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Warhammer 40,000 |OT| In the Grim Darkness of the Community Forum There Is Only War
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LaserBuddha
Member
No, only fixed-posed statues of a general action figure size.
Mr. Poolman
Member
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
SillyEskimo
Member
$30 per mini!!!
Okay, now I get why you guys say this is expensive.
It depends really. Rank and file can be had cheaper, but characters cost an arm and a leg. The librarian above is $30 but, for example, you can get 5 terminators for $50 in a box set.
Rofl this has to be an exaggeration. $30 is about £19/£20. That has to be a box of.....something, not just a single figurine (barring a Dreadnought/Tank/Carnifex,etc).
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Why does that guy have a baby strapped to his shoulder pad. A baby with a dagger and a skull helmet.
Plz rply
Plz rply
Oh dear Lord it's £18. For just a fucking captain.
Granted they give you a lot of alternative pieces and it looks really good but this is just silly.....Thank god I've already got a Captain model......albeit he has a Lightning Claw and Storm Bolter
GW really need to get their shit together. I looked for whether it was metal which might explain it, but no. This is such horrendous fucking pricing, how do they even make money?
That is a cherub
What happens there is poor people sell their children to the Mechanicus (or sometimes they just make em in vats) and then the Mechanicus turn them into robots
Baby version of a servo-skull basically
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
How fucking nice of everybody.
Fucking hell.... A librarian cost like 6$/10$ in the 90s
There was an Imperial Governor whose child died at birth so he had the Mechanicus turn the corpse into a cherub. The governor died shortly after and the cherub was his only heir, so there is now an Imperial system ruled by a brain dead flying baby.
The Imperium is really fucked up
The Guard frequently have Soylens Viridians in their rations
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
"Even in pampers I still serve."
SillyEskimo
Member
It has gotten pretty far out of hand, that's for sure! The new Space Marine Codex is $58!
DRIMGARK
Question, does the phrase grimdark actually come from "In the grim darkness of the far future" 40K intro?
GarthVaderUK
Banned
I believe so.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
GW's minis have always been pretty expensive IMO, even when I started as a kid in '95. My parents sensibly wouldn't buy me any minis, so I saved up and bought them myself ;P In some cases it is getting rather silly now though. These days I just focus on one army for Fantasy (Ogres) and one army for 40K (Necrons), which means most of the time I'm not buying any new minis.
I think if GW keeps putting prices up as much as they typically do, in the short term they may make higher profits from selling at a higher price, but the prices will scare off more and more customers and the volume of sales will probably continue to decrease, eventually leading to less money coming in than before. With fewer fans they'll have fewer people spreading good word about the hobby too - it doesn't seem like a good plan for the long term.
I think if GW keeps putting prices up as much as they typically do, in the short term they may make higher profits from selling at a higher price, but the prices will scare off more and more customers and the volume of sales will probably continue to decrease, eventually leading to less money coming in than before. With fewer fans they'll have fewer people spreading good word about the hobby too - it doesn't seem like a good plan for the long term.
Cosmic Schwung
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Nothing official. Doesn't stop fans having a go. Think this one started out as spider-man:
John Rabbit
Banned
"The Empraah Protects -- me from diaper rash."
3d printers are going to fuck GW up the ass. Nice and propa.
You wouldn't pirate a car would you?
SquiddyCracker
Banned
When 3D printers are cheap and complex enough, GW probably shouldn't resist the advance of technology too much and just release licensed blueprints instead.
Sure, they'll lose profits, but it's better than people just straight up pirating things.
Sure, they'll lose profits, but it's better than people just straight up pirating things.
Deified Data
Banned
That's fucking criminal. What, do they figure it bites into miniature sales?
Been reading Galaxy in flames (#3 in the Horus Heresy).
I just read THAT BIT (
). Not even Ben Counter's average writing skill could spoil that. In fact, due to the nature of the event I have this amazing vision in my mind's eye of what that scene would look like cinematically.
Whispering Wind: If there's any book you must not skip, it is this one.
I just read THAT BIT (
The Virus Bombing
Just the sheer horror of the spectacle as they watch their fellow men die to such a brutal betrayal. Having to hear their death screams and watch them liquefied and burnt to a crisp whilst they could do nothing.
Whispering Wind: If there's any book you must not skip, it is this one.
I was going to buy a couple of Space Marines from the GW site just to sit on my desk. Just wondering if they will actually look like they do here;
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/c...t440176a&prodId=prod1630084&rootCatGameStyle=
Or if that's just an example and the ones I'd get would actually be blank and I'd need to paint them myself?
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/c...t440176a&prodId=prod1630084&rootCatGameStyle=
Or if that's just an example and the ones I'd get would actually be blank and I'd need to paint them myself?
They come unassembled and unpainted. People sell painted ones on ebay but prepare to pay a lot of extra.
The standards here are really low--as a matter of course you will find basic spelling and grammatical errors in Black Library books that cost over $10 in paperback--so someone who can ape James Bond in-universe looks like James fucking Joyce.
He's good at pandering to his readers / fans in subsequent works. (See: my complaint about Prospero Burns a few posts ago.)
He has a take on the universe and sticks to it. If you like that take, there's always more where it came from.
He's not afraid to have his characters do batshit fucking insane stuff. (Eisenhorn vs.
A FUCKING TITAN
His characters can be philosophical, he is no Aaron Dembski-Bowden in this regard, but his characters at least think and have opinions about their experience beyond, "this shit fucking sucks, yo."
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Separating the miniatures with a sharp knife and chopping some soldier's foot by accident is the worst feeling ever.
Just watched the Ultramarines movie due to this thread. Have had it in my collection but never bothered.
Thoughts:
They spent all the budget on hiring famous actors for voices who all subsequently phoned it in. Apart from maybe Sean Pertwee.
The animation looks like Doom 3.
The story was nothing special and it was obvious the
Thoughts:
They spent all the budget on hiring famous actors for voices who all subsequently phoned it in. Apart from maybe Sean Pertwee.
The animation looks like Doom 3.
The story was nothing special and it was obvious the
Captain was going to be possessed one.
As said above. The miniatures have to be assembled and painted. Also bare in mind a apace marine model is barely an inch tall. Not great for a desk.
Warhammer 40K: I live for this.
If there was a short story about this, or a few chapters in a book, I have to read it.
There's something similar in the 3rd Gaunt's Ghost book I think?
Actually maybe not. Was it killer cherubs?
edit: I was wrong, it wasn't cherubs
the hive leader dude was in a status tank thing and had servitors that looked like beasts to defend him
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I'll go back to it. Started reading Xenos and it's really good. Abnett paints vivid pictures of the world. Loved his description of the tomb world.
Continuity
Member
Oh look a 40k thread, this is kind of cool eh.
Here's a bunch of things I worked on a while ago
Here's a bunch of things I worked on a while ago
questionmark
Member
These are amazing. Great job.
Lol sorry. I was just typing it out off the top of my head.
Nah. Getting out of bed barefoot and stepping on a 4th Ed Warhammer plastic goblin, with their bolt upright needlepoint spears, is the worst feeling ever.
Damn those things hurt.