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 Altruizine wrote:

 aka_mythos wrote:
These heads are great... however I'm not sure if releasing these sorts of bits as long after the kits will drive sales of those kits as I'm sure they hope they will. I think these will end up getting more use to do conversions for IG and the like, more than for their immediate intended purpose.

Yeah, I'd love to have used these, but I already have 20+ Van Saar/Goliath/Orlocks and 10 Cawdor/Delaque built (with my own converted heads on many models.

I would have definitely picked up the FW heads if they'd been revealed prior to me building all that. As it stands, I can't really use these unless I expand some gangs (which I might!). My Escher aren't built yet, so I could use them there, too.

I just want them to keep up with the cool stuff, now just need Delaque heads, weapons, etc..

 aka_mythos wrote:
These heads are great... however I'm not sure if releasing these sorts of bits as long after the kits will drive sales of those kits as I'm sure they hope they will. I think these will end up getting more use to do conversions for IG and the like, more than for their immediate intended purpose.

Some people are just lucky I guess. I still have 20 Escher/30 Goliath/30 Orlock/30 Van Saar/10 Cawdor to build.

 Altruizine wrote:
There are three female heads in the Van Saar collection. Pay attention.

Where?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Where?

I think it is the first and third on first row, from the left. The only reason I know they're supposed to be female heads because GW attach them to the female body in their demonstration picture. lol.

These are cool, I have to admit. Especially that Escher leader head and the Goliaths.

The joke comment being, will a new edition/compendium for Necromunda be released in April to replace the one that just came out in November?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Altruizine wrote:
There are three female heads in the Van Saar collection. Pay attention.

Where?

So if you number them like this:

1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16

I would posit that 1, 3, and 15 are clearly intended to be women.

1 and 3 are very similar in shape and detail to the single female head provided in the plastic kit (rounded skulls and subtle brows, compared to the rectangular brow-fests of the male ganger heads). 15 has a hairstyle that lines up with one of the female Van Saar gangers illustrated in the rulebook (a hairstyle not shared with any of the male gangers in the art, as far as I remember).

You could absolutely use any of the heads I mentioned to represent a male ganger, and it would look fine. But by the same token there are at least two other heads in that set that I identify as "male" which would work fine for a female character. I'm obviously taking an unproveable position here, but I think anyone complaining about a lack of female heads is expecting a style for Van Saar women that does not logically follow from the appearance established by the plastic kit.

15 with the Ivan Drago hair is clearly a female?

Guess they were aiming for the "mother russia" look, Unfortunately the female Van Saar have frail and tiny body.

 Altruizine wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Altruizine wrote:
There are three female heads in the Van Saar collection. Pay attention.

Where?

So if you number them like this:

1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16

I would posit that 1, 3, and 15 are clearly intended to be women.

1 and 3 are very similar in shape and detail to the single female head provided in the plastic kit (rounded skulls and subtle brows, compared to the rectangular brow-fests of the male ganger heads). 15 has a hairstyle that lines up with one of the female Van Saar gangers illustrated in the rulebook (a hairstyle not shared with any of the male gangers in the art, as far as I remember).

You could absolutely use any of the heads I mentioned to represent a male ganger, and it would look fine. But by the same token there are at least two other heads in that set that I identify as "male" which would work fine for a female character. I'm obviously taking an unproveable position here, but I think anyone complaining about a lack of female heads is expecting a style for Van Saar women that does not logically follow from the appearance established by the plastic kit.

There's only 12 heads in the van saar set.

Love the Goliath heads!


Guys you remember that Cawdor character that looked a little too pointy hat and then got removed everywhere.
Do you think he’ll come back?
(They could add bits like heads 1 & 3 have. Or just use one like 7 or 16 instead..)


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Obviously it’ll take some extra sculpting, not just a popping one on.
But better than scrapping him entirely surely?

I hope he comes back exactly as he was. It was a great model.

He'd probably stay in 2018 forever.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I hope he comes back exactly as he was. It was a great model.

So do I.
I think it’s ridiculous that this is happening to be honest, people making the comparisons just to troll.
But obviously it worried them enough.

Anyone have the pic of him still to post, I don’t have it anymore..

Danny76 wrote:


Anyone have the pic of him still to post, I don’t have it anymore..

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/necromunda/comments/98cwmx/new_cawdor_executioner_from_warhammer_fest_europe/

Cheers.

Sad, the more I look at it, the more I think why even..


But they never officially said anything about it did they, just removed the article..

I'd forgotten all the studs on his hood, it makes the perceived reason for it's disappearance even more odd as that's something the Klan just don't have so only a rea idiot is going to mix up the two

Heads are in preorder!!

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Cawdor-Heads-Upgrade-Set-2019

Odd that it’s two Goliath sets rather than one every one else gets.

Goliath heads have too much meat to fit in a single set.

Hmm... there are 26 heads, I have 30 Goliaths to build. But then I wouldn't be using all the heads in the plastic kit.

Oh the horror of having too much to choose from.

For Golios, there's one set of masked heads, and one set without masks.

Plastic ambots!

PLASTIC?

Definitely plastic?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
PLASTIC?

Definitely plastic?

Warhammer Community wrote:That’s not all our Ambull-related news, either – the Ambot, a mechanical brute from the underhive, is coming to Necromunda in a new plastic kit that builds a pair of cybernetic monstrosities:

Not just plastic--TWO in plastic!

They are indeed!

Oh what wonders today has brought!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
PLASTIC?

Definitely plastic?

Aye

That’s not all our Ambull-related news, either – the Ambot, a mechanical brute from the underhive, is coming to Necromunda in a new plastic kit that builds a pair of cybernetic monstrosities

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/01/05/breaking-news-new-models-new-expansions-and-exclusive-revealsgw-homepage-post-1/

So were the Centurion rules Ok after the CA? Because I think I found by counts-as Centurions...

They're plastic? Oh man that's awesome.

 zedmeister wrote:
Plastic ambots!

Just wow they are gorgeous and the new Ambull model is also great

I mean, cool, but are most people going to need two?

I'll use two. One will be painted in my specific Escher scheme, the other will be in catch all colours for any gang to use.

 Yodhrin wrote:
I mean, cool, but are most people going to need two?

For just Necromunda, possibly not, but I expect these will show up in Blackstone Fortress expansions and if there are any AdMech types out there who hate their daft looking toy robots, these would be a cool alternative. Plus conversion fodder (Killa Kans anyone?), I think GW are well aware that certain kits are used fairly extensively for conversions.