The Word Bearer Gal Vorbak Assault Out Of Forge World
August 2, 2014 by brennon
Forge World have some mutated warp fiends for your Word Bearer army this time around, the Gal Vorbak. See what you think of these prickly customers as they lunge forth from the shadows and tear your unit limb from limb!
"The Gal Vorbak is built upon the remnants of the Serrated Sun Chapter of the Word Bearers Legion, the conquerors of the primitive world of Cadia who looked into the depths of the Eye of Terror itself and in doing so were changed for all time. Their psyches infiltrated by creatures from the darkness of the Æther, the survivors are named the Gal Vorbak, or “Blessed Sons” in the language of Colchis, and are possessed of strengths and abilities far above those of other Astartes."
...so some rather cool possessed and the miniatures are very awesome too in my opinion. I think they've got the right 'bursting out of the armour' look down and they have retained enough of what humanity they had making them all the more uncanny and creepy.
They probably shred things on the battlefield, once they get into combat of course, and it would be awesome to see some really well painted versions of these.
What do you make of them?
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They do look pretty awesome, all twisted and tainted by the warp beings that possess them.
Badass!
Not a fan of the space marine style but these look rather fetching. For the price, they should come with dinner and a movie.
Don’t sell yourself short, no-one should be that cheap a date.
They are some awesome sculpts and damn sexy – would love these for my 40k word bearer possessed, the price is a bit of a bucket of cold water though. You are however paying for quality
At half the price you would be paying for quality. The other half is for store rent, overhead, store managers, and seven-figure CEO’s. They do, however, save a bundle on PR, and only pay their design teams sporadically.
I agree prices are steep – and probably beyond what I can justify. However in comparison with some core GW products I think price for these is more reasonable. As for other comments – not sure how Forgeworld financials feed into GW, given how well Horus Heresy is doing does raise the question exactly how bad is core GW doing?
You can afford them or you cant. I don’t think they are particularly expensive, but i do my grocery shopping in Waitrose and M&S, so that says alot.
wow…
I totally agree with you @deaddave . Price is never an issue for me, not because I’m made of money but because my one and only consideration is, “do I like the miniature?” I’d rather spend £45 on 5 miniatures that I really like than £45 on a larger number of miniatures that I don’t like as much. I have a strict hobby budget that I allow myself each month and if I want something but it costs a lot, I save up for it.
The question is, do you shop at Waitrose? 😉
Actually yes and I do it online and get it delivered 🙂
I get mine delivered as well, Ocado for the win!
Have always wondered at that mentality, people like to point out how cheap miniatures are from other ranges, it wouldn’t matter to me if they were free, if i think some of them are shite. I drive an R33 Skyline as my everyday car, does about 15mpg and costs a small fortune to run in servicing and maintenance, yes i could have a smart car (which would get me from A to B just as well) and save loads of money in tax, insurance blah blah blah, but i don’t because I love my Skyline. @warzan @dignity seemed impressed enough… Read more »
The reason the kid with the paper route can’t afford GW products anymore is because there are people out there willing to pay the prohibitive prices. I got most of the GW stuff I wanted on EBay, and paid about 1/4 to 1/2 the price, so I guess that turfs me out of the elite high roller club lol.
A paper round in the UK pays about £10 to £15 per week @cpauls which, coincidently, is about how much I spend on FW products 🙂
I was being facetious @erastus. Seems to be implied that if you spend far more than something is worth at GW it puts you at the apex of some bizarre 40k-specific caste system, and that such people, paradoxically, are superior to people who pay less for better figures. And to reinforce this ‘status’ some like to drop comments regarding the other high end foolishness they own/practise.
@cpauls1 the point you’re missing here us that it’s utterly pointless to talk about how much a miniature is worth. All @deaddave was saying is that what constitutes a lot of money is different for different people. £45 is a huge amount of money to some people, but not to others, but nobody has said that this makes them superior. That is all in your head I’m afraid. Are FW miniatures overpriced? Well, IMHO when we buy a miniature were buying a little piece of art. How much should a painting cost? Is one which costs twice as much overpriced… Read more »
Well that exploded, I agree with what you say @Deaddave but that was not what I meant – I am limiting hobby spending at present for a whole variety of reasons. I also have way too many projects and enjoy varying up games, so when I talk about justifying a purchase I am talking about it relative value against what that money could buy for other aspects of my hobby. At £9 pound per model for what is not my primary army for a game that is not a currently played I don’t see the value to me at present.… Read more »
£9.00 per model…. You don’t think they’re expensive? lol.
But why should GW lower the price to, say, £4.50 per model, doubling products bought but not increasing profit when they can just sell a single model for the same price – it’s easier.
Plenty of people have money to burn but still buy from Aldi etc. Because a good deal is a good deal, and an overpriced item is still and overpriced item, irrelevant of your bank account.
@@cpauls1 “Seems to be implied that if you spend far more than something is worth at GW it puts you at the apex of some bizarre 40k-specific caste system” – slightly obvious but GW absolutely intend this. It’s part of their business and they’re far from the only ones to do this. What GW seem to forget is the G.A.M.E. drives the bulk of their sales (how else are you going to get someone to buy 5 boxes of Wolf Guard…) and the more they price people out, the less pool of players there are for the gamers at the… Read more »
I love them. And I do confess I am spending criminal amounts of money on Forge World stuff. But its worth it to me, I just love their take on Warhammer.
Worth it to you, is the only cost that is important. If you can afford it and think its worth what they are asking go for and have fun with them. I still may indulge as a reward if I ever get to finishing my Word bearers
These are very cool looking, starting to see the turning in the heresy.
Really impressed with them though I will admit that they are not to my tastes.
Forgeworld seem to be going from strength to strength lately and are dropping the lines that are a bit of a waste for them. Will we see GW follow suit?
If I were still wavering then these miniatures, combined with GW’s recent releases have made up my mind. It’s FW and Horus Heresy all the way for me now. Once again the people at FW are showing GW how it should be done.
Those look really good.
Makes me really wish I knew some people who play 30k, I’d love an excuse to buy these!
These are the best Warhammer 40k infantry minis I’ve seen since I started with the hobby two years ago, they are absolutely phenomenal and better in every way shape and form than any comparable models GW proper have released in a long time.
If only the GW plastics for the Chaos range came anywhere close to these! 🙁
I don’t think resin is the cheapest or easiest material to use – for those upset about the price. No melting down those miscasts :p