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?
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.
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| 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…
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| An Icon Bearer... |
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| ... A Dreadnought... |
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| ... Two Plaguebearers... |
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| ... 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.
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| '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…
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| '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.
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| 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.
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I also grinned a bit when I reached the page showing how to fix Finecast screw-ups :D