Comments on: First Rackham Legends miniature on pre-order

By: evernevermore (John)

evernevermore (John) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:28:09 +0000

So now its exactly like Forgeworld - so is this R’s idea of a forgeworld division?

By: mathieu

mathieu — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:36:27 +0000

Now you need to pick the head+weapon you want when you order Belial. It doesn’t come with both of each and you can’t pick head 1 with weapon 2, for example.

By: evernevermore (John)

evernevermore (John) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:30:46 +0000

They have two different models for the Avatar - sword and spear equipped. Dont think they are swappable though

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:30:05 +0000

Good point

By: mathieu

mathieu — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:29:19 +0000

I think they would explicitly mention it on the FW site :)

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:57:35 +0000

Does anyone know if the Avatar has head and weapon swaps?

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:56:45 +0000

By which he means that £45.00 is roughly equivalent to €60.00 (about €58 at the current exchange rates)

By: Trent McCaffrey

Trent McCaffrey — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:40:57 +0000

How ’bout an apples-to-apples comparison guys?

Forgeworld Eldar Avatar

Belial (Extra large photo comparison from Cry Havoc Online)

Price? The same!

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:13:52 +0000

1687 IIRC. So that is one huge pile of points.

By: Marauder

Marauder — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:45:22 +0000

Well, he is what almost 1700pts! You won’t need too much more army to go along with that!

-Tim

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:42:27 +0000

60 Euros is indeed a ton of money and for people in the US that may make it unreasonably expensive

By: oldsalt

oldsalt — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:29:17 +0000

whoops wrong tag

By: oldsalt

oldsalt — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:28:49 +0000

Just talk about the subject and leave the other comments out of the discussion

Aww Zac!
But sometimes you know I like just going to comments section on rackham models just to see what the angry ex-confrontation players will find to flame about now.

In this instance I think Rackham could have made the size of the model clearer (It’s quite a bit larger than you’d think) and done a better job highlighting the level of the detail (i.e. the little chaosish screaming faces are poking out of its skin all over the place.
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While the it’s not my taste (too chaos-ish) for that Size and Level of detail- it seems about 60 euros worth. Heck I wouldn’t expect the model to be under 45 for the production run (where the detail won’t be as crisp)
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Sadly of course here in america 60 euro is crazy talk… as the dollar continues to plummet… but that’s GWB’s fault not Rackham’s

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:30:24 +0000

I hope this doesn’t end up being a “failed experiment” and R scrapping future plans for more projects similar to this.

I think Rackham could have managed people’s expectation better. And if the Legends line will carry these sort of LE figs as well as the old metals then maybe they should have come out with a separate brand for the resin LE figures so people then don’t equate the Legends brand with more expensive LE resin figures.

By: RyanGSG

RyanGSG — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:56:08 +0000

I would also like to bring up the state of Rackham as a company and what goes into the price of this miniature. Sadly though I get angry when I do cause I can see most sides of the argument. So I’m not going to I’m going to talk about the miniature.
Right now though I have to say that model is Awesome looking! Its roughly the size of a Greater Daemon. Thank you to KillmeforPrizes for the comparison photo. With the option to swap parts it make it better and opens it up for conversion nuts like myself. I love the detail on the piece and I think this is definitely a good sign of things to come from their studio. I look forward to getting one and crushing my opponent’s army.

-Ryan
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory since 1992;P