Wings for Flyrant

[speiread]

I want to make my Tyrant into a Flyrant. I know that most people use Balrog wings from LotR, but will any other wings work well for a Flyrant? And, does anyone know of where I can get the wings by themselves? My gaming store keeps selling out of the Balrog wing bits (someone keeps using them for Daemon Princes). Thanks!

[CoBrA]

You can always make them yourself from metal wire and green stuff. You could always clip it from an cheap toy that has the right size of wings. You can use this as a guideline:
courses.washington.edu/chordate/453photos/skeleton_photos/bat_wing_new.jpg

[Utah Jak]

I used Warhammer Fantasy Dragon wings. They are a good size and were decently cheap, $12 I believe.

[minimodeller]

Without wishing to start a new thread on this as its related to speireads question above - I just had a search for the plastic Dragon wings from GW site and they dont seem to be available anymore, they were there about 3 days ago when I last looked. Anyone know why? Or is it just becuase they seem to be out of stock with people wanting to convert to Flyrants?

[speiread]

My local gaming store mentioned that GW is getting rid of most of their bitz because it's an inventory nightmare. I'm sure they also took a huge hit while BattleWagon was still around.

Not sure if they are rolling out more bitz in the future.

[wormwood]

I get the GW online newsletter, and in it they've been announcing an impending reduction of bitz availability. There was a huge downloadable excel file listing all the parts that would cease being available in the immediate future.

They also mentioned that some would be reintroduced later, hopefully the Balrog wings will be amongst the reintroductions.

I think they're trying to trim a little fat in their production processes to expand their new plastics line. Resources currently employed in casting little metal figures from second and third edition that are beginning to look a bit crude next to their newer plastic counterparts doesn't make good business sense for a company of GW's size. The initial tooling for plastics is pricey, but the return on investment is huge, because the material is cheap and the process has absolutely minimal labor costs associated with it. metal figures, while easy to make for mom and pop outfits, require a more hands on approach, and the actual material going out the door costs significantly more per unit than plastic.

Unfortunately the savings GW will make in production probably won't translate into significantly lower prices for miniatures. More than likely the bulk of this savings will become higher profits. As a market we've already demonstrated our willingness to pay $45.00 for a plastic model kit that should retail for a third of that from any other plastic model kit company, so there's no reason to anticipate any real fiscal mercy from GW in the future.

[Overread]

I would like to add that the (UK) site now has a demo of the catalogue for this year with the bits changes. Its only a demo of hte contents and dragon wings ARE NOT in it, but the balrog wings are - - there is also more stuff on the site if you search for it - because they have yet to update all their menu links (we - apparently - don't have any fast attack )


edited - thought they were in there and they are not -

[minimodeller]

Just an update - I managed to find the part number from one of the previous threads on the forum and rang GW Direct sales this morning - really helpful chappy. He informed me they were cutting back on bits, as previously stated above, but they still had the dragon wings in stock until they ran out at £7 a pair, part number 99380299002.

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[wormwood]

It's your lucky day. GW just reintroduced online bits sales and Balrog Wings made the cut.
store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us?do=List_Models&code=306095&orignav=306093&ParentID=260265&GameNav=304717

[invictus]

I would highly recommend checking goodwill or salvation army, I picked up my wings from a dragon toy from goodwill for less than $2.

[eclipse2kgt]

I just ordered some Wood Elf Dragon wings about a week ago and they came in yesterday. I think they will turn out nicely.
I can post some pictures once it's finished if you'd like.