Leaked Drukhari Model, Lady Malys?

[Mogger351]

31 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

Regarding the purposeful leak and the other theory .. Not that it matters but :

 

is it really more plausible that someone buys a box of miniatures, with apparently minimal knowledge of the 40k range.. gets a wrong sprue, does NOT contact customer service about the wrong sprue instead sells it at a garage sale,  the one place assured to not get your money back. Then someone comes there, self claimed no knowledge of what the sprue is ( so no drukhari fan).. still buys it for whatever reason and as anonoumisly as possible asks on the perfect place to garner hype what this sprue is.

And this exact story doesnt happen once, but several times ( this is at least the third garage sale based leak afaik )

 

again i dont care, but is that story truelly more plausibel than someone leaking on purpose, wether its endorsed or not ? Make no mistake i do think some are accidents, and i even defended the wrong sprue/booklet/box theories before. I just like to analyse both sides ;)

I mean given that isn't what happened nobody can answer.

 

The OP bought a bundle of unmarked sprues in a box at a public sale, we do not know who the previous owner was or where the sprue was acquired. Nobody can say if they received a parcel from GW with the wrong sprue in, or as is more likely if they have some connection to staff at the warehouse given the geography. We don't know if the seller was said person or a relative having a clear out.

 

Honestly, I know Valrak is on holiday but did he lend you the foil on the way out?

[Corswain]

Why are these leaks always a sprue? If this ever happens to me I am building that thing straight away and then stopping to take photos.

[grailkeeper]

5 minutes ago, Corswain said:

Why are these leaks always a sprue? If this ever happens to me I am building that thing straight away and then stopping to take photos.

The poster said on reddit that she is terrible at modelling and painting, and that she is going to hold off on assembling it for a while for that reason. 

[DemonGSides]

14 hours ago, TheMawr said:

You say the /s

 

But i got curious

arent some of the previous "oops got this model by accident" the same table as this one? Im on my phone its hard to tell ( checked Dante and the deathguard one)  

 

They feel this way because no one ever reveals the rules insert or instructions, which feels like a very "GW told me I could show the plastic but nothing else" type thing, at least to me. 

[skylerboodie]

1 hour ago, Mogger351 said:

I mean given that isn't what happened nobody can answer.

 

The OP <says they> bought a bundle of unmarked sprues in a box at a public sale, we do not know who the previous owner was or where the sprue was acquired. Nobody can say if they received a parcel from GW with the wrong sprue in, or as is more likely if they have some connection to staff at the warehouse given the geography. We don't know if the seller was said person or a relative having a clear out.

 

Honestly, I know Valrak is on holiday but did he lend you the foil on the way out?

fixed it for you.

[Mogger351]

15 minutes ago, skylerboodie said:

fixed it for you.

Yeah you're right, but I'd give the OP the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

 

If GW wanted to show off the mini, just show off the mini. They don't need to be fake selling unreleased sprues.

Edited April 7 by Mogger351

[skylerboodie]

Doesn't have to be official GW though; could easily be an employee.

[Agrest_IW]

17 hours ago, CL_Mission said:

LOOK AT THIS!!!!

Saw in this thread over on reddit,

 

Looks like two face options, one with a veil and one without, a little bit of a shame the head isn't the usual socket thing but I can live with it. I was really expecting a plastic Urien Rakarth to be the next character for Drukhari but this is great, both would be really nice of course. It's always possible the Drukhari release will just be this model and the codex but having seen this has made me more hopeful and excited even thought we are still some ways off given the Roadmap.

 

 

New Lhamaean model IMO 

[Evil Eye]

3 minutes ago, Agrest_IW said:

 

 

New Lhamaean model IMO 

Would be cool if so, the resin one is a beautiful sculpt but getting one that isn't shockingly miscast is a nightmare.

 

Lady Malys making her return would also be very, very cool, she seemed like a really interesting character. I would like to see a new Vect (preferably as an optional build for a plastic Tantalus) but I don't think Malys would take up a slot that would otherwise be occupied by Vect given how she's on foot and he's always riding his pimpmobile.

 

Plastic Archon's court, grotesques etc would be nice but for the love of god please don't let them resculpt the Kaballites and Wyches. The sculpts are great and I'd hate to see such customizable models monoposed.

[sitnam]

3 hours ago, CL_Mission said:

One of the reason I thought Dark Eldar would probably get a single model this time round(it still might go that way and I'm at peace with it) was because I expected a larger release for World Eaters and maybe more of Thousand Sons as well as a decent amount of kits for Leagues of Votann but World Eaters and Thousand sons got rather meager offerings in the end and I'm now a little suspicious of Votann getting as much as people hope for.

 

I have the same thoughts.

 

i will say however, that Leagues of Votann, despite the size of the range, is still a "complete" range. Sure you don't have all the options of space marines, but you got two battle line infantry choices, assault troops, terminator equivalents, centurion equivalents, a transport, a tank and fast attack bikes. Of the new completely factions released (not expanded from another book), they probably rank on par with SoB before their second wave, and better then GSC or Admech before their second wave.

 

I'd love to see LoV second wave, but I think with the plans to refresh SM books and a likely Drukhari refresh, the window of opportunity is closing before 11th comes along.

[SvenIronhand]

13 minutes ago, Agrest_IW said:

 

 

New Lhamaean model IMO 

It's clearly Malys; it has the heart and fan.

[Ripper.McGuirl]

12 minutes ago, Agrest_IW said:

 

 

New Lhamaean model IMO 

It’s 100% Malys. The model is armed aith Malys’ weapons and there is no way they are making s model on a gigantic base like that for a Llahmean, who is more or less just a sidekick.

 

[Iron Father Ferrum]

Drukhari are an army that I always wanted to build but just never had the money or time for.  If this is a harbinger of Malys being a thing in the new codex. . . then I'm hoping for Duke Sliscus too.  If *he* gets a model & rules in the dex, oh boy.  I just might have to invest.

[Anon]

And to add: Look at the blades. The model on the sprue has a Husk Blade which only archons use. Its not a poisoned blade. So yeah it is Malys. The sprue has all the hallmarks of her.

[CL_Mission]

Well to be precise it's a Djin Blade which is even closer to what Lady Malys wielded than a Husk Blade though her's had slightly different rules. But, yes it is clearly intended to be Lady Malys's weapon.

Edited April 7 by CL_Mission

[01RTB01]

Is this the new model Monday reveal?... Inside job!

[TheMawr]

4 hours ago, Mogger351 said:

Yeah you're right, but I'd give the OP the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

 

If GW wanted to show off the mini, just show off the mini. They don't need to be fake selling unreleased sprues.

 

I mean.. you do know wich company you are talking about right ? GW is more a "why do something easy, when you can get the exact same result with more complexity" company ;)

 

But Ive now seen the rest of the conversations, and indeed, this seems to be quite genuine.. not random and anonymous ( maybe a little too unanonymous) at all. It was a plastic job lot in nottingham.. this also makes it a less random event.

 

two things "in my defence" though

-- Here, garagesales are extremely rare things ( in fact, apart from some special ones it only happens once a year.) having read further... it seems to me it is a quite common thing in the UK ? ( I know it is quite common in some parts of the USA as well )

 

-- More importantly, tone is lost on the internet, I throw around a lot of theories often from both sides of an argument.. but I dont necessarily belief them to be true. When someone was skeptical on the accidental Fuegan slip for example, as they said people packing it would know, I pointed out that its very likely people working in packing do not know what they are packing at all, might not even speak the language ( here at least this is often the case in packing jobs ) and in general it sounds like the kind of job you have to do on auto-pilot with your mind logged off.

 

 

Rest assured, Im already preparing more wild theory things to get people twisted about

1 hour ago, 01RTB01 said:

Is this the new model Monday reveal?... Inside job!

 

Sprue Sunday.. would be legit.

 

They punished us all by cancelling Miniature monday it seems :\

[TheVoidDragon]

33 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

 

two things "in my defence" though

-- Here, garagesales are extremely rare things ( in fact, apart from some special ones it only happens once a year.) having read further... it seems to me it is a quite common thing in the UK ? ( I know it is quite common in some parts of the USA as well )

 

 

 

Not a garage sale, those aren't really a thing here. Instead we have Car Boot sales - a gathering in a big field where people go in in their cars with stuff they want to sell, and then just put them on a table or on a mat on the ground or whatever next to their cars. They are usually on sunday mornings, so yesterday was the right day for it.

I can only think of 1 in Nottingham that is still on each week, and the annoying thing about this is I had considered going yesterday but decided not to as the last few times it seemed to have gone down in quality...I could have had a chance at getting this....!

No idea if this was just a mix-up with stock or GW gives out random unreleased miniatures to staff but obviously with this it's Nottingham and there's Warhammer World, so if unreleased stuff was going to randomly appear anywhere it makes sense it's here.

Edited April 7 by TheVoidDragon

[Tastyfish]

Pondered this over on Dakka, but if we are seeing a return of the old special characters, I wonder if the Corsairs will get added to the Drukhari side of things given they are both space pirates and the old Duke Sliscus character was as much a corsair as he was an archon.

 

Valrak did have a rumour a little while back of a large corsair wave, including a character which everyone assumed was Yriel - perhaps it was someone else.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

On 4/6/2025 at 11:18 PM, grailkeeper said:

The High Heel is very Blanchitsu. Given the amount of base pieces, I'd say its a dramatic pose.

 

I'm sure we'll see it put together, but can anyone photoshop it together in advance? Some talented redditor was able to do that when the nurgle model got leaked.

It seems the Dark Eldar raided Gary´s shoe store on Necromunda as the Escher have similar footwear. The only person who wasn´t dragged screaming to Commorragh was the shoe salesman Al Bundy. The xenos left him at the shoe store in disgust as he was the only one being happy to be taken to a place far, far away from the big, red couch monster who is none other than his nagging wife.

[Commissar Greif]

On 4/6/2025 at 2:04 PM, Trokair said:

Copyright 2023.

There's been a theory floating around that Drukhari (and a couple other armies) were supposed to get some characters released during the Arks of Omen campaign but these were shelved because of production and distribution issues. Supposedly Asurmen was also supposed to release around then but was delayed until the Eldar second wave this year.

 

That all in mind, I hope this isn't all the Drukhari get in 10th. Out of all the older armies, they're perhaps the one most in dire need of a refresh currently. They lost a significant portion of their range with the resin purges not too long ago and it would be nice to see those models finally get replaced.

[RS1169]

Man if valrak didn’t name the Orks as the 11th edition starter xenos I would have guessed DE. They just need/deserve a big overhaul. Such a cool army that is very much neglected. 

[TheMawr]

22 minutes ago, Tastyfish said:

Pondered this over on Dakka, but if we are seeing a return of the old special characters, I wonder if the Corsairs will get added to the Drukhari side of things given they are both space pirates and the old Duke Sliscus character was as much a corsair as he was an archon.

 

Valrak did have a rumour a little while back of a large corsair wave, including a character which everyone assumed was Yriel - perhaps it was someone else.

 

Thats twisting the things a bit, the rumors are :

- Yriel ( not assumed, this was the rumor )
- Corsair seer character ( so.. a psyker )
- Jump pack corsairs ( valrak talked about las pistols etc. )
- An updated Vyper wich has A corsair specific built. ( so the kit is also the vyper update.)

https://youtu.be/NKSXlJjGKac?si=VE5xYLHP3fHJeriN

( among other videos )

 

This would be a very weird drukhari update on most points, added to that that it would have been very likely that the battleline units would not have been in the eldar codex if they wanted to move the corsairs fully to drukhari.

Not to mention that there is absolutely no narrative link or lead up to this, beyond "corsairs are pirates and so are drukhari"

 

In short I think its a very unlikely scenario that these rumors are THE drukhari release, or even (only) part of the drukhari codex.

 

That doesnt make a corsair related Duke Sliscuss unlikely/impossible though, we dont know the shape or form of the corsairs release. ( the following are not theories of what I think will happen, I think its just a campaign or 11th edition codex eldar release myself, but its possibilities that could happen)

 

If its a third Eldar army, then Duke Sliscuss becoming a corsair character, while no longer being a Drukhari character is technically less impactful than the same happening with Lucius, Typhus, Ahriman and Khârn before him. Possibly even getting an ally-in-drukhari detachment to go with him.

 

Another possibility how it could be done is that the Corsairs will be a supplement like the spacemarine chapters, but a supplement where you chose wich codex you supplement, in such a case you could have it work as a supplement Aeldari army when taking Yriel, or a supplement Drukhari army when taking Duke Sliscuss for example.

 

But like I said I think it wont be as seperate from codex Aeldari as the above.  And personally I think Drukhari will get plenty of other ( but actually fitting ) releases.

 

My current personal guess ( based on no valid argument ) is it will be more Kabalite+Covens themed  :

- Vect as a big centrepiece
- Malys ( I reallly wouldnt have guessed this one, though she fills a role Vect wouldnt: THE kabalite foot hero )
- Urien rakarth
- Multipart Archon
- Archons court ( possibly these come boxed with the above.)
- Another seperate generic character thats "new" ( Dracon returning, or another class of haemonculus.)
- Kabalite Warriors with either an additional CC build or Trueborn ( fully utilizing the expanded size of modern kits.)
- Grotesques ( maybe even building 2 distinct units or at least builds.)
- Beastmaster + Beasts ( though I think its just going to be 4 or 6 Khymerae with a beastmaster, not the current hodgepodge.)
- A new midsize support thing, could be beastmaster related with a new bigger beast, could be kabalite artillery related, for covens I think the Talos/Cronos covers the role.

 

I could just as easily see beasts go for a short moment though, wich would be sad ( but if it happens I dont think it will be long before a Baron Satonyx-Hellions-Beastmasters follow up.)

 

- Wyches in Kill team. ( the full kill team roster as Blood brides, but also buildable as Wyches.. like we have seen with corsairs and Arbites.)

 

 

3 hours ago, TheVoidDragon said:

 

Not a garage sale, those aren't really a thing here. Instead we have Car Boot sales - a gathering in a big field where people go in in their cars with stuff they want to sell, and then just put them on a table or on a mat on the ground or whatever next to their cars. They are usually on sunday mornings, so yesterday was the right day for it.

I can only think of 1 in Nottingham that is still on each week, and the annoying thing about this is I had considered going yesterday but decided not to as the last few times it seemed to have gone down in quality...I could have had a chance at getting this....!

No idea if this was just a mix-up with stock or GW gives out random unreleased miniatures to staff but obviously with this it's Nottingham and there's Warhammer World, so if unreleased stuff was going to randomly appear anywhere it makes sense it's here.

 

 

Those kind of close calls always feel bad haha, the important question is, would you have had it assembled by now and given us better pictures ? ;) 

I learned the other day ( with the striking scorpions miniature of the month.) that quite a lot gets simply thrown out my local warhammer store only offered the striking scorpions with the helmets and the bare heads and exarch options on the sprue where all just thrown away. Thats a lot of sprues, for just 1 thing in just 1 small store.

I imagine warhammer world has a much bigger pile of discarded sprues, to the extend thats its impossible to doublecheck what gets thrown away at certain times.. the car boot salesperson might not even been aware of what was among them ( a non fan employee selling them for example.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Commissar Greif]

4 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

 

Thats twisting the things a bit, the rumors are :

- Yriel ( not assumed, this was the rumor )
- Corsair seer character ( so.. a psyker )
- Jump pack corsairs ( valrak talked about las pistols etc. )
- An updated Vyper wich has A corsair specific built. ( so the kit is also the vyper update.)

https://youtu.be/NKSXlJjGKac?si=VE5xYLHP3fHJeriN

( among other videos )

 

This would be a very weird drukhari update on most points, added to that that it would have been very likely that the battleline units would not have been in the eldar codex if they wanted to move the corsairs fully to drukhari.

Not to mention that there is absolutely no narrative link or lead up to this, beyond "corsairs are pirates and so are drukhari"

 

In short I think its a very unlikely scenario that these rumors are THE drukhari release, or even (only) part of the drukhari codex.

I'm wondering if they might go the route they did with Craftworld Eldar. A two wave refresh aimed at updating and replacing older models and characters, split across two editions. Perhaps we'll see the first wave of Drukhari towards the end of 10th, then the second wave somewhere in the middle of 11th.

[TheMawr]

21 minutes ago, Commissar Greif said:

I'm wondering if they might go the route they did with Craftworld Eldar. A two wave refresh aimed at updating and replacing older models and characters, split across two editions. Perhaps we'll see the first wave of Drukhari towards the end of 10th, then the second wave somewhere in the middle of 11th.

 

Thats what I think ( though not necessarily expect.. I never expect anything BUT the spanish inquisition ;) ) Although I dont believe it to be patterns we have seen the same happen with four other "old" armies ( Eldar, SoB, AM and CSM ) quick assembly (not per codex release wave but what they got the edition) :

 

 

although the behavior with other armies has been different ( it lacks Tyranids and Necron wich where also starter editions, Orks who did get a similar battleline+ update wave, but it felt halfway done and they are ofcourse rumored to be a starter.. but Tau has none of that, although they had their battleline updated already in a much smaller 7th edition release.) there isnt enough there to be a pattern as conceivable as the 3 year edition cycle, but there is enough there to give some hope, speculation and eventual dissapointment ;)

 

edit : Ofcourse, when combining what they got and the rumors they have now for this edition, Necron would fit the list as well.

Edited April 8 by TheMawr