Probably one of the hardest models they’ve done recently. The lore for it also great.did buy this guy and the Lucius book.
Congrats brother, I’ve technically already got an army (AOD+CSM+bits and leftover projects repurposed) but it would’ve been cool. I’ve got an EC playlist to induce and encourage the manic and uncoordinated style that you should paint those goofy fuckers with
Its such a nice model, I’m not even gonna fuck it up too much. A bare head (as cocky as possible), a scenic base with a kneeling slave holding his helmet (the unused helmet from HH Lucius) and I’m gonna sculpt a toga over the armor, sculpt some locks onto the head and change out the pointing hand with a bit I made that’s holding a real chain. I’ll make my own Lord Exultant, with cocaine and hookers.
GW has a good habit of making the worst and most bland factions the face of their models. Ultramarines, Black Legion, Cadia. I think even looking at chaos factions leaders and heroes I’m just so uninspired to ever play as CSM because it’s all Black Legion. Where’s Red Corsairs? Why not lean more into renegade factions? How about Iron Warriors?
Marketability.
Honsou, you sick fuck!
Oh, yeah, I made a playlist ages ago full of the loudest, most discordant electronic music and heavy metal I could find. Things will get loud when it's time to start painting them. I've also got an idea to kitbash some AOS Hedonite archers and Chaos cultists together, hopefully it'll work out well.
I made my cultists out of any human bodies I had in the bits box and unified their differing looks with Chaos spawn bits (chopped down of course), old Warriors of Chaos weapons and old-style Stormcast masks, with the idea taken from “Lord of Excess” where Xantine’s human enforcers wore masks, made in his likeness and in my version they’re binding all the cultists into a hive mind, controlled by the one whose likeness the masks are made in.
You ever see the model some guy made of the Daemonculaba? It’s even worse than I imagined it.
Why buy off GW’s site when Amazon and other outlets probably have them in stock and you’re not paying GW prices
They're also not available on amazon.
I buy through my LGS because I get discounts and I have store credit via their trade system and they don't have them in stock either. Likewise they aren't really available on eBay which is the other place I buy.
To add to this, approach the LGS. Mine is offering bigger discounts for large orders and will basically order you whatever you want.
Only one of my local LGSs even offers discounts. I actually kind of hate most LGSs in my state because basically none of them will offer discounts and want to sell Warhammer at MSRP. Those same places will then bitch about losing sales to eBay like any customer should give a fuck? LGSs in the US buy at like 35% discount and are stingy retards about passing a fraction of that onto even loyal customers.
I have three LGSs and none of them offer any kind of discount. One of them I called and asked if I could preorder a box set through them and they said they don't do preorders and wouldn't even try to hold a box for me, or even confirm if they were getting any. I went in recently and their warhammer selection was pitiful. I don't know if that store is on its way out of business or what but it's the only one of the three that has free tables and there's never anyone there. They have a discord you can try to set up games with people but don't expect to walk into a store and meet people unless you're playing MtG, Pokemon, or Yugioh.
Depending on your area, you'd be filtering out up to 50% of your customer base. I don't like the rainbow alphabet crowd either, but money is money at the end of the day.
There's definitely a lot of incredibly shitty LGS out there. But not even being willing to hold something from an order they were going to make anyway? Stuff like that is obviously easier if your friends with the staff, but the rest of it is shit I've seen over and over.