The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[tjgreenway]

New Black Legion definitely incoming as well, I'm loving the looks of the new Chaos stuff ..



Quote from the WHC report ..

The Black Legion have come to Vigilus – led by the sinister herald known as Haarken Worldclaimer. This new champion of the Dark Gods has declared that the world of Vigilus will fall to the Warmaster, within 80 days…

Could the '80 days' be a hint as to when we can expect a new Abaddon? With the new models for Chaos (this character and the Blackstone Fortress guys), I feel like we're leading up to something big for Chaos 

[mcfonz]

GW has said there will be releases for this campaign for several months so I suspect this will all be build up to a summer campaign and yes, could well see Abaddon get a new mini.

[Lost Egg]

I'm not sure if its the paint job but he looks a bit busy for my tastes.

[Chico]

Not keen on the whole spear thing honestly, plus they say mini Marines are dead but there's one on his base... Oh wait he's dead too    

[wolfen]

Not keen on the whole spear thing honestly, plus they say mini Marines are dead but there's one on his base... Oh wait he's dead too    

That’s a Primaris on his base. But I get the funny.

[Reboot Guillotine]

Busy-ness is in the eye of the beholder, but my issue with some of GW's recent Chaos sculpts is a variation on that: they don't seem to make many design choices when it comes to details. That is, they just use every motif possible.   Horns/skulls/spikes? Check. Gaping maw on the armor? Check. Trophy rack? Check. Heads hanging from belt? Check. Tentacles, tubes, and teeth? Check. Glowing runes? Check.  Better add a jump pack, melee weapon, lighting claw and scenic victim just to be safe.

Before you worship the Chaos gods there should be a waiver stating you're okay with a mouth growing out of your shoulder and/or shin.

[grant]

What if the shoulder-mouth agrees but the warrior’s does not?

[beefcake]

I just though they accidentally welded the helmets to their heads so they needed a new way to gobble up poop or whatever it is they eat.

[JamesValentine]

I'm not sure if its the paint job but he looks a bit busy for my tastes.

Seems to be the style these past few years.
One I hoped GW were dropping when I saw primaris.
More useless bits + less charm and character = better...for reasons.

[Kitsune]

Busy-ness is in the eye of the beholder, but my issue with some of GW's recent Chaos sculpts is a variation on that: they don't seem to make many design choices when it comes to details. That is, they just use every motif possible.   Horns/skulls/spikes? Check. Gaping maw on the armor? Check. Trophy rack? Check. Heads hanging from belt? Check. Tentacles, tubes, and teeth? Check. Glowing runes? Check.  Better add a jump pack, melee weapon, lighting claw and scenic victim just to be safe.

Before you worship the Chaos gods there should be a waiver stating you're okay with a mouth growing out of your shoulder and/or shin.

Oh god yes. I've spent at least two hours just prepping chaos models by slicing and cutting all of this additional stuff thats welded to them RIGHT OFF.

A process that burned out my rekindled enthusiasm for power armour...........the demons were much more fun to put together.

[Dr Mathias]

I find painting GW miniatures to be a chore most of the time these days. I like them but my God they take a long time to paint.

They've entered their 'Rococo' phase if one parallels art history periods with GW miniature styles.

[pixelgeek]

They've entered their 'Rococo' phase if one parallels art history periods with GW miniature styles.

I blame the 3D sculpting. Makes it too easy to put excessive detail on everything.

[Reboot Guillotine]

I once got booted from a miniatures forum for getting into a pissing match with a guy over a GW-busy-detail thread.  A few others and I were discussing the phenomenon a few years ago (pre-Primaris, when regular marines were getting weighed down with gothic bits) and a guy chimed in with something to the effect of "Y'all are just lazy.  I'm a true artist who loves painting the details, etc. etc."  I said some things that were scathingly witty, albeit slightly impolite, and was ejected.

[Lost Egg]

I blame the 3D sculpting. Makes it too easy to put excessive detail on everything.

That's a good point pixelgeek, I can definitely see some cranking it up more and more on the digital sculpt far beyond what the physical limitations of putty allow. I wonder if traditional sculptors tend to make better digital sculptors.

[Reboot Guillotine]

3D sculpting also creates some obvious repetition and funny errors on models where they just Cltr-C'd (or whatever you do in CAD type programs) the same feature in different places...