The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[3 fingers]

I was thinking exactly the smae thing.
For a second I thought I was in GW Hammersmith and it is 1988 all over again.
 

Well I don’t they will be £2:50 unfortunately 😂

[Mason]

Well I don’t they will be £2:50 unfortunately 😂

 

[Malebolgia]

I have just been googling Warcry , really like the untamed beasts

So close...! They should have named it Gwarcry. Fits the miniatures well too.
And that photo is awesome 😎

[gmanrocks]

As GW seem to hitting people right in the nostalgia (and continuing to work it over), I dunno if anyone had seen it yesterday, but Zoats are back (as a BB Star Player a least).

[Lost Egg]

Part of me likes the nostalgia trip...but part of me thinks of it as plundering.

[Dr Mathias]

They should have named it Gwarcry.

Ooooo.... that's good. 

[3 fingers]

So close...! They should have named it Gwarcry. Fits the miniatures well too.
And that photo is awesome 😎

 

[Duncan McDane]

Instant classic, Malebolgia  .
Can't wait for its release, but it will probably be July...

[3 fingers]

See in the sun newspaper today that 1900 members of staff got a £2500 bonus ,they predict sales of 254 million 

[mcfonz]

Part of me likes the nostalgia trip...but part of me thinks of it as plundering.

Can you plunder yourself? It's a bit like stealing your own money...

[zemjw]

The contrast paints are up for pre-order, but I'm rather underwhelmed Paint details here

Video of them being used here - https://citadelcolour.com/playlist/6038888620001/6038130494001, but the result looks half finished.

Approach seems to be

prime with light primer
pick the dominant colour and apply appropriate contrast paint to whole model
apply other contrast paints as required. This is where the first problem comes in, as the lighter contrasts don't easily go over darker ones. In the video he re-applies the primer colour to the model in the areas where he's going to put the lighter contrast colour

The end result, as I said, looks pretty poor, not even sure I'd consider it tabletop quality

18ml pots, so should last a while, but £4.75 a pot. This is the same price as the shades, but they're in 24ml pots. I may pick up one to have a play with, but I'm not seeing these replacing my shades anytime soon

[Gibby]

Agreed. This is the finished result; not quite what the initial Contrast marketing alluded to. Then again, I think this was always aimed at just bashing out painted stuff quickly. It still beats grey hordes I guess! Besides, other models probably come out better - organic ones like monsters/Tyranids etc. This model probably wasn't the best to demonstrate the product with.

[Lost Egg]

Can you plunder yourself? It's a bit like stealing your own money...

I was thinking that just re-doing models from the past to earn a quick buck is plundering while firmly establishing the mini in the range isn't. My uncertainty comes from not really following the lore anymore as it feels clunky and plot driven.

[Hobgoblin]

I'm quite interested to see what the new paints are like - not least because I have scores if not hundreds of various sort of unpainted reptile kicking around, and I think these paints might work very well as single-coat "cheats" on those.

I can also see these being very handy for RPG figures (adventurers, bandits, townsfolk, etc.): deal with cloaks and clothing in a couple of single-layer colours and then spent a bit of time on the faces to personalise them.

The video isn't terribly inspiring, but seems to be aimed at the clumsy (or, more likely, at kids). There's no obvious reason to paint the non-blue bits blue to begin with; they could just be left bare undercoat for the other paints.

Last night, I was playing around with the two new ghost paints, which I gather are precursors to this range. They do a reasonable job over scaly hides - better than a standard wash. So I'm hopeful.

Also, the guy at The Convertorum got some very good results with the new paints. Interestingly, he drybrushed the models white over the grey or bone undercoat before applying the contrast paints.

[Hobgoblin]

I'm also keen to see how the contrast paints work on smaller scales. I have visions of whipping through scores of 15mm and 10mm figures at a sitting ...