turn batreps with photos. I loved experimental rules and rules options in the magazine. It's not that good.

On the other hand, it has dropped a lot of the crap, and is narrowly focused on a particular thing or two each week, so I think that the target audience will be more satisfied than with the last year of White Dwarf.

 
   
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Everett, WA

Da Butcha wrote:
It also has stuff that we wanted in White Dwarf, like rules! The first edition actually has rules for Belegar. Real, actual rules.
Ironic that this shrunk down version has more content in that one page than the entire "revamped" line of the last year or so did. Still, it's a far cry from the SoB two-part codex which was the last big hurrah for WD.


 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut




Aberdeen Scotland

I actually like the weekly mag, its a thin version of the last few editions of WD (The new style) but without so much filler. The paint splatter article is actually quite good, its shows you how to paint a dwarf unit to a good tabletop standard relatively quickly from which you can build from. I hated the original paint splatter when they re-started WD in 2012, the articles were tiny, almost no stages, just a quick 'choose these colours'.

At least this new paint splatter is a level up and shows new starts the right way to get good depth and detail but not to a show level, that's what eavy metal stuff is for and pushes beginners to strive for more (well it did with me ).

The articles are short but enjoyable to read, do what they set out, show us what is coming out that week, how to glue the models together and decent preparation skills (again this is aimed at newer starts, why teach vets how to suck eggs) and some okay articles about dwarves.

This is why Visions was such a disappointment, I saw this as the intermediate\painter and collector magazine, with painting articles, conversions, lots of decent pictures of what they were talking about. Not 100 pages of old nid pics, some random kit bash, a shortened blanchitsu and some other odd bits that made me feel it was such a miss.

Ah well, I enjoy the weekly, just wish it was sold in newsagents so I could get it when I am not in the shop.

 
   
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Irradiated Baal Scavanger




Just saw the magazine today. Comparing it to the previous WD it is somewhat better (especially for not including the list of stores), but I miss more painting & modelling articles (2 pages of Paint Splatter is rather poor, even if the quality is better than the ones before). HOwever, the price is a no-go. It is not in line with the number of pages. 2€ I would pay, but 3,20 is too much for what it offers.
   
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Lesser Daemon of Chaos





Hampshire, uk

Friend posted this up on FB.

14 Pages all miss printed. Any others like this.


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 cerbrus2 wrote:
Friend posted this up on FB.

14 Pages all miss printed. Any others like this.


That is some Finecast quality printing that they got going there!
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut






Los Angeles

I'd say his copy of Whiff Dwarf arrived as expected.
   
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Ramsden Heath, Essex

Is this actually available online?

I want to see what WDW was like and have an Ipad but never bothered with mags on it. I took a look on there but couldn't find it?

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Had a look at both issues. I like it well enough, but the price should be halved.

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Longtime Dakkanaut





It uhhh had some pretty pictures?

And that list of phone numbers at the end was really helpful. Now I don't need to use a phonebook to find an address and number!

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UK

 Harriticus wrote:
It uhhh had some pretty pictures?

And that list of phone numbers at the end was really helpful. Now I don't need to use a phonebook to find an address and number!


An extremely valid point....if this was a Warhammer Visions thread!

Two issues in and I haven't seen a telephone list in White Dwarf Weekly. It does have some pretty pictures though.

   
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Canterbury

 notprop wrote:
Is this actually available online?

I want to see what WDW was like and have an Ipad but never bothered with mags on it. I took a look on there but couldn't find it?



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I haven't seen a misprint like that before. I mean say what you will about the content they fill the pages with, the best thing most people had to say about visions was that the printing was nice. That's the one thing about their mags that gw (used to?) consistently get right; That at least their printing quality was lovely.

My copy of WDW#2 at least looks pristine. Though I had to look through the stands for a bit to find one that didn't have a cover where the edges were starting to fray at the corners. I guess that's the price of shipping it without the foil wrapping.

I have to say though, even if I am not that interested in playing fantasy, I do really like these weeklies. For a quick laugh though take Issue 1 and 2 and flip through em side by side. There are 2 pages in WDW#2 that don't follow the exact same layout and formatting between the two copies, and that's the page for the gyrocopter has its picture on the left page instead of the right and the page annoying the new army book is a full page that displaces some black library releases. Its very much a point and click new format.
   
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Ramsden Heath, Essex

 reds8n wrote:
 notprop wrote:
Is this actually available online?

I want to see what WDW was like and have an Ipad but never bothered with mags on it. I took a look on there but couldn't find it?



http://www.blacklibrary.com/whitedwarf


Cheers red but I managed to pick up a copy of #2 at Wayland yesterday.

I'm not sure at all about WDW to be honest. The content to pages ratio has increased which is good but it was 99.9% all dwarfs.

Don't get me wrong, I love dwarves and refreshing my army is my project du jour but a mag that lists a number of games in the front should have some coverage for those games.

All in all, a better mag than WDM but it costs more...I liked it but that same old nagging feeling that it's a poorly disguised sale brouchure for this months product. Eyes wide open I bought it for this reason (to check out the gyrocopter) but it does lessen the need to get WDW when 'Army I don't collect X' is show cased.

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North West Arkansas

I bought the first issue for iPad, not bad, but the pictures were tiny and not interactive. Read a bit, not much different than the old version. Seemed like a lot of content. I llike the price because I buy White Dwarf generally when something I'm interested in is in that particular issue. So when the content is right I'll pick up a copy.

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Perhaps the key will be that if you're hoping to buy whatever is new at that time, it's useful. (If you don't have access to the internet?!)

But, don't expect a magazine about the 'hobby' (which I mean in both a general and GW-sense).

I was just looking the other day at the price of the weekly 2000AD, which is £2.35, £2 if you buy online. It's gone up a bit since I last bought it (it was around £1.50 or so). It's kind of amusing that a comic book with a smaller print run, and where they have to pay script writers, artists and an editor, is cheaper than a mag where they're just copying over some studio photos and text from the back of the boxes.
   
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Somewhere in south-central England.

 notprop wrote:
 reds8n wrote:
 notprop wrote:
Is this actually available online?

I want to see what WDW was like and have an Ipad but never bothered with mags on it. I took a look on there but couldn't find it?



http://www.blacklibrary.com/whitedwarf


Cheers red but I managed to pick up a copy of #2 at Wayland yesterday.

I'm not sure at all about WDW to be honest. The content to pages ratio has increased which is good but it was 99.9% all dwarfs.

Don't get me wrong, I love dwarves and refreshing my army is my project du jour but a mag that lists a number of games in the front should have some coverage for those games.

All in all, a better mag than WDM but it costs more...I liked it but that same old nagging feeling that it's a poorly disguised sale brouchure for this months product. Eyes wide open I bought it for this reason (to check out the gyrocopter) but it does lessen the need to get WDW when 'Army I don't collect X' is show cased.


Old White Dwarf was for years a poorly disguised sales brochure for this month's product, so no change there!

As regards the content, I think over the course of a month the other games will get a proper look in.

If there is an advantage to the weekly format, it is that you can simply skip an issue that is 99% Dwarves if you aren't interested in Dwarves. The downside is the requirement to go to a GW shop to buy an issue, but you can get round that by buying the digital version.

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