I really love the skin wolves! Awesome! To each his own
I really love the skin wolves! Awesome! To each his own
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Skinwolves.... SOLD!! ive never liked the crypt horrors so im a happy little vampire counts collector
Werewolves have been in the Chaos/Norse background in some form for a long time, but Undead werewolves haven't existed for as long as I can remember.Originally Posted by redfury
Anyhow, those froggies are adorable! I have no problem with the price; if GW had released them they'd be NZ$30 each anyway.
Great release. Will definitely look to pick up the wolves in the near future.
Aye, £4 seems a bit steep for the frogs but I really like them as well, plus, I need some frogs for our games of Talisman. Nice to get a model you can paint up in an hour or so.
Love both. I'll get them for my birthday.And remember Von Carsteins used to transform into wolves. Not sure if they still can, They can always use that as an excuse to make more werewolves.
Like them all, even the frogs. I hope they make children of Ulric werewolves too at some point, I'm not too fond of werewolves linked to chaos only. The rules do sound a tad weak, too, I agree.
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This. The frogs are the best thing Warhammer Forge have released since Elspeth von Draken. I'm buying lots.
The skin wolves are interesting enough but the frogs!
The one on the left is a transformed FW Great Unclean One (note the split open spine) and the one on the right is the plastic chaos sorceror.
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I've been waiting years for some great werewolf models to come along and these are perfect.
As a group of three models they look fantastic. What is even better is that they look like they've been designed so that the torsos will fit any set of legs to enable some variety when fielding more than three models. They should have also designed them with swappable heads, but that's easy enough to fix with a saw and a small about of greenstuff.
I think that they'd work well as an ogre/troll/dragon ogre in a chaos mortal force if the rules aren't suitable or if your opponent doesn't want you using monstrous arcana rules. Throw a few wolf pelts on banners and give your models some appropriate talismans and they make a great base for a themed army. That's the direction I plan to take with them.
The release also also perfectly timed to fit in with the release of the new fenrisian wolves and the avatars of war hordes of apoc models.
The frogs are great, but I'm not sure that I'll get any at £8 for 2. We've got the cute bretonnain frog lying around if we need an amphibian transformation for an unlucky wizard.
EDIT: Any ideas on easy ways to mark the models? I was thinking tattoos on the ripped skin.
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I've never understood why people like Rackhams wolf-things.. They look horrible to me, and like they belong in WoW or something. These Warhammer Forge ones are ok.
The big frog leading the lizardmen is called a "Slann" not a "Slaan", the big bird in the Empire is called a "Griffon" not a "Gryphon". The Bretonnian bird is, unfortunately, called a hippogryph.
Hmmm - just thinking they would be good for BloodBlowl as well.....
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I agree. The Rackham ones, whilst lovely sculpts, are a bit too civilized and fit much better in a technicolour world with talking pandas and noble orcs. They've got detailed well maintained equipment that looks like it was been ripped from an art installation instead of being brutal or efficient tools for killing. That's fine for some settings, but it hardly screams warhammer!
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Rackham's werewolves always looked to be straight-up White Wolf Garou to me, albeit ones with weapons and armour fitting their own setting. The idea ends up being one of power, strength and nobility rather than the horror movie monster. Privateer Press went the same route, though I can't stand their warpwolves.
Horror movie wolves are much more in keeping with the Warhammer aesthetic, and that's what WF went for. I think they look much better, but then again I don't like sparkly vampires either.
I'd really love to see the wolves painted to a high level. The frogs are cute.
Rackham werewolves are not werewolves, so this might explain that. Kinda like complaining that saurus are not great as werelizards.
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It was more the quality of the (metal) sculpts. I don't like furries at all and never bought any, but they were good from a technical sculpting perspective. It isn't that they are better werewolves (because they weren't designed to be), but they are better sculpts of large wolf-like humanoids. These look fairly crude and unfinished, to the point that I can't make out what certain bits are supposed to be- particularly the flat undetailed areas on top of the fur on the crouching one. Is it loose skin? Does it have mange? The heads don't seem to have any hair or fur either, except under the ears. And then the hands and forearms are really thin, while the feet and back legs aren't, and I don't know whats going on there either.
And then, finally, there isn't anything that meshes them in with Warhammer. Just nothing. They're even supposedly chaos-tainted, but there aren't any indications of it.
Well, no. Something made for a different game isn't going to scream warhammer. Thats just... common sense.
However, these are made for warhammer and don't even suggest it either, so thats probably a problem.
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The flat areas are indeed skin. It is in-fact their own skin, which they've torn through.
I'm a fan of the way werewolves look in dogsoldiers and skrim and these fit that to a rather grisly T.
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Funny enough, I'm running friends through a modified Savage Tide campaign (D&D 3.5e adventure by Paizo Publishing) and mutated frogs are perfect for the Isle of Dread part.
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The Skin Wolves bursting out of the body reminds me of William in the Hellboy story 'The Wolves of Saint August'.
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not a bad release for the forge, not sure the frogs would get much use but i could use one of those wolves as redmaws beast from AI11 , maybe sell the other two on ebay ?
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