Imperial Knight

[Dr. Zombie]

I rather like it. The price is a bit steep. If i stumble across a cheap(er) one on a weak day I might buy one. I don't really have a use for it though.

I think I will go and paint my epic knights to control my buying urges..

[Love_the_Lash]

I succumbed and spent a mighty £63.49 ordering one (incl p&p) which I figure is a good deal versus the RRP of £80!

They make me all warm and fuzzy, I miss my knight household...

[Love_the_Lash]

Apologies make that £85, gee it's a nice model but that's a bit nuts.

[joroas]

Never mind, you can spend the money saved on the £9.99 iBook painting guide! 

[Love_the_Lash]

Who wants to club together and make a knight painting guide, we can launch it on Kickstarter for the low price of £8.99 each!

[pixelgeek]

The Iron Brotherhood collection contains: 5 Imperial Knights. We will also send you, completely free of charge, 5 fantastic art prints. Each print features the stunning heraldry of 5 different Knight Suits - perfect inspiration for your new hobby project! Price:  $775.00

Who the hell is their target audience now?

[pixelgeek]

So $170 in Canada and $810 for the set of five Knights. They also have a three knight Imperial Knight Household Spearhead for a bargain price of $510. 

[joroas]

£425 in the UK for the five, with a discount of nothing?  What sort of deal is that? 

[Vermis]

Old hat at this point, sadly. 

[mcfonz]

The Iron Brotherhood collection contains: 5 Imperial Knights. We will also send you, completely free of charge, 5 fantastic art prints. Each print features the stunning heraldry of 5 different Knight Suits - perfect inspiration for your new hobby project! Price:  $775.00

It IS perfect for any project that goes by the name of 'dont pay rent and live in a cardboard box with 5 toy soldiers' or 'need a divorce fast' or even 'my insanity defence'

 

For that price I suspect the  boxes they come in could be turned into temporary housing whilst you save up the cash for a rental deposit again.  

The big problem with online retailers is that the discount they can give is always eaten up by the postage costs. It always baffles me with GW stuff especially - how much are you actually saving by the time you take postage into account when you could just go to your local store and order in what you need / buy it off the shelf for near enough the same price.

Stuff like dreamforge is very different as there are very few stores that stock it - having said that I got my Leviathan posted to me very reasonably from Northstar.

[ErikB]

Too late, GW.  You cannot price gouge with so many awesome alternatives for us. 

These are the only Imperial Knights I can be bothered with:

http://www.imperialknightslive.com/Galleries.htm

[pixelgeek]

The big problem with online retailers is that the discount they can give is always eaten up by the postage costs.

Never been my experience. Especially with GW figs. If you ordered from within the US the shipping costs are negligible. Even ordering from the UK to Canada was routinely cheaper than the postage costs.

[Westfalia Chris]

Dear all,

may I remind everyone involved that price discussions etc. are supposed to go into The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread. Unless you have pics of painted knights to show or have a productive discussion on valid uses of the model (personally, I like it and will eventually get one to support my post-Heresy Marines), I'd like to ask you to continue this discussion over there.

[Elbows]

Phew, I'll revamp my prior statement from page 1.  When I googled "Imperial Knight" this was the only GW image that popped up for some reason:



I immediately though "what the heck is that?  That's not a knight!  How can that be worth $____!?" 

Then I found pictures of the real thing.  Nice kit and surprisingly looks quite similar to the original knights (though a bit small by the old epic scale).  How does it scale to a Dreamforge Leviathan?





PS: Whatever this is (scratchbuilt, forgeworld etc.) it's quite nice too!

[Love_the_Lash]

I understand that the Dreamforge leviathan is about half an inch taller (just lovely kits although the pistons are an arse)