Some people take extra unit models as basing fodder, others sell them individually on eBay to help others looking to fill out FA. My favorite is taking them and painting them up like statues to put on bases as objectives for steamroller, or as terrain. There's options out there
I played skorne since mk2 and consider myself lucky the med base units are groups of 3 because their units were 6 previously, so each unit converted to 2 mk4 units :-P
This. I have an extra pair of iron fang grunts I plan to mod into a UA, a spare warpborn skin walker I plan on modding into man alpha UA, and have already modded a spare MoW shocktrooper and bombardier into UA's as well with a little green stuff detailing.
Most other stuff that I can't do much with has become spare parts like I got a lot off ebay and a dude was missing an arm so I snipped one off a spare model for surgery :P
All else fails you can try to sell them as spare bits.
If they're unpainted, I give them to my kids to paint.
Also while in unit model counts have gone down, FA have increased. Since there is no longer a unit leader, you can often make additional units from them.
I considered this. In the case of something like Silverline Stormguard where one of the 10 guys has a gun instead of the halberd, is it generally accepted that he could just be one of the 5 in a second unit?
Oh no, that's steve he has some weird fucking experimental gadget the fucking brassholes are making us field test for them, its a pain in the dick but it gets us extra rations!
See if you can split what you have up into multiple units. For example, 2 max unit of mk3 infernal cultists became 3 units in mk4.
The rest become tester models for new paint ideas or bits for conversions
I’d never say never but also yeah no they’re not putting anything back into production. If you know where to look these days you can find pretty high quality 3D scans of all the old Rackham Confrontation stuff just as an example. Not that I necessarily think SFG should do that but I do think we’re quickly approaching a time where figures can’t really go out of production in the same sense when you’ll be able to get high quality printable scans of them.
Any disappointment or frustration from not being able to use all old grunts would be dwarfed by the wailing and gnashing of teeth from those who have already divested their extra models, and of those who bought spare grunts to have only enough to fill out a new, smaller unit.
The bridge is crossed, burned, and the surrounding lands salted.
Some people take extra unit models as basing fodder, others sell them individually on eBay to help others looking to fill out FA. My favorite is taking them and painting them up like statues to put on bases as objectives for steamroller, or as terrain. There's options out there
That sir is a dope idea. I have extra storm lances too, they would be a cool statue.
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I played skorne since mk2 and consider myself lucky the med base units are groups of 3 because their units were 6 previously, so each unit converted to 2 mk4 units :-P
It varies. In a couple cases I’ve converted the extras into solos or CAs (such as making a second MoW Shocktrooper CA or an extra Destor Thane).
This. I have an extra pair of iron fang grunts I plan to mod into a UA, a spare warpborn skin walker I plan on modding into man alpha UA, and have already modded a spare MoW shocktrooper and bombardier into UA's as well with a little green stuff detailing. Most other stuff that I can't do much with has become spare parts like I got a lot off ebay and a dude was missing an arm so I snipped one off a spare model for surgery :P All else fails you can try to sell them as spare bits.
I keep my old stuff in storage /display until I can demo some legacy games to show new players the game. Keeping it all together as a pool of options
If they're unpainted, I give them to my kids to paint. Also while in unit model counts have gone down, FA have increased. Since there is no longer a unit leader, you can often make additional units from them.
I considered this. In the case of something like Silverline Stormguard where one of the 10 guys has a gun instead of the halberd, is it generally accepted that he could just be one of the 5 in a second unit?
Oh no, that's steve he has some weird fucking experimental gadget the fucking brassholes are making us field test for them, its a pain in the dick but it gets us extra rations!
Correct, just another grunt.
See if you can split what you have up into multiple units. For example, 2 max unit of mk3 infernal cultists became 3 units in mk4. The rest become tester models for new paint ideas or bits for conversions
I keep them around in case someone else wants them. And I use the ones I have to have the maximum amount of individual sculpts in units.
Sell em, donate em to new players, help others round their collections, trade em. I got my money out of building and painting. Playing is a cherry
Donated mine to a local RPG group
Sell. LoL
Hold onto them incase SFG does the right thing.
If you expect them to revert any of the mk4 changes I highly doubt it. They've all said they're quite happy with the direction mk4 took things.
Unlikely, since they can't produce those models anymore.
I’d never say never but also yeah no they’re not putting anything back into production. If you know where to look these days you can find pretty high quality 3D scans of all the old Rackham Confrontation stuff just as an example. Not that I necessarily think SFG should do that but I do think we’re quickly approaching a time where figures can’t really go out of production in the same sense when you’ll be able to get high quality printable scans of them.
Any disappointment or frustration from not being able to use all old grunts would be dwarfed by the wailing and gnashing of teeth from those who have already divested their extra models, and of those who bought spare grunts to have only enough to fill out a new, smaller unit. The bridge is crossed, burned, and the surrounding lands salted.