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Somthing else how big would those monster heads be.
Would they fit on a skarbrand model, in oder to create one big ( and sadly expensive) blood letter ?

How come the firestick dwarfs are only 500 yen? Why does everyone else have to pay WAY more money? What makes Japan so special in this case?

Seriously, all you Japanese Dakka people. Go buy up all those shooty spear dwarfs since they're so cheap! Corner the market!

Wow, seeing the more detailed images on a proper screen rather than my phone absolutely destroyed these for me. Now I fear when we get a better look at the salamander. Perhaps if we all keep our eyes at least 5ft away from the models at all times they will look good!

Seem very Magic the gathering to me, in the sense they have a tendency to just stick things into fantasy tropes and try and make it stick just so its different because of the sheer amount of fantasy races they have redone over the years. Not a fan of the helms/hair in particular, just looks odd.

No danger of me relenting and jumping back into AoS for these, but will continue to wait and see what else comes our way, mainly waiting for Aelf stuff at this point.

I was excited... for a little bit... no more...poor warhammer may you rest in piece.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
How come the firestick dwarfs are only 500 yen? Why does everyone else have to pay WAY more money? What makes Japan so special in this case?

Seriously, all you Japanese Dakka people. Go buy up all those shooty spear dwarfs since they're so cheap! Corner the market!

I'm gonna say it's a typo.



"Hey. You put a one and two zeros in front of that or we pass. Deal."

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Seem very Magic the gathering to me, in the sense they have a tendency to just stick things into fantasy tropes and try and make it stick just so its different because of the sheer amount of fantasy races they have redone over the years. Not a fan of the helms/hair in particular, just looks odd.

No danger of me relenting and jumping back into AoS for these, but will continue to wait and see what else comes our way, mainly waiting for Aelf stuff at this point.

I am patiently waiting for the Elf releases to see if there's any massive dragon I can use for Indraugnir.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Seem very Magic the gathering to me, in the sense they have a tendency to just stick things into fantasy tropes and try and make it stick just so its different because of the sheer amount of fantasy races they have redone over the years. Not a fan of the helms/hair in particular, just looks odd.

Was thinking about those new helmets and whether they could just be left off the model? I noticed in the sprues for the standard bearer from the first photo that leaked a few weeks ago that the helmet and head are separate parts. If this is the case for the rest of the models then there is more scope to just leave the helmets off the model! Thinking how I could combine these to go well with some of the plastic mohawks from the Avatar of War kit!

I kinda wonder if we'd be going "OMG! That's so dumb!" if their hair was fire.

That helm hair combo has been around since the original Ungrim sculpt, which must be getting on to 20 years old at this point.
That doesn't make the infantry better...there's just a legitimate warhammer heritage their, whatever that's worth.

This is the first time I can remember hobby level paint jobs being the biggest, clearest leaked pictures we've had.

If the hair was fire the painters did a crap job making it look like fire.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I kinda wonder if we'd be going "OMG! That's so dumb!" if their hair was fire.

Probably. I wasn't really a fan of the Azer minis and other fire follicle types in DDM.

http://www.trollandtoad.com/p114663.html

http://ferrency.blogspot.com/2011/12/hordes-of-things-army-die-in-fire.html

http://www.vesivus.com/minis/WotDQ_Azer_Fighter.htm

http://www.vesivus.com/minis/Blood_War_Fire_Giant_Forgepriest.htm

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I kinda wonder if we'd be going "OMG! That's so dumb!" if their hair was fire.

I wouldn't be. That seems less silly than...armoured toupees?
Ungrim was a neat model, applying one feature of one character model across a whole army...

 plastictrees wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I kinda wonder if we'd be going "OMG! That's so dumb!" if their hair was fire.

I wouldn't be. That seems less silly than...armoured toupees?
Ungrim was a neat model, applying one feature of one character model across a whole army...

I was actually expecting Slayers being literally on fire, with fiery hair and flames trailing from their weapons, etc etc.

Don't see how the helmets are such a deal breaker. Just pretend it's a horse hair plume. Or just remember that slayers have always had over the top mohawks.

I have no problem with the hair.

The musculature and mono-pose look however...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I kinda wonder if we'd be going "OMG! That's so dumb!" if their hair was fire.

I, for one, was sort of hoping that GW would go in a legitimately new direction with these guys. While I fully admit I am not a fan of what GW did to WFB in AoS, the one upside to the debacle was the possibility that we would see them make some bold new moves with their existing IP. What we have here instead are basically slayers with more ornament and dragon analogs, re-branded under a new IP defensible name. I think it's a boring waste of opportunity.

I'll admit though that I am not well traveled in the broader realms of fantasy gaming and fiction, so "fire beards" would likely have been more original to me than to others.

Just paint them like they're fire like that artwork. Job done. Everyone wins.

Well those are some perfectly ghastly Slayers. The old metal models are still among my favorite minis of all time, and the plastic character they did a few years back was a wonderfully animated and dynamic sculpt that felt appropriate for the fighting style of the Slayer. These, not so much. Also, bloody grim and joyless, just like everything else in the Age of Sigmar. There's no more room for a clockwork axe-flinger, it seems.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Images for you- HOLY BALLS they look awesome!

This picture is quite revealing of how cool these are, they are smaller than the chaos fellas, the legs are well detailed, the poses are diverse so yes its a huge hit in my book!
My approach to it would be get one of each kit and bulk up more with avatars of war slayers for cool factor.

OgreChubbs wrote:
Why is no one complaining about the over sexual male models?

One female model wears a boob guard 900 topics 5 army releases with naked buff men, not a single comment lol. People wonder why no one cares.

The acid test is whether the nuddy styled women models would look stupid if they were men.

http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/

 Kilkrazy wrote:

OgreChubbs wrote:
Why is no one complaining about the over sexual male models?

One female model wears a boob guard 900 topics 5 army releases with naked buff men, not a single comment lol. People wonder why no one cares.

The acid test is whether the nuddy styled women models would look stupid if they were men.

http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/

Doesnt make sense, the men have nipple covers, you can remove them and be fine. But hell if your fighting for your life wear what ever you want or be nude who cares lol. Also why did they put more definition on the men nude then the women? I see some sexist action there saying men dressed like women should have more projecting muscles.

 Kilkrazy wrote:

OgreChubbs wrote:
Why is no one complaining about the over sexual male models?

One female model wears a boob guard 900 topics 5 army releases with naked buff men, not a single comment lol. People wonder why no one cares.

The acid test is whether the nuddy styled women models would look stupid if they were men.

http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/

Really?... lets ignore the fact the women look like their in an action aggressive don't mess with me pose the men look submissive. I'm a huge comics fan.. and honestly the way comics have been messed with is just tragic. It's not the same context don't pretend it is. and nice promoting the 3rd wave feminist theme... so when do i get put into a man camp?

if you don't like the hobby don't come into it then change it just so it wont offend you just in case you might see it occasionally.

 Kilkrazy wrote:

The acid test is whether the nuddy styled women models would look stupid if they were men.

http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/

The Hawkeye Initiative began as a legitimate exercise to illustrate how silly some of the female poses in comics were - specifically the half turned poses that emphasized the booty and the chest - but now it appears to have become some borderline transvestite fetish porn masquerading as feminism. I wouldn't use that site as a standard of anything but the bad taste of whomever linked to it.

Don't really see a problem with THI... It does help to illustrate the unchecked sexism going on in comics. I especially love the classic "breaking my spine just so you can ogle my chest and rear at the same time" pose.

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:

The acid test is whether the nuddy styled women models would look stupid if they were men.

http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/

The Hawkeye Initiative began as a legitimate exercise to illustrate how silly some of the female poses in comics were - specifically the half turned poses that emphasized the booty and the chest - but now it appears to have become some borderline transvestite fetish porn masquerading as feminism. I wouldn't use that site as a standard of anything but the bad taste of whomever linked to it.

Okay i'll give you some female poses in comics were / are silly but its stylized art. I mean look at Picasso or anime its not meant to be real. Comics during the late 90s early 2000s were doing very well we had stuff like battle chasers, crimson and Fathom that did very well. Comics now well if its not real its not good..( or it has to check every diversity box out there ) its not supposed to be real its supposed to be an escape... both DC and Marvel have had to reboot many times recently to sure up sales... and while i love 90s x men and Harley Quinn you know its really not what it was.

but that's not the point

those dwarves are ridiculously naked... and if it was a single female dwarf people would be going bajonkers.


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 Mymearan wrote:
Don't really see a problem with THI... It does help to illustrate the unchecked sexism going on in comics. I especially love the classic "breaking my spine just so you can ogle my chest and rear at the same time" pose.

It honestly depends on how its handled.. if you allow covers to be censored like the batgirl one then its stupid.

im not auguring the spiderwoman cover wasn't silly. it was but it should stil be available to those who want that myself included

I don't like the new stunties.

Firstly, they suffer from detail overload like most GW models these days. I'm not really opposed to hair helmets but I'm not a huge fan of the oversized roman style helmets which even without the plumage are larger than the model's torso.

Secondly, the poses, the ones with with 2 handed weapons don't look aggressive enough and the ones flailing their arms, the torso/legs are too relaxed compared to the arms so it just looks like a baby flailing its arms around wildly rather than a warrior.

Thirdly, the musculature looks off. Some of them look to have random weird additional chunks of plastic on their legs. The area around the lats looks weird on a lot of them, especially for models that look to be monopose this shouldn't be a problem area. I think GW did better with the Savage Orcs as far as musculature goes.

 Mymearan wrote:
Don't really see a problem with THI... It does help to illustrate the unchecked sexism going on in comics. I especially love the classic "breaking my spine just so you can ogle my chest and rear at the same time" pose.

There's no "unchecked sexism" going on in comics, unless you are one of those people who believe any display of sexiness is a form of oppression, in which case... well, let's just agree to disagree.

I like the mostly naked Dwarves. Isn't the whole slayer mythology that they are disgraced Dwarves who can only redeem themselves through a glorious death? Doesn't get much more glorious than a dude in a loin cloth swinging around axe-flails, riding on the back of a fire dinosaur. Plus, they'll be super quick to paint. Base coat of naked.


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migooo wrote:
Okay i'll give you some female poses in comics were / are silly but its stylized art.

I'm not saying I agree with the Hawkeye Initiative, just that in its original incarnation, it has some semblance of respectability to it. It was misguided and wrong, but it wasn't gleefully wallowing in transvestite fetish porn.

those dwarves are ridiculously naked... and if it was a single female dwarf people would be going bajonkers.

A group of angry and offended people? In an Age of Sigmar forum? Well, I never...

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Don't really see a problem with THI... It does help to illustrate the unchecked sexism going on in comics. I especially love the classic "breaking my spine just so you can ogle my chest and rear at the same time" pose.

There's no "unchecked sexism" going on in comics, unless you are one of those people who believe any display of sexiness is a form of oppression, in which case... well, let's just agree to disagree.

I like the mostly naked Dwarves. Isn't the whole slayer mythology that they are disgraced Dwarves who can only redeem themselves through a glorious death? Doesn't get much more glorious than a dude in a loin cloth swinging around axe-flails, riding on the back of a fire dinosaur. Plus, they'll be super quick to paint. Base coat of naked.


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migooo wrote:
Okay i'll give you some female poses in comics were / are silly but its stylized art.

I'm not saying I agree with the Hawkeye Initiative, just that in its original incarnation, it has some semblance of respectability to it. It was misguided and wrong, but it wasn't gleefully wallowing in transvestite fetish porn.

those dwarves are ridiculously naked... and if it was a single female dwarf people would be going bajonkers.

A group of angry and offended people? In an Age of Sigmar forum? Well, I never...

well my dear sir have an exalt out of respect and admiration

And now, BACK ON TOPIC, yes?