RIP Warhammer

[Zhu Bajie]

which is why we're Fortnam and Masons, not Lidl, and can sell pork pies for £30 not 25p.

I like to think I'm more like a farm shop. I produce everything 'locally' and sell it at a small enough profit to still allow me to put money towards the next batch. Rather than a 'boutique' which sells sweat shop goods at a ludicrous mark up simply because they have a 'label' or a budget supermarket which sells stuff cheap by bringing it halfway across the world and not giving anything above cost price (if that) to its suppliers.

Unfortunately, unlike the pork in an F&M pie, it's really difficult to establish the supply chain for the commodities used in miniature making and there's no guarantee the tin hasn't come from child labor in indonesia, not even the major electronics manufcturers can definitively say where their metals are sourced from.

 

[Fimm McCool]

Unfortunately, unlike the pork in an F&M pie, it's really difficult to establish the supply chain for the commodities used in miniature making

Yeah, trying to do anything wholly ethically is near impossible, but we try as best we can. One of the conscience issues with living in the western world is that pretty much everything is tainted somewhere along the chain, really we should be hand carving everything from trees, remembering to plant new ones as we go of course.

 

[Captain Crooks]

Unfortunately, unlike the pork in an F&M pie, it's really difficult to establish the supply chain for the commodities used in miniature making

Yeah, trying to do anything wholly ethically is near impossible, but we try as best we can. One of the conscience issues with living in the western world is that pretty much everything is tainted somewhere along the chain, really we should be hand carving everything from trees, remembering to plant new ones as we go of course.

You shouldn't plant trees - forests plant themselves. Giving them the space needed is the only human element required. Planting trees messes up the genetic structure of an ecosystem. Sustainable logging etc is done by chopping down trees and then waiting for them to grow again while you chop down more elsewhere

 

[Fimm McCool]

Thanks! I'll remember that the next time I decimate a whole forest to carve myself 3000 points of AoS troops.

 

[Zhu Bajie]

Don't make me start posting more photos playing warhammer with acorns and sea-shells again

There are occasional attempts to resurrect tin mining in Europe (in Britain even), but the economic pressures to produce ever cheaper products means these businesses aren't profitable against the cheap labour practices and scale of operations in the 3rd world. It's not so much that we can't produce stuff 'ethically' (or with a transparent supply chain "from farm to fork" as the Farm Shop is supposed to do), it's that doing so simply costs more, and the market won't bear it, which is a shame.

Argh. Now I want an army of Red Redemptionists cast purely from melted-down 16th century pewter candlesticks stolen from churches. Sod the ethics, I want my tr00 kvlt grimdark miniatures!

 

[dieselmonkey]

Argh. Now I want an army of Red Redemptionists cast purely from melted-down 16th century pewter candlesticks stolen from churches. Sod the ethics, I want my tr00 kvlt grimdark miniatures!

I could probably help you there, at least with the candlesticks...

 

[Captain Crooks]

Thanks! I'll remember that the next time I decimate a whole forest to carve myself 3000 points of AoS troops.

If the rumours are true (no assumptions ) then you may only need 30 or so trees - but several will have to be of exceptional quality as the game could be character heavy. Definitely old growth.

 

[Zhu Bajie]

Argh. Now I want an army of Red Redemptionists cast purely from melted-down 16th century pewter candlesticks stolen from churches. Sod the ethics, I want my tr00 kvlt grimdark miniatures!

I could probably help you there, at least with the candlesticks...

Hell yes. Project's starting to come together... next I need the location of the landfill site where the original moulds are buried, a clear moonlit night and a shovel...

 

[dieselmonkey]

Argh. Now I want an army of Red Redemptionists cast purely from melted-down 16th century pewter candlesticks stolen from churches. Sod the ethics, I want my tr00 kvlt grimdark miniatures!

I could probably help you there, at least with the candlesticks...

Hell yes. Project's starting to come together... next I need the location of the landfill site where the original moulds are buried, a clear moonlit night and a shovel...

I can help you with that, as well, but you'll need a bulldozer and several years of your life to find the buggers.

 

[Fimm McCool]

Argh. Now I want an army of Red Redemptionists cast purely from melted-down 16th century pewter candlesticks stolen from churches. Sod the ethics, I want my tr00 kvlt grimdark miniatures!

I could probably help you there, at least with the candlesticks...

Hell yes. Project's starting to come together... next I need the location of the landfill site where the original moulds are buried, a clear moonlit night and a shovel...

I can help you with that, as well, but you'll need a bulldozer and several years of your life to find the buggers.

If there's a Great Spined Dragon in there I'll bring a shovel and a tent.

 

[Zhu Bajie]

Argh. Now I want an army of Red Redemptionists cast purely from melted-down 16th century pewter candlesticks stolen from churches. Sod the ethics, I want my tr00 kvlt grimdark miniatures!

I could probably help you there, at least with the candlesticks...

Hell yes. Project's starting to come together... next I need the location of the landfill site where the original moulds are buried, a clear moonlit night and a shovel...

I can help you with that, as well, but you'll need a bulldozer and several years of your life to find the buggers.

Supurb! I knew you were the man to ask... I've got this far:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/la ... 079203,11z

care to pin-point

Then I expect it's a case of setting a metal detector to 'traces of lead' and/or possibly invoking the spirits using some arcane ritual dredged up from the 16th Century.

If there's a Great Spined Dragon in there I'll bring a shovel and a tent.

There is only one way to find out! I'll get to work forging the documents from the Nottingham Universty Archaehology dept. for a 'dig'.

 

[dieselmonkey]

Supurb! I knew you were the man to ask... I've got this far:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/la ... 079203,11z

care to pin-point

Try here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...2!3m1!1s0x4879c22d8628ba95:0x3896d9bb1d978303

Then I expect it's a case of setting a metal detector to 'traces of lead' and/or possibly invoking the spirits using some arcane ritual dredged up from the 16th Century.

If there's a Great Spined Dragon in there I'll bring a shovel and a tent.

There is only one way to find out! I'll get to work forging the documents from the Nottingham Universty Archaehology dept. for a 'dig'.

I can help you there, as well, in my previous career, I used to work for 'em.

 

[Citadel Collector]

This is actually something I've seriously consider doing...

 

[Aiteal]

ughhhhhhhh

 

[Erny]

All well and good if you want to start gaming Final Fantasy or Pathfinder I guess. Nothing against the figures except hasn't it already been done?

 

[Aiteal]

Nothing against the figures except hasn't it already been done?

Yeah, the Blood Angel character figure from like 1990?

 

[Chico]

Ugh.. what has been seen can not be unseen... I'm going over to KoW2 (Still basing singles though)for my modern wargaming needs

 

[mbh]

ugh

I don't hate those modes but it definitely doesn't feel like WH to me...

 

[Aiteal]

Exactly, the models are master-race double plus good sculpts.
And just as unappealing

 

[Masterwork]

Is it me or do they have an almost Warmachine flavor to them?

Not sure I like them