http://m.imgur.com/a/NrfK2
Why isn't that a pretty tree person?
Before clicking the link, I was just thinking of the most polite way to say it must just be some conversion one of the Studio dudes did and it accidentally made it into the shot.
Now......
Hucking Fell, I do hope I still have my Glade Guard and other Wood Elf models.
Some very nice looking models there, about time Wood Elves got themselves an update.
GW have become very good at keeping secrets nowadays, we used to know about things at least a month in advance but now we're lucky if we find out a full week before the White Dwarf.
Thank god it looks like glade guard are getting updated, their models are the whole reason I quit playing wood elves.
What is/was wrong with the Glade guard? Also, they look more like Eternal guard to me.
So this updates all of the elves. Cool way to do it too.
Quote from: Narric on April 22, 2014, 08:02:03 AM
What is/was wrong with the Glade guard? Also, they look more like Eternal guard to me.
The heads always bothered me. The waist joint also came across wrong to me.
Well they're up for Advance order and boy do those Treemen look amazing.
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Treeman-Ancient
They're accompanied by a new Army Book and some chap called Araloth (who I presume has rules in White Dwarf) but for now that is all.
So accordin to GW, Trees have beards, and weave their crotch hair into tabards :P
Quote from: Narric on April 26, 2014, 09:25:16 AM
So accordin to GW, Trees have beards, and weave their crotch hair into tabards :P
Well, only the Ancient ones, the regular guy doesn't have a beard and his tabard is made of bark (probably, I'm not a botanist);
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Treeman
Whilst Durthu the special character uses ivy with additional skulls because he's the fashionable one;
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Durthu
nice looking models and the paintjob on the treeman seems to above GW's usual standard to me.
I'm not sure if I like the more humanoid look of the treemen or not. Definitely a very nice model. The sword is very cool.
Very interested in this release, some of my favourite conversions/paintjobs/modelling/themed army has been done with WElves.
- Will
Quote from: Cammerz on April 25, 2014, 10:54:05 PM
Well they're up for Advance order and boy do those Treemen look amazing.
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Treeman-Ancient
They look more like some forest daemon to me than Treemen. The new sculpt certainly doesn't fit how I've always envisaged them. Still, I don't play Wood Elves, so it's not a major issue for me.
The whole tree demon concept fits completely with my vision of wood elves. Tree spirits to me are savagery incarnate, not wise, slow treemen from LotR. I really like how the model comes across.
Quote from: Deraj on April 28, 2014, 11:23:59 PM
The whole tree demon concept fits completely with my vision of wood elves. Tree spirits to me are savagery incarnate, not wise, slow treemen from LotR. I really like how the model comes across.
When you say it like that, it works with the Dryads fluff, who iirc are viscious spirits.
From Lib Online:
Eternal guard:
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_EternalGuard01.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_EternalGuard01.jpg)
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_EternalGuard02.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_EternalGuard02.jpg)
Wildwood rangers
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_WildwoodRangers01.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_WildwoodRangers01.jpg)
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_WildwoodRangers02.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204008_WildwoodRangers02.jpg)
Wild riders:
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_WildRiders01.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_WildRiders01.jpg)
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_WildRiders02.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_WildRiders02.jpg)
Sisters of the thorn:
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_SistersoftheThorn01.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_SistersoftheThorn01.jpg)
http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_SistersoftheThorn02.jpg (http://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99120204009_SistersoftheThorn02.jpg)
I see a lovely source of Incubi glaives for conversion purposes :3
Haven't been on GW store yet, but the four units clearly come from only two kits. I'm sure I didn't need to point that out though :P
Loving the redsign for the Eternal Guard and Wild riders, and the new units look pretty pretty :P
Im slightly disappointed with the wood elf release - I was really looking forward to some plastic wardancers for my Harlequins
The Sisterhood riders from the Cavalry kit look like they'd be decent for conversion fodder....
Perhaps if there was a unit which could use similar body shapes to the Wardancers, GW may consider redoing them in plastic. To my knowledge though, Wardancers are practically Fantasy Harlequins, so a dual kit would be difficult for them I think, and a standalone kit would probably be needlessly fiddly to put together (Assembly wise, not putting the pieces onto the sprue :P).
I don't care - I want plastic Harlequins dammit! The closest thing are those witch elf alternatives, but those be damn crazy expensive!