I thought I'd make a thread to discuss what I feel is abit of a disparity in the quality of new GW kits. Traditional older kits had a lot of variety in the way in which they can be built, but most newer kits can only be built a certain way. As much as the newer kits are high in quality in a sense they lack the magic some of the older kits had. With older kits there were multiple ways to build the same models, meaning their was an incentive to buy more than one of the same kit. Whereas with most newer kits you can only build the models in one way, with no sense of variety or an ability to customise your model in anyway.
I find myself missing this same ability to customise my models in newer kits, but perhaps what is most frustrating is that it's not like GW isn't capable of creating kits like they used to, at the same standard of sheer detail we become accustomed too in the past few years. For me the best kits GW have realised over the past few are the "Putrid Blightkings" and the "Rockgut Troggoths". Too me these some of the best kits GW has ever produced because they capture the magic of what used to make building models so great, maintaining that scope for originality and flair whilst maintaining the quality we've come to expect from modern GW kits. For me these kits represent the best of the old and the best of the new, and I can't help but finding myself miss the days where GW did more kits, like the Blightkings or troggoths rather than everyone having the same monopose models in their army.