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I would guess FEC stay in some form or other, but wonder if Blisterskin fits a combined Castlevania style Death faction.

From around the 26:50 mark... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wntft9BSmBc&ab_channel=VinceVenturella

That's what they assumed. The "why" part of the conversation is speculation, though. However, the timing makes sense. Maybe it's another Orruk Warclas situation, where they are folded together and retain their individual identity, which would basically represent a new FEC book.

Tom @ Warhammer Weekly saying that a source told him that FEC Endless Spells are not long for this world. Also, a less clear hint that the book is potentially also on life-support

Thanks for the recommendation/offer. Yea, they look close. But bitter experience tells me that the wall has to be 100% vertical. Did you use those 3D prints yourself for this purpose then? One option is to make your own cylindrical "base" out of resin using a 50mm mold, with a magnet embedded in the bottom. Then prime it black, put it back in the bottom of the 50mm mold and build the water over that as an additional cylindrical layer. Does anyone know if neodymium magnets still function through a MDF base? If so, putting one on top of the base (i.e. embedded within the cork and/or texture paint) would be an option. The magnet I tested works through cork sheets, but not through a wooden display board for tiles. I don't want to buy a load of MDF bases to test it, in case it doesn't work...

Due to using a mold for resin water effects, I need bases with a flat edge (i.e. not the sloping edge that GW bases have). Usually, this means getting an MDF base, but those don't have a hollow underside for a magnet. Anyone know of any manufacturers of hollow plastic bases, with flat edges? Initially, I am looking for 50mm rounds.

Rogue Idol gone from FW store. This either means... (1) Get a Squig Gobba and Collossal Squig ASAP (2) Definitely do not ever buy a Squig Gobba or Collosal Squig It kinda depends on your perspective.

Exactly. Forgeworld is a disgrace. Happy to sell people models at a premium, and yet refuse to give them any keywords to make them usable and then remove them from the game entirely - with no prior warning. Any attempt from LoA players this past half-decade for clarity has been met with generic stock responses or, worse still, radio silence. Then *poof*, they're gone. Thanks for the thousand dollars though, suckers... If it wasn't for those players who have remaining FW armies (i.e. Death Korps, etc.) and the continued employment of their creative staff, I wish the company would just disappear forever.

Non-Nighthaunt player coming in peace. Are the metal helmet/mask heads for the Crawlocke kit hollow? If so, what is their approximate size (i.e. height and width)? Cheers

Even more so than Sylvaneth?

Having been living in China for the past few years, GW would have to be careful in its expansion there. Anything mainstream that pertains to the supernatural (i.e. ghosts, etc.) is banned in China, and Slaanesh-type imagery might be on shaky ground too (i.e. anything pertaining to homosexuality/transexuality). Also, religious symbols are pretty much banned, so there might be some Sister of Battle (etc.) imagery that is also pretty close to the mark in that regard. As of now, GW kinda flies under the radar there. There was a large TK army (which contained the disallowed skeletons, obviously) in the window of the Shenzhen store, and a large Nighthaunt army on display inside. However, with increased visibility, they will be under more scrutiny from the CCP. In terms of Cathay's aesthetics, obviously Imperial China was hated by the early CCP, but the current generation of CCP leaders doesn't hate this history to the same extent and Four Kingdoms (etc.) era dramas are everywhere (so long as they do not contain too much sexual/political dabauchery, of course). One constant ballache is spray cans and chemicals, which you cannot travel with anywhere as they are seen as a terrorism hazard. I had to smuggle cans of primer from Hong Kong when I needed them, and planned to fake ignorance of the rules if caught. Your bags are constantly checked even within China, and you will be relieved of that bottle of airbrush thinner or that box of epoxy resin that you may have had with you in transit. These are all obstacles to the hobby taking off over there. Even this forum is blocked in China, lol.

OBR didn't contain deserts, mummies or chariots. There is more than enough thematic room there for a faction to exist, without treading on OBR's toes. You just need to omit the bone/skeleton stuff, and the Chad leader (sorry Settra) The more prominant Neferata becomes, the more likely Khalida becomes IMHO.

They work well as a straight-from-the-pot airbrush filter that are good at tinting a pre-existing zenithial highlight. I often use Gryphhound Orange for this purpose. Used as intended, I generally find them to give thoroughly unconvincing results, but some armies (e.g. Sylvaneth, Nighthaunt, etc.) might fare slightly better with them. My favourite description of them is "bright pastel", which seems like a contradiction-in-terms but accurately describes how contrast-painted models appear to my eye.

Oh, OK. By "white box", I meant the official AoS boxes. I didn't know plain white boxes were a thing (except Made to Order, maybe), so might need to edit my previous comment so as to not be confusing.

But were they WHFB or AoS boxes? I checked the most egregious 2019 squatting (i.e. the Sky Cutter Chariot), and it seems to have been WHFB-boxed until the very end. I think removing individual AoS-boxed kits - especially if we are talking about removing the entire army that they comprise - is a different situation, as these products would be visually indistinguishable from their IDK, OBR, LRL (etc.) counterparts. Or, to put it another way, there is nothing to say "this is older, and therefore at-risk" without scouring the internet archives or looking at sprue dates.

I feel "brown" (i.e. ex-WHFB) Beastmen should become Destrction (it could even be a narrative event), and the god-themed Beastmen remain within their god-aligned armies. Maybe the latter can perform double-duty, but I feel brown Beastmen would feel like a bigger deal - both in terms of narrative and gameplay - in the "small pond" that is GA Destrction.

Probably preaching to the choir here, but this isn't a card game. There is immense amount of time, emotion and expense that goes into a fully-painted - and in the case of CoS, perhaps converted - army, and too much more churn-and-burn will really start to spook much of the community. - Tomb Kings and Brets? Well, it's a new game... - Silver Tower? Was never intended to be part of AoS, proper - Greenskinz? Was just a Start Collecting box - Spire of Dawn? Was just a single battleforce box - Forgeworld? It's technically a seperate company, and the sculpts are aging anyway However, losing CoS (or BoC, etc.) would be the first time a fully itemised, white-boxed, battletome-bearing army had been removed since the transition period, and that pretty much changes everything. Also, there seems to be a mis-conception that newcomers to the hobby know/care about WHFB or the years printed on sprues (etc.). They merely see an army with white boxes and a book - just like IDK, OBR, LRL (etc.). This means that the "you should have seen it coming" defence of GW shouldn't apply either, IMHO. Hell, even a low-selling new army might not be safe under such circumstances. The only such case I am aware of is Fyreslayers (and this is mostly anecdotal evidence - albeit lots and lots of anecdotal evidence), where GW might either decide the concept is fundamentally flawed - and thus further updates would merely be throwing good money after bad - or that the execution was the issue, and thus maybe try to add to the range in order to make it more visually interesting. Anyway, let's hope none of these full army squattings ever happens.

Necromancing this "post photos from random projects" thread. Found some old, superglue-covered metal Yhetee bits and threw them on some Crypt Horror bodies to see if they work in terms of scale (etc.), and did some rough basecoating to try and visualise it better. Apologies, hes actually grey with snow on him, but the bad photo has washed everything out. It's the form that matters here anyway. I am wondering if this makes Winterbite viable, aesthetically. Even if the cost of such a project would be eye-watering...

A Cities (I mean the book/concept/warscrolls, rather than the actual kits) squatting would be the most controversial event since AoS started, IMHO. The effort that many people have put into scratch-building CoS armies (rather than the stereotype that CoS armies are just carried-over WHFB collections, on square bases) would cause an absolute riot amongst much of the community - and rightly so. Having a "blank slate" army in AoS is vital to allowing model ranges to be phased out, but still usable. This helps to prevent (in many cases, justified) ragestorms, as well as giving customers confidence in purchasing any model made before 2016. For example, Legion of Azgorh players seem to be leaning into CoS being their best option right now, as most units (aside from Kdaai Fireborn) translate into something in that vast list of warscrolls. Mercenaries previously allowed for similar options (e.g. the above-mentioned Kdaai Fireborn as Crypt Horrors), but were - in my opinion, wrongly - removed from the game.

New Icefall Yhetee sculpts.

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I suspect they might play this one with a straight bat, and not actually attach a gimmick onto the Soulblight Gravelords - especially with the out-there LRL being released around the same time. Plus, other than dwarves, I feel the natural Vampire player base might be the most traditional out there, so there might not seem like much need to re-invent the wheel. Lots of people just like vampires, and the associated gothic horror tropes. I mean, playing the Slaves to Darkness release straight down the middle didn't hurt them, so I imagine plastic Blood Knights (etc.) could be received in much the same way. Then, they can swing for the fences with LRL.

Just adding red to the eyes on MS Paint really re-balances the focus of the model where it should be (i.e. the face) IMHO

It's difficult, because the flesh is supposed to be pale and pallid. This leads to the face - which is supposed to be the focus of the model - being a bit lost. However, I feel the white eyes and the aggressive edge highlighting on the armour doesn't help matters...