The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Ray Rivers]

They're going for the much coveted "heavily-muscled-women fetish" market.

 

BTW... looking at the miniature, the only thing they really need to produce to change a male SC to a female SC would be a mod kit with just the upper torsos and helmets.

Bet those would fly off the shelves...

[Andrew Rae]

Actually, if you have put together any of these, you find that in the male SC the upper torso fits so tightly to the lower torso that it is impossible to give it any twist in pose.

The female, OTOH, appears to have more space between the upper and lower torso, thus it would be quite easy to give it an ever so slightly different pose than just strictly erect.

If they were produced on a sprue in pieces, you could also cut down the amount of lower torso shown and thus, essentially, give the miniature the same look that you did in your "shopped" image.

I wouldn't want to confuse putting together the plastic models with imagining how the armour might actually function. I'm not saying male SC armour is perfect or entirely workable, just that the female version is massively more compromised - not in the upper torso, but in the pelvis area.

[Shub-Nullgurath]

on other news the next total war warhammer game will be set in lustria with lizard men a given and possibly skaven

Perfect.

[beefcake]

on other news the next total war warhammer game will be set in lustria with lizard men a given and possibly skaven

Is that a new game or an big add-on? I'm loving total war at the moment.

I like the female stormcast. I may try to get one and do a headswap for some sort of half ogre paladin type.

[Shub-Nullgurath]

Is that a new game or an big add-on? I'm loving total war at the moment.

I like the female stormcast. I may try to get one and do a headswap for some sort of half ogre paladin type.

"Standalone expansion", I imagine. So you can buy it on it's own and it works on it's own but there'll be some level of integration (like people will be able to play multiplayer between all the factions etc).

[Elbows]

Sounds like past Total War games where it'll have its own small story line/etc. but will be compatible with the normal game for multiplayer, skirmish games, etc.

[Mason]

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Tweezers-2017

Really???
 

Is this some kind of joke or do people actually pay this sort of money?

The mind boggles.......
 

[3 fingers]

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Tweezers-2017

Really???
 

Is this some kind of joke or do people actually pay this sort of money?

The mind boggles.......
 

Did you see the file set below,£13 for 2 files,I bought a set of 5 draper ones in a tool roll cheaper than that .

[Sir_Theo]

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Tweezers-2017

Really???
 

Is this some kind of joke or do people actually pay this sort of money?

The mind boggles.......
 

It's always been the same. Taking advantage of the myopic nature of people invested in the 'GW hobby' it's like the prices they used to charge (and probably still do) for a small pot of sand.

It also lets people like us feel all smug with our cheaper and superior tools and brushes.

[Too Bo Coo]

TBF I found their line scrapper tool to be quite good, but their other stuff is quite overpriced.  Their brushes are garbage and I'd rather invest in a W&N that lasts a year or longer...

[Duncan McDane]

You mean the mouldline remover? Plastic only or does it work on metal too?

[Elbows]

That's a tough mindset to break.  GW is fortunate in that they probably have the largest amount of gamers who solely play GW games.  While many other people are perhaps well rounded gamers and may play a number of different time periods and genres...I'm almost positive GW has a huge amount of customers who "only" play 40K.  I had a 40K gamer (from an adjacent tournament) ask me what the "fluff" was behind my Old West game I was running at a convention...   So, luckily for them a lot of people think that $20 for a can of spray primer is acceptable, or tools for $15-20-25 is normal, etc.

Good on them for raking in money.  I always tell people the first rule of buying into GW games...is to avoid as many GW products as you can, particularly in the hobby range. 

[Chico]

I'm almost positive GW has a huge amount of customers who "only" play 40K. . 

Yep and sadly we have aload of those players at my local gaming Club, now and again I might one to try another game if everything is provided but still they go back and drink the GW Coolaid.

Oh well each to there own I guess.

[Sir_Theo]

That's a tough mindset to break.  GW is fortunate in that they probably have the largest amount of gamers who solely play GW games.  While many other people are perhaps well rounded gamers and may play a number of different time periods and genres...I'm almost positive GW has a huge amount of customers who "only" play 40K.  I had a 40K gamer (from an adjacent tournament) ask me what the "fluff" was behind my Old West game I was running at a convention...   So, luckily for them a lot of people think that $20 for a can of spray primer is acceptable, or tools for $15-20-25 is normal, etc.

Good on them for raking in money.  I always tell people the first rule of buying into GW games...is to avoid as many GW products as you can, particularly in the hobby range. 

Once upon a time I was like this. It never occured to me to look beyond GW for tools, paints etc.

Brainwashed I suppose!

[nic-e]

The clippers, mouldline remover and the retractable knife are all worth the money. Everything else I generally recommend a substitute or amazon when people ask for them at the till.