geke wrote:
I live in the US, and Forgeworld only ships from the UK, so the main drawback I see is that we can't get free shipping like we can on Games Workshop orders. The international shipping charge is 15% so that can add up over time.
A few questions:
1) If Forgeworld is now handling the Hobbit/LOTR SBG, does that mean they will be the ones selling the new sourcebooks also?
2) Has anyone heard of plans to release Dol Amroth Swan Knights on Foot? I remember years ago when they were first released, there was much controversy over their "heroic scale", and yet they were supposedly also LOTR's top selling minis at the time. But I also see that they are no longer in production, so I'm not sure what to think about that. Maybe they will redesign them, or re-release them at some point?
Hi geke, thought I'd try to answer your questions!
Games Workshop will be releasing any new books and, it seems, plastic scenery. They've brought out and stocked both the new sourcebook - There and Back Again, and the new laketown house kit. They will also be re-releasing OOP models to make sure that every profile has a model to represent it. (So hold off on buying things like Arbalesters and Ferals from eBay, as they'll all be coming back (in the last material they were produced in too!).
Forge World will stock any new playable models as far as we know. In terms of scenery, they've just re-released their old resin Amon Sul terrain set. If any plastic models are announced, I expect GW will release that instead of FW.
However, it seems that FW and GW might soon be combined, in order to fix the mess that is FW's shipping, and to streamline and simplify the ordering process and range composition.
Of course, any/all of this is subject to change as it's just what I've learned by asking!
*Additionally, upon watching Andreas the Norwegian Viking's new video, it seems that resculpts may be in the pipeline!
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; what I meant was that I would love to see a 'scaled-up' / larger version more in line with the plastic ents available - i've got the metal treebeard & he's kinda dwarfed beside them which seems a shame ; as they've now commenced a 'character series' through forgeworld I just wondered if revising existing models was something GW had in mind for these models? 
