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What happened to the chainmail texture behind the hooks on power armour praetor's loincloth?
Did it get lost in the same place as the detail from the black lump on terminator praetor's hand?

It looks more like a mouth that has been sewn shut.

Ha. On closer inspection I think you're right. Regardless, all I can see is moustache head now.

Necromunda stuff:

More models killed by a terrible paintjob, it just really kills my interest.

I wish the previews would be naked resin now days, these paint jobs are atrocious and extremely sub par especially when promoting a new sculpt. It does nothing to entice you at all.

Same terrible paint job on these as at the weekender. These are so bad I would be ashamed to post them online if they were mine.

I'm not really impressed with that floating blob thing. looks like the sort of conversions you make as a newbie, like they just threw a lump of GS into a bits box.

Yeah that blob is a bit lame. But as far as people commenting on the paint job... i don't get it, i think it looks good?

edit - I mean i would consider that good for a average skilled painter?

You've answered your own question. For high end (and expensive stuff) like this, they should be getting the best paintjob possible to show them off, not just average. Fortunately the bare resin is much better.

And looking again, the paintjobs barely scratch average. Arturos especially, that bad white on the inner coat lining and that black splotch on the white is just laziness.

Yeah we talk about bad paint jobs for FW stuff each week, but oooff... those are rough.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah we talk about bad paint jobs for FW stuff each week, but oooff... those are rough.

Yeas they are terrible, but luckily FW always show you the unpainted resin too. I wish GW would do the same and show pictures of the built models in grey plastic, not just sprue pics. On the other hand, I also wish that FW would show the unbuilt mini too so us converters can see the actual pieces it comes in.

 Stormatious wrote:
Yeah that blob is a bit lame. But as far as people commenting on the paint job... i don't get it, i think it looks good?

edit - I mean i would consider that good for a average skilled painter?

That looks like the garbage I did at 14 honestly it's below average.

I agree that the paintjob on those is pretty poor, but other than the carelessness (on the first model it even seems some of the metal colour has ended up directly on their right hand) I can't quite figure out specifically why they look so bad. They remind me of models where someones bought the entirely wrong sort of paints.

Aruros is a fairly nice model in itself, but the other two look a bit uninspired, really. That Wyrdlock seems to be just the old Renegade Psyker with the two back poles removed, am i missing something?

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah we talk about bad paint jobs for FW stuff each week, but oooff... those are rough.

Yeas they are terrible, but luckily FW always show you the unpainted resin too. I wish GW would do the same and show pictures of the built models in grey plastic, not just sprue pics. On the other hand, I also wish that FW would show the unbuilt mini too so us converters can see the actual pieces it comes in.

It would be nice if FW did more 360s and parts layouts. And GW ought to update their older kits with 360 and sprue pics, not just the new ones

The paint job on these, I'd be fairly happy to achieve that result myself, but I rarely actually enjoy the painting side of the hobby. If GW is taking over the 40K rules side of things from FW, maybe Eavy Metal team should take over the painting as well.

Sweet beans, another lump of resin utterly ruined by a terrible paintjob.

If everyone painted to that standard at least, it would be great, but for that to be a professional paint job for Forgeworld is disgraceful. I've got models on the GW webstore that are better painted...

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
I agree that the paintjob on those is pretty poor, but other than the carelessness (on the first model it even seems some of the metal colour has ended up directly on their right hand) I can't quite figure out specifically why they look so bad. They remind me of models where someones bought the entirely wrong sort of paints.

It's the skin.

Wow. If Mantic had released this, they'd have been slated (by half the people saying these are ok).

GW's sculpts and paint jobs have been out of the park recently - even if they're not the style I like, but these FW offerings seem like GW are trying to get FW shut down.

That Floaty one is literally a modified Rogue psyker one........

But he they went oop they said.

The problem with these recent FW paintjobs is that the style is very soft and the shadows do not clearly follow the shapes of the model, nor are the edges strongly highlighted. Even if someone for some reason would like this style, it is not good for displaying a product one wants to sell, as it obfuscates the actual shapes of the models.

 Togusa wrote:

GW's sculpts and paint jobs have been out of the park recently - even if they're not the style I like, but these FW offerings seem like GW are trying to get FW shut down.

That's exactly it. I've no doubt that GW wants to get rid of as much of their resin miniatures range as possible. Removal of Forge World's 40k model range is the first step, wrapping up Horus Heresy is another. They'd much rather FW just focused on disposable niche stuff for marginal games like Blood Bowl.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:

That's exactly it. I've no doubt that GW wants to get rid of as much of their resin miniatures range as possible. Removal of Forge World's 40k model range is the first step, wrapping up Horus Heresy is another. They'd much rather FW just focused on disposable niche stuff for marginal games like Blood Bowl.

Well, personally i'm glad FW is doing characterful miniatures instead of million mildly different variations of ugly squat-marines and doors for their vehicles.

 Burnage wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
I agree that the paintjob on those is pretty poor, but other than the carelessness (on the first model it even seems some of the metal colour has ended up directly on their right hand) I can't quite figure out specifically why they look so bad. They remind me of models where someones bought the entirely wrong sort of paints.

It's the skin.

Metals are super flat and the shading is garbage.

Five years from now, and I'm sure they won't be doing anything at all.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
Five years from now, and I'm sure they won't be doing anything at all.

Possible. I really never understood why they need to be a separate division in the first place. Why can't the FW team be folded int the main GW team and the models be sold on the main GW website along with all other models?

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah we talk about bad paint jobs for FW stuff each week, but oooff... those are rough.

Another FW release and another terrible FW paintjob.

In spite of the painting, I really want to work on Rumpole! Blobbity mcbloberson could look cool but I'm not sure just how much the model itself is making the paint look bad or vice-versa.

And the Lazy Sculptor of the Year award goes to... This thing.



This thing literally looks like a 4 year old child rolled Play-Doh through some W40K bitz and FW thought "Fantastic! Let's cast it."

This is seriously the dumbest fething model I've ever seen. Who thought that this thing would be worth investing time and effort into?

FW are supposed to be the specialist section of GW. That implies to me that the stuff they do is better and pricier than GW models.

As a Newcromunda "buyer of everything", I stop here.

Even Mantic have Angel Giraldez painting their newest models now.


I'd rather see bare resin or metal to the recent FW stuff.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
FW are supposed to be the specialist section of GW. That implies to me that the stuff they do is better and pricier than GW models.

As a Newcromunda "buyer of everything", I stop here.

Even Mantic have Angel Giraldez painting their newest models now.

Spoiler:

I'd rather see bare resin or metal to the recent FW stuff.

I find the problem with Angel Giraldez is that he is so incredibly good I find myself suspicious that he’s made a mediocre mini look amazing

I always judge the minis on the bare resin regardless of how good the painting is anyway.