Them teaming up works since they still have a strong sense of duty. If a king tells them he needs them for a battle, they'll do what he tells them to do. The banner/musician? Less so, as the point of a banner is it is not supposed to fall, while the point of a slayer is that he is supposed to fall!
Redhammer
Going to have to disagree here. Standard Bearer/Musician would be the perfect battlefield role for anybody with a death wish, slayer or not ;)
"But sir, why don't I get a sword and shield like the others?"
"You have a trumpet! What more could you want?"
Mmmm. Possibilities. I personally prefer variety of pose, even if some quality must suffer. Look at the present GW chaos warriors. Beautiful, until you see them ranked up, all the same, with the near identical poses wiping out any discernible differences in helms, weapon config etc. Kind of spoils the unit, imho. They are, as individual models, way better than the old hunched warriors, but as far as variety goes, gimme multi-part.
These fellows have a lot of potential for coversion. I think the weapons are too big though. They DO look bulky enough to tick the box for the upper body parts I need for my boar centaurs, using the new orc boars as the base. Some head and weapon swaps, some mutations, and I think I might have some pretty groovy cavalry. Sign me up.
Have we seen anything that indicates how big these are? The look awful big, I’m afraid. So like everything else Felix do they are not to go with anything else. I’ll bet ya’ that they are on 25mm bases here
Let him do what? Sculpt his own range of 28mm figures? I'm pretty sure he's allowed to do that...
AoW are 28mm scale figures. They're heroes, so tend to be a bit bigger than rank and file, and I'm pretty sure that's part of Felix's design ethos. But 3-5mm difference is not enough to dismiss the entire range. The bases are 20mm, according to the website, so just look at the photos and decide for yourself how big they are.
And till now every single one of them is like 3-5mm bigger than their equivalent GWs - and probably why GW let him do it.
Well, not even GW own the right to make 28mm Dwarfs exclusively. Otherwise I'd be screwed too! ;)
In fact, if you look at GW's own dwarfs, there's easily 3mm difference between parts of their own range.
They do look a lot more muscular than GW's current Dwarfs, but I'd bet that's the direction GW will be taking Dwarfs in anyway. These should make some really nice CDs.
They are so astoundingly close to GWs IP that I wouldn’t be surprised about legal action. Celtic Berserker dwarfs are one thing, almost exact copies of every element of a GW Slayer is another. I like them though.
Take it easy Thommy H, so much excitement can be bad for a man you age
I’m not dismissing anything here - and am probably one of the members here with the biggest collection of AoWs - and most supportive. I’m just rather convinced that these won’t go that well with GWs - but like always (with you and me) its a matter of taste. But I can give you, that it’s hard to tell from that picture - as they are probably not even productions casts - as toolmaking apparently hasn’t even been finished, yet. So probably 3up’s photoshoped to look like a ranked unit.
And for 28mm’s well everything - now a day - is called that - but ain’t really helpful for guys where size matters. But I can just tell that a heroic AoW is ‘a lot’ bigger than a GW equivalent.
And till now every single one of them is like 3-5mm bigger than their equivalent GWs - and probably why GW let him do it.
Well, not even GW own the right to make 28mm Dwarfs exclusively. Otherwise I’d be screwed too!
In fact, if you look at GW’s own dwarfs, there’s easily 3mm difference between parts of their own range.
They do look a lot more muscular than GW’s current Dwarfs, but I’d bet that’s the direction GW will be taking Dwarfs in anyway. These should make some really nice CDs.
Baggronor
Pretty sure I didn’t say that they have rights to do 28mms or dwarfs. But like Cornixt pointed out his design is darn close to GW IPs. And yes lots of variety within the GW dwarf range - and probably the reason why you hardly ever see armies mixing new GWs with old ones.
Leave off the mohawk, give them a weapon switch, possibly new bestigor axes. Seems all you need to turn these into chaos dwarf berserkers, plus a slick paintjob of ashy skin and black beards. Maybe throw in some armour from the plastic chaos marauders. Definitely considering it… I can just use them as Chaos Dwarf warriors with Great Weapons in little games, and counts-as Dwarf Slayers in legendary battles or friendly games with opponents that allow it. Fun!
As for Chaos Marauders needing an update, have you thought about adding a combination of the new bare Space Wolf heads (hide the space marine neck brace trim on the back of the neck) and bits from the new Marauder horsemen? I’ve seen a whole unit converted like this, with only spare usage of the original marauder heads, and it looks far more up to date. The heads seem to be the most outdated part of the kit.
well everything - now a day - is called that - but ain’t really helpful for guys where size matters. But I can just tell that a heroic AoW is ‘a lot’ bigger than a GW equivalent.