Okay ladie and gentlemen.
heres the best of the FW open day.
(please exscuse my crappy photos, they were taken witha photo phone, and are of...reasonably bad quality. but better than nothing.)
the FW open day, held at GW HQ nottingham was to say the least, less than i had expected. I've never been to an open a day at FW before let alone purchased any FW products (there expensive and im a poor student.) so, after chatting to a Shirt at my local GW and him giveing me some cash to get him (and myself) some Red Scorpions stuff off i went.
The Events:
The FW store.
Okay, anyoen whos ever been to a large GW event knows that the que for the FW sales desk, is either REally, Really, REALLY, stupidly long. or a seathing, writheing mass of any shoveing swearing people.
and todya was no less, the que was long, and it took me, pete and Billy (pete is here on Terra and billy is a friend of mine and fellow hobbyist who kindly supplied a ride to and from the event in his wifes VW beetle.) an hour and a half to reach the sales desk:
Me Pete and Billy in the Que, have a look round at the particpation events that went on during the day such as a full scale aeronautica imperialis battle.
When we actually got top the sales desk it was fairly busy and the staff behind the counter were doing the best they could to keep up.
Billy nad pete unfortunately lucked out, and were unable to buy anything, as the desk has sold out of Dreado plasma cannons and for billy, they had not even brought and Landspeeder tempests with them.
I got most of the stuff i wanted for me and anyone who the day before had given me some money and a list. (however now im home i have discovered that FW have missed out two crucial parts from my FW las cannons razorback. dont worry, they'll be getting an angry phone clal bright and early tomorrow.)
the rest of the event, while small was, pretty good.
the participation games lasted most of the time i was there:
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however, some of the best thing there Today for me at least, was the new reaver titan, ready to be pre-ordered!
however.....it carrys a damn hefty pricetag. £550 yes that five hundred and fifty pounds. I had pete ofering to cut me up and sell me for science for the money so he could go and pre-order one there and then. ><
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apologies about the image, it was the only way to get the entire titan and get it at a decent quality, i wanted to do it justice. just save the image and flip it round in the viewer if want to view it correctly. and i apologise again for the poor photos.
the Pre-view desk was full of shiny new models, such as the new Deathguard and world eaters conversions kits.
however a few unexpected jems turned up, such as (photos curtosey of petey, i was bsy buying stuff at the time) :
Sgt Culln
Death Guard Sorcuer (bad spelling i know)
Chaplain deradnought
the design staff were on site, talking about the siege of Varaks part 2 and the new imperial armour volume six.
however, i did not have the chance to talk to the design team, so sorry, no infomation there.
that pretty much wraps it up, im sure other people will write better reports about the design team if they attended so check places like the bolter and chainsword, and other various GW sites for details.
im sorry i havent give you a full view of the day, but the decision to do a report on the dya only came to during the event, and so i ahd no time to plan anything.
anyway, i hope that keeps you all happy, and filled in on the day.
once again i apologise for the poor quality of the pictures, its not easy on an old 2 megapixel mobile.
One last thing however, 2 close up pictures of the two displays there were out today,
the anphelion project:
and the siege of varaks:
