Forgeworld going mainstream? Forgeworld Codicies?!

[Rift Knight]

My local FLGS stopped ordering FW about 5 years ago. They used to just accumulate orders until they hit the free shipping amout unless you were willing to pay shipping yourself. But the owner said it was to much hassel and stopped. Please don't anyone hate on me, that was the reason he gave. So I guess it depends on the owner.

[gendoikari87]

if GW/FW is switching over to 3d printing, then they can have as many model ranges as they want.

[olberon]

*crosses fingers* Mechanicus codex. Mechanicus codex!!!

If thats comes count me in !!!

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

if GW/FW is switching over to 3d printing, then they can have as many model ranges as they want.

Dunno, 3d printing isn't cost-effective for mass production, they'd still need to make molds, which are the really pricy part of the procedure.

[gendoikari87]

Dunno, 3d printing isn't cost-effective for mass production, they'd still need to make molds, which are the really pricy part of the procedure.

um no. Mass production is where 3d printing shines. You don't need moulds you just power up the machines and hit print.

[Fantomex]

Not tooting my own horn, but I was pretty bang on the money with a lot of the recent announcements..

Having had a chat to a few FW designers and gone to a couple of design seminars, I asked many questions, and the following is what I remember:

GW are ok with the FW team doing a proper Pre-Heresy set of books, and apparently the more positive feedback given about the current armours and dreadnoughts, the more likely this would come out sooner rather than later.

It was spoken of by the FW guys as more of a foregone conclusion than an uncertainty. I figure they know what a huge seller it would be..

Primarchs were mentioned (and brought up by the designers, not me..), but not necessarily to be modeled, more likely books would deal with Astartes and the varied Crusade Fleets.

FW will end up making more Pre-Heresy items, including more vehicles & Terminator Armours.
Custodes and jetbikes not mentioned, but I'd assume it wouldn't be much of a stretch..

As much as they intend to get it all out, apparently their schedule is very fluid, and even on current projects there is a great amount of flexibility and change between sculpts and tasks.
Lots of different design team members have worked on different versions of the Contemptor since the "blank" sculpt, so I was told.


I also asked whether they would be doing any whole FW armies for 40k, in the way that Warhammer Forge now has the Chaos Dwarfs.

As the rumour mill has occasionally bubbled up, Adeptus Mechanicus, I queried? Both designers present raised an eyebrow and grinned, and said it is certainly a point of interest in the studio..
Again, they said such a thing would arrive at a free point in their schedule, and that it remains quite full at the moment.

The good thing I suppose is that they are interested, and would like to create full 40k supplementary armies along those ideas. I dare say they seem very committed to making more stuff on a regular basis.

To satisfy my own personal interests I asked if there would be anything more for Iron Hands players..
My answer? Same as everything else, in time! Apparently they'd be a big choice for Pre-Heresy stuff, and they'd look at doing Iron Hands dreadnoughts, including a Contemptor.
They'd likely get the shoulderpads and other parts, like bionics.

The way to get what you want? Email, drop suggestions on Facebook, the usual kinda ways. They look interested in taking suggestions, apparently some of their big things have come from single sentences and off-the-cuff ideas.

[LoreDraconis]

Awesome all my fw will be able to be used in normal games without debate if i can or not! Id love to see a Iron hands/Sons of medusa book!

Hell yeah! Overdue...lets get rolling on this!!

[CrimsonTurkey]

I think what we need is an Inquisitorial list. Stormtroopers as a troops choice and Valks a dedicated transports. I imagine an inquisitorial strike force would look like a best-of-the-best Elysian force with a smattering of weird artefacts, psykers, and other Inquisition-only toys.

You know you want to see the army.

[gcsmith]

Im not sure on 3d printing, im sure the quality of product will suffer.

After all there is a difference between molten plastic, and plastic dust stuck together.

[gendoikari87]

Im not sure on 3d printing, im sure the quality of product will suffer.

After all there is a difference between molten plastic, and plastic dust stuck together.

3d printing is vastly higher in quality, it's not plastic, it's photocured resin. I'm actually having someone sculpt me a character right now and for the weapons he's using shapeways, which is much higher detail than he could sculpt, so it's actually better than what you can achieve with current methods.