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 Irbis wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

His head is clownishly big, 4 heads to body is proportions of 3 year old. I thought they can't top Kidbaddon, but they just did

I really hope he comes with a helmet. Pretty please?

Sister is nice, but it's the pose you can build from box already, and why she replaced half of her armour with gimp suit?

My god who sculped Valerian?! This is just horrible. I hope there is a helmet option....

Aleya looks fine.

Edit: also his misericordia hangs by his freaking knee....the hell is this?

*Brian Blessed Voice*

Kage is Alive?!?!

did they happen to mention if they are resin or plastic?

 Nicky J wrote:
did they happen to mention if they are resin or plastic?

They confirmed they are plastic

 Nicky J wrote:
did they happen to mention if they are resin or plastic?

With 95% certainty plastic. Forge World """quality""" sculpting would never manage to do that thin laurels, sword, cape, pteruges, or even base, 10 year old plastic techniques are somehow too hard for them

That, and it's GW painting style, with real, bright and shiny gold look, not the dirty, fluff-breaking, tarnished brass look FW smears their custodes with to make them as ugly as possible, again pointing to plastics...

Cataphract wrote:
*Brian Blessed Voice*

Kage is Alive?!?!

My thoughts as well.

I like the Sister. The Custodes is awful. Who thought the giant head was a good idea?

How do you purchase these (when they come out, that is)?

 Irbis wrote:
Sister is nice, but it's the pose you can build from box already, and why she replaced half of her armour with gimp suit?

You can't do that exact post.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I like the Sister. The Custodes is awful. Who thought the giant head was a good idea?

How do you purchase these (when they come out, that is)?

If I recall right they come out online, in shops and at the Black Library event next year. I think it happens in February sometime. Basically I think they are a few days deal to get hold of, but as they are sold through the GW store you can pick them up without having to attend the event itself.

The problem is the hair. In a bored moment I did some measurements and everything except the hair is exactly in scale with the previous warden kit. The width of the head is exactly the same, and the distance from eye to chin is the same. It's just the distance from the hairline to the top of the head that is different.
The hair makes the mini 6 heads tall whereas the bare headed warden is 7 heads tall.

In other news the aos novel Lady of Sorrows is by Clint Werner not Josh Reynolds.

 Overread wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I like the Sister. The Custodes is awful. Who thought the giant head was a good idea?

How do you purchase these (when they come out, that is)?

If I recall right they come out online, in shops and at the Black Library event next year. I think it happens in February sometime. Basically I think they are a few days deal to get hold of, but as they are sold through the GW store you can pick them up without having to attend the event itself.

The Black Library models hang around longer. They usually sell out early on, but then get remade and stay in stock. Last time I checked (not long ago) you could still get Eisenhorn and Severina Raine.

Looks like draco malfoy

phillv85 wrote:

 Overread wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I like the Sister. The Custodes is awful. Who thought the giant head was a good idea?

How do you purchase these (when they come out, that is)?

If I recall right they come out online, in shops and at the Black Library event next year. I think it happens in February sometime. Basically I think they are a few days deal to get hold of, but as they are sold through the GW store you can pick them up without having to attend the event itself.

The Black Library models hang around longer. They usually sell out early on, but then get remade and stay in stock. Last time I checked (not long ago) you could still get Eisenhorn and Severina Raine.

I was looking at the IG HQ section literally an hour ago and Raine is still there.

Look dull compared to Marbo, Raine, and Gotrek, Without the base or the hair it'll be hard to spot them on the table.

I like the SoS model, though I’m not sure on why the breastplate is black compared to the rest of the armour. Can just paint it differently, so no worries…

As for the Custodes model… It just looks fat and bloated to me in various parts of the model. Maybe it’s just the angle, but it looks like he has a massive head and a pot belly. Didn’t notice the stupidly placed dagger at first glance either, and as for the laurels…. Why?

Maybe all this needs is a head swap from the Custodes Guard box or something, along with not attaching it the laurels, and we’re good to go.

Kdash wrote:
I like the SoS model, though I’m not sure on why the breastplate is black compared to the rest of the armour. Can just paint it differently, so no worries…

As for the Custodes model… It just looks fat and bloated to me in various parts of the model. Maybe it’s just the angle, but it looks like he has a massive head and a pot belly. Didn’t notice the stupidly placed dagger at first glance either, and as for the laurels…. Why?

Maybe all this needs is a head swap from the Custodes Guard box or something, along with not attaching it the laurels, and we’re good to go.

At that point you can just build him from the Custodes box anyway.

I don't suppose anyone attended the BL event and heard anything about future Gotrek and Felix publications coming up? I know that Trollslayer is coming back soon for another reprint in hardback (though beyond the cover and story do we know if it contains anything else within it?).

However with the 4th omnibus now released are there any plans we are aware of for a 5th combining the End Times stories? Or even future ones beyond that which might add up some of the stand alone stories that they've got.

 Overread wrote:
I don't suppose anyone attended the BL event and heard anything about future Gotrek and Felix publications coming up? I know that Trollslayer is coming back soon for another reprint in hardback (though beyond the cover and story do we know if it contains anything else within it?).

However with the 4th omnibus now released are there any plans we are aware of for a 5th combining the End Times stories? Or even future ones beyond that which might add up some of the stand alone stories that they've got.

I don't know if you've read them or not, but if you've not I'll say that you're not missing much.

The "kinda Mordheim" one was terrible. I've not read Road of Skulls but people who's opinion on fiction I trust have said it's also garbo(same author as the previous...). The End Times stories are A; set in the End Times and B; contain some stuff that I thought was just...awful guff.

Serpent Queen is the only one of the remaining non-omnibused books that was worth reading IMO, and even then it's only on par with the lesser Long novels.

https://www.trackofwords.com/2019/11/13/the-black-library-weekender-2019-roundup/#more-12724

excellent -- as usual -- write up of the weekender, useful info about maps etc etc too.

So they do the right thing with the SoT book but muck up with the map and allow scalpers to buy up to five maps when only fifty available at the weekender. Honestly seems intentional now as a lot of the limited editions do not sell out.

I like that BL are branching into more different labels for books as it should help give the books a different story telling framework to operate in.

Just got an email to confirm that my Reprints of Inferno are in the post and on their way! Which is blazingly fast compared to the last two times that GW has done this.

Does anybody know the retail price of the Sabbat's Crusade book by any chance?

And nice re: Inferno! reprint. Nothing on my end yet, but hopefully soon, would be nice to have these in hand before 2020.

 BrookM wrote:
Does anybody know the retail price of the Sabbat's Crusade book by any chance?

And nice re: Inferno! reprint. Nothing on my end yet, but hopefully soon, would be nice to have these in hand before 2020.

£40, apparently.
Edit: from the Track of Words write up above.

Do we know when plebs can expect to be able to order the book & map?

 Yodhrin wrote:
Do we know when plebs can expect to be able to order the book & map?

"Some time in December" according to the Black Library Weekender write up posted above. That's the most only thing I've seen on it so far.

Grr. Logged in to the GW site at 9:45 and refreshed every 30 seconds from 9:56 to 10:00 when preorders went live for The First Wall. Added to basket, checkout, logged in to PayPal and it just hung when returning from the PayPal site. 35 minutes of "down for maintenance" messages and suddenly pops back up no "no longer available online"... Looks like I'm out of the Limited Edition game for the rest of the series then. Good luck to all the scalpers already flogging it on eBay.

 Dimrill wrote:
Grr. Logged in to the GW site at 9:45 and refreshed every 30 seconds from 9:56 to 10:00 when preorders went live for The First Wall. Added to basket, checkout, logged in to PayPal and it just hung when returning from the PayPal site. 35 minutes of "down for maintenance" messages and suddenly pops back up no "no longer available online"... Looks like I'm out of the Limited Edition game for the rest of the series then. Good luck to all the scalpers already flogging it on eBay.

Same for me. Disappointing to say the very darn least! I actually ended up sending them an email, stating my disappointment. Not that I expect it to accomplish anything, but I felt a need to communicate the way I felt about this hideous release method... I'm out of the race as well.

There were still copy's available at 10:10 (as I forgot) as I put my order through, normally sells out quicker than that. I put my order in the the limited edition of Mark of Faith afterwards and that payment hang, had to retry three times before it went through properly.

If you can prove it mucked up they might sell you a copy of you complain enough as they keep some back for orders lost in the post or misprints.

 Looky Likey wrote:
There were still copy's available at 10:10 (as I forgot) as I put my order through, normally sells out quicker than that. I put my order in the the limited edition of Mark of Faith afterwards and that payment hang, had to retry three times before it went through properly.

If you can prove it mucked up they might sell you a copy of you complain enough as they keep some back for orders lost in the post or misprints.

It actually died three times for me, had it in my cart thrice! :-(
I have screenshots of everything and sent them along with my email. But as said, I expect nothing to come of it. :-/

I was lucky enough to get one although the site felt like it was about to crash right through the sale