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If only they were *all* like that. GW can definitely do it, the Dark Vengeance Chosen are aboht that size (as well as being beautiful sculpts themselves)

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Tiny? His legs are longer!!! The top of the plastic Marine's head only goes up to the start of the FW Marine's neck!!!

No, no, no. He's definitely much taller, I was just pointing out that he's a tiny bit taller than he would be if he didn't have the little bit of tack under his feet as he does in the pictures. He's still much taller even without the tack.

 SickSix wrote:
Holy crap they are HUGE! I had no idea. Are they all like this?

 Accolade wrote:
Dear God, those better-sized Space Marines might actually get me to collect a legion!

No, the normal Forge World Astartes are not that big, unfortunately. They're the same size as the plastic Space Marines except with better leg poses. The pictured Marine represents a trend in some of the character models that's been happening lately, where they are closer to "truescale" than the normal plastic and resin Marines. It's likely that the plastic HH will be the size of the smaller Marines, but the pic just give you an idea of what we might expect from character/HQ models in the plastic HH range.

Oh, that's a character model. Ok that makes way more sense.

But...


... Marines are "true scale". It's humans that are oversized.

Tau is coming, it looks like. Maybe this means big Tau mech from Foregeworld incoming?

http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2015/08/tau-new-commander-on-its-way.html

Supposedly, 2 weeks!

 Talys wrote:
Tau is coming, it looks like. Maybe this means big Tau mech from Foregeworld incoming?

http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2015/08/tau-new-commander-on-its-way.html

Supposedly, 2 weeks!

Are you in the right thread?

If SM end up Sigmarine-sized, imagine how big Terminators will be!

 CrashGordon94 wrote:

 Talys wrote:
Tau is coming, it looks like. Maybe this means big Tau mech from Foregeworld incoming?

http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2015/08/tau-new-commander-on-its-way.html

Supposedly, 2 weeks!

Are you in the right thread?

Yeah, sorry, I thought I was in the FW thread :( My bad.


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 Manchu wrote:
If SM end up Sigmarine-sized, imagine how big Terminators will be!

Hah! But then how will they get into Rhinos?

Through the doors, silly!

 Talys wrote:


Hah! But then how will they get into Rhinos?

To be perfectly honest, I find it dubious that ten can fit in a Rhino even at their current size.

 Darth Bob wrote:

Spoiler:

A Stormcast-sized Space Marine. Interesting...

 Darth Bob wrote:

 Talys wrote:


Hah! But then how will they get into Rhinos?

To be perfectly honest, I find it dubious that ten can fit in a Rhino even at their current size.

You've heard of the murdered woman who got folded in half, stuffed in a suitcase, and rolled out the elevator and front door of a hotel, right?

I guess this will be the same thing, hehehehehe

I can just see Brother Tigurius after a battle looking for a Chiropractor...

Zardu Layak is upscaled too?!

And I who had just managed to decide to hold off buying him until a bit later.

FML.

Or rather, FMW. (W=Wallet)

 Manchu wrote:
If SM end up Sigmarine-sized, imagine how big Terminators will be!

Power Armor will be terminators.

Terminators will be Dreadnoughts.

Dreadnoughts will be Knights.

Knights will be Warhounds.

Catachans will still be too tall.

"Rar! Look at my huge, beefy arms!"



Still, looking forward to this release, even if it ends up being a board game with card-stock space corridors.

 Darth Bob wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Tiny? His legs are longer!!! The top of the plastic Marine's head only goes up to the start of the FW Marine's neck!!!

No, no, no. He's definitely much taller, I was just pointing out that he's a tiny bit taller than he would be if he didn't have the little bit of tack under his feet as he does in the pictures. He's still much taller even without the tack.

 SickSix wrote:
Holy crap they are HUGE! I had no idea. Are they all like this?

 Accolade wrote:
Dear God, those better-sized Space Marines might actually get me to collect a legion!

No, the normal Forge World Astartes are not that big, unfortunately. They're the same size as the plastic Space Marines except with better leg poses. The pictured Marine represents a trend in some of the character models that's been happening lately, where they are closer to "truescale" than the normal plastic and resin Marines. It's likely that the plastic HH will be the size of the smaller Marines, but the pic just give you an idea of what we might expect from character/HQ models in the plastic HH range.

But who IS that big guy. I've seen the miniature a few times in various places online, but for the life of me I can't find it on FW.

He's one of the current event exclusive models.

Zardu isn't upscaled, neither is polux, one is gal vorbak and thus bigger, the other is a giant by space marine standards.

I'm looking at my world eaters now and my dark angels, I'm not seeing any real size difference to be honest?

 kronk wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
If SM end up Sigmarine-sized, imagine how big Terminators will be!

Power Armor will be terminators.

Terminators will be Dreadnoughts.

Dreadnoughts will be Knights.

Knights will be Warhounds.

Catachans will still be too tall.

"Rar! Look at my huge, beefy arms!"



Still, looking forward to this release, even if it ends up being a board game with card-stock space corridors.

As long as you take the art as true (and this was one of my old favorites from third edition), astartes terminators will be around centurion sized but smaller than dreads and normal humans in terminator armor around an astartes size. I like how that ends up personally but I'm a bit biased.

shade1313 wrote:


But who IS that big guy. I've seen the miniature a few times in various places online, but for the life of me I can't find it on FW.

Autilon Skorr, he is an event exclusive mini at the moment. He also has a head swap.

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Manchu wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
If GW ruins HH

LOL what would qualify?

There are countless different things they could do. I dare not even speculate - I'd rather just go with hoping they don't.

I heard that in order to avoid giving any screen time to the hated traitor legions they're gonna have the Crimson Slaughter use the Warp to go back in time and fight the Ultramarines at Calth instead of the Word Bearers. The Ultramarines easily defeat them since they're a legion and like over 250x bigger. This change in the spacetime continuity enables the Ultramarines to be present at the Siege of Terra too! True story bro.

 SickSix wrote:
Holy crap they are HUGE! I had no idea. Are they all like this?

No, the rank & file marines are the same scale, but posed much better than the GW plastics; so they look slighly taller.
As Darth Rob said in his post, this is a "scaled up" style that FW is starting to do with some Characters. (This model is an event exclusive figure with a head swap.)

Also the model was an Alpha Legion member, who fluff wise are taller than regular marines.

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
Also the model was an Alpha Legion member, who fluff wise are taller than regular marines.

Smaller, they are smaller "growth inhibiting enzymes" from deliverance lost.

frankr wrote:
a "scaled up" style that FW is starting to do with some Characters

Wait, what other characters are that larger scale? Looks terrible to me, since, well, everything else is interchangeable.

Here is the new FW 30k centurion beside a new GW 40k BA tactical. They are exactly the same scale.

 spiralingcadaver wrote:

frankr wrote:
a "scaled up" style that FW is starting to do with some Characters

Wait, what other characters are that larger scale? Looks terrible to me, since, well, everything else is interchangeable.

 Darth Bob wrote:

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The only exception has been a recent up-scale in some of the character models such as Autilon Skorr, Zardu Lyak, and Alexis Pollux, but this is likely just to signify their character status and make them look more impressive on the tabletop.
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 Formosa wrote:
Zardu isn't upscaled, neither is polux, one is gal vorbak and thus bigger, the other is a giant by space marine standards.

I'm looking at my world eaters now and my dark angels, I'm not seeing any real size difference to be honest?

Zardu isn't Gal Vorbak.

This definitely appeals to me. I've been following all of the forge world releases really closely, but have never bought anything other than a few of the HH books because the cost is just too high.

In particular, the cost of the troops really put me off. If this means that I can buy the core of an HH army for a decent price I'd be more happy to spend money on the flashy stuff.

As others have said, this is the strategy GW are pursuing with this move - and it's one that I like.

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
Zardu isn't upscaled, neither is polux, one is gal vorbak and thus bigger, the other is a giant by space marine standards.

I'm looking at my world eaters now and my dark angels, I'm not seeing any real size difference to be honest?

Zardu isn't Gal Vorbak.

Well he is demonically changed and enhanced, so him being larger in stature than an average marine makes perfect sense.


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 ImAGeek wrote:
He's one of the current event exclusive models.

Dead wrong. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Zardu-Layak-and-Blade-slaves-Bodyguard

 Formosa wrote:

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
Also the model was an Alpha Legion member, who fluff wise are taller than regular marines.

Smaller, they are smaller "growth inhibiting enzymes" from deliverance lost.

Depends on which story you want to use - the IA article on the Legion states that Alpha Legion marines are all unusually tall, like their Primarch, who is almost as tall as Horus!

 Bull0 wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
Zardu isn't upscaled, neither is polux, one is gal vorbak and thus bigger, the other is a giant by space marine standards.

I'm looking at my world eaters now and my dark angels, I'm not seeing any real size difference to be honest?

Zardu isn't Gal Vorbak.

Well he is demonically changed and enhanced, so him being larger in stature than an average marine makes perfect sense.


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 ImAGeek wrote:
He's one of the current event exclusive models.

Dead wrong. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Zardu-Layak-and-Blade-slaves-Bodyguard

I wasn't talking about him... Someone asked who Skorr was, the AL guy. The post directly above mine.