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tneva82 wrote:
Hopefully those elf helms have the top part separate piece. If that can be get rid of and put into pointy end I might start an army.

They literally have to. The back of the cow-face where it meets the helm is a massive undercut otherwise. Or they do a vertical split and suddenly the eyes are impossible. At least on the ones we’ve seen close up so far.
In fact, probably the horns and the cow-masks are each separate pieces, in addition to the helm itself.

Here's hoping. I don't refer to just cow masks etc but pretty much all. Spearelves, cavalry. All. The top piece AWAY YOU GO.

Hopefully the rest of helmet is workable or at most simple green stuff required.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/04/06/ultimate-art-isansgw-homepage-post-3/

Lumineth art. Unintentionally ironic, since the artist talks about the opportunity to work with white, light and the full color spectrum, and five of the seven pictures that were chosen to be in the article are dark and/or mono-shaded, and another lacks a background altogether, and the 'shards of aetherquartz,' which are also mentioned, only appear in the first pic.

Am I the only one thinking that Lumineth are kinda looking like some anciet greek army or am I just crazy?

for some reason Elves, despite not being a Mediterranean myth, are often represented as Greco-Roman.

It's a weird contrivance that doesn't just apply to to GW.

Carlovonsexron wrote:
for some reason Elves, despite not being a Mediterranean myth, are often represented as Greco-Roman.

It's a weird contrivance that doesn't just apply to to GW.

I think its because of Atlantis.
It always sounds sort of "elfy" what with being superior and all so the idea that they were settled around the Mediterranean and then influenced technologies and styles of that region fits. That said I've equally seen them with asian and other "exotic to western Europe" influences too.

GW is very much going down quite a strong greek/med pathway at present.

Sotahullu wrote:
Am I the only one thinking that Lumineth are kinda looking like some anciet greek army or am I just crazy?

Not more so than the previous High Elves, but certainly carrying that over. The new lot have far more eastern influences in addition to that however.

There is in part indeed the "advanced civilisation of Atlantis" connection - Ulthuan was even located where it would have been, in the Atlantic ocean. The idea of citizen soldiers fits the Greek connection too. Stylistically - rows of spearmen, still with helmets of which the lower part strongly resembles the characteristic classical hoplite gear, and with breastplates and vambraces - they also help appear to be an ancient race by visually resembling, well, an ancient culture. They also share what I consider to be fairly elegant designs, which obviously helps. Oh, and the new ones kind of have minotaurs, I guess there's that too.

 Mr Morden wrote:
Really lovely artwork again

They are commissioning some great art.

I need to see the Giants to know if I want them,

These are most likely all in-house. They have many in-house artists (Paul Dainton and Kevin Chin being my favourites personally) and most of them are very, very good. When AoS was starting they did a lot of outsourcing of art which was... not so good.

 Mymearan wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Really lovely artwork again

They are commissioning some great art.

I need to see the Giants to know if I want them,

These are most likely all in-house. They have many in-house artists (Paul Dainton and Kevin Chin being my favourites personally) and most of them are very, very good. When AoS was starting they did a lot of outsourcing of art which was... not so good.

I think this has more to do with them hiring new artists and/or trying to push artists in a combined art "style" which didn't work for everybody.
If you have a look through the Artstation portfolios of the GW artists, you can see their improvements over the years or them switching to their own style.

From the White Dwarf preview on Warhammer Community:

The dead have come to claim the bone tithe in this month’s Tome Celestial. It’s all about Vokmortian’s Tithe Legion, who specialise in claiming immense quantities of bone for their dread master, be it by dark pacts or, er, more direct intervention.

You’ll gain new insights into the Tithe Legion’s history, motives and organisation – as well as painting guides for both Classic and Contrast Methods, and three new warscroll battalions to use in your games.

Have the battalions from this sort of article been useful so far?

 Dysartes wrote:
Have the battalions from this sort of article been useful so far?

Probably only the Slaanesh one, which didn't really need any help at the time, and possibly the Nighthaunt?. I know the Fyreslayer battalions were down grades or sidegrades at best from their battletome companions.

The Stormcast ones were meh, but most of the SCE battletome battalions are also meh. Been awhile since I checked them out though, so if someone knows better, chime in and correct me.

The WD stuff varies a lot - the Slaanesh was outright broken as whilst the "idea" was it was an infantry heavy one that let you take more infantry without losing out on depravity, it in the end just meant if you used it with a keeper heavy list you got even more broken amounts of it.

 Dysartes wrote:
Have the battalions from this sort of article been useful so far?

Sometimes.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Have the battalions from this sort of article been useful so far?

Sometimes.

I found the Slaanesh battalions from the Syll'Eske article pretty good,
even bought soul grinders for use with its content!

mortar_crew wrote:
I found the Slaanesh battalions from the Syll'Eske article pretty good,

"I find the yew longbow is pretty good"

- British Yeoman ca. 1415

Posted on Facebook, pretty much what we’ve seen but looks like different hammers on the hammer guys:

Those most certainly are different hammers.

They look like crystals on the back of the hammer?

The battlecattle is so sweet... Need to brush up on techniques on how to get a nice white colour.

Voss wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/04/06/ultimate-art-isansgw-homepage-post-3/

Lumineth art. Unintentionally ironic, since the artist talks about the opportunity to work with white, light and the full color spectrum, and five of the seven pictures that were chosen to be in the article are dark and/or mono-shaded, and another lacks a background altogether, and the 'shards of aetherquartz,' which are also mentioned, only appear in the first pic.

Well there are a lot of rainbow-esque lights in those artworks.

New art article for Lumineth:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/04/08/lumineth-realm-lords-exploring-hyshgw-homepage-post-1/

And this actually cool looking Warden:



And this nice overview on Realm of Light which absolutely does not look like a chaos symbol, its just your feeble imagination:

I find the artwork really odd, don't have concrete conclusions as to why is that.

I do still defiantly like the models even if I think the headgear is stupid as hell. Even the Mountain-Cow.

Sotahullu wrote:

And this nice overview on Realm of Light which absolutely does not look like a chaos symbol, its just your feeble imagination:

Its set up like the 'wheel' of the Hysh symbol, which is just up and to the left of the map in the same picture.

The rivers between continents look vaguely like runes in places, particularly the central north and south ones, the northern one looks like it has a hammer head facing Xintil.

She looks cool and from the text ikely is from Iliatha‎, a matricarcal society that practises magical cloning.

sounds like some interesting ideas to explore.

Voss wrote:

Sotahullu wrote:

And this nice overview on Realm of Light which absolutely does not look like a chaos symbol, its just your feeble imagination:

Its set up like the 'wheel' of the Hysh symbol, which is just up and to the left of the map in the same picture.

The rivers between continents look vaguely like runes in places, particularly the central north and south ones, the northern one looks like it has a hammer head facing Xintil.

Except for the City looking thing, as far as I can tell the left and right sides of that map are mirror images of each other.

Bob Lorgar wrote:

Voss wrote:

Sotahullu wrote:

And this nice overview on Realm of Light which absolutely does not look like a chaos symbol, its just your feeble imagination:

Its set up like the 'wheel' of the Hysh symbol, which is just up and to the left of the map in the same picture.

The rivers between continents look vaguely like runes in places, particularly the central north and south ones, the northern one looks like it has a hammer head facing Xintil.

Except for the City looking thing, as far as I can tell the left and right sides of that map are mirror images of each other.

I believe that 'City looking thing' is just a map compass and not a terrain feature being represented on the map.

It seems to a lot smaller than some of the other Realms

Bob Lorgar wrote:

Voss wrote:

Sotahullu wrote:

And this nice overview on Realm of Light which absolutely does not look like a chaos symbol, its just your feeble imagination:

Its set up like the 'wheel' of the Hysh symbol, which is just up and to the left of the map in the same picture.

The rivers between continents look vaguely like runes in places, particularly the central north and south ones, the northern one looks like it has a hammer head facing Xintil.

Except for the City looking thing, as far as I can tell the left and right sides of that map are mirror images of each other.

Its supposed to be, according to the article:

We have a better sense of what Hysh looks like than most of the other Mortal Realms. Hysh is a symmetrical realm, divided into the Ten Paradises.

Ghaz wrote:I believe that 'City looking thing' is just a map compass and not a terrain feature being represented on the map.

It certainly looks like one. On the twin map, though, its roughly on top of the "Pit of Cathartia,' one of the only specific place names. And I'm not particularly convinced of the functionality of a compass there, so I could go either way on it.

I always like getting fluff details like this, doubly so for maps.