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It's as simple as being there before the product goes on sale, and getting lucky in being allowed to purchase one, which will then probably be poorly cast anyway. Hobbies!

It's pretty embarrassing for GW that their QC is so poor, given the massive prices they charge for individual minis.

 Return_to_Bretonnia wrote:
Yeah. In the UK the pre-order window officially opens at 10:00am, but usually the new minis are actually up on the website by 9:55am.

I had Elisse ordered by 9:57am.

It's that simple. Be there early and order quickly.

I still consider myself lucky that I was able to grab the Brettonian Lord with Great Weapon; he's been out of stock forever.

How was that model when you had it in your hands, Kid? I know it caught a lot of flak when it was revealed.

That’s a great paint job, looks phenomenal

 Dysartes wrote:
How was that model when you had it in your hands, Kid? I know it caught a lot of flak when it was revealed.

Rogue Hobbies on Youtube did a video to see if she could "redeem" that mini.
Turns out, she couldn't.

Dysartes wrote:How was that model when you had it in your hands, Kid? I know it caught a lot of flak when it was revealed.

Honestly, it was intimidating. I had him primed and put on my custom basing for a 2 weeks before deciding to tackle the paint job. I mean, I knew I wanted to do red, white, & blue for the one particular nation in my miniature-based fantasy webcomic. Once I finally got some base-coat colors down, he was a very relaxing, enjoyable project. I like that the character is a throwback to the sculpting style of when I got drawn into GW in the 90's. I didn't realize the sword arm would be a separate piece and I am very thankful it was. I was expecting a solid chunk of pewter with big areas that couldn't be undercut.

I can see some people being disappointed compared to the FW paladins, but for me it was like finding an old Games Day mini or like finding buried treasure.

nathan2004 wrote:That’s a great paint job, looks phenomenal

Thank you! He was fun. The hard part was choosing what colors to put where before starting.

I get that they didnt bother to release the Bretonnian footlord back when they sculpted him. Were you supposed to put him in a unit of peasant footmen? The insolence!

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I like that the character is a throwback to the sculpting style of when I got drawn into GW in the 90's. I didn't realize the sword arm would be a separate piece and I am very thankful it was. I was expecting a solid chunk of pewter with big areas that couldn't be undercut.

I can see some people being disappointed compared to the FW paladins, but for me it was like finding an old Games Day mini or like finding buried treasure.

That's exactly how I feel. The unreleased (now-released!) Lord is goofy and I love it for the goofiness.

I can see why some people *don't* like it, but I'm definitely not one of them.

 Fayric wrote:
I get that they didnt bother to release the Bretonnian footlord back when they sculpted him. Were you supposed to put him in a unit of peasant footmen? The insolence!

The prevailing theory is that he was supposed to be an event miniature but Games Day stopped being a thing then End Times effectively killed Bretonnia.

So he had been sitting on a shelf for like 12 years.

We don't need theories, we were told about it in the o original article announcing it:

“He was made in modelling putty with sculpting tools (dental tools). I had wanted to do a Lord on foot as all of our knight models were mounted. He was intended to be a Games Day exclusive miniature, but in the end, another of my models replaced him, the Exalted Hero of Chaos at Games Day 2009.”

Vorian wrote:
We don't need theories, we were told about it in the o original article announcing it:

“He was made in modelling putty with sculpting tools (dental tools). I had wanted to do a Lord on foot as all of our knight models were mounted. He was intended to be a Games Day exclusive miniature, but in the end, another of my models replaced him, the Exalted Hero of Chaos at Games Day 2009.”

I'm fairly sure when this was slated for release you could already use the Virtue of Empathy(?) to allow them to join a peasant unit on foot (as in TOW).

So, I just had an email from GW informing me that Lady Eisse Duchaard is back in stock. Great!

I immediately went to the site to order one, but it was already sold out.

Why is this model getting scalped so hard?


Edit: I just had another email from GW, half an hour after the previous one, again telling me that the model is back in stock.

So I immediately went to the site to check, unfortunately it's out of stock again

Edit#2 : I had a third "back in stock notification", this time I was able to buy

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
So, I just had an email from GW informing me that Lady Eisse Duchaard is back in stock. Great!

I immediately went to the site to order one, but it was already sold out.

Why is this model getting scalped so hard?


Edit: I just had another email from GW, half an hour after the previous one, again telling me that the model is back in stock.

So I immediately went to the site to check, unfortunately it's out of stock again

I had something similar happen with the reference cards couple weeks ago. I even contacted Support to find out what was going on; turns out it’s a glitch where the update notifications get sent out before the site actually updates, by like 12 hours or something. I just try again in a couple hours see how it goes.

And got her ordered too! Along with a bottle of paint for free postage

I'd like to apologise to everyone in advance for this ...

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
So, I just had an email from GW informing me that Lady Eisse Duchaard is back in stock. Great!

I immediately went to the site to order one, but it was already sold out.

Why is this model getting scalped so hard?


Edit: I just had another email from GW, half an hour after the previous one, again telling me that the model is back in stock.

So I immediately went to the site to check, unfortunately it's out of stock again

Edit#2 : I had a third "back in stock notification", this time I was able to buy

"Everyone said I was daft for not buying a Lady Elisse Duchaard the instant she went up on the site. But I got GW to send me an email, just to show 'em! That mini went out of stock. So I got a second email! That mini went out of stock. So I got a third email! That mini broke the mould, fell over and then went out of stock. But the fourth mini stayed in my basket. And that's what you're going to get, lad. She's beautiful, she's expensive, she's got huge ... tracts of silicone mould debris ..."

Casket is back in stock on the US webstore.

Marauder and Stone/River trolls I'm not seeing anymore on the US webstore...assuming that means they sold out of the stock they produced and aren't making anymore.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
So, I just had an email from GW informing me that Lady Eisse Duchaard is back in stock. Great!

I immediately went to the site to order one, but it was already sold out.

Why is this model getting scalped so hard?


Edit: I just had another email from GW, half an hour after the previous one, again telling me that the model is back in stock.

So I immediately went to the site to check, unfortunately it's out of stock again

Edit#2 : I had a third "back in stock notification", this time I was able to buy

Same here. Didn't trust the site to be completely up to date so just refreshed a few times after getting the stock notification and it showed as being available.

Zenithfleet wrote:
I'd like to apologise to everyone in advance for this ...

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
So, I just had an email from GW informing me that Lady Eisse Duchaard is back in stock. Great!

I immediately went to the site to order one, but it was already sold out.

Why is this model getting scalped so hard?


Edit: I just had another email from GW, half an hour after the previous one, again telling me that the model is back in stock.

So I immediately went to the site to check, unfortunately it's out of stock again

Edit#2 : I had a third "back in stock notification", this time I was able to buy

"Everyone said I was daft for not buying a Lady Elisse Duchaard the instant she went up on the site. But I got GW to send me an email, just to show 'em! That mini went out of stock. So I got a second email! That mini went out of stock. So I got a third email! That mini broke the mould, fell over and then went out of stock. But the fourth mini stayed in my basket. And that's what you're going to get, lad. She's beautiful, she's expensive, she's got huge ... tracts of silicone mould debris ..."

This just reads like rambling nonsense to me, lad

So, erm, two pro-wrestlers signed to AEW are doing a livestream of new AoS on GW’s Twitch Channel on Thursday.

This is just surreal to me 🤣🤣

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
So, erm, two pro-wrestlers signed to AEW are doing a livestream of new AoS on GW’s Twitch Channel on Thursday.

This is just surreal to me 🤣🤣

There's a decent overlap in the fandoms. GW also posted about Shayna Baszler(known for her Warhammer themed wrestling outfits) when she visited Nottingham HQ.

 nathan2004 wrote:

Marauder and Stone/River trolls I'm not seeing anymore on the US webstore...assuming that means they sold out of the stock they produced and aren't making anymore.

They were a limited time order ending today 13th May

All of these items will be Made to Order products available to order from 10am local time on Saturday the 4th of May until 8AM BST on Monday the 13th of May. They can take up to 180 days to ship.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
So, erm, two pro-wrestlers signed to AEW are doing a livestream of new AoS on GW’s Twitch Channel on Thursday.

This is just surreal to me 🤣🤣

Weird (but very cool). Which ones?

Edit, never mind, I just read the article. Kip Sabian and Claudio

 nathan2004 wrote:
Marauder and Stone/River trolls I'm not seeing anymore on the US webstore...assuming that means they sold out of the stock they produced and aren't making anymore.

Or the MTO period they announced had ended.

You’ll be able to watch a special exhibition match of Spearhead between the AEW wrestlers Kip Sabian and Claudio Castagnoli, who will be playing as Skaven and Stormcast Eternals. This will be the first ever live game of Spearhead, and it’s sure to be an absolute treat.

 Robert Facepalmer wrote:

 nathan2004 wrote:
Marauder and Stone/River trolls I'm not seeing anymore on the US webstore...assuming that means they sold out of the stock they produced and aren't making anymore.

Or the MTO period they announced had ended.

Didn't realize it was that short, skimmed right over that reading it initially. Thank you!

Yeah MTO periods are short - 1-2 weeks are common. It's one reason I dislike them because they are very much FOMO because a good many MTO things never cycle back or if they do its years between cycles with no clear message if they will or won't return.

Books or models its a pain when there's a MTO that you miss out on because of finances; budgeting or just not being around or interested in the theme at that exact moment in time.

Was there a date mentioned for the dwarf release? My Grombrindal order apparently takes 190 days (lol), but what about the regular releases?

Yeah tbh I skipped the Trolls even though I was posting here about being interested in them and they were actually pretty reasonably priced, because I'm on paternity leave and there was a paperwork issue and the money didn't come in. Now, I have savings, not badly off at all or I wouldn't be considering stuff like this at all, but a luxury purchase with no income this month seemed irresponsible to me so I decided to give it a miss.
To be honest there's a belligerent part of me that just doesn't like FOMO stuff and if I feel that getting it's hooks into me, I'm pretty likely to just say no.

 Overread wrote:
Yeah MTO periods are short - 1-2 weeks are common. It's one reason I dislike them because they are very much FOMO because a good many MTO things never cycle back or if they do its years between cycles with no clear message if they will or won't return.

Aye, especially with the Old World sets there's really no precedent informing us of what to expect. Would imagine the recent sets won't be available for quite some time, with several more armies to see their (re-)releases first, but whether they'll regularly cycle in afterwards or won't ever come back is anyone's guess. (And GW have quite possibly not yet decided it themselves this far in advance either.)