Petition - Bring Back Hobby Articles

[Druchii Monkey]

Case is closed when articles back or suitable alternative provided by GW. This is not yet the case. Looking forward to your site though Lord Dan.

[Druchii Monkey]

Well, the new paints are up. No new articles.
New $50 painting book.
Case closed.

Read a lot of the new "How to Paint" book this weekend. The "Army Projects" do a good job of replacing the online articles for those armies they cover. So long as GW keeps up a good work rate with these then i reckon we have a replacement that is a step forward. Many of these guides won't now be free but from a "Step By Step" point of view the new "How to Paint" book is great, and also really enjoyed the Space Wolves Army Project in the last White Dwarf. Good stuff GW.

[Tupinamba]

Dated or not, there are no alternative articles up, so they should have stayed. IMO, the more articles in general, about gaming, fluff and modelling/painting the better! And I´d guess the web space needed for them is insignificant and not reason enough to not have them.

[Mr Ogre]

But the articles can now be said to be inaccurate, rather than just dated.

'Now use this paint, which you can't get anymore'.

Plus, they are going for a whole new style of painting guide. This months White Dwarf has a several sample one (nothing in depth mind!).

Also, I imagine there may be some kind of 'How To Paint' thing released for each army as and when they get released. All about the product link, and increasing ATV. And if it happens to make your customers all the more dependant on your product range, so much the better. Some might say this is cynical, I'd more call it solid business sense!

[Damien 1427]

But the articles can now be said to be inaccurate, rather than just dated.

Which is perhaps one of the reasons the 'Eavy Metal Masterclass book is out of print.

My only frustration with all this was they removed an article on painting sandstone, so I spent a fair while trying to track down a half-decent method for it.

[nanite]

It's been a year. They're not coming back, are they?

[Noble Korhedron]

I very much doubt it. CURSE YOU, G.W.!!

[lbecks]

They've been replaced by the digital painting guides which you have to buy.

[nanite]

They've been replaced by the digital painting guides which you have to buy.

Cool! Oh wait no, the opposite of that. Since: 1) I have an Android Device, and 2) I am insulted that GW wants the physical book price for an ebook.

It's baffling from a marketing standpoint too. I bought plenty of scenery and models after reading a nifty article. Now? I'll be hornswaggled if I pay GW to advertise to me.

[Bael]

To be honest there are a ton of free tutorials on YouTube, here on Warseer and sites like Tale of Painters that there is no need for Gw's sub-standard guides anymore. It just means I go on GW's site less, and and see more ads and tutorials for non-GW figures that I could spend money on.

[m1acca1551]

To be honest there are a ton of free tutorials on YouTube, here on Warseer and sites like Tale of Painters that there is no need for Gw's sub-standard guides anymore. It just means I go on GW's site less, and and see more ads and tutorials for non-GW figures that I could spend money on.

Never a truer word spoken.

[eron12]

To be honest there are a ton of free tutorials on YouTube, here on Warseer and sites like Tale of Painters that there is no need for Gw's sub-standard guides anymore. It just means I go on GW's site less, and and see more ads and tutorials for non-GW figures that I could spend money on.

I'm with the poster above who said that the more articles out there the better. Sure there are plenty of other options out there, but wouldn't we be even better off with more?

[Noble Korhedron]

Never a truer word spoken.

D'accord, mes amis!! And T.B.H, the ONLY G.W kits I am likely to buy anytime soon are the new Wizard wagons and possibly the Demigryphs. I'm looking into getting the old WAlter from a friend of mine, or, failing that, converting it....

[Chapters Unwritten]

Never gonna happen.

They are to be used as rationed content for white dwarf and overpriced supplement books until the well runs dry. Sad but true.

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[Bigglesworth]

Yeah, from now on if you see somthing you like on GW.com (though its unlikely to happen soon!) Save the web page to your hard drive. I do the same with forum posts with interesting tutorials or web pages. You can't trust links to stay the same or things not to go down.


I wonder what the UKs soon to be implemented "web archive" will mean for GW? from 2015 IIRC all .co.uk addresses will have a snapshot taken from them of around 10mb which I imagine will happen yearly. Which will then become public record. Though I doubt thats enough to do more than the main page. and a few others.