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Because I don't want to just be a big meanie, here's some stuff to read if you want to know more about FOMO. Here is an intro article about the subject from Forbes, here is a publication on how it effects people's mental well-being, and another article with a pretty broad overview of how it affects different aspects of life.   Also, real quick because this is still annoying me. "It's not predatory" If it wasn't predatory, this stuff wouldn't be making some peoples mental health and well-being worse and increasing anxiety and depression. Which is factually happening, please go read the articles and then read all the sources before you argue because you are, in fact, objectivity wrong. I swear some of you would argue the colour of the bloody sky.   If this is your big hobby, not being able to field updated and suddenly very good units leads into this. Of missing out. There's anxiety about not getting something because "what if it's good later? What if I regret not getting it?" Sure, you might not experience those anxieties or thoughts, but a lot of people do, and it's important to take that into account. To listen and be mindful of those in our community who do have a hard time with this. Maybe we should help people not make possibly big financial missteps? Sure, it's their fault, but who cares? People make mistakes. Don't tell me you've never made a poor financial decision that you regretted but just had to deal with.   And if this is the thing that you let yourself enjoy because food and housing and transportation and everything is SO EXPENSIVE then not being able/allowed to get something hurts even more. Again, this is a super complex issue with a whole, whole lot of nuance, but being dismissive or mocking this well documented, researched, scientifically verifiable issue and/or having zero empathy for those who do struggle with this isn't helping anyone, it's just being a bit of a dick. And yeah, it's toys, but that's not what matters in this conversation. It could be anything. It is anything! Gacha characters and loot boxes and skins and emotes and a million other things because it's not actually about the product, it's about the ways we are effected by our desire for things and our ability to obtain them, and the ways that effects us. And no, I don't have a solution for this, I'm just a dumb art nerd, I don't know how to fix systemic issues with our current modern day world or our deep and (sometimes) unhealthy need to have things.   And if none of this your bag, that's cool! But maybe don't be a dismissive dick to people who do struggle with this stuff, maybe do some reading on it before deciding that anyone who ever makes a poor financial choice is just a stupid idiot, and just in general have some empathy for people. I know that's asking a lot sometimes but come on.   I'm going to go buy a Land Raider for my NL before the stupid thing gets even more expensive. I remember when they were $75 Canadian.

Gerhardt   Gerhardt glowered the twin inky-black stares of the Codicier and Watch-Captain before bowing his head in acquiescence, hatred and fury making his hearts sink. Discord had been sewn into the fabric of the Kill-Team by the hand of the Inquisition, by the presence of the psyker who wore the same black-and-silver as the rest of them, whom he was oath-sworn to defend and bleed and die alongside like any of the rest of them. That galled him the most. But the Kill-Team was on the cusp of fragmenting, of losing the nascent bonds of brotherhood; it needed a firm hand to set it back on the righteous path. Gerhardt swallowed his pride and straightened himself, teeth gritted and right eye twitching slightly, resolving to lead by example as best he could.   “I swear I will do as you bid, Watch-Captain. I will…learn…to work with the, the… with Brother Dendinius. The Emperor, in his Wisdom, has seen fit to test me, to test my faith. He shall not find me wanting. I will bring war to the xenos alongside you, Dendinius, and you will be shown all due respect as a fellow brother under the Apocryphon Oath.”   He wanted to collapse under the weight of the words he had just uttered. Were his brothers to learn of this he would never live it down – he would be a pariah, an exile within his own chapter, a leper. He would not be welcomed back into the Crusade fleet.   Gerhardt swallowed and growled, “Kill-Team Lucifer, form up! We have drills of penitence to perform for our laxity and dissention! It shames me that Watch-Captain Skaayn should have to entertain our foolishness when there is work to do! By your leave, Captain..."

I do have to ask, was I the only one who was unreasonably annoyed by them calling these "Pricing Changes" rather than "Price Increases"? Like obviously I get why, never use a negative when you can use a neutral in marketing and whatnot, but it just rubs me the wrong way, it's not like the prices would ever "change" for the lower.    I know it's not really that deep, corpo speak just irkes me.   Regardless, my pile of shame honestly has more than enough for me to keep going for the next couple of years, by which point I'll be in a position to get myself a 3d printer. After that GW will just have to convince me that they have a product worth spending my money on, and the way that they've been going lately I kinda doubt that they'll manage it.

I like the head and arm swap. 

We've added a range of fantasy options to this kickstarter as stretch goals, so now have both sci-fi and fantasy options.   [MEDIA=youtube]viouuq2OzMI[/MEDIA]   Currently all backers get 330+ STL files of modular, 3D printable display plinths. See more on the live Kickstarter.  

Thank you man, it was the glass shelves that was throwing me off, I've never looked closely at that model.