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I could see a modified carapace armour being use for a marine flight suit. I'm sure the conversion wouldn't be too difficult. IIRC the land speeder storm has a possible donor.

Could just paint over the canopy too.

Thinking about throwing in these two (OP's images) in my Chaos Renegade army. I've been using the Renegade conversion sets on Forgeworld for the troops so far. These look like warrior blacksmiths to me, so that works well for the guys handing the artillery.

Yay or nay?

 Daemonslave wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:
Really looking forward to seeing the rest of Samus' sculpt.

Unfortunately the head is the best part...

Hmmmm...


You're right, but I'll see how other angles make it look before deciding.

is there any possibility that Samus will have 40k rules?

 prplehippo wrote:
(Is there an /sarcasm emoticon?)

I usually find a period to be sufficient.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Daemonslave wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:
Really looking forward to seeing the rest of Samus' sculpt.

Unfortunately the head is the best part...

Hmmmm...


You're right, but I'll see how other angles make it look before deciding.

Personally, I think the knife it is holding is awesome So jagged, looks like a lightning bolt.

No newsletter yet, but the scyllax are up in "new stuff" and on the front page of the website: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/SCYLLAX_GUARDIAN_AUTOMATA_COVENANT.html

I am loving their rules: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/S/scyllax.pdf

They look alright, but they're very generic Mechanicum if you get me.

Armed with bolters, apparently. I can't see a single one on those models.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Armed with bolters, apparently. I can't see a single one on those models.

Neither can I, but they are in the parts photo (bottom right):



Perhaps they only added them after the demo models were painted?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Armed with bolters, apparently. I can't see a single one on those models.

I brought a unit of them at the weekender, you get a choice of arms and there are enough bolter arms to fit them all with bolters.

Not enough attacks for me, they should have a bonus attack for an extra close combat weapon, as most of what they are attacking will be Marines, Maelstrom doesn't look like generating enough extra attacks to help. That or AP3 weapons as AP5 goes nowhere in 30k, they'll have too many attacks miss at WS3 or be saved at AP5 against Marines to be worth using even against Bolter Marines.

The bolter is pretty awesome though with kraken bolts. I want another couple sets to round out the unit.

Edit: Parts photo from FW, you can see the bolters bottom right:

How easy are the mechandrite arms to bend?

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ULTR...ULDER_PADS.html



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ULTR...ULDER_PADS.html



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ULTR...ULDER_PADS.html

And some IW stuff as well.



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/IRON...KII_TORSOS.html



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/IRON...MKII_HEADS.html

The slightly off centre belt buckles are a bit odd, also what's the significance of the star on the torso?

I like the helmets though.

Hmm... those IW skull helmets would be excellent for my currently headless Reclusiam Command chaplain.

 Nicorex wrote:
How easy are the mechandrite arms to bend?

Very, couple of second in hot water and a pencil to bend them over was enough for mine.

Will those rules be in the next book tempest is it?

Yeah I believe so.

The U's on those Ultramarine pads look pretty amateurish to be honest, very fat and look bolted on.

Iron Warrior heads on the top and bottom rows look great, middle ones are fairly chaotic. Torsos are meh, particularly compared to the IF, SoH, WB and WE ones.

Scyllax look creepy and are surprisingly well painted for FW models.

 Nicorex wrote:
How easy are the mechandrite arms to bend?

Well, they're resin so a bit of heat/hot water should make them pretty bendy.

I guess a good thing about the scyllax is the fact that you can scratchbuild them with whatver mechanicum parts you have left over. Some variations in the design shouldn't be a problem with these guys.

I like those Scyllax. They're cute in a menacing sort of way.

Do we know what the next book is about?

 Bull0 wrote:
Do we know what the next book is about?

Yes, Ultramarines, Word Bearers and the battle of Calth.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
Do we know what the next book is about?

Yes, Ultramarines, Word Bearers and the battle of Calth.

Holy gak! I'm all over that.

 Bull0 wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
Do we know what the next book is about?

Yes, Ultramarines, Word Bearers and the battle of Calth.

Holy gak! I'm all over that.

You and me both, I'm stupidly excited for it haha.

The Iron Warrior torsos are...fabulous? Not sure what else to call them. Either way they don't seem to speak to their established design language.

The citadel upgrade kit seems like a better choice for once.

Yeah, I can't get my head around the IW torsos. The IW heads are great IMO, but the torsos, whilst looking good by themselves, don't seem to have anything that makes me think IW when I look at them. I was expecting something much more akin to the DG torsos (which I suspect many IW players will use instead). What is with the star? Some obscure reference the the events of Angel Exterminatus, or a hang-over of the original Terran Legion perhaps? It could be the latter, seeing as it it meant to be a MkII upgrade set.