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Wow. First time since being a teenager that I've wanted to buy and paint models just because they're cool.

They are very nice, but this far into the Horus Heresy series I've reached toxic levels of exposure to the Word Bearers and really can't stand anything to do with them!

I guess that's just the Alpha Legion in me though!

The Gal Vorbak are the best 40k Chaos models that GW or FW have ever released, they capture the warped, corrupted chaos look perfectly.

If only the regular plastic CSM looked anything like this!

I like them a lot, I just wish that this guy would have either normal legs or digitigrade legs. Instead, he has one of each. I know it's all about mutation beyond reason and whatnot, but I can't take him seriously when I imagine how he might run.

Most excellent offering!

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
I like them a lot, I just wish that this guy would have either normal legs or digitigrade legs. Instead, he has one of each. I know it's all about mutation beyond reason and whatnot, but I can't take him seriously when I imagine how he might run.

Spoiler:

When I first looked at them and noticed the differing leg joints, I thought that was one of features I liked most about them. It just capture how essentially disturbing they are, and shows really they are in transition between something human and something clearly not.

I assume this is the Gal Vorbak further down the road into Daemonic posession?

In The First Heretic they are described as being able to change back.

They look really great anyway. The look like they'll make interesting True Scale Chaos Space marine starting points.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
I like them a lot, I just wish that this guy would have either normal legs or digitigrade legs. Instead, he has one of each. I know it's all about mutation beyond reason and whatnot, but I can't take him seriously when I imagine how he might run.

Spoiler:

Spoilered for OTness..

Woohoo! Truescale chaos marines that don't just look like regular marines that visited the S&M fashion forgeworld for a quick refit!

 Medium of Death wrote:
I assume this is the Gal Vorbak further down the road into Daemonic posession?

In The First Heretic they are described as being able to change back.

They look really great anyway. The look like they'll make interesting True Scale Chaos Space marine starting points.

They can change back. This is their possessed look, when they're in battle, and then they look normal when the daemon is 'asleep'. They can't take their armour off though iirc.

Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
The Gal Vorbak are the best 40k Chaos models that GW or FW have ever released, they capture the warped, corrupted chaos look perfectly.

...and that's the reason why I really do not like them.
Great sculpts but too ugly for me.

To be honest the whole Chaos gods idea of 40K is not appealing at all to me. The Horus Heresy books changed that a lot.
I can now stand my Death Guard and Emperors Children armies, but as soon as it gets to 40Kish looking it is not my thing.
That was also the reason why I did not bought the EC Noisemarines...

 torgoch wrote:
They are my favourite figures for years

Quoted for truth.

Man...why can't GW's regular Chaos range get anything that nice?

I have to admit that this article has me looking at whipping my nids up into "7th edition shape" now

http://www.frontlinegaming.org/2014/07/24/nid-players-get-pumped/

Malanthrope and Dimachaeron both look scary rules-wise, and even the Carnifex.

Those Gal Vorbak are awesome.

The Gal Vorbak look really cool, the first Marine models in a while that I've been truly impressed with, they really feel like *Chaos* Space Marines, and really match the artwork GW has been putting out lately very well indeed.

The only thing I'm not impressed with is the price

I echo the praise given by others to the Gal Vorbak. Hats off to FW!

It is pretty amazing to see the very different approaches to design between the main GW studio and the FW studio. It's the difference between 1980s Hasbro GI-JOE and an approach to realism.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
I like them a lot, I just wish that this guy would have either normal legs or digitigrade legs. Instead, he has one of each. I know it's all about mutation beyond reason and whatnot, but I can't take him seriously when I imagine how he might run.

Spoiler:

why do these guys have such a tyranid look to them?

 Laemos wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
I like them a lot, I just wish that this guy would have either normal legs or digitigrade legs. Instead, he has one of each. I know it's all about mutation beyond reason and whatnot, but I can't take him seriously when I imagine how he might run.

Spoiler:

why do these guys have such a tyranid look to them?

Its probably the abbs and that one shoulder thingy

Great models, even I like them and I like feth all chaos.

I think its because it doesnt look cartoony. Much of the regular stuff has a sort of, anime or transformers look to it, they actually do look like Space Marines that have started to turn.

yeah, a lot of GW's newer stuff looks very cartoony, the plastic Daemon Prince looks like he came right out of World of Warcraft, with fixed polygon count and all (especially noticeable on the wings)

here's hoping FW can get more excellent Chaos stuff out

These are very very nice miniatures!

Absolutely superb, well done me forge world I am for the first time ever tempted by the powers of chaos..... No skulls or stupid tacky spikes. Look almost like half nid marines.

Round of applause to the designers.

So my Gorgon Terminator box arrived in the post this morning, and I'm seriously impressed. This is, hands-down, the best infantry kit FW have put out in a while.

To start with, the casting quality is supoib; just enough of the tissue-paper style flash to indicate a total filling of the mould, but no effort at all to remove. I've been going over them for twenty minutes and I've not found a single bubble or defect - the detail is all crisp and well-defined, and there's no "see through" thinness on even the daintiest parts.

What I really like though is it's a proper kit. A lot of the recent FW infantry sets have been lovely in terms of their detail or theme, but the kits themselves have been a bit limited in that you get 5 or 10 specific leg-torso-head chunks and the only variation you can put into them without heavy conversion and resculpting is the arm combinations and posing.

Not so here; legs, torsos, heads(5 helmeted plus one bare with bionics), arms, weapons, and shoulderpads are all individual components. The level of thought that's gone into their assembly is also beyond what FW normally bother with; those flappy bits on the back around the vents? They're cast as single pieces for each torso, with tabs/keys to make them easy to glue and sturdy once finished off.

Plus; oooh, completely new servo-skull design(I collect servo-skulls so this was a great wee surprise). I initially only picked these up for the legs and shoulderpads, to give me new stuff to work with when artscaling, but these have me so excited I'm fighting not to move artscale Terminators up my schedule to see if I can bulk these guys out a little without destroying too much of the details. Thoroughly recommended.

Really like this offering.
Probably my favorite forgeworld kit for a long time. The detail and uniqueness really sets them apart. Nice nice work.

Wow, those Gal Vorbak.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Plus; oooh, completely new servo-skull design(I collect servo-skulls so this was a great wee surprise).

Any pics of the Servo skull? This has me interested, I like the little things too

 Vaktathi wrote:
yeah, a lot of GW's newer stuff looks very cartoony, the plastic Daemon Prince looks like he came right out of World of Warcraft, with fixed polygon count and all (especially noticeable on the wings)

Yeah, the plastic Daemon prince is really cartoony, and generally inferior compared to the old one. Ditto for things like Slaughterbrute (or was it Murderbrute or Slaughterbeast? It's really hard to keep track these days). Fortunately the metal/finecast prince is still produced.
Though, the plastic Prince doesn't look quite as bad live as in the pics, the bright paintjob and camera really bring out the proportions.

Are these 40k Terminator sized? It'd be cool to run them as Chaos Terminators if so - the warp effects offering the equivalent of modern armour power.

ShaneTB wrote:
Are these 40k Terminator sized? It'd be cool to run them as Chaos Terminators if so - the warp effects offering the equivalent of modern armour power.

They're on terminator size bases and at least as tall, if not as bulky.