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Crafty Bray Shaman




Anor Londo

A lot of the GW scenery kits are listed as last chance to buy, including the Skyshield landing pad and Bastion.

If you want them you need to get them ASAP.

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Moustache-twirling Princeps




United Kingdom

Well, poo....

(Looks like the basing kits are going as well!)
   
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Buy them now and resell for 200% profit later

   
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beast_gts wrote:
Well, poo....

(Looks like the basing kits are going as well!)


Yeah, I don't like some of the implications there. Especially with some of the terrain being sold under the Necromunda tab. I hope they don't go overboard in the move out to the Ash Wastes.
I don't want to come up short for projects that use the mechanicus and imperialis bases.

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Upstate, New York

Someone check in with H.B.M.C and see if he’s OK. This kind of news can not be good for his health.

   
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Calculating Commissar







GW terrain kits always seem to be changing. I suspect it's because so many people play on tables owned by other people, they never see a need to own their own terrain in any particularly great numbers (me included).

It's going to be a bummer to lose some of these ones, but 3D printing is fairly good at producing things like the Bastion, and there's a reasonably large amount of sources for bunkers and blocky stuff like that.

The Skyshield Landing Pad can go do one, though, it's a really awkward model to both play with and store.

The supply does not get to make the demands. 
   
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The Bastion is a pretty nice modular piece -- I have two. Scale-wise it's off these days but it's just terrain. Good line of sight blockers and they didn't used to be terribly overpriced even like 3 years ago, but like everything else GW makes it's now way too expensive for what it is. I think it's gone up like 25% in just that time (used to be $45 iirc).

The skyshield landing pad is just really worthless as actual gaming terrain by itself.

If you want them have at them but they're literally at the point where it's cheaper to just buy a 3D printer now, even with all the headaches that entails.

Edit: looks like wall of martyrs stuff and some of the smaller mechanicum bits (haemotrope reactors and thermic plasma regulators) are also going bye-bye. Some overlapping SKUs are also getting removed (currently there's multiple kits that have duplicate mechanicum stuff).

Maybe there'll be some newer terrain released with Guard later this year to replace wall of martyrs? TBH I've never been a fan of it but it's the only "trenches" GW make, and it's very grimdark.

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London

I would get a void shield generator for coolness... if it wasn't £85 for 7 sprues.
   
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The_Real_Chris wrote:
I would get a void shield generator for coolness... if it wasn't £85 for 7 sprues.


As cool as it looks, it's preposterously expensive.

I actually have an Aquila Strongpoint I still haven't built that I got on clearance from a local shop for (and prepare to get really angry at me):

$33 + tax. (I could be off by a couple bucks but I *think* it had a price tag of $110, and I know I got it for 75% off)

I even asked the shop owner if they were sure that was correct -- it had a dot indicating the sale level that someone could have moved so they could come back later and buy it cheap.

Instead of buying plastic terrain, I've been printing stuff from kickstarters and Printable Scenery, and it's just so good and well done that I can't ever justify GW terrain prices again. I'm using FDM which leaves small lines, but it's terrain and I honestly don't notice it unless I look for it. I can sorta understand the argument of not having space for a 3d printer, but on the other hand where are you storing that gigantic GW plastic terrain. . . I can also understand not wanting to learn the ins and outs of 3d printing. It's definitely a small hobby unto itself, but for me it's very much proved worth it with minimal time investment. Next I gotta take the leap for a resin printer, but I promised myself I wouldn't do that until I finish building and painting the plastic that I already have lol.
   
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Some of those kits ain't that old. Some of those kits got recent rereleases/reboxing.

 Nevelon wrote:
Someone check in with H.B.M.C and see if he’s OK. This kind of news can not be good for his health.
At least they had the decency to tell us this time, rather than just having it vanish without warning.

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 Nevelon wrote:
Someone check in with H.B.M.C and see if he’s OK. This kind of news can not be good for his health.


Nah he is fine...he now has access to an FDM printer.................oh FETH, no wait i think it is worse.

War scenery and sacrusmundus are about to get a lot of love. more 40K themed terrain than GW ever had dreams about and alternatives to all the stuff GW is discontinuing.



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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Some of those kits ain't that old.
Yeah - has the Manufactorum thing even been out 18 months yet?
   
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You can do some fun things with the Bastion kit. It'll be a shame to see that, the Skyshield and the Heamotrope Reactor go away.

I'm pretty good for terrain at the moment (that ain't even a quarter of it... ), and as aphyon mentioned above, friend of mine just got a FDM printer, so that's going to be incredible.

Still... I did just go searching for someone who has a Heamotrope Reactor in stock...

As far as the Void Shield Generator goes, a little while back I managed to pick up the Hive Shield box, which, as you can see, has two of them. It cost a bunch, and cost heaps to ship it, but, despite that, it was still $200 cheaper than buying just the two Void Shields Generators locally. They cost loads. Kinda silly really. Annoying kits to put together as well. I can only imagine the polystone one I have - the first one GW brought out as a Ltd. Edition - will be even harder.

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Not sure what happened to it in the end, but the last time I worked GW, I of course took advantage of staff discount and made a mahoosive building out of the bastion kit.

I think I left it in the care of my old store, which remains (for now, as I’m moving) just up the road.

I really must drop in and see if I can grab it back.

   
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I just wish the Shrine of the Aquila was still around for one last hurrah. I need two more of that kit...

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Oh that featured in my magnificent monstrosity!

If I can reclaim it, I’ll share piccies and I’m not adverse to selling it.

   
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If only I'd known that this thing existed at the time:

Spoiler:


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I just wish the Shrine of the Aquila was still around for one last hurrah. I need two more of that kit...


I feel the same. I had a plan of making a square tower using just four of the large aquila walls but in the end I didn't bother hunting another two kits. Large arched windows would have been useful to make bridge arches, with the lower walls cut off to make generic low detail wall sections.


I am not particularly sad to see Bastion and Skyshield landing pad go. They were ok kits but I still haven't painted the bastion I bought more than ten years ago.

If old kits are discontinued to make new room for new kits, that's a direction I can live with as long as we are given a heads up. I missed on some Sector Imperialis buildings because I thought they would be available for longer.

That place is the harsh dark future far left with only war left. 
   
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Germany

I genuinely wonder, what's the reason for terrain's kits very limited lifespan compared to all other models.

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- Jiado 
   
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jullevi wrote:
I feel the same. I had a plan of making a square tower using just four of the large aquila walls but in the end I didn't bother hunting another two kits. Large arched windows would have been useful to make bridge arches, with the lower walls cut off to make generic low detail wall sections.
Heh. That's what I had planned, only I was going to use spare Razorback top plates to turn the windows into turrets.

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Maybe they make one mold of it, use it until it breaks and by that point it makes no financial sense to remake the mold?
   
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Hm. I always wanted a Wall of Martyrs - Imperial Bunker, but do I get one...?

I heard its made in China, so the plastic is kind of clunky. Like the Garden of Morr...
   
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UK

I know these are made overseas, perhaps GW has suddenly lost a contract with a factory in China?

I know that they can be hostile to work with, I seem to recall that Privateer Press wound up with a bunch of their moulds being held by a factory who wouldn't let them go - though I don't recall much of the ins and outs of that being explained beyond that.


Otherwise GW are odd when it comes to terrain, even to the point of printing it overseas in the first place when they've got all the infrastructure in-house to do it.


The other aspect is perhaps they are rebranding the terrain boxes and its just new products meaning new product codes for their back-end causing the "old" to be last chance only to see it return with a new box in a weeks time

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Moustache-twirling Princeps




United Kingdom

 Overread wrote:
I know these are made overseas, perhaps GW has suddenly lost a contract with a factory in China?
I was thinking that, or they want to move it in-house - but all the new Battlezone: Fronteris stuff is made in China (but designed in the UK!).
   
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England

There’s been a steady stream of kits being discontinued by GW recently. I really don’t get the business decision for it, is there stock management system so bad they can only keep so many kits for sale at a time?

it's the quiet ones you have to look out for. Their the ones that change the world, the loud ones just take the credit for it. 
   
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 Tamereth wrote:
There’s been a steady stream of kits being discontinued by GW recently. I really don’t get the business decision for it, is there stock management system so bad they can only keep so many kits for sale at a time?


To be fair to GW, they keep some really old stuff on sale for a REALLY long time. Way longer than other companies.

Sooner or later everything gets discontinued from all manufacturers. Eventually the equipment make a certain product is out of date and it's way more cost effective to get rid of that equipment than maintain it to produce those 10 old miniatures from 30 years ago that like 5 people buy a year.

I can't honestly say the reason why any particular kit gets discontinued, but it always comes down to money in the end, one way or the other. Maybe someone damaged a mould; maybe the kit didn't sell well; maybe the spin caster broke and you can't get parts for that particular model anymore, maybe the chinese factory lost the die, etc etc etc.
   
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UK

I think GW is keen to get rid of Finecast. The recent Eldar classic print on demand are all metal even though several were made accessible as finecast.

And it makes sense, there's basically zero good marketing behind Finecast. It's a material that as soon as its announced generates negative feedback even to the point where some swear of all resins (inc forgeworld) because of finecast. Furthermore its high fail rate means even more money for GW to spend mailing out replacements that are already faulty and will have to be replaced.


I'm honestly surprised they've taken as long as they have




Also GW has had issues meeting demand over the last few years, this might be them cutting some segments of their inventory that don't sell well just to get them out of the system.

They've also seen this approach sort of work for Middle Earth.

Also lets not forget they have actual sales metrics. They know exactly how much stuff actually sells at. Sometimes the whole "I'd have bought that before it went off sale" is more "I wanted to buy that one day but that day might never have actually come".

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Terrain isn't going to be a big seller past a certain point and as much as I like my Aegis, I never bought more than one and didn't get any of the Wall of Martyrs or even a Bastion until a year or so ago when a friend sold me some during a clearout. Repainting the Lascannon battery has been a pain the behind and I only finished it a couple of weeks ago because the sculpts are somehow too detailed and horribly detailed at the same time. Not sad to see the Wall of Martyrs stuff go.
   
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Haemotropes and plasma will be in imperium magazine, so for a little while will be quite common to pick up
   
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 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Haemotropes and plasma will be in imperium magazine, so for a little while will be quite common to pick up
Haemotropes yes, but I'm not seeing the thermic plasma regulators in there, just the conduits. Luckily they're in Nachmund so there's plenty of them on ebay - for now.
   
 
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