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The rest is cool though.
the reason they look like multi part kits is cause they are, it's how they machine the moulds, with a device that traces the contours of the pieces as it etches the 1 up at the same time,
allthough obviously this wont stop them making jumbo sized collectors pieces someday :)
Either way, I want one :p
Nuff seen, they will be comming along soon, i will want three or four anyway
Looks like a plastic kit, and GW denying it being a plastic kit.
however, I would not be surprised if GW kept these to themselves. Too expensive to produce or some other excuse.
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProdu...
*edit* also, look at the partially assembled statue and specifically at the right hand (the one that will end up behind the shield). There is noticeable draft there that is not at all needed for a rubber mold. Draft like that is only required for a rigid mold that couldn't flex around the curve of the hand and arm.
And just when I was thinking I was going to have to sculpt one of the giant bastards...
this gap is 100% from two plastic pieces not fitting perfectly.
if it were resin there would either be no gap or one big enough to get greenstuffed before painting :)
My vote is on plastic kit with greenstuffed fur added to fit the Wolves theme.
Oh, and the shield on one of them definitely looks like it's had a Wolves icon tacked on...
I spend far-and-away more money than I would like to admit on units for my lists. When it comes to terrain for my basement games, it is all homemade; if not by me then by my local gaming store.
If there's wasn't money in it, they wouldn't do it.
I have three sets, for those times when I really want to cover the entire table in craters, but usually I don't use more than two or three. I've considered making up some flooded ones, or making a fancier terrain piece out of them, but haven't got around to that yet.
The second set (blastscape?) was way less useful in this regard. The old forest with three trees might come in handy for 15mm one day, so I've got my eye on it.
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProdu...
This definitely looks like a multipart plastic kit.
Wow. GW keeps dropping hints right in front of us.
Didn't they also feature in the previous White Dwarf, as two statues on either side of a Space Wolves fortress entrance?
40k 5th ed rulebook
240-241 - imperial palace
255 - half burried ruin
265 - only the legs remain
5th ed Space marines
front inside cover - painted bronze
back inside cover upper picture - half sunken in back of the picture
back cover - above landraider
Planet strike
29 - dead centre in the "trench" line
65 - four on the tower (one on each corner)
68-69 - two by the palace doors, one among the ruins to the palace's right
5th chaos marines
75 - upper right corner
78 - between the two buildings in ruins
they've been around for a while minus the furs from the SW diorama. there no way they have so many 3 ups for one model all exactly the same. they have a mold, but their just not sharing with the townspeople (I.E. us).
It would be a very odd kit to produce, as it doesn't really work on it's own as a piece of terrain.
If these do come out, i'm getting one or two.
I have been noticing these in images for quite some time. its too much of an investment not to release it, but you know how GW's release schedule is staggered so we have some time to regenerate spending money.
All except two - the original Cities of Death sprue has never been released.
That said, it's not beyond GW to make and release kits that don't sell well....
After looking over the pics available in various places, this is what I now think:
We've seen similar Marine statues turn up in various GW terrain pieces yeah? So I reckon they have the basic "large Marine statue", but it's just generic Imperial Marine. The "Space Wolf" statues are this same generic Imperial Marine statue, but with parts from the Space Wolf 3ups and the Chaos Warrior 3ups. If you look at the cloaks, they seem to be the Chaos Warrior cloaks, and the crotch-pelt seems to be from one of the Space Wolf sprues.
vs
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/common/xLarge...
I'm sorry, but apart from a few details (tank accessories sprue?) and a slight variation in paint job (heavy bolter casing painted in black instead of grey), I do not see many differencies between the pre-prod T-Hawk model from FW, and that one.
I find the many occurrencies of those giant SM statues more appealing.
Sort of a big FU about how I suspect they're dropping the templars from future releases....
sprue chips,
hollow,
grey sheen,
mould lines,
joint lines,
shots of mid construction of kit,
= plastic kit
that we can all agree on, yes?
With that in mind could it be that the earlier ones were resin and the constant begging from the public to purchace them has nudged gw into making a kit version to go with all the new scenery.
Therefore when they said it was a one off resin, yes that was true, but these are definately plastic.
only one question now...
how long till we can buy it? :)
Great marketing idea by GW - not. What's so bad about saying "yes this is a kit we've developed, but we're not sure if/when we will release it"? Better than lying and then going back on their word after.
They frigging stole the Black Templars fortress to make a Space Wolf one!!!
:cries:
I'm sure those statues will provide us with many ideas for our tables ;)
I really need to earn more money for my hobby LOL
We've now been told on several occasions that they are resin pieces intended for studio use. Time to stop dreaming methinks :p