The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[YPU]

I put my money on this guy having bionic feet, which in GW style almost always have some suggestion of toes on them. I'm also betting not the entire faction to have bionic feet, so what their regular style looks like remains to be seen.

[Belligerentparrot]

I really hope this is a case of various minis in a unit having various bionic bits, and not a case of Skitaari "oooh the environment is so dangerous we chopped our feet off" nonsense. 

[Sir_Theo]

I like the look of the Sq...Voltann guy, looking forward to seeing more models- characters and some helmeted heads etc and definitely what they do with Vehicles.The feet are weird, I assumed they were some sort of magnetic boots but not sure why they have separate toes.

[Lost Egg]

Yeah the feet do look a bit odd...maybe they are bionic?

[JollyBob]

I'm kind of interested to see the rest of these, although I'm assuming scale creep will mean these "squats" will now be the size of a RT Guardsman. 

Regarding the toes, am I the only one who'd be tempted to paint nail polish on them..?

[OSHIROmodels]

Looks a bit meh to me. Too generically sci-fi 

[Spinal Tap]

Looks a bit meh to me. Too generically sci-fi 

In agreement with this.

I currently have a soft spot for the Wargames Atlantic Space Dwarfs (Dwarves?) although they could do with a little more variety on the sprues.

[Elbows]

While Squats coming back means nothing to me...I'm also in the "meh" camp.  I didn't like the poorly sculpted Necromunda reboot figure, but this one seems like he just went to Games-Workshop-R-Us...and looks like a very generic mix of other GW aesthetics with very little to make it stand out.

I also...completely agree these are going to be surprisingly large models, despite being "Squats".

[3Fingers2]

It would be nice to see the squats back again , but I’m wondering if a more ragged or industrial look would of been better? Squat pirates perhaps?
I also was looking at the plastic ork box set from that era an noticed how similar it was to the squats with a jerkin effect torso , bolters and plasma cannon .

[beefcake]

I like the idea of squat pirates.
Maybe different factions

[Mammoth miniatures]

Perhaps the issue is that in the 20 year gap, GW got outpaced by other companies wanting to do squats.
there are a dozen companies with fully fleshed out "not squat" ranges, and a handful producing in plastic already. Mantic have been doing it for years now.

GW are banking on nostalgia, But in this case it's a nostalgia market that has been well and truly tapped in the decades since the squats got squatted.
So i suppose they sort of have to do something different with them beyond a straight reboot, But what do you do? pirates? too close to the AOS sky dwarves. Miners? genestealer cults have that aesthetic ties down. High tech and sleek? Tau took that spot. Space vikings? Can anyone else hear wolves.

I'm curious to see what they do with them as a range, But I think they're going to struggle to overcome that initial issue of "what do we do with them" that caused the designers to abandon them in the first place. evidently they have SOMETHING, But personally I think their best bet is to cut ties with the old idea of squats completely.

Curiously the necromunda squat models are far closer to the old squats in style, So maybe this single mini is in fact a special variety of squat and the bulk of the release will look a bit more squat-y.

[Cubs]

I'd go with the biker gang aesthetic. They have the bellies and beards and the Squat Bikers are a well-loved thing. Maybe smugglers, with biker gang flavour?

[Shahbahraz]

I'd go with the biker gang aesthetic. They have the bellies and beards and the Squat Bikers are a well-loved thing. Maybe smugglers, with biker gang flavour?

High Grav genetically modded asteroid miners... 

[majorsmith]

Wow made to order space marines £21 a pop 😂😂😂😂😂

[westwaller]

Yeah £21.00 for a nineties space marine captain... That has me gobsmacked to be honest. I bought one of those shown for eight quid on ebay last year!
Suddenly the ebay silly prices for these models are cheaper!
For now...