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I'm a bit underwhelmed by the characters. All the wings are also a bit....much.

OM....giddy aunts in upper orbit....Its now confirmed I am making a Blood Angels army Plastic Death Company they look more like elite shocktroops then your average marine now...

And those sanquinary guard oh my oh my

*gets tissue to wipe off spit off keyboard*

I'm a bit underwhelmed by the pricing. Don't the furries get 10 guys for the same price?

Or you could just go to GW.com.

Sadly, I'm underwhelmed only by Seth, the one I'm most likely to use, since I play Fleshtearers. And something looks wrong with the vanguard vet sgt.

Jin wrote:I'm a bit underwhelmed by the characters. All the wings are also a bit....much.

From a look at the plastic sprues, it looks like you don't have to use the wings, if you don't want to. After all, I think they're just decoration for the jump packs.

Whos that Astorath guy??

Its a good start for Blood Angels though but Seth looks like the Kahn a stuck in the same old RAAAARRRRR pose.

Plastics though Im a fan of the plastics and one of those sanquinary guard combined with a command kit would make a hell of a Commander.

Lemartes is looking good. I like Sanguinor as an ott character.

Death Company look great, the golden dudes less so.

Seth is a bit underwhelming, if I were making fleshtearers, I'd be having a look at all those circular saws on the Ork dred n kans...

Astorath is looking a bit pants to me, perhaps it's the paintjob or the angle.

So the death company with jump pack still won't have harnesses?

Yea unfortunately quite silly looking to be honest but overall the frame is looking hot.

Wowsers, all rather spiffing if I do say so myself.

I believe I must get Seth, great pose and looks like a treat to paint too.

i like these a lot although i really dislike seths head. i think he'll be getting a helmet in the near future.

I like Lemartes and Seth. Don't like Astrorath. New Baal is nice. I even like the Death company. But, nipples on the armor for Sanguinary Guard and Astrorath and Sanguinor? Really? And I don't like the gauntlet bolters. They look too big, heavy, and cumbersome to be carried like that.

is it just me or does lemartes just look like a LOD with a jump pack? Also I think the death company maybe the sanginuar honor gaurd would be a fun paint.. though maybe a bit of a challenge.

Is anyone thing Emperors custodes from those sanquinary guard...

I have to say that other than the pred and the DC (excluding the stupid monk haircut head), most of these models look pretty, well... naff?

Lemartes looks OK, but he looks like he is mincing forward, rather than jumping about shooting people in the face and stabbing them in the boy zone.

Seth is probably the most interesting and best posed of the special characters. The rest of them just look boring and static. Plus the wings all look horrible and static and rubbish...

And I had not noticed those horrible wrist bolters before. Ew, just ew. Not balanced at all and look like something a drunken Ork Mek would have jammed onto his armour.

...Didn't take me long before I pre-ordered the Codex >_>

I'll hold off on the models until they're available through other stores though.

So glad the Baal Predator is all plastic now, I hate hybrid kits. Likewise for the Death Company.

I'll be picking up:
Codex (already got my pre-order in)
Sanguinor
At least 1 Death Company set
Sanguinary Guard
Baal Predator

...Just not all at once D:

Overall, I like them.

But why the nipples? Was Batman Forever really that popular?

Lemartes is awesome!

And so are the Sanguinary Guard.

And BOTH look to be fairly easy to de-bling and de-Blood Angel, making me even happier!

And, of course, making GW more money, but then, I guess we'll both be happy!

dietrich wrote:But, nipples on the armor for Sanguinary Guard and Astrorath and Sanguinor? Really?

The Greek/Roman armour the Blood Angels are based on actually used to have these too, so it is historically accurate:

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http://www.weaponsemporium.com/WE-Greek%20Armour%206071R.jpg

Heck, there were even variants that had them pierced!

And really, if you don't like the nipples, they're easy enough to scrape of with a file.

I think I'm going to swap the wings out for regular jump packs on most of the heroes if I decide to paint them up.

Sanguinor will find a place in my codex marines.. the model is excellent.. anyone know who sculpted him?

the nipples don't bother me as much as the toes for some reason. my fav sculpt is probably seth out of the bunch (not necessarily because he's missing both the above but because i like the pose). i've got enough BAs to last me for another 2 editions (3500pts) so i don't need any of the others.

Lorek wrote:Overall, I like them.

But why the nipples? Was Batman Forever really that popular?

Mephiston's armour has them too, and he's a pretty old model now. It's never really bothered me, to be honest.

Oh, and before I forget, I'm really not liking the Astorath model, so I'll either being using a conversion or not at all.

lord_blackfang wrote:I'm a bit underwhelmed by the pricing. Don't the furries get 10 guys for the same price?

If I had to hazard a guess, the pricing is reflective of the fact that you also get 5 jump packs along with your DC, which separately would be $8 USD. You still get a better deal with the Space Wolves, unfortunately, but those jump packs at least narrow the gap somewhat.

Well, my prediction on how the sprues would be done is mostly accurate. Didn't expect the Sanguinary Guard but otherwise...

Anyway, I'm gonna have to get three or four of those pred sprues to give my loadout more options. Maybe a couple of Death Company so I can upgrade the look of my Assault Marines. I'll get a Sanguinary Guard but only for conversions.

Redemption wrote:

And really, if you don't like the nipples, they're easy enough to scrape of with a file.

That just made my stomach turn.

Holy flying monkey balls, I am getting Seth to paint. That is a nicely done model.

33 bucks for 5 models is weird pricing. Overall I like what I'm seeing though. Unfortunately, Seth is pretty underwhelming, and he was the model I was hoping for the most. I am a big fan of the Sanguinary Priest model though. It has such a great 2nd ed-esque sense of simplicity. No need for excessive bling, just a solid, good looking model.

One thing I find funny is that the Flesh Tearers shoulderpads are actually CHEAPER than the ones made by Chapterhouse Also, I think Green Blow Fly ows Lunahound a devastator box right now or something. That new Baal is looking pretty nice.

If I were to start a Flesh Tearers army (I don't think I'm crazy enough to start another MEQ army) I'd probably just get 2 boxes of Death Company, a few packs of Flesh Tearers shoulderpads and Seth, and strip some of the Marines I painted when I was a kid.