Still-young

The Darkoath models are so good.

It looks a bit deliberate to be a Chaos Spawn. Right amount of limbs, everything in the right place etc.

It probably goes between the two side bits that the skaven are pushing, and then the bit with two pins ejecutor pointed out goes up from there. On the rear of the sprue those long bits each have 2 holes that seem about right spacing wise.

Bottom left, that bit of wood.

I don’t see why the Solar Auxilia box can’t come before they’ve shown everything for them? It’s not like there’s a book in the box that will reveal models they’ve not shown yet, and the rest of the SA plastics will probably come over a few months, I don’t think it’ll be a one drop release like a 40k army.

The Warhammer World Open Day reveals last year were relatively small (Arks of Omen Farsight with the Farsight and Snikrot models, and Hedonites of Slaanesh and Blades of Khorne with their respective single hero models). Nice stuff but not like a full 6 system reveal show. 10th 40k got announced at Adepticon last year with a Terminator and Termagant shown, I’d imagine the equivalent for 4th will be this year.

Final Kroot reveal seems pretty, well, final.

Same, I was hoping for a bigger centrepiece type model. A bit disappointed.

They’d probably have said something about it being the final reveal. edit: oh

He’s said they’re coming, I don’t believe he’s said this soon? I could be wrong but the Solar Auxilia battle group will barely be out by then, and it took almost 2 years for the first non-marine plastics. I really don’t see it that soon.

There’s no way 30k will get Mechanicum this quickly after Solar Auxilia.

Yeah the setting and art is really cool.

I think they mean the model behind the rocks.

Not that it really makes any difference but I’ve just been looking through that 7th Skaven book from 2009 and noticed the HPA model wasn’t in the book, it was actually from a slightly later wave in 2011 along with the warp lightning cannon:

Forgot about the Doomwheel! What a model.

It’s only older than a few Ogre Kingdoms kits, not the whole Ogre Kingdom range (although it being 2009 puts them a lot closer than they were in my head, GW really came on pretty quick with plastic kit quality). I think the HPA holds up really well for being 15 years old. edit: I agree with Swamp Trogg, I think that Skaven wave really holds up today. I’d be happy if Clanrats stayed, I’ve already said in here somewhere how Stormvermin are probably my single favourite WHFB unit kit, the Screaming Bell is still great. That was a really good release. I still have the army book somewhere.

I always have intentions to paint but I don’t actually enjoy it much so don’t do it very often at all. I’m hoping to change that this year and actually get at least a force of something painted up. So far I’ve done 2 test models haha

I’m not sure there is a Warhammer fest this year. Last year announcement/tickets were out in November for it, but I don’t think they were this time round.

I dunno if it’s just 2 spikes and one is damaged, but they’ve always looked a bit like styalised eagle and bear faces to me, which makes me think order.

From what I can tell, the leaked roadmap was actually someone’s guess for what the roadmap would be that was then shared around as a leak.

I think the Solar Auxilia are anything but generic tbh, they have bike chain backpacks for crying out loud

And Kroot don’t have that skeletal look where you can see every bone in the foot.

Yeah that kind of thing is what I’m seeing. I dunno if it’s just that it’s not especially clear though.

I’ve just noticed the Lumineth helmet crest actually looks a little bit bovine on the art? Quite hard to tell for sure though.