Well of Orboros Preorder ($60 USD) & BAHI EU changes

So, this is significantly smaller and cheaper than the Celestial Fulcrum. Wasn't BAHI supposed to be about huge models? Interestingly, on the store page it is depicted without base ore any other scale reference.



In other news, Brexit is still scheduled for March 29th which will likely reintroduce these surcharges for all non-UK EU customers before the wells ship.

My guess is they tried to make the Well taller but the engineering and cost became prohibitive and went for a smaller, but still cool looking version we see today.

As for Brexit, we'll have to see how hard the Brits cripple their own economy because of reasons.

BAHI’s purpose was to be able to produce niche models that Privateer would otherwise have never been able to produce and sell through normal distribution channels. How many people bought Skarre3? 200? 300?

What about the Dracodile, a gargantuan (a hard-sell model type already) made for a sub-Faction of a sub-Faction! An absolutely gorgeous model, yes, but there’s no way PP could have justified producing the 5,000, 10,000, or 20,000 units or whatever minimum would be required to send this through normal distribution channels. Distributors would never have carried it either, because I’m sure they can look at their sales numbers and realize that only a couple percent of their Minions sales would even be eligible for this thing.

So, BAHI was basically a “we make it this way or it never gets made” proposition.

Wut, ship through the UK for EU when Brexit is happening? I guess it's still better than shipping through the states.

i was just thinking this exact same thing. 

Cause half of the price, (a little under cause you can find them at discount vs BAHI you cannot) for a better looking model seems like an attractive option for a lot of EU players.

It looks great, and if nothing else, it would make a cool terrain piece.

I did a bad thing, went back to look at a GW product for the first time in a decade.

I still don't like their aesthetic. It's a fine sculpt,but as always there's too much of a high fantasy cuteness. I prefer the Orboros interpretation of untamed wilds to the GW version every time.

Still, the price differential is significant. I left GW back in the days when it was the expensive fantasy mini game, with bad gameplay and hit-or-miss sculpts.

These days it almost seems inverted. Those Infernal Horror sculpts do not impress.