Is GW preparing to release 40k-scale Plastic Titans?

I look at Games Workshop figures every day. After a while, you start to notice the changes a different designer brings in. How an element on one figure turns up again in a completely different army. You also start noticing changes in the "house style." For example, multipart kits becoming less flexible, but yielding more dramatic poses.

Even so, there seem to be design directives that don’t fundamentally change. Basic infantry are always accessible to paint. Set-piece HQs always seem grand. Nothing is more detailed than it needs to be.

Except for Adeptus Titanicus. Their detailing feels beyond GW benchmarks for comparable-sized minis. Also, there is more detail for relatively minor details, like pipes, than you’ll see on other GW minis.

When I priced this Warmaster, the first we’ve done, I based its rate on the images online. It seemed a true monster of a job. Once it was built, it was much smaller than I had expected. I was concerned I have overcharged. After the painting was done, I realized that wasn’t the case. It was as much work as I’d expected it to be.

So, why is this happening? The simplest answer is that it’s a different game, a different scale, and so GW is applying different design rules. Occam’s Razor.

However, it is a lot of extra work their designers. Work they could spend on making other minis, and for less niche games than Adeptus Titanicus. If we would ask the question, surely a GW accountant has too?

Another possibility is that Adeptus Titanicus is also an incubator for 40k scale, plastic Titan kits. They get to work on it without raising expectations, but also get the design work paid for, and much sooner. GW can take its time working out how to make its biggest plastic kits ever. If they can’t make it work, no harm done. And, at the least, they have the designs done which they can always use, later.

Guy from Midwinter Minis has already talked about this on Youtube. From what I’m seeing of Titanicus kits, like this Warmaster, leads to me think he might be right.

This Warmaster was painted to Exhibition quality.

This was painted to Exhibition Quality.

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