The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Daeothar]

I get the fluff, it's solid (that's her daddy's spare coat obviously), but I still don't like the model. Something about the face; it looks too... bland?

No: I guess I'll hold off till they release their CC focussed cousin, Apollo Creed...

[pancakeonions]

Now we know the origins.

... but which came first...?!

[Cubs]

I do actually like the fact that she seems ... bland, normal, physically sturdy but unremarkable ... because so many of the models are so far the other way. You could paint her up any way you wanted if you preferred a more eye-catching min.

[Daeothar]

You're absolutely right there.

I mean; I've always advocated more toned down mini's myself; I'm not that onboard with all the munchkin look-at-my-gold-trim-I'm-so-special stuff that's been so prevalent the past decade or so.

But there's just something about the sculpt that's just a bit off to me; can't put my finger on it though...

[Cubs]

If I'd painted it I would have darkened the eyes more to give them depth and more personality.

[diehard]

In the preview there's also an alternate head wearing a helmet.

[Grumpy Gnome]

I do actually like the fact that she seems ... bland, normal, physically sturdy but unremarkable ... because so many of the models are so far the other way. You could paint her up any way you wanted if you preferred a more eye-catching min.

I agree with Cubs.

[FramFramson]

Looks great to me. I can see darkening the eyes so they show better at tabletop distance, but the face has a good amount of detail, it's just subtle.

Very difficult to take an average face and apply that late-middle-aged look to it so precisely. Well done that painter.

[The Voivod]

I get the fluff, it's solid (that's her daddy's spare coat obviously), but I still don't like the model. Something about the face; it looks too... bland?

I don't like the face, but I do think it fits the model. Not an attractive woman, but stern, strong.
She looks the part for an organisation as the Imperial Guard (That other name isn't happening).
She reminds me of the trunchbull from the movie Mathilda.
Not someone you're gonna be keen to argue with.

[Dr Mathias]

If it were symetrical, it'd look too much like a back-banner, which it isn't; you can see the standard in the base behind the figure.

Hahaha, well clearly *I* didn't initially see that. My brain went to 'back standard' rather than 'figure being conveniently posing in front of a placed banner poll' 

[Belligerentparrot]

Yeah, I couldn't have put it as well as Cubs, but that is a lot about what I liked about this mini. There are so many possibilities - with very little conversion she could be a bounty hunter or a gang boss or, well, the sky is the limit really.

GW are also getting very good at finding ways of making female minis without exaggerating breasts/hips/lips etc., but instead using subtle details. I'm thinking especially of the traitor guard for Blackstone Fortress, but not just them.

I'll be getting that Creed mini... better start putting some coins in the piggy bank now then I guess 

[Elbows]

Lose the wildly over-done base, and lose the "weapon in each hand as I wade into the fight!" and I'd like the model.

[Blackwolf]

I rather like her;  lose the oversized marshals baton,and a better paint job. Games Workshop has been for awhile in love with pastel shades…

[Simlasa]

Please tell me if I'm just totally full of beans...
I've been watching my way through the Marvel/MCU movies for the first time... and I finally hit the Thor movies.
Now... I don't know all that much about GW's AoS setting for Warhammer (what WFB became), but from what little I do know it seems like GW might have taken some inspiration from these movies... the general move from a planet to scattered 'realms', energy weapons, the Stormcast warriors in huge golden suits,... the general space-fantasy feel of it all.
I understand GW's commercial motivation to move WFB toward their better selling (and less generic looking) 40K product... but it seems to me that fluff/visual elements in the Thor movies provided a ready blueprint for doing that.
The timing is about right, with the second Thor movie coming out just a couple years before AoS.
Not that it matters, but am I completely wrong for thinking I see similarities?

[Belligerentparrot]

It seems possible - the first Thor was 2011 I think, and AoS was, what, 2015?

Given that GW concept work is done years in advance of the actual releases, it is possible some of the GW team were thoroughly enjoying their Thor while working on AoS.