OK, so the HoP is probably not the first place you'd probably come to get rumors, but there's a reason for this- we don't like to participate in the dissemination of complete and utter horse shit. Without some kind of hard evidence, most rules don't really hold up. Here, I'll start one- Take this Internet....
Squats are coming in the Q4 black box next year. Their background has been altered slightly to explain that they were not wiped out, but went on a journey in the good ship deceiver to probe other galaxies and time continua and have just returned to take their revenge on Pedro Cantor for calling one of them short during a formal dress dinner party. This has been said to appeal to both fans of Heinlein and "Downton Abbey."
Oh, I forgot I had a point and a real rumor to substantiate. More after the jump.
Rumors abound right now that changes are coming to the Citadel paint line. Fuzzy "omg it's bigfoot" pictures have started to appear and we may even have some new paint lines and tons of name changes.
While I could sit here and speculate all day on what the changes will be and hem and haw at length about whether that one color I need to finish my army will disappear again. It may indeed be time to stock up on the old paints and start hiding them in your nearest bomb shelter or panic room. I did this when the washes came out and am really not finding myself going back to the inks I have horded very often.
Ah ha, but I said I had a significant, earth shattering piece of evidence to add to the rumor mill. Well, I can pretty much all but confirm that there is likely to be some kind of change coming. I've got evidence. During a quest last week to find a tutorial on GW's US site on painting rust on Skaven weapons, I was alarmed to find it wasn't available any more. Further glances into the state of articles were to reveal that ALL of their painting tutorials had been removed, oh my!
At the risk of making some sort of 'I don't know how the pyramids were built so they must have been built by Aliens to beam energy back to their homeworld' type of statement, I think it's safe to say that this is a sign a massive overhaul to the paint system. You see, it's been rumored that many paints will be changing names, new paints will show up, old paints will go away, and perhaps even a 3 stage base-shade-highlight system will appear. I still continue not to want to make broad, base speculations on whether Slannesh gray will be a real thing, it's certainly safe to say that change is a coming.
Why remove the old articles and why is this proof to you dethtron? Well, they contain names and colors that may be going away. Step one- basecoat model with elf flesh probably wouldn't be helpful if there is soon to be a color vaguely similar to elf flesh but called birthday suit tan, would it.
So it's that simple, my theory. What say you? Time to get excited about the exciting excitement of imminent change? Time to panic and horde horde horde? Still just rumors to you? Let us know what you think.
No comments:
Post a Comment