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Have we heard of any resin teams officially yet?
So far it's plastic Goblins, a Troll and...Union Elves? in plastic at some point and that's it isn't it?

 plastictrees wrote:
Have we heard of any resin teams officially yet?
So far it's plastic Goblins, a Troll and...Union Elves? in plastic at some point and that's it isn't it?

I thought Nurgle was also more or less confirmed as well, there is concept art for them along with the Elven Union.

I wonder if the bad splice lines on it are for mutations , different tails and arms.

 Theophony wrote:
Well originally they didn't plan for BB to sell this well and most TEAMS and big guys were going to be resin. They saw the sales and bumped a few teams to plastic, but I guess some items were too far along in resin to change.

I picked up my BB ogre Saturday and painted him today, great model

That doesnt' excuse poor quality though. Resin doesnt' make figure quality drop from plastic. On the opposite. It being in resin rather than plastic should mean BETTER quality, not worse. Advantage of plastic is in it's cheap price _on large runs_.

Speaking of which are big guys going to sell enough to make it really worth it or are they going to lead into character syndrome in 40k where thanks to idiotic choise of plastic everywhere you end up with 30$ infantry models?

The only other plastic team that has been confirmed, afaik, is Goblins. Nurgle has been rumoured to be resin from the beginning.

Elven Union will also be resin I assume as we haven't heard anything about a plastic release rumour for them at all.

I'd love to see a different picture; the one posted in p61 looks bad, and sometimes, another angle makes all the difference. But the pose does look awkward, though. It's a shame. :/

The Puppets War models are looking better and better

I've a feeling it's a Mark Bedford sculpt. That guy is so hit and miss. His Ork FW characters are, to my mind, the very best there are and I'm a real fussy bastard about my orks. But his Rampagers and now this, I don't know, they feel rushed, 'knocked out' like he doesn't feel like doing certain minis and it shows.

I'll hold off for (hopefully) the plastic bb rat ogre if I do go for a skaven team in addition to my Amazons and Norse.

It's a bad angle, but I don't think it's too bad. Certainly not Varag bad anyway.

SO we finally got Griff Oberwald !!





And a rat Ogre, in resin..





Really not keen on that Rat Ogre but Griff is the first new Resin BB scuplt that I actually like,
It was about time !!

I wonder why they dont put some more effort into the paintjobs. The Griff one looks totally buthered, and I bet that a clean job would increase sales. The pose, otherwise, looks really dynamic and fluid, fitting for a blood bowl player.

 Rayvon wrote:
SO we finally got Griff Oberwald !!

Good 'nuff.

And a rat Ogre, in resin..

My eyes. My poor beautiful eyes.

Blimey. I don't know how much the paintjob contributes to the effect (what were they, going for a cubist look?) but that thing... phew.

The Rat Ogre would benefit immensly from some hair... and not being painted in nude colors.

 Mymearan wrote:
The Rat Ogre would benefit immensly from some hair... and not being painted in nude colors.

I was also thinking 'where is the fur?'

Why does every star player need to be looking sideways too? I appreciate the current trend for 'dynamic' everything but just because you can doesnt mean you need to.

Oh, you wanted a Skaven Rat Ogre! I thought you said Shaven Rat Ogre.

Why does every star player need to hold the ball? I was happy with Zug having alternative hand without the ball (as he should never have it in the first place), but the other star players do not come with that option.

I guess Griff is a good player to get the ball with though.

Maybe some greenstuff fur could improve the shaven rat ogre?

Would you go for Griff with helmer or not? Both looks good in my view. Maybe save it for some much needed variety for the blitzers?

Baxx wrote:

Maybe some greenstuff fur could improve the shaven rat ogre?

No.

Fire.

Only fire.

stato wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
The Rat Ogre would benefit immensly from some hair... and not being painted in nude colors.

I was also thinking 'where is the fur?'

Why does every star player need to be looking sideways too? I appreciate the current trend for 'dynamic' everything but just because you can doesnt mean you need to.

Fur gives opposing players a handhold - and on something the size of a Rat Ogre, that could make the difference between it being held up or not.

Breed 'em bald, that concern is dealt with.

The baldness doesn't bother me, the colour scheme is not flattering though.

Griff looks fine if you keep the helmet on. The bare head is not all that impressive though - could be used for Spess mehreens I guess?

As for the Rat Ogre... I am so underwhelmed by it. It's just can't find one good thing about the damned thing - The pose is bad, the lack of fur, the paintjob isn't flattering either.

Yeah. Burn it with fire.

griff is pretty nice. i dislike his unhelmeted head although it may be the paint job.

i had high hopes for the rat ogre but man that thing is off.
what the heck is he tripping over?

ill probably have to get one just to add a prone dwarf or something at his feet just to complete the look.

ugh...

Why does the Rat Ogre have no fur?

Griff's nice. The helmet option is way better.

Yeahhhh I'm sticking to my IoB rat ogre, thank you very much...

Big meh on both, in particular the rat ogre. It looks unfinished, not only because it has alopecia, but also lacks definition in the muscles and face. Griff is a decent sculpt, especially the helmeted option, but isn't significantly different enough from one of the plastic blitzers to make me want to shell out. His whole schtick is looking overly bling and this is a bit understated.

Only one I would consider spending my hard-earned on is Varag, which is a superb sculpt IMO.

Glad I waited till today to order till today, now I must decide if I only want zug, or him and Griff. Passing on Morg, Rat turd and Varag.

So the helmeted Griff looks much better... but I still love the old one. This one does fit the modern look, so I will likely get him. Glad I looked here, as I totally missed the helmet in the FW post.

Griff looks fething ace.

No saving that rat ogre though, sorry to say.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

stato wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
The Rat Ogre would benefit immensly from some hair... and not being painted in nude colors.

I was also thinking 'where is the fur?'

Why does every star player need to be looking sideways too? I appreciate the current trend for 'dynamic' everything but just because you can doesnt mean you need to.

Fur gives opposing players a handhold - and on something the size of a Rat Ogre, that could make the difference between it being held up or not.

Breed 'em bald, that concern is dealt with.

Or looking at recent releases more likely FW have nobody capable of sculpting fur or hair. Even griffs hair is a solid lump a la GW proper.


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grefven wrote:
I wonder why they dont put some more effort into the paintjobs. The Griff one looks totally buthered, and I bet that a clean job would increase sales. The pose, otherwise, looks really dynamic and fluid, fitting for a blood bowl player.

I wonder why they don't put some more effort into the sculpts, with most of them except zjg a good paint job would just be put lipstick on a pig.

The rat ogre is obviously a Hairless Mole Rat Ogre.

SeanDrake wrote:
Or looking at recent releases more likely FW have nobody capable of sculpting fur or hair. Even griffs hair is a solid lump a la GW proper.

Griff's hair looks appropriate for a 50's greaser hairstyle (think John Travolta in Grease).

Well, I guess the IoB rat ogre is still the one we're going to see used most then.

That paint job looks like a cross between pastels and beginner NMM techniques. Very strange.