GW Paint price rise

Ok so after a quick look at GW website this morning its clear to see the Manufactorum have bee raising prices, But only in the Paint department. So what are the new prices.

Spray Paint £9.80 an increase 30p 
Citadel Paints including Glaze, base, layers,wash £2.40 And increase of 10p
Citadel Edge Paints £2.55 And increase of 15p
Citadel Brush set £40.50 sure this was only £37 last week so an estimated increase of around £3


I haven't noticed any more increases I would of thought the tools section would also take a hit, But it seems they have left these prices alone for now. I haven't seen anymore price hikes on models or books so it does seem to be just the Paints. 

This wont actually mean a great deal to most of us being as the price raise is minimal. But what is with this Stealthy increase? Its starting to look as if GW think there customer base is made mostly of Mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed s**t). Is the price increase on paints merely the calm before the storm? 

With the amount of of Dire avengers you now get for your money, is this going to be GW next change. reducing the amount of models per box. I guess we wont know until they release a new Codex again possibly Codex: Space Marines. 

The Codex Eldar Supplement for Iyanden is also a worrying prospect for Space Marine Players. Are Blood Angels, Templar's, Salamanders and many more Popular Chapters Suddenly going to have to Purchase Supplements for there armies as well as a main Codex? I'm actually Betting on this. Why sell a player 1 Codex when you can sell them 2 after all. 

I am guessing that the need to increase money on the Paint range was due to the lack of sales. Airbrushes are getting increasingly cheaper, the paints are cheaper, and of a higher quality. and people are slowly realizing that just because you buy an airbrush you have to be able to paint like Hugo from Ichiban or Chung from Wargamers Consortium. Simply using the air brush for priming, base coating and washes is far faster and more economic than using spray cans an GW paints. The skills to get to a higher level come with time.

White Dwarf Classics: Issue #4

Our next White dwarf is from December 1977, The cover was drawn by Games Workshop artist John Blanche.

The main feature is written by Don Turnbull, It depict the rules For an Alice level based  within the Greenlands  Dungeon. Is is based on the Through the Looking Glass, One part of Alice that most re-writes tend to skip. Instead of writing new Comabt rules for the players in this level, He has simply written rules for traps that represent cirtain things within the story.

He mentions that not many People actualy got into the level Simply because No one figured out the writing above the door, DNALREDNOW. 

We then have a feature from Tony Bath, who talks about R E Howard’s Conan setting.

The normal features ar continue from the previous 3 White Dwarfs including more D&D tactics. And more written about the Competative D&D rules.

I also Included a Games Workshop price list from this issue, Where we can see what was being sold by GW at the time of writing.

 

Deep Strike Radio: Christina Campbell was a fake

Deep strike Radio have just released a statement about Christina Campbell.

"This is not an easy announcement for for Deep Strike Radio to make, but we believe it is necessary that we be completely honest with the listeners. Several discrepancies have arisen over the death and identity of one Christina Campbell. Upon having the matter brought to our attention, we proceeded to investigate the matter to the best of our ability. We would like to apologize to the community for allowing someone to use our show, and the 40k community as a vehicle for their own (as of yet unknown) agenda. The facts as we know them are thus:

1) There was never a person by the name of Christina Campbell participating on our show. Rather, it was an individual using a false identity. We have done extensive checks into Canadian Obituaries and any other references we could find, and have discovered no record of this identity.

2) This individual has taken advantage of our show, and the wider 40k community for their own gratification.

3) This person has also engaged in several false online relationships with various individuals in the community (Whose identities we will not disclose) for unknown reasons.

Once again, we would like to apologize for allowing this person to participate on this show under false pretenses. We believed this “Christina Campbell” as a member of the 40k online community for years (predating even this show) to be a creditable individual who would be a valuable addition to our cast.

There are two lessons to be learned from this, one in that while the online community can be a place for lasting and true friendships, it is extremely important to verify that the individuals you associate with are who they say they are. Two, that the 40k community is a caring and inviting one. The community had no reason to believe that this person was false, and did everything it could to be supportive and encouraging. Do not let this individual take this from any of you. Trust that, while these things happen, there is nothing wrong with being supportive of your fellow community members.

We will be back with our regularly scheduled programming next week."

 Just what goes through peoples heads now days. There really are some sick twisted people in this world. I don't even understand what the Endgame was for this individual.

Leaked?

Khorn Blood Knight?

Hmmm not sure if i like that at all, if it is real.

And 2 new types of Monolith rumoured

White Dwarf classics #3

So the third day and the third White Dwarf classic. The cover is by Alan Hunter, showing a warrior and a woman (or no particular function) facing a werewolf just in the process of changing. The inclusion of squares on the floor perhaps shows the D&D connection, as does the intriguing locked chest between the protagonists and antagonist.

So in episode three there is a lot of information on mapping your own dungeons for use in D&D. As well as continuing articles on advanced D&D, and monster rules.

The most interesting article gets closer to what our white dwarfs of today focus on. Miniatures and painting.  Eddie Jones talks about how in the past with the lack of detail on miniatures a simple glob of pink was fine for faces. But with the ever increasing detail of there 25mm models, the need for more advanced painting is in order.  Eddie Jones explains about the use of brushes different paints and bringing skills from much larger models down to the 25mm scale in order to get the best from the increasing detail of miniatures. 

Games Workshop pricing, just what are we paying for?

Well A huge amount of moaning is going on about GW pricing and yes people have a right to moan. We are paying a premium price for models. But as long as we continue to pay these prices then GW are going to continue to mark them up and push for more. its natural business.

But just lately GW pricing policy has been a bit to brash for peoples liking. For instance the Eldar release. 3 weeks ago you could buy 10 Dire Avengers for £23.50. And today you can buy the same Dire avengers just in a different box for £20.50. Only problem is that you are now only getting 5 in a box. So instead of paying £2.35 per model you are now paying £4.10 per model. For exactly the same model, no new sculpts or bits. just a different packaging box. there is no reason for the price hike at all. they have not had to pay any sculptors, or researchers or anything. just one guy at a computer designing new box art.

And then we have the release that has caused all the fuss and excitement. the WraithKnight A huge towering model much larger than the recent Tau Riptide release. And the Price £70. Now compared to some other GW pricing this could be considered a bargain. But lets look at it from a new prospective. What are we paying for. the plastic? The R&D?  No not any of them, although in GW own words the Wraith knight is a completely new concept for the 2013 Codex release. 

That's great if it wasn't for the fact it appeared to be a concept in 2006 :P. Now yes you could argue that that is merely just Eldar Titan in the back ground. But then all the WK is, is a scaled down Revenant Titan anyway. 
 So yes I suppose they have had to pay out for Sculptors, molds to be made etc But then the same things had to be done for these.

These are the Gunpla Models from Japan, The same amount of R&D and Sculpting went into these as the GW models. They are as big and in most cases bigger than the WK. Not to mention the fact they have 10 X the detail of any GW model. And you can purchase these Multi part Plastic kits for £15.
If it wasn't for GW's 75% policy on conversions and models I would be using Gunpla Models for my Tau army. they look amazing compared to the Crisis suits of the Tau, that lets face it, resemble kids dressed as robots using Cardboard boxes.

So if the £70 is not to cover the manufacturing of the WK what is it for. Well in all honestly all we are paying for is a Stat line in a Codex. They give us a Stat line that we want to use and hike the price up because they know players will buy into it, because they want a model with THAT stat line.   

White Dwarf classic #2

So as promised I am posting White Dwarf #2, in this copy of WD, it displays an on depth look at competitive D&D scoring. An un-boxing of sorts be it only written. And a review of the Green Planet Trilogy.

I'm not going to mention much about the Green Planet Trilogy, as today's feature is a review of its own. So all my work is done for me by the original writers of White Dwarf. It will be interesting to here if anybody actually did own or play any of the Green Planet trilogy. Leave a comment below.