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Santtu wrote:
This would be a neat M2O if all the models I want weren't bundled with ones I already have or don't want.

You could always try and split the set with someone.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Among other Marine MTO next week?

Four of the classic Captains, to shown with the cloak backpack, and Armour Through The Ages.

Oh yeah, sweet! Armour of the Ages!

To top it all off, the beloved Armour Through the Ages set returns once more so you can add Space Marines in classic marks of armour to your collection. Each set contains five resin and plastic miniatures – one each in MkI, MkII, MkIII, MkIV, and MkV patterns of power armour.

Oh No! BBBBOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 SgtEeveell wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Among other Marine MTO next week?

Four of the classic Captains, to shown with the cloak backpack, and Armour Through The Ages.

Oh yeah, sweet! Armour of the Ages!

To top it all off, the beloved Armour Through the Ages set returns once more so you can add Space Marines in classic marks of armour to your collection. Each set contains five resin and plastic miniatures – one each in MkI, MkII, MkIII, MkIV, and MkV patterns of power armour.

Oh No! BBBBOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh. I missed that part.

I guess that makes it an easy decision not to get it.

Man. I thought the dark days if Finecast were over with.

 xttz wrote:

 Snord wrote:
Nostalgia for a 30 year old edition isn’t going to attract that many new players.

* Gestures vaguely in the direction of all the people buying TOW, HH, Necromunda, Blood Bowl, and other GW ranges based heavily on 90's teenage nostalgia *

Also gestures at all the new players to those games who weren't alive/merely toddlers back then who have no nostalgia for those earlier systems/editions.
The local shops have a lot of early 30s & younger players of all those games. They buy the starter boxes for the same reason we do: More/New models at a degree of savings.

Ha, I've still got lead versions of the space wolf and ultramarine captains with their flat heavy backpack capes.

Won't that be foregeworld resin not finecast?

 Overread wrote:
Won't that be foregeworld resin not finecast?

That would be good to know. Given Finecast's deserved bad reputation and GW's willingness to convert some old Warhammer Fantasy metals to Forge World resin, it seems like the thing they would do rather than deal with all the bad casts Finecast produces.

Would be nice of them to say, even if I suspect they'd rather not mention Finecast anymore and have people forget about it as quickly as possible.

GW has been pretty good at removing finecast as of late - there's 7 characters and models with it in 40K and in AoS there's only a similar handful of Ogre Mawtribes models.

Otherwise its basically all gone from those ranges even when GW pulled most (except 1) hero models from Necrons without replacement so far.


Lord of the Rings has a lot more (50odd ) but then again its not the main-line brand and is running on an entirely different release and development system.


So I wouldn't expect to ever see any new finecast from GW for 40K-AoS lines at all.

 Overread wrote:
Won't that be foregeworld resin not finecast?

I don't recall that ever happening for a 40K MTO to be honest.

It would be nice if it did given the state of Finecast, and the new FW resin is good. But I am not convinced they are cutting new moulds for MTO stuff, which is why it's so samey.

 Geifer wrote:


Given Finecast's deserved bad reputation and GW's willingness to convert some old Warhammer Fantasy metals to Forge World resin,

Was that not only the War Wagon (which I assume was a special case because of how massive it was?). Can't think of any other Old World release that was converted from metal to FW resin (obviously a lot got ported over to Finecast back in the dark times but they all seem to have been re-released in metal for TOW).

JimmyWolf87 wrote:

 Geifer wrote:


Given Finecast's deserved bad reputation and GW's willingness to convert some old Warhammer Fantasy metals to Forge World resin,

Was that not only the War Wagon (which I assume was a special case because of how massive it was?). Can't think of any other Old World release that was converted from metal to FW resin (obviously a lot got ported over to Finecast back in the dark times but they all seem to have been re-released in metal for TOW).

The Casket of Souls is a kit that started out in metal with the original Tomb Kings release, got converted to Finecast right away and got a remastered resin release with The Old World.

I don't think it was the only model to get that treatment. I could be wrong of course as I'm going off of memory from a couple of years ago and, frankly, don't pay too much attention outside of Tomb Kings, but I thought there's more than one, especially larger model that originally was but didn't return in metal.

Brettonian Trebuchet and TK Bone Giant too.

Also the Orc Warlord on Wyvern.

Ushabti, and I noted they even remastered the Tomb Scorpion with additional detail when transitioning it to FW resin.

Those moves to FW resin have all been because the game system (TOW) has moved to SGS (which was FW) though. We've never seen a main studio kit move when the game system remains a main studio game. As far as it appears the main studio does not have access to the new FW resin casting process.

As hinted at yesterday, new Mutilators shown today: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/kwjvw02q/love-to-crush-maim-and-kill-surrender-to-the-warp-and-become-a-new-chaos-mutilator/

Mutilators!





Don’t love them, don’t hate them. But definitely an improvement on the originals.

New Mutilators! - Love to crush, maim, and kill? Surrender to the warp and become a new Chaos Mutilator

Meeeehhhhhh

Not even out yet and they already look dated... Quite disappointed.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Ushabti

The re-released Ushabti are metals, not re-mastered resin. Even the archers got moved to metal.

Welcome back Mutilators I suppose?

Now show us that new Defiler.

The Mutilators are decent enough. I dunno what else you could really do with that concept tbh.

 The Phazer wrote:
The Mutilators are decent enough. I dunno what else you could really do with that concept tbh.

They have flesh, they have metal, they do not seem to have fleshmetal.

They need to be a crossbreed between this and the eightbound.

Certainly a more convincing flesh/metal fusion than the guys with guns growing on their shoulders.

Flail solves a rumour engine

These guys were the better concept tho, if limited by the style and technology of 1998

Apparently not a dual kit with Oblits.

With Kill team giving new Raptors, Iron Warriors giving Mutilators back and a new Defiler, will the next CSM core codex be just a character release, or will that be where Bikers and Obliterators come out?

 lord_blackfang wrote:

These guys were the better concept tho, if limited by the style and technology of 1998

The old Obliterators were really cool as long as you did not assemble them. I used bodies and arms for some nice kitbashs and conversions with other (mostly marine) bits.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Apparently not a dual kit with Oblits.

With Kill team giving new Raptors, Iron Warriors giving Mutilators back and a new Defiler, will the next CSM core codex be just a character release, or will that be where Bikers and Obliterators come out?

The current Obliterators are from 2019, so I'm not sure we'd see them refreshed for a awhile yet - maybe 12th or 13th edition.