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I think it would make a cracking Undead/Necromantic Ghoul with a spiky shoulder pad and one or two other tweaks.

axiom wrote:I've just seen this image

I think it would make a cracking Undead/Necromantic Ghoul with a spiky shoulder pad and one or two other tweaks.

Agreed, depending on price and quality....

Is see the ghoul, meh it looks like a heresy ghoul, I see the finecast logo, I stop giving a flying fig.
Even if it wasn't almost identical to a heresy ghoul and cast in pig waste I would still need more than one design.

Actually this is a bit mean to heresy ghouls, at least they don't have three eye holes and what I assume is the hip bone jutting out under the abs and over the crotch or whatever the firetruck is going on there . This one also has strange monkey like arms. Pooptacular.

I'm assuming it's another creature for the Beastmasters to boss around. It shares some features with the other stuff for them. I quite like it and could see it working for Blood Bowl, i suspect though if it's 1per blister then it'll be expensive. The Jokaero is currently £7.70 and it's a comparable size.

That Dark Eldary themed Necro team idea I'm still punting around keeps getting better.

Its Finecast so the quality will be crap and it will cost about the same as your house (pre 2008)

The extra eye holes are probably miscast bubbles.

Still, saw it and thought Ghoul. But the pose is to... meh! Still, a nice hockey mask to finish it off, it may work.

Expect the price to be $15-$20.

- Piousman

inkpwn wrote:Actually this is a bit mean to heresy ghouls, at least they don't have three eye holes and what I assume is the hip bone jutting out under the abs and over the crotch or whatever the firetruck is going on there . This one also has strange monkey like arms. Pooptacular.

If it was meant to be a ghoul, I'd agree, but seeing as it's a warp-beast-type thing (or something) for Dark Eldar, and not meant to be human-looking, I disagree with everything you say.

inkpwn wrote:Is see the ghoul, meh it looks like a heresy ghoul, I see the finecast logo, I stop giving a flying fig.
Even if it wasn't almost identical to a heresy ghoul and cast in pig waste I would still need more than one design.

Actually this is a bit mean to heresy ghouls, at least they don't have three eye holes and what I assume is the hip bone jutting out under the abs and over the crotch or whatever the firetruck is going on there . This one also has strange monkey like arms. Pooptacular.

Personally I quite like the BB aesthetic of having positionals in roughly the same pose with minor detailing differences. I very much like the Heresy ghouls, but I do also play at Warhammer World where they're cracking down on non-GW figures, and I need something to substitute the fat BB ghouls.

More than one design fix: I guess from the pics you get two different heads. Stick a pad on a right shoulder for one, and a pad on a left shoulder for the other!
Eye hole fix: Piousman already said it - hockey mask / visored helmet or similar
Hip bone / crotch fix: loincloth for painting team colours on
Monkey arm fix: I'm not a genius. I'll just have to assume that ghouls have monkey arms in the same way that halflings have ridiculously large hairy feet

Satisfied?

From Dakka, the Ur-Ghoul is going to be €12. That is $17.50 USD.

Yuck! Put another $8 and you could get a whole box of 10 Fantasy Ghouls. The mini is really not that awesome.

So I will pass.

- Piousman

That's a bit steep isn't it? I do wonder who's actually buying finecast - no-one I know has bought a figure to date. I'm now almost exclusively buying second-hand metal. My painting isn't good enough to warrant a finecast figure as advertised, and I don't want to be paying that much for a single figure.

It's a bit to Sci-Fi and bit to serious scary looking for use in bloodbowl I prefer BB models to be a bit more comic and fun. It could make a cool looking model for a Blood Bowl in Space Edition. As for GW's having a laugh pricing policies, I prefer to make ebay richer and stay stuck in the 90's. I don't have any finecast models so has anybody tried converting with them? I was wondering if finecast material is better than white metal for drilling glueing too etc.?

UK price is £9.50 - way too expensive imo. It's a semi character model but that's still horrific, the rules for it aren't awesome either.

Finecast - Just bought a Finecast Cold One for use in Inquisitor and it's very very nice. The scales look very crisp, no miscasts or bubbles. I just hope my painting can do it justice. I also bought a metal Jokaero for use as an inquisitor scale monkey. It's a nice little metal model, still too expensive at £7 odds.

Darkson wrote:

inkpwn wrote:Actually this is a bit mean to heresy ghouls, at least they don't have three eye holes and what I assume is the hip bone jutting out under the abs and over the crotch or whatever the firetruck is going on there . This one also has strange monkey like arms. Pooptacular.

If it was meant to be a ghoul, I'd agree, but seeing as it's a warp-beast-type thing (or something) for Dark Eldar, and not meant to be human-looking, I disagree with everything you say.

It is way too expensive for 1 skinny model, but fair play to GW for doing something a little different with their space ghoul.

The Heresy Ghouls are great sculpts but there isn’t a scrap of originality in them, in fact GW did their own metal ghouls that looked very similar (but not as good) to them before the weird plastic ones they have now.

fine cast no thanks...