New Skaven Warlord & Grey Seer Scamper Into Warhammer Fantasy
January 13, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop have had another leak from the upcoming White Dwarf which shows off some new plastic characters coming your way for Warhammer Fantasy and the Skaven in the wake of End Times: Thanquol. You can see both the Warlord & Grey Seer HERE...
Above you can see two of the classic miniatures for the Skaven showing off a Warlord and Grey Seer. The new ones are certainly more 'clean' looking than these ones are and a lot more colourful!
The Warlord himself is fully armoured standing atop a large rock. He has one hand outstretched directing his troops while the other holds a sword. On his back he has a banner with the Skaven icon mounted on the top, a lot like the one in the classic miniature above.
The Grey Seer is swathed in robes as you might imagine and has one hand outstretched once again while the other clutches a globe. His horns are more like a daemons this time around rather than the curled rams horns that we're used to seeing on Grey Seers. Last but not least he has a staff clutched in the crook of his arm with a small rat perched atop it clutching a shard of warpstone.
Another image was also present on the link above which shows the Stormfiends in their proper scale against other miniatures. They really are hulking beasts and I kind of like them!
I'm not overly keen on the 'clean' look to these new Skaven but that's just the studio paint job. I think if you grim them up a bit they'd look ten times better.
What do you think?
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The new warlord looks like it wouldn’t fit on a 20mm base. It could be it’s been designed for a larger round base.
How suspicious 😉 You are right though, he does overhang on his base by an exceptional amount. Going back to the days of it being impossible to rank up your Skaven 😉
BoW Ben
Urgh those old clanrat tails – still got a load of these wee beasties do prefer the newer style though. These are what I would call uninspired – IoB warlord is much cooler.
Not too sure there ha ha. There are plenty of 40K models that don’t fit on their bases :p
And these clam packs, the bases are not just black plastic ones, they are fully sculpted and designed to only be used with the model you just bought.
Well you don’t need to rank up models in 40k like in WHF.
They still need to actually stand though and not fall over.
And actually get into base contact with others.
@poosh whats that 32 mm bases confirmed for fantasy?
😛
*that being said, for all we know the clam pack comes with two bases … what does seem clear is those Rat Ogre Terminators surely could never rank-up in a million years!
if you look closely, both of them seem to have a big rock overhanging the base. Also, I wonder whether they are going to be making 20mm round bases for the human sized soldiers. (I really dont think they will). If not, the footprint of a ranked unit on round bases will increase dramatically, and this will cause a significant discrepancy when playing with older minis together with new… This might be a further reason to think older troop models will simply be discontinued, and only completely new ones (or repackaged to fit different formations old ones) will be released… Read more »
It could be that character models go on larger round bases than infantry. I’m pretty sure Warzone does something like this.
Those are some of the ugliest skaven minis ive seen done yet .. the warlord looks just like a spindly skaven, nothing warlordish about it .. the grey seer face is more dog than rat and the horns look glued on. Hes missing the curled horns that are characteristic for grey seers. Ill continue to use old metal variants if i ever need heroes.
When I saw the news item in the side-bar and saw the mini in the small photo I was pleased to see a new Skaven mini that I liked. Then it dawned on me lol
I did exactly the same thing. Wow, I thought. How refreshing. These don’t look half bad. Then I clicked on the link and saw more of the cartoon beaver aesthetic. At least they’re consistent!
I don’t really get the “need” for the new Warlord; would it not be better / far cheaper to make your own from say the Stormvermin kit or use the Queek model (while you can).
There are other pics out there, that also show other configurations of the Stormfiends (those that were adverse to the chest chain gun will be pleased to learn it doesn’t have to be on the model) in addition to a red pain job, but I’m unsure to link it partly because there are also rules as well.
I like them all, couldn’t really put one over another.
Those rat ogres though! How cool do they look!?
With the ranking issue, I wonder how it would line up positioned at the edge of a regiment, rather than the centre. Might work then. Does seem strange to have it overhang so much.
Not that strange, when 9th edition involves round bases and the movement trays from lotr.
Something very wrong with the horns for the grey seer, like it was an after thought and added after the model was made.
It is a single horn that divides at the base.
Does look odd
Also
Foot on rock! lol
those horns are obviously his party hat, which is based on the hat of the evil fairy godmother in Sleepin Beauty. he thinks it grants him magic powers.
New Grey Seer actually looks rather nice.
They even had the skaven more right in the earliest days than they ever managed to get them, heres just a small example and thats a simple clan rat;
http://blog.akewea.com/post/2013/10/02/Warhammer-Skaven-Old-School
Go back and release “Legacy Skaven miniatures” and I wouldnt hesitate buying if the price was sane. Oh wait I already did, on ebay
Old ones have much more class and character to them. Less toy looking … Tad more detail.
No, no, no no no no no no NO NO NO. Skaven were my first love in Warhammer, their filthy, dirty, ratty hides proving the perfect draw for my teenage self. I loved their grimy, pestilence-ridden, warpstone fueled savagery. Whilst I never collected a new Skaven army after the revamp a few years ago, I always intended to go back at some point. These new minis are NOT Skaven. Even casting aside the crayola colours, they don’t look anywhere near ragged, flea-bitten or dishevelled enough.Cpauls1 hit the nail on the head: these are cartoon beavers, not ratmen. They have no… Read more »
Check out early metal grey seers and engineers for how its done … this surely must be an early april fools? Still cant digest the Dog Seer
I really think the older warlord was more sinister. I liked it a lot. The new one… hmmm not bad but just a dressed rat.
I can feel my sudden interest in Warhammer Fantasy waning fast.
The new skaven stuff looks great but i aint buyin anytin til i know what they will do with fantasy at a ol.
I prefer the old stuff. Still, many will like the new.