The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Predatorpt]

I think the main problem is the fairy wings. If you paint them in another scheme - maybe a bit more like rotten/putrid flesh - it would vastly improve the mini.

[westwaller]

I find a lot of these highly detailed miniatures quite difficult to 'see' in GWs photographs.

Usually the face should be the centre of attention. With the lighting here the centre of attention is all over the place, on the wings, the legs and on the spikey back protrusion.

[nic-e]

I find a lot of these highly detailed miniatures quite difficult to 'see' in GWs photographs.

Usually the face should be the centre of attention. With the lighting here the centre of attention is all over the place, on the wings, the legs and on the spikey back protrusion.

This is why the miniatures often goes up in peoples opinions when GW release a 180 video.

[Elbows]

The pic Agis posted is a digital re-paint by someone over on Dakka I think --- it helps tremendously.  GW chose a really piss poor colour palette to showcase the Death Guard --- purple/pink/camo green simply isn't stunning or attractive in most cases.  I think it's hurting a lot of their models.

[Gibby]

This is why the miniatures often goes up in peoples opinions when GW release a 180 video.

This is very true. I didn't like Mortarion at all when I first saw the 2D image, but when I saw the 3D version spinning around on the video I thought he looked ace. An alternate paintjob will be even better I think.

[nic-e]

This is very true. I didn't like Mortarion at all when I first saw the 2D image, but when I saw the 3D version spinning around on the video I thought he looked ace. An alternate paintjob will be even better I think.

A miniature is just a figuarative sculpture, and like most figurative sculptures they will have a "face" , the perfect angle from which to view the dynamism,pose and narrative of the sculpt.
GW seem weirdly bad at capturing that in their photographs, and i think it might be because they post their miniatures in nice big battle displays where every single figure now is it's own individual detailed sculpture.

[Andrew May]

I also think there's a downside to making the figures so dynamic and trying to get them to look awesome from every angle. Don't get me wrong, they're great but back in the halcyon days of Jes' classics you got that "icon" image straight up from the front BAM! There's a reason those Phoenix Lords have been on sale for 20yrs for example.

[YPU]

So, at which point did the sisters get a flying stealth submarine?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Sisters-Of-Silence-Kharon-Pattern-Acquisitor-2017

[nic-e]

So, at which point did the sisters get a flying stealth submarine?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Sisters-Of-Silence-Kharon-Pattern-Acquisitor-2017

Announced a few months ago. I love it, I can just imagine it heading over the sands about a meter in the air, Flying in exactly the way that bricks don't.
All whilst going "wohmwohmwohmwohmwohmwohmwohm..."

[Predatorpt]

So, at which point did the sisters get a flying stealth submarine?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Sisters-Of-Silence-Kharon-Pattern-Acquisitor-2017

Personally I love it...but in a Pulpish-sort of way. Looks like something a Pulp-Era Batman could use 

[OSHIROmodels]

It's a cracking looking model but really doesn't say 40k to me. Not even in an RT way 

New design team?

[Gibby]

A lot of the Forgeworld stuff has a bit of a different look. Most of it fits the 40k mood, but occasionally something stands out as a bit different. I see it as expanding the 40k image a bit rather than sitting outside of it.

[Andym]

It's a cracking looking model but really doesn't say 40k to me. Not even in an RT way 

New design team?

I really like it!

Can you not imagine it with a red and gold/brass colour scheme, with someone to a similar name of Glash Fordon flying it? Actually the black makes it look as if it's out of the old B/W Flash Gordon programmes....but at 85 squid though.....

Flash Gordon or even maybe Dune? It has that mechanical worm look!

[majorsmith]

It's definitely got that dune feel to it, like the vehicle the navigators use

[Andrew Rae]

I'm wondering if the new skull set might be a good source of replacement heads for my old plastic skellies. Though the original heads are part of the charm, a bit more variety wouldn't go amiss. I doubt I'd want to mix the originals with these new ones though.

Mixing in newer GW plastic skellies wouldn't look so out of place as well.

If I had the Vampire Counts/ Tomb Kings skellies I would definitely use these new skulls. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Skulls-2017