Saturday 28 July 2012

The Good, The Bad and The White Dwarf! - Issue 392, Aug


Despite the cover price and c.30% advertising, we all love our monthly fix of White Dwarf. With it's shiny new releases, army show cases and battle reports, it's just like having an old friend round for tea!

But what if you were pushed to choose a single best bit, worst bit and down right ugly bit in each month's issue?

Picking up where last month's edition left off, it's time for 'The Good, The Bad and The White Dwarf!'- Issue 392, Aug


The Good...
Lots of good stuff on display this month - From new plastic Plaguebearers, Nurglings and Flamers of Tzeentch, to a great bunch of pics for a selection of Allied WH40k Armies – Including Wade Pryce’s slaughtertastic World Eater / Daemons army.

Lots of good stuff...

But for me, Andrew Kenrick’s Death Guard Chaos Space Marines take the prize. Not least of all because of the use of such a striking colour palette – The rusting orange is almost luminescent but sits perfectly in the 3 main colour palette with an eye-popping aqua blue / green as the spot colour. The most original take on a Nurgle paint scheme for some time…

An Icon Bearer...
... A Dreadnought...
... Two Plaguebearers...
... And a Death Guard...... I mean Plague Raver.

The Bad...
Like an episode of ‘Tonight’s The Night’ with John Barrowman, the Exalted Seeker Chariot of Slaanesh is one of those things that can divide opinion...


The polar opposite of less is more; the ESCoS opts for showing more blade than an ice skating pageant and in the process turns into something so overtly ostentatious that it wouldn’t look out of place as a float in a gay pride parade. But then I suppose that’s the point.

'All together now! It's fun to stay at the YMCA. It's fun to stay at  the YMCA a!'

The Ugly...
White Dwarf is advertising GW’s new Finecast LotR Cave Drake for the wallet bending price of £44… Look away Sauron, look away…

'All the 4's, 44...... Not Bingo'

A glance at GW’s website reveals that you can still pick up a Cave Drake for £36. I appreciate this is of the old white metal variety, but a massive 18% price increase on what is essentially the same mini? Ugly.

The 'Odd One Out' round... 

But forgive me, I forget that Finecast is wargaming in ‘high definition’ and is therefore justifiably priced. If you’re the sort that has to have the very latest tech on the wargaming scene, be quick to place an advanced order for this bad boy from the 11 Aug. No pushing at the back there please...

Did you have any personal best bits, worst bits or down right ugly bits from this month's edition of White Dwarf? Leave a comment, it would be good to hear from you. See you next time for issue 393...


All images copyright GAMES WORKSHOP and their respective owners (except the Plague Raver...). No challenge intended.








1 comment:

  1. Dude, I noticed that the Warhammer heroes (including the Nurgle Champion shown above) are plastic kits as opposed to finecast... a good decision I think, and I'm a tempted to pick up the Saurus Oldblood, just for fun.

    BTW, I also grinned a bit when I reached the page showing how to fix Finecast screw-ups :D

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