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 Jollydevil wrote:
I was going to paint iron warriors, but Im not so sure now...
Anyone painted them before who could tell me whether theyre really boring to paint or not? With all that straight silver it seems like itd be really hard to make them actually come out nicely and not... super super bland
Thoughts?
The alternative is Emperors Children

About to start painting up mine as Iron Warriors.

I've got about 8k of Necrons that are mostly gun metal. Its not so bad really. Its no less exciting as any other color to be honest.

 Breotan wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Interesting that my local (and thus all others in the UK I assume?) are running this scheme:



Is GW actively trying to grow the community?

It's also in the US.

What the hell is someone putting into the water over in Nottingham?

Perhaps they're dilluting the kool-aid.

I do find it ironic that in the picture, it looks like the blue marine is about to stab the other one in the back/side.

Nah it's artwork from an Armageddon novel. Celestial Lions marine and Grimaldus fighting back to back against the Orks.

Picked up my box on friday night after work (Mail order)

What a lvely thing, good quality cardboard box, rammed with sprues, and multi part plastic heresy marines.

Now to go through the FW rules and see what i want to do with them as Imperial Fists. Though i need the 'codex' for legion armies....

Hey! GW acknowledged the existence of the Celestial Lions in an-

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-Advertisement?! I know I heard my FLGWS' manager handing them out, but I never saw how advertisementy the flyers were, or even saw them at all!

Has anyone who ordered one of the forgeworld bundles recieved a shipment email yet?

 Verviedi wrote:
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-Advertisement?! I know I heard my FLGWS' manager handing them out, but I never saw how advertisementy the flyers were, or even saw them at all!

Its not widespread but GW do advertise., I've only seen them in the UK magazine 'SFX', but that mag regularly advertises Black Library books and for the last 3 issues has had a double page Age of Sigmar spread.

Is it true that they are in fact bringing squats back? This was being (seriously) discussed at my local GW store Saturday (by the manager).

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Is it true that they are in fact bringing squats back? This was being (seriously) discussed at my local GW store Saturday (by the manager).

Where did you hear this?

I think the patrons and staff at your local bar GW might be a bit...confused?

Erm. I mean, they're already possible with the Imperial Militia rules in Tempest. But GW or FW produce models? I'm doubting it.

My first exposure to GW was in an issue of Previews from 1998. I know it's more of a comic shop distributor catalogue, but it sort of counts as adversing, right?

So much awesome...but so much work ahead of me.

Equal parts and

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Is it true that they are in fact bringing squats back? This was being (seriously) discussed at my local GW store Saturday (by the manager).

Someone had made a fake flyer that said Squats were coming back, but it also had things like a 80% price cut and swearing in the flyer so it was clearly a fake.

Found it, spoilered for language:

@ shade1313:
Have fun putting those 5 (it is 5, right?) boxes together. Are you going to all paint them up as the same Legion or as several different ones?

Love the flyer!

And i actually AM brining squats back :-)
I am going to finally paint mine together with the Heresy models.

shade1313 wrote:
So much awesome...but so much work ahead of me.

Equal parts and

That is amazing. I'm still waiting on my one box to get here.

sooo much spure...........

I’ve already got the HQs and the dread assembled and primed. Working on the tacticals now. It’s been a while since I’ve had this much fun putting stuff together.

Game looks like it should be fun to play as well. One thing that was troubling me was if I should bother making sure I had “optimal” gear modeled for if I played the actual game. But it looks like they did a decent job keeping everything balanced. Shocking. So I’m just building what fits for 30/40k

Just got notice my Dark Angels task force shipped from FW. Can't wait to get in on the Heresy action!

Just to warn you guys, some of the weapon packs - namely, the heavy flamer, plasma gun and volkite charger packs - are all listed as unavailable. This could possibly mean that GW will be producing their own special weapon sets. Orrrrr it could mean that if you want some legion support squads, buy them now.

Apparently they are changing them to be plastic compatible

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
Apparently they are changing them to be plastic compatible

Ah, so molded on hands. Gotcha.

Samurai I hear you! I'm waiting to order my DA packs for when they release the their book. I'm hoping for lots of HQ/Elite models. I don't know how I'm going to paint them yet, hopefully the book will have some alternate 30k paint schemes.

 Tagony wrote:
Samurai I hear you! I'm waiting to order my DA packs for when they release the their book. I'm hoping for lots of HQ/Elite models. I don't know how I'm going to paint them yet, hopefully the book will have some alternate 30k paint schemes.

I'm probably going to use the markings and scheme found in the Rogue Trader book.

I was re-reading my old RT book recently - there's an interesting bit about the "feast of Malediction" celebrated by the Dark Angels

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
@ shade1313:
Have fun putting those 5 (it is 5, right?) boxes together. Are you going to all paint them up as the same Legion or as several different ones?

The bulk of that (all of the tacticals, two or more of the terminators, some of the characters, and three of the Contemptors) are going to be Alpha Legion.

One squad of Cataphractii to my Deathwing. One Contemptor to my 40k Salamaders. I'll find something to do with leftover characters and assorted leftover termies.

I already have a FW preheresy Salamanders army in work.

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

 Tagony wrote:
Samurai I hear you! I'm waiting to order my DA packs for when they release the their book. I'm hoping for lots of HQ/Elite models. I don't know how I'm going to paint them yet, hopefully the book will have some alternate 30k paint schemes.

I'm probably going to use the markings and scheme found in the Rogue Trader book.

Cool. My DA have always been black with markings per the Rogue Trader book. GW got a big FU from me when they changed the color to green.

T

The green colour was a mistake - the artist for the Epic expansion Space Marine was supposed to do the marines black but they ended up green.

Ah OK, I might go the rogue trader version also. Thanks for the info!

 BrotherGecko wrote:

 Jollydevil wrote:
I was going to paint iron warriors, but Im not so sure now...
Anyone painted them before who could tell me whether theyre really boring to paint or not? With all that straight silver it seems like itd be really hard to make them actually come out nicely and not... super super bland
Thoughts?
The alternative is Emperors Children

About to start painting up mine as Iron Warriors.

I've got about 8k of Necrons that are mostly gun metal. Its not so bad really. Its no less exciting as any other color to be honest.

After putting on the silver, use some Nuln Oil wash, and then edge highlight in silver again.

Then pick some Forge World Weathering Powders to add corrosion/rust around the legs/feet. Maybe dirt and mud, as they are the "sapper" legion.