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- falls nicht, habe in einem forum folgendes offizielles fanatic-statement gefunden:
I'm very happy to be able to announce that we have been in close correspondence with GW's plastic's division over the last few weeks, and after much negotion and planning it looks like we are going to be able to release plastic Epic infantry after all.
I hope you'll forgive me for playing my cards very close to my chest on this subject, but I wanted to avoid dissapoint if the scheme fell through. What we've found out is that it is possible to make a few minor corrections to a plastic mould and a relatively cheap cost (only several thousand pounds!) Once we knew this we were able to come up with a scheme that allowed us to make enough minor corrections to the exisiting plastic sprues so that we can re-release them for them as part of the Epic Armageddon range.
The new sprues are rather more 'focused' then the old E40K sprues, having less variety but a more sensible distribution of the models that are on the sprue. For example, the Guard sprue will no longer has Rough Riders, but will have rather more standard Imperial Guardsmen than it did before. We've done this to make it easier for you to use the plastic sprues to bulk up the rank & file infantry in your army, and to avoid situations where you end up with a stand or two of certain units rather than a full formation.
We'll be backing up the plastic sprues with metal infantry strips that will cover any units not available in plastic. As noted above these will tend to be rather specialised and elite units. They'll be sold in formation sized sets, which I think is a rather better way of dealing with them than trying to cram all of the different units onto a single plastic sprue. Using the rough riders mentioned above as an example again, our plan is to make metal versions of these troops that will be sold in a 'Rough Rider Platoon' blister pack that contains enough models to field an entire platoon.
Unfortunately we won't have any examples of the new style plastic sprues for several months yet, but I thought you would like to know of the change in policy as soon as it had been confirmed.
Jervis Johnson
Head Fanatic
- falls nicht, habe in einem forum folgendes offizielles fanatic-statement gefunden:I'm very happy to be able to announce that we have been in close correspondence with GW's plastic's division over the last few weeks, and after much negotion and planning it looks like we are going to be able to release plastic Epic infantry after all.
I hope you'll forgive me for playing my cards very close to my chest on this subject, but I wanted to avoid dissapoint if the scheme fell through. What we've found out is that it is possible to make a few minor corrections to a plastic mould and a relatively cheap cost (only several thousand pounds!) Once we knew this we were able to come up with a scheme that allowed us to make enough minor corrections to the exisiting plastic sprues so that we can re-release them for them as part of the Epic Armageddon range.
The new sprues are rather more 'focused' then the old E40K sprues, having less variety but a more sensible distribution of the models that are on the sprue. For example, the Guard sprue will no longer has Rough Riders, but will have rather more standard Imperial Guardsmen than it did before. We've done this to make it easier for you to use the plastic sprues to bulk up the rank & file infantry in your army, and to avoid situations where you end up with a stand or two of certain units rather than a full formation.
We'll be backing up the plastic sprues with metal infantry strips that will cover any units not available in plastic. As noted above these will tend to be rather specialised and elite units. They'll be sold in formation sized sets, which I think is a rather better way of dealing with them than trying to cram all of the different units onto a single plastic sprue. Using the rough riders mentioned above as an example again, our plan is to make metal versions of these troops that will be sold in a 'Rough Rider Platoon' blister pack that contains enough models to field an entire platoon.
Unfortunately we won't have any examples of the new style plastic sprues for several months yet, but I thought you would like to know of the change in policy as soon as it had been confirmed.
Jervis Johnson
Head Fanatic
