GW Skaven news

[Skrit]

I like them a whole damn lot!!! But then again I've always loved Skaven, even had a 10K army of them...

I love the fact that they made the Doomwheel again and made it look cool without being comical.

[Maru]

hym. new skavens ..
so we got a Nice jumping character (dunt know aboutthis um .. thingis on his back .. )
a New Snikt os 100% cool
end this um last 1 is um .. what is this a Lego .....

[arctica]

I rather like the doomwheel and both the top two characters, i think they look pretty darn cool.

[mahon]

well, as I said elsewhere:

Sniktch looks cool as a sngle model, but is in a radically different style than other models shown here. He is very exaggerated and stylized. Looks like taken straight from a dark comic book - like Spawn, Batman, etc.
Very good mini, but in a different style than its army...

And what I like is the fact that they returned to the old 3rd edition style with the regiments. Skaven don't look like muscular ape-men or dog-men anymore, but are these ugly and dirty vermin clad in rags that they used to be before 4th edition style changed them...

[Nameless]

yeah, they managed to improve them in general terms. However, for me, as a non-gamer, they are not something I'd like to paint. perhaps that warlord in a red armour? Without that back-banner though, I guess it'd be hard to jump around with such a burden on one's back

[mahon]

I think the trophy rack is this character's trademark. I also liked this character the most (I think he's Queek Head-taker)

I think skaven are not the kind of models a non-gamer would find interesting or impressive...

[Nameless]

Queek the Horse Taker?
I agree with your opinion on skaven. Well, almost agree. I think there were few minis that should be joy for a lot of painters, like that plague priest (what was his name?) or vermin lord.

[mahon]

you must mean Skrolk

but the vermin lord? this terribly ugly thing???

[Nameless]

Skrolk,right. He was uber cool.

vermin lord - I don't know, I loved the guy. perhaps today I'd change my mind. I think I won't search for pics now, and leave it in my memory as a great model.

[mahon]

there goes your memory:

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