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Lord Kragan wrote:
I think that's a conversion. One hell of a conversion, though.

What parts do you recongnize from other kits?

About the only thing to that be'lakor that makes me think it's a conversion is the wings.
The chains hanging from it make me think they were added separately.
When GW adds stuff like that, it's usually moulded into the wing or follows the wings angle, never hangs straight down to give it more of a 3d profile.

I've dragged it into Photoshop and taken it apart, but I'm really not seeing any parts there that I recognise.
If it is a conversion, it's a damn good job.

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
I think that's a conversion. One hell of a conversion, though.

What parts do you recongnize from other kits?

The lower part of the armor is literally skarbrand's, see the skull and the holes in the mail.

https://www.games-workshop.com/es-ES/Skarbrand-Bloodthirster

Also, hive tyrant's wings.

Some things that look similar:

Magnus' energy globe/fire ball?
end of staff from a Chaos Cultist icon bearer?
base of model with part from Witchfate Tor?

Also, the belt's buckler is also a part of skarbrand's armor, some kind of brooch next to his left shoulder.

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
I think that's a conversion. One hell of a conversion, though.

What parts do you recongnize from other kits?

Leg armour is from the Varanguard horses.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
I think that's a conversion. One hell of a conversion, though.

What parts do you recongnize from other kits?

The lower part of the armor is literally skarbrand's, see the skull and the holes in the mail.

https://www.games-workshop.com/es-ES/Skarbrand-Bloodthirster

Also, hive tyrant's wings.

Okay, I'll give you the points for the Skarbrand stuff. But this could be GW re-using existing files.
Definetely not Hive Tyrant wings, though.


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JSG wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
I think that's a conversion. One hell of a conversion, though.

What parts do you recongnize from other kits?

Leg armour is from the Varanguard horses.

Similiar, but nowhere near the same.

 Redemption wrote:

Spoiler:

Not sure if this was shared his, but this picture of what appears to be an updated Be'lakor is doing the rounds.

Where did you get the pic from?

It is a fantastic conversion. Link to the guy that made it rather than making stuff up.

His twitter account (with WIP etc pictures) is https://twitter.com/RobEllis21

The model of Be'lakor is a convertion, i found the maker on twitter Robert Ellis. his handle is RobEllis21.

mhsellwood wrote:
It is a fantastic conversion. Link to the guy that made it rather than making stuff up.

His twitter account (with WIP etc pictures) is https://twitter.com/RobEllis21

Damn. Good job finding out though.

 Redemption wrote:
Not sure if this was shared his, but this picture of what appears to be an updated Be'lakor is doing the rounds.

This is a conversion. I follow the builder on Twitter. It’s a masterpiece, though.

Also, there's this post someone passed me:

I don't even know why anyone thought it's an army when GW clearly called it an expansion.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I don't even know why anyone thought it's an army when GW clearly called it an expansion.

Not army, but Stormcast, because:
"THE STORMVAULT OPENS" right before the fade to black.

 Hanskrampf wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I don't even know why anyone thought it's an army when GW clearly called it an expansion.

Not army, but Stormcast, because:
"THE STORMVAULT OPENS" right before the fade to black.

Fair enough. Gonna say that's Sigmar's counter to the Necroquake, setting more endless spells loose in the realms.

"...hide nor hair..."

Flesh-Eater Court and Skaven.

 Redemption wrote:
Not sure if this was shared his, but this picture of what appears to be an updated Be'lakor is doing the rounds.

It's a conversion.


On another note, we might have gotten our first look at Shadowkin:

 Donomar wrote:

 Redemption wrote:

Spoiler:

Not sure if this was shared his, but this picture of what appears to be an updated Be'lakor is doing the rounds.

Where did you get the pic from?

It was posted anonymously in the comments on a thread about the new LVO releases, hence my mistake. With the white background it looked like a WHC picture. Sorry everyone!

The 'Judgements Of Khorne' are fantastic. And they show that non magic armies can get something like Endless Spells. Here's hoping that Overlords can get 'Endless Weather' or something.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
The 'Judgements Of Khorne' are fantastic. And they show that non magic armies can get something like Endless Spells. Here's hoping that Overlords can get 'Endless Weather' or something.

It will be something Aether-based most likely. Aether gold is magical right?

Aetheric phenomena or something.

Yay!

More Khorne!

Awesome!

Can we get to the Slaanesh release already?

 Future War Cultist wrote:
The 'Judgements Of Khorne' are fantastic. And they show that non magic armies can get something like Endless Spells. Here's hoping that Overlords can get 'Endless Weather' or something.

They have alchemists, right? Endless ur-gold in a bottle.

 Galas wrote:
Man if they end up doing a Gutbusters Battletome that could be the best thing at least for me.

QFT dude. My Gutbusters are the only one of my old Fantasy armies that I've kept solely for playing AOS with, and I've played a lot of AOS with them since the game released. I would dearly love a battletome to give them some of the competitive depth of, well, all those armies with battletomes

Thoughts on the Khorne Rererelease:

1) Another Khorne book? Jeez Dub. Though I'll take updating old battletomes to reflect the new (and IMO flavorful af) army design philosophy over just letting old boring battletomes languish.

2) Finally a plastic bloodmaster that doesn't come in the skull cannon box

3) Those endless not-spells are so deliciously grimdark that I might have no choice

I've been working on a Khorne daemon army for years at this point, and the lads are just about to see paint. So a new Blades book is well-timed!

I'm disappointed at their updating a book that has been updated twice already. I get it that they don't have endless spells, but there are like 14 factions that have never even had a single book yet.

I wonder if they slotted Blades of Khorne in the release schedule because they needed something small to release with something else (e.g. Blood Bowl or Necromunda)?

I wonder if Karanak and the Hounds will get a separate release along with the BoK book.

lord_blackfang wrote:Forbidden Power: Endless Spells 2, Electric Boogaloo: 17 new ways to deal D3 mortal wounds.

The Khorne 3.0 that nobody asked for, with totally not endless spells.

Except for us Khorne players who were hoping to get brought in line with other 2.0 battletomes

Ghaz wrote:I wonder if they slotted Blades of Khorne in the release schedule because they needed something small to release with something else (e.g. Blood Bowl or Necromunda)?

This is really all this is, folks. It'll be a small splash release with handful of kits (Probably Skulltaker, Endless Not Spells and the updated Khornedogs from Wrath & Rapture) to fill out the release schedule. Hopefully, the other pre-2.0 battletomes will get similar re-releases.

The Endless Spells and Terrain and Battletomes are all external productions for GW. They basically just have to make the designs and place an order and the China factories do the work. So they are much easier to slot in than big model releases. GW is likely going to make a lot of these releases over the next year for AoS to boost up the factions.

I think their view is that one reason AoS has trouble selling is because people see outdated battletomes or no battletomes and that holds them back from joining in. Updating the game and getting every army onto 2.0 is a big step- as big as it was for 40K getting to 8th edition in one big go.

So I figure that 2019 is going to be huge for this in AoS. It's just what the game needs.

 Overread wrote:
The Endless Spells and Terrain and Battletomes are all external productions for GW. They basically just have to make the designs and place an order and the China factories do the work. So they are much easier to slot in than big model releases. GW is likely going to make a lot of these releases over the next year for AoS to boost up the factions.

I think their view is that one reason AoS has trouble selling is because people see outdated battletomes or no battletomes and that holds them back from joining in. Updating the game and getting every army onto 2.0 is a big step- as big as it was for 40K getting to 8th edition in one big go.

So I figure that 2019 is going to be huge for this in AoS. It's just what the game needs.

Wait, so the new terrain kits are being produced in China? Do they have the same issues with soft details that most of the outsourced terrain kits have had? (shudders at memory of assembling Plasma Obliterator kit...)

I was under the impression that GW produced a lot of terrain in-house nowadays to keep it at the higher quality.

 Overread wrote:
The Endless Spells and Terrain and Battletomes are all external productions for GW. They basically just have to make the designs and place an order and the China factories do the work. So they are much easier to slot in than big model releases. GW is likely going to make a lot of these releases over the next year for AoS to boost up the factions.

Last time I'll accept this excuse. China can do normal high-definition sprues as well as of just now. Mollog's Mob and The Godsworn Hunt are both Made in China.


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 Haighus wrote:
Wait, so the new terrain kits are being produced in China? Do they have the same issues with soft details that most of the outsourced terrain kits have had? (shudders at memory of assembling Plasma Obliterator kit...)

Not quite as bad as the early stuff but in one word, yes. Faction specific Endless Spells and terrain are lower-definition casts. They are no longer an ABS/HIPS plastic mix, however, so they at least glue okay, aren't critically deformed right out of the box, and they come on normal sprues.
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