Jstove is back, and today he’s writing a wishlist. But not for Games Workshop because we know they’ve already got their own agenda.
What I’m wishing for today is all the stuff that I wish all the third-party manufacturers would make. There’s a real market out there for anyone willing to listen to the tabletop fanbase. People would throw money at easily-accessible cheap minis.
3 Kits Someone Needs To Design For Warhammer 40k
Creature Caster makes the best monster models in miniature gaming. Their resin is top quality, their designs are gorgeous, and the models fit together like Lego bricks. If you’re still messing around with that Forge World resin, you’re a peasant. Once you crack open a box from Creature Caster and dump the model out, you’ll understand that there’s no going back.
I pimp the mess out of Creature Caster on this blog and I will continue to do so because I love their product so much. But do you know what I wish they made? Affordable Chaos Spawn. Actually, I would love it if any 3rd party manufacturer made affordable Chaos Spawn.
But I really want Spawn in the Creature Caster aesthetic. If they could make a set of 3 Chaos monsters on 50mm bases for a $40-50 I’d throw down on 3 or 4 boxes of those. Especially if they had a model for each Chaos god.
The problem with GW spawn is that they come 2 to a box for 41 bucks. That’s not good enough when I need a hit squad of at least 3 or 4 of those dudes. So when I’m shopping for spawn, I usually skip straight over those punk Spawn models and go grab some beefy boys that come 3 to a box like River Trolls or Crypt Fiends.
I would go ham on a 3 pack of Spawn with a Creature Caster aesthetic.
Affordable Mono-Pose Swarm Infantry
I hate Chaos Cultists. I hate everything about them even though they are great models and are necessary for any competitive Chaos list. GW makes them a pain in the ass to get and the models are too good and too detailed for what I need. Guardsmen, Orks, and Skaven all have the same problem.
If someone on Kromlech or whatever just made a generic single-pose mook wearing a spooky mask and holding an AK47 and spat him out of a mold ten at a time, I’d own gangs of those dudes.
Nothing makes me more unhappy than wanting to play horde armies with horde infantry that are super complicated and multi-part. If you cost five points or less and it’s your job to pull the trigger on an autogun and screen a Daemon Prince, then I don’t care how nice your model is, I just need a lot of you for a fair price. The first resin caster that can spit out a 20 man box of single-pose dudes wearing rags and carrying rifles is gonna get a couple hundred bucks out of me.
GW-Compatible Rubble Bricks
Here’s a free idea for all the terrain makers out there. We all love GW manufactorum ruins but we hate how they’re full of windows and don’t block line-of-sight. That’s why we typically have ruin rules in tournament formats where the ground floor of a ruin is a line-of-sight blocker.
What I would love to see is a 3rd party 3-D printer/resin caster could make a brick of rubble that’s sized to fit perfectly under the floor of a manufactorum kit and block up the ground floor walls with rubble.
What would you like to see bits or kits wise from a 3rd part desginer or manufacturer?
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