games workshop has been around for a while and has been pumping out models the whole time
many of those models have gone the way of the dodo but i want to look back on
those models that will be dearly missed and those that will not be
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle out of production models are an interesting thing
i know i love perusing ebay looking for a hot deal and i occasionally stumble on a model
that i don't recognize or one that i have only the vaguest of memories i checked the game's workshop
web store and sure enough it doesn't exist anymore but there it is available again usually at a very
very good price or a really really expensive one i have dipped my toe into out of production models
here and there and although i love the modern look of 40k there is a charm to the old stuff they have
a history they tell a story the evolution of the warhammer aesthetic so i want to go through the
five models that although awesome have since left us and the five models that are better off dead
now this list isn't models that i wish were still sold it's not a bash on games where trump
for being so foolish has to discontinue models i get it everything has its time i just want
to celebrate 5 awesome models and poke fun at 5 models that are gone and good riddance so without
further ado let's get to the good stuff number one an oldie but a goldie the mark one land raider
what is there to say about the old land raider it was a staple of the space marine arsenal
it was a round shungster of a tank being equal parts round wide and tall it demonstrates a
lovable disregard for engineering physics and realism i love it the new land raiders look way
better but this model is where it all started now forge world does make a new version of this model
in the land raider protists and it is a worthy successor i mean it's clearly better in every way
but that's not really the point the point is it's goofy and in that lies the charm if i can
get my hands on one of these babies i'll give it a grim dark 40k makeover it'll be the cutest little
black templar land raider crusader this side of ultramar coming in at number 2 short bellacore
now i thought this model had vanished a long time ago but it turns out that it was hiding
over on the age of sigmar side of the web store until of course it was completely upstaged by a
legendary new model i mean look at what this guy became the new bellacor is amazing but i think the
old bellacore was one of the better demon models game's workshop has ever made a lot of the other
demon models feel very mindless but this guy looks like a final boss he's got some real personality
bellacor has existed in both 40k and fantasy and it's interesting to see him get a big old refresh
i don't know if it's his six-pack abs or winning smile but i just love the look of the old bellacor
and speaking of demon princes the old metal fine cast demon prince is my third pick now
i have painted the new demon prince and it's not a bad model but i think this is one of the rare
instances where a metal model is replaced with a plastic version and it is a bit of a downgrade
the old 40k demon print stood out as clearly a space marine who was given the ultimate blessings
of chaos the new model is hurt by its gimmick of being both the warhammer 40k demon prince
and the aegis sigmar demon prince it looks pretty good and i love the famous giving the finger pose
but it doesn't really feel like a space marine the old model had all the parts of space marine
power armor its body is segmented into the parts the greaves the shoulders his demonic head even
still has the weird little air intake mohawk that space marine helmets have the new model
is a little too sci-fi for fantasy and a little bit too fantasy for sci-fi i don't think it fits
into either perfectly but the old demon prince was absolutely the warhammer 40k demon prince
for number four i picked the old metal venerable dreadnoughts i love this model so much that i
actually bought one i got this new inbox and assembled it with lots of pinning and epoxy
now this is what i think a venerable dreadnought should look like it's dripping with decorations
everything the exhaust the cockpit the feet everything is ornamented and that makes sense
venerable dreadnoughts are ancient the new venerable dreadnought plastic kit might as
well be called the everything dreadnought because it comes with tons of upgrade parts and weapons
but it doesn't feel that special and even if you glue on all the upgrades it still feels
like a normal vanilla dreadnought usually whenever anyone runs a dreadnought whichever flavor it is
they use the venerable kits it's also a problem that no one buys the og dreadnought anymore
the only reason anyone buys it is because it comes with the missile launcher arm
that's the only reason i think the new plastic kit is solid but it misses the artistry on display
with the old metal dreadnoughts and finally number 5 the tomb king sphinx i know it's
fantasy but i want one i started playing 40k in the tail end of 6th edition so fantasy was
winding down and i saw this model everywhere and it is amazing i get why tomb kings died
they were just earth egyptians and games for trap was not good at making skeletons back in the day
but this model really feels more like a modern age of sigmar than a warhammer fantasy battles model
this is a model that i intend to keep my eyes open for on ebay it would look great on the shelf
it is beautiful it's the perfect mixed of monster and statue and i don't know how
any thousand sun players can feel the mutalith vortex beast and not proxy one of these models
i mean can you imagine how good this would look flanked by some thousand suns and zangors
come on i want to start a thousand suns army just to make that picture happen
those were the great models that have been put out to pasture they will be missed and although
the grief is lightened by the amount of awesome new plastic games workshops pumping out those
models will remain in my thoughts and in my heart now with that said let's look at the crap number
one the old sisters of battle they fought the good fight they were the last models released in 2nd
edition and they were great in 1997. you know what they were great for like 20 years they kept the
sisters of battle alive and popular for all those years so that now games workshop sees the need to
release a whole new range of sisters of battle in stunning plastic these old metal sisters deserve
some major respect but that doesn't mean they're still good they suffer from the old hand sculpted
mini look awkward poses 40 of their bodies are covered up by their bolt guns the heroic scale
sculpting made their hands heads and feet so big that they look like little dwarves and next to the
new sculpts they just look silly number two the old metal eldar banshees it is very fitting that
probably the best looking aspect warriors are the first to get some saucy new plastic models
the elder aspect warriors are in desperate need of a refresh and the banshees are hopefully the first
to get a sexy revamp the classic look is decent but they look more like they're dancing
than sprinting forward into battle they're tap dancing and irish jig the new models took what
was there and just finished them they bolt them out strengthened the poses and made the weapons
bigger they made them as badass as they should be for number three i'm going to cheat a little bit
and say all the old chaos upgrades now these are from an interesting time in the chaos where a lot
of the magic was in using the old squatty chaos bodies and then swapping in the metal upgrades
or if you were brave enough or foolish enough the fine cast upgrades i know a lot of chaos players
are waiting for their color of chaos to get their codex and units because that's what the space
marines got but i don't know if you should be holding out hope the plague marines and thousand
suns were taken from little upgrade sprues into whole new armies with unique units in war gear
the death guard and thousand suns got their books and i assume the corn loving world eaters and the
slaaneshi emperor's children will one day be made into their own armies and then chaos will
be finished number four the hilariously bad old sentinel this model is just on the list for the
lulls it's the definition of a chicken walker how on earth was the pilot handling both the gun and
driving the tank with both hands on the gun is he fred flint stoning the legs is he on a treadmill
does he have a dance dance revolutions game pad on there it's just adorable thank goodness some
designer at games workshop watched return of the jedi and learned how to make really cool
chicken walkers the old model is fun i like that it has the same exact power plant as a dreadnought
and seems to be armed with an assault cannon if a modern sentinel could take assault cans i think
they'd probably see a lot more play and i think i'm going to make myself very unpopular with this
one but for number 5 good riddance they're gone models i picked the squats come on now you know
i'm right squats have been dead for nearly 30 years you gotta walk that off by now games rock
shop tried out space dwarves and they were not enough demand so they let the tyranids eat them
they looked goofy they looked bad they're from a time when 40k was just tolkien fantasy in space
but 40k has evolved past that to become its own thing the dwarves are very specifically fantasy
the type of fantasy that doesn't work really well in the grim darkness of the far future
do they have power armor well then they're just space marines do they fight in hordes well then
they're just the guard are they hooligans that drive around on motorbikes well then they're
just the orcs there is no room for them in 40k they're still around as a meme but i don't think
we'll see them back forge world made a couple new ones for necromanda and i think that's perfect
let's just leave it at that and there you have a trip down memory lane looking at some old models
some great some not so great but all important pieces of the puzzle that is games workshop
i wonder if in another 20 years what current models we will look back on as oddities what
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and am i completely wrong about the squats and as always thanks for watching