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As much as I'd love that, t hink about it like that:

Why would GW release the Lion just before 8th ed.?
Wouldnt it make a lot more sense to release him as the first big thing after 8th Ed. to get people into the new edition?

Still hoping though, the Lion should have taken the lead, not that smurf.

This could just be a preview for a 30k johnson/sanguinius no? Havent they previewed 30k forgeworld things before?

Jumping on the "Blood Bowl High Elf Lion Warrior" team

I am getting a good feeling about it because the HE team is currently on the GW store, too...

So...

COME TO DADDY!!

Aeri wrote:
As much as I'd love that, t hink about it like that:

Why would GW release the Lion just before 8th ed.?
Wouldnt it make a lot more sense to release him as the first big thing after 8th Ed. to get people into the new edition?

Still hoping though, the Lion should have taken the lead, not that smurf.

They might not be releasing him before 8th (if it is him). This is just a teaser, no mention of when it's coming.

Bobug wrote:
This could just be a preview for a 30k johnson/sanguinius no? Havent they previewed 30k forgeworld things before?

The Rumor Engine is for GW releases. They've never previewed anything Forgeworld with it.

Didn't they preview one of the resin goblin specialists?


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(I don't play blood bowl, so I didn't really pay attention)

Yes, they did.

 EnTyme wrote:

Bobug wrote:
This could just be a preview for a 30k johnson/sanguinius no? Havent they previewed 30k forgeworld things before?

The Rumor Engine is for GW releases. They've never previewed anything Forgeworld with it.

I'm pretty sure a couple of the previews were for FW Blood Bowl stuff.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
If sanguinus and/or Horus come back from the dead, 40k will really have turned into a bad manga.

Better not read the Bible.

The main antagonist and protagonist just keep coming back.

That's the great thing about fiction! Anyhoo, it has to be Lion El because Cypher has been mucking about lately. Also Lion is known to be alive on the rock, in some form of alive, and it fits with what's coming up in the 8th storyline/arch.

guru wrote:

Good grief, that art is terrible.



Throwing in my vote for Jonson. White Lions aren't AOS-ey enough as is, they'll have to throw in some sort of bubble squirting levitation device to make it fit.

 loki old fart wrote:

What is that?

 Just Tony wrote:

guru wrote:

Good grief, that art is terrible.



Throwing in my vote for Jonson. White Lions aren't AOS-ey enough as is, they'll have to throw in some sort of bubble squirting levitation device to make it fit.

Yep Blanche is the most overrated hack at GW which is impressive since they have JJ and 95% of Black Library.

I have to admit I am awaiting the new elves with trepidation because of GW's desperate need to make everything TM,C no matter how absurd.(See monopoly man steam dwarf and Dwarfs hanging from ahh nvm that horse is dead)

John Blanche? A hack?!

Wash your mouth out with soap! Bear in mind a lot of GW's best minis are based on his work.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
John Blanche? A hack?!

Wash your mouth out with soap! Bear in mind a lot of GW's best minis are based on his work.

He's a very polarising artist. Personally I dislike most of his work, but it definately has shaped 40k over the years.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
John Blanche? A hack?!

Wash your mouth out with soap! Bear in mind a lot of GW's best minis are based on his work.

He's a very polarising artist. Personally I dislike most of his work, but it definately has shaped 40k over the years.

Yeah and not for the better with his fascination with s&m style outfits and stick thin badly proportioned females nearly wrecking the inquisition range.

Girlyman's resurrection was kind of... boring.

I wouldn't be against a book that claimed it was about the Blood Angel's last stand. Like 85% of it is just detailed descriptions of the deaths of various Angels. Then when things look really bad Sanguinius appears and cleaves through like 500 Tyranids in 2 seconds.

SeanDrake wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
John Blanche? A hack?!

Wash your mouth out with soap! Bear in mind a lot of GW's best minis are based on his work.

He's a very polarising artist. Personally I dislike most of his work, but it definately has shaped 40k over the years.

Yeah and not for the better with his fascination with s&m style outfits and stick thin badly proportioned females nearly wrecking the inquisition range.

"The guy that designed all the things I like really sucks at designing things."

 angelofvengeance wrote:
John Blanche? A hack?!

Wash your mouth out with soap! Bear in mind a lot of GW's best minis are based on his work.

Did he sculpt them? Then your point is irrelevant. You can take that worst artist out there currently (Let's say the Pander Brothers for instance), use one of their images as a starting point, and come up with something actually great. Now if it's an exact 3D rep of the art, then it's going to be every bit as terrible as the original. The Varghulf is a great example of this. Hell, pretty much every piece of toilet paper Blanche put in the 7th Ed. WFB Vampire Counts book would be a great example. If the minis were made like that, it'd make Mantic minis look like modern art masterpieces.

JSG wrote:

SeanDrake wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
John Blanche? A hack?!

Wash your mouth out with soap! Bear in mind a lot of GW's best minis are based on his work.

He's a very polarising artist. Personally I dislike most of his work, but it definately has shaped 40k over the years.

Yeah and not for the better with his fascination with s&m style outfits and stick thin badly proportioned females nearly wrecking the inquisition range.

"The guy that designed all the things I like really sucks at designing things."

Well, it's a matter of opinion. There's plenty of people who dislike him. I for one do like his style quite a lot, never found any real stinker in it.

His style is sort of strange but that's what makes it cool. It's like Frank Miller. He also really influenced the look of this whole universe.

This is really OT.

I'm still hoping for Sanguinius. Maybe in a triumvirate with Dante and Mephiston.

John Blanche is a very good concept artist. Obviously, is art is very personal so as Nostrodamus has said, is a case of "love it or hate it".

I personally don't like tha art but I can apreciate the imagination and how colorful he makes the concepts he drawns, making them coming alive.

 Galas wrote:
John Blanche is a very good concept artist. Obviously, is art is very personal so as Nostrodamus has said, is a case of "love it or hate it".

I personally don't like tha art but I can apreciate the imagination and how colorful he makes the concepts he drawns, making them coming alive.

The art might be okay, but I really like the miniature versions based off his art!

Yeah. He is very original, something that today is very hard. Is art is full of character. Character that many people don't like, but I have seen many people calling his art "Crap", and to me thats obvious that those people jus don't know how art works

I know how proportions, perspective, symmetry, and composition work. It is clear that Blanche doesn't. Add to the fact that with people like Gallagher on the payroll, you don't have to settle for backalley Brit artists anymore. At the start of GW, you kinda did.

 Just Tony wrote:
I know how proportions, perspective, symmetry, and composition work. It is clear that Blanche doesn't. Add to the fact that with people like Gallagher on the payroll, you don't have to settle for backalley Brit artists anymore. At the start of GW, you kinda did.

There are people into 40k who actually believe this.

Proportions, perspective, symmetri and composition are all tools into the artist repertory to use. I'm not gonna defend that obviously his works isn't the most traditional one, nor I'm gonna pretend that I know anything about Art

But this is all offtopic so I'll drop the theme here. John Blanche don't pay me money to defend his style.

Yes, exactly.

Please take the J. Blanche Aesthetics conversation to a separate thread, if you like.

The image with the eldar and tau symbols has been confirmed as the new books for xenos (index xenos 1 and index xenos 2)