Oldest gw model still in the range?

[jimbobodoll]

Originally Posted by grissom2006

Face it increasingly more and more Metal Mini's are going Mail Order Only haven't seen blisters for Warlocks and Farseers in my GW for the past 2 months.

Jes when he did the Eldar range pretty much set the bench mark for them so it's only right that current lived upto the old. I'll still say though that when it comes to the Warlocks that 4 in that range all got released at the same time, so it's 4 models not 2 that are oldest for 40K.

From this page:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/ca...tCatGameStyle=

The three early ones are:
"Eldar Warlock with Singing Spear"
"Eldar Warlock with Two Handed Witch Blade"
"Eldar Warlock with Witch Blade"

The much newer others are:
"Eldar Warlock with Singing Spear and Skuriken Pistol"
"Eldar Warlock with Witch Blade and Skuriken Pistol"

Note the warlock available in the bundle packages armed with a two handed witch blade and differing from that above is much much more recent and was released with the "Eldar Seer Council" on this page in the new (dark[boom boom]) millennium.

[Poseidal]

http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2093eldaravatrwarlks-h.htm
http://www.solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93485-01.htm

The 3rd and 4th Warlock released in the original lot isn't available, because they have Laspistols.

2-Handed and Spear+Shuriken Pistol were 1993 or so releases.

So we have:

2/4 from 1990 (2 removed for having laspistols)
2 from 1993, both still in production
1 from around the Eye of Terror Campaign, two handed Witchblade, slanted pose. Only available in the seer boxed sets and not in blisters.

[grissom2006]

Originally Posted by jimbobodoll

From this page:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/ca...tCatGameStyle=

The three early ones are:
"Eldar Warlock with Singing Spear"
"Eldar Warlock with Two Handed Witch Blade"
"Eldar Warlock with Witch Blade"

The much newer others are:
"Eldar Warlock with Singing Spear and Skuriken Pistol"
"Eldar Warlock with Witch Blade and Skuriken Pistol"

Note the warlock available in the bundle packages armed with a two handed witch blade and differing from that above is much much more recent and was released with the "Eldar Seer Council" on this page in the new (dark[boom boom]) millennium.

4 of said Warlocks all present and accounted for in 2nd Edition Eldar Codex and WD. I even bought the 4 when they first came out. Those ones being:-

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/ca...Id=prod1060084
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/ca...Id=prod1060096
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/ca...Id=prod1060088
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/ca...Id=prod1060094

Eldar was pretty much my first major army in 40K my collection includes everything they've produced for them over the years.

[jimbobodoll]

Originally Posted by grissom2006

4 of said Warlocks all present and accounted for in 2nd Edition Eldar Codex and WD.

the singing spear and shuriken pistol? I just came back to edit my post on further memory of that

EDIT: Hang on... From here we can see that only 2 are old OLD OLD warlocks, the other 2 are defo newer (pff @ 40k in a box): http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c...vatrwarlks.htm

[warmasterbond]

Originally Posted by jimbobodoll

the singing spear and shuriken pistol? I just came back to edit my post on further memory of that

EDIT: Hang on... From here we can see that only 2 are old OLD OLD warlocks, the other 2 are defo newer (pff @ 40k in a box): http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c...vatrwarlks.htm

Two of the figures are from RT Era - http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c...trwarlks-m.htm shows the first batch of Warlocks released.

Two further Warlocks are from 1993 ish - http://www.solegends.com/citcat9x4/c93485-02.htm shows all 6 Warlocks that were available in 1993. This is the Catalog sheet that also appeared in the 2nd Edition Eldar Codex.

Both Warlocks with Laspistols were discontinued when 3rd Edition 40K arrived (since Eldar no longer used Laspistols/Lasguns)

[jams86]

i've got the bug-eyed farseer. i use him a spiritseer in my wraithguard unit

[ZeroTwentythree]

Originally Posted by grissom2006

Face it increasingly more and more Metal Mini's are going Mail Order Only haven't seen blisters for Warlocks and Farseers in my GW for the past 2 months.

It seems like they are phasing out blisters, for the most part. Almost everything is going to boxed packaging.

[LonelyPath]

I think it's either the Elementals, Dragons or the Familiars, they've both been around since WFB 3rd edition. I'm not entirely certain but I think a couple of those familiars were about during 2nd edition as well! I don't have access to my full WD collection at present (all but the 80 most recent issues are packed away in the attic) but it would be nice to try and dig them out to take a look. Either way it's make those miniatures somewhere around a 1986/7 release.

[IJW]

Originally Posted by AndrewGPaul

Now we're getting nitpicky. Without further clarification, I assumed "current range" means "all the minis I can buy from GW now".

My assumption was 'either continuously produced or sold as the current model for that unit', which would make it the Reaver shortly followed by the Phantom if we look beyond 40k & WFB.

Originally Posted by AndrewGPaul

The "Dragonmasters dragon" (so-called because it came in a box set titled Dragon Masters) wasn't even a Warhammer miniature; it started life as part of Citadel's Eternal Champion range, one of their Melnibonéan miniatures.

To expand on what Harry said, it may have been sculpted as Elric on a Melnibonean Dragon, but it wasn't released until the Eternal Champion license had run out and was first released as a 'generic' Elf Dragon. It was never released within the EC range.

Originally Posted by Tymell

I'd have thought the Skaven globadiers would be a contender.

Nowhere near - they weren't even out for the 4th ed army book.

[jimbobodoll]

Well I'm still sticking to my Tom Meier 1980s blue dragon... :P