Forgeworld to produce LOTR/Hobbit miniatures and terrain?

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:04 pm

cuchulain84 wrote:

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

@Cuchulain84, Yes, but Sauron is even more powerful and still under 500pts. It's viable.

Sauron needs an army. Smaug eats armies.

No, he just uses armies because he is vain and lazy, as is Smaug.

Songfist · **Posted:** Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:51 pm

My only issue with Forgeword is the type of resin they use. Granted i have not purchased a kit from them in some time, their resin quality varies as does their castings.

I bought Weathertop from them. Great kit. Nicely cast.

I purchased an Imperial Guard Valkyrie, years before the plastic was released. The castings were misaligned, the resin was full of bubbles and some parts were weeping. Terrible.

I bought the IG drop troops....some were amazing, some were horrific.

For me..unless I see in person and up close what I am buying from Forgeworld...I won't give them any money.

Druzhag · **Posted:** Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:23 pm

Red Corsairs wrote:

I'm more than up for a FW Smaug. Storm Giants would be welcome.

do you mean Stone Giants? and if FW did those too it would almost as big as smaug, if not smaller or even larger. you would have to make it to scale with dwarfs being able to stand on their knees.

(can you imagine the size of difficult terrain when either one of these titans die? An oliphaunts would look dwarfed!)

Pindergorn · **Posted:** Mon Jan 13, 2014 3:36 pm

Maybe FW will give us the foot of a Stone Giant?

Druzhag · **Posted:** Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:53 pm

in that case i"ll make my own.... how big are the space marine titan things? they might make the stone giant that size, and maybe the dragon on his back feet? it would be close to scale then.

Erunion · **Posted:** Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:55 pm

You could always make a plaster cast of your own foot, if you can stand the smell! :lol:

Hill-Troll · **Posted:** Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:23 pm

King Ondoher wrote:

Maybe FW will give us the foot of a Stone Giant?

You can use yourself as a stone giant, because in the miniature scale that's about right...

Creaky · **Joined:** Thu Nov 07, 2013 9:26 pm **Posts:** 424

"In the stone giants turn, get up and walk around the board. Any model you crush underfoot is removed as a casualty. If you hurt your foot, then the Stone Giant suffers a Wound."

Druzhag · **Posted:** Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:18 pm

I think that would make gamers mad...

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:45 pm

Gamers are mad. I am 'Exhibit A', m'lud.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:40 pm

Hill-Troll wrote:

King Ondoher wrote:

Maybe FW will give us the foot of a Stone Giant?

You can use yourself as a stone giant, because in the miniature scale that's about right...

"Already Got One"

Forge World as a regular part of GW would take care of the rumored licencing difficulty. May be we would see more Middle Earth products.

Lord Hurin · **Posted:** Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:03 pm

The root of the problem here is ascertaining WHY Forgeworld stuff is so expensive. Is it because of the material, limited production run or simply because they think they can get away with it?

Druzhag · **Posted:** Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:10 pm

Oldman Willow wrote:

Hill-Troll wrote:

King Ondoher wrote:

Maybe FW will give us the foot of a Stone Giant?

You can use yourself as a stone giant, because in the miniature scale that's about right...

"Already Got One"

really cool oldman willow! i feel like i should assemble one now. how did you make it, may i ask?

[EDIT]: btw i found out how tall the titans are from W40K- they're 16" tall which would be a decent size for Smaug and the stone giants.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Wed Jan 15, 2014 3:42 am

Quote:

really cool oldman willow! i feel like i should assemble one now. how did you make it, may i ask?

viewtopic.php?f=50&t=26257&p=331916&hilit=storm+giant#p331916

It is 14 inches high and made from pine bark.

Druzhag · **Posted:** Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:17 am

well thank you for that

...( when i make one it will probably be based on a 60mm Gw base) i found a good weta picture of a stone giant too... :twisted:

Raukov · **Posted:** Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:10 am

We aren't going to see Hobbit stuff from FW, I will consume my headgear if this happens.

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

£150 price tag here we come.

I think that's a very generous estimate of what a mini this size would set you back by...

Jobu · **Posted:** Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:40 am

Well, forgeworld would be a likely place to put LOTR miniatures, especially those ones that are now OOP. They are good at small batch production of resin models. Then GW can get rid of the LoTR models from the main GW homepage.

Druzhag · **Posted:** Wed Jan 15, 2014 12:04 pm

Jobu wrote:

Well, forgeworld would be a likely place to put LOTR miniatures, especially those ones that are now OOP. They are good at small batch production of resin models. Then GW can get rid of the LoTR models from the main GW homepage.

i would much rather keep them on the GW website. :roll:

Lord of Winterfell · **Posted:** Wed Jan 15, 2014 12:39 pm

Druzhag wrote:

i would much rather keep them on the GW website. :roll:

I'd rather have them in forge world than oop forever...

:boromir

Rangefinder · **Posted:** Wed Jan 15, 2014 3:29 pm

I totally agree with Winterfell. When I started out, it was during the WOTR days. Boxes were 20/24 and I focused on Harad/Far Harad. Now that has all shifted, and I would like more diversity in my collection. I am seeing (on USA site) some stuff is going out in lead times. And I am not really ready to just drop hundreds of dollars to nab it all now. I could see paying a premium to FW if they would continue to make the models available.

And I also think a massive 24"+ Smaug would...
A) Be cool to have.
B) Look like total Devlan Mud once I was done painting it.

Forgeworld to produce LOTR/Hobbit miniatures and terrain?

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