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Rats… we already made a joke about grabbing things last week, and now we’re looking at a hand? We’re sure there’s an idiom in there about waiting for buses. Either way, check it out – a hand, holding something. It’s got a skull on it, but in the grim darkness of the far future the toothpaste probably has skulls on it too, so that’s not a lot to go on.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
It’s a very classic, early WHFB Chaos shield design, that one.
I’m wondering if it might be an exclusive model. Something a bit fancier for us?
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Makes me think of a slightly better made scareshield.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
first thought was kreulboyz, but their shields with tongues are slightly different. chaos seems likely, or at least, something fantasy/aos
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Post by: Geifer
Warcry doesn't have a Not!Slaanesh warband yet, does it? Might be that.
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Post by: Shadox
Feels beltbuckle-ly to me, maybe Darkoath.
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Post by: Astmeister
Must be Slaanesh because the text uses the words
- frightful visage
- mirror
- delightful
All very much Slaanesh words from some miniatures or spells or whatever.
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Post by: GaroRobe
I think it’s a generic banner topper. What you’d use when you don’t want one of the chaos god icons
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Post by: Fayric
 Astmeister wrote:Must be Slaanesh because the text uses the words
- frightful visage
- mirror
- delightful
All very much Slaanesh words from some miniatures or spells or whatever.
The face even looks like the deamonette face of the endless spell "dreadfull visage"
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Post by: GaroRobe
Seems more generic than any specific chaos god
I’m still betting on a banner icon
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
That seems like a safe bet.
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Post by: skeleton
Its a lizardman shield 
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Post by: SKR.HH
14 Jan 2025
We like to have a laugh here in the Warhammer Community transgression cube – though not too much in case the flensing barbs puncture a lung – but sometimes there comes an image that’s simply too obvious for jocularity.
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Post by: Snrub
Something Emperor's Children related judging by the caption, although plenty of armies do use wing ornamentation for things.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
"transgression cube" sounds like something loyalists would have
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Post by: Nevelon
Ravenwing?
It looks artificial.
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Post by: GaroRobe
Don’t overthink the text of a rumor engine article
The wing matches the design of a cyber cherub
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Post by: Nevelon
 GaroRobe wrote:Don’t overthink the text of a rumor engine article
The wing matches the design of a cyber cherub
For some reason I thought the cherubs were different, but you are right. Pretty similar.
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Post by: Snrub
Oh I'm sure the EC would have a transgression cube. Probably a buff coloured box they forced to sit in with no stimuli of any sort that drives them mad through lack of sensation. Perfectly boring, perfectly dull. The most excruciating of tortures you could inflict upon a follower of Slaanesh, exquisite in it's mind-numbingness.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Playing daytime TV.
The TV carefully crafted to be so insipid and mind numbing, those wanting to bunk off work or school are reminded there’s no point, as daytime TV isn’t worth it.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
it looks really stiff, with no kind of bend, but that might be the angle. Ravenwing would be a compelling guess if DA hadn't already gotten their refresh for the edition
certainly could be a cherub. doubt it'd be EC. doubt it's for AOS (too artificial)
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Post by: Overread
Stormcast have artificial wings, but its not elaborate enough on the feathers for them
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
 StudentOfEtherium wrote:it looks really stiff, with no kind of bend, but that might be the angle. Ravenwing would be a compelling guess if DA hadn't already gotten their refresh for the edition
certainly could be a cherub. doubt it'd be EC. doubt it's for AOS (too artificial)
Could easily be a statue for something. Scenic basing is my guess.
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Post by: SamusDrake
Its Storm Eagle! 
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Post by: Platuan4th
It's clearly a Cherub Squig
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Doesn’t strike me as Slaaneshi Fancy to be honest.
It’s almost certainly 40K though, and possibly scenery or centrepiece.
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Post by: Dawnbringer
Swooping hawks?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
We’ve seen them already at the last reveal show.
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Post by: Olthannon
I'm going to say it's a mad hat for a new High Elf model for Old World.
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Post by: Scottywan82
 Olthannon wrote:I'm going to say it's a mad hat for a new High Elf model for Old World.
That's a decent guess! I could see that. Or a Ravenwing thingie.
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Post by: Dysartes
...upgrade sprue for the Sanguinary Guard to give them their flaming wings back.
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Post by: Dawnbringer
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
I'm going to guess that it's not attached to a bird.
Nor is it for the Leagues if Votann... or Tyranids or Skaven or Necrons or Tomb Kings or Dark Eldar or Catachans or Grey Knights or Sisters of Silence or Ogre Kingdoms or Vampire Counts or Death Guard or the Adeptus Titanicus or the Adeptus Mechanicus.
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Post by: Fayric
I will go with cherub wings. Looks like a close match in style and size.
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21 Jan 2025
The word ‘trident’ comes from the ancient Greek words ‘trid’ and ‘ent’. No one knows what they mean, but it’s probably something to do with the handle. Either way, the owner of this fierce implement must be an absolute hit at barbecues. Who grills with an ‘ent’ like this?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Hmm. Not sure if AoS or 40K styling?
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Post by: KidCthulhu
Didn't we see a HH power spear in this style last year and everyone was saying Alpha Legion?
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Post by: SKR.HH
 KidCthulhu wrote:Didn't we see a HH power spear in this style last year and everyone was saying Alpha Legion?
You mean from 19.11?
Details look different to me... Main thing that confuses me are the nails... or whatever... Beside that I would have said Idoneth.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
Yeah, I thought the haft seemed similar but now that I see it again, I can see the spear has a little square under the blade while the trident has a little triangle under the tines. My addled memory thought they both had the little triangle.
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Post by: Nevelon
The Old World just got previewed a high elf with a trident, but different style. But seaborne revers are a thing in that setting…
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Idoneth. The timeframe seems right with them a few books along now.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
would be very cool if this was idoneth. the little nubs made me think a power weapon, but hoping it's idoneth
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Post by: Geifer
It's bait! Don't fall for it!
I don't think it's Idoneth, unless it's for a lone character who does things so much differently than every other fish elf in a similar vein as the lone Kroot hunter. Serrated trident obviously leads to evil fish elves, but the serrations on existing weapons are markedly different to what we see here. And looking through the range I haven't found any use of rivets like on the trident.
I don't think it's a power weapon either because they usually have exposed wires leading to the nubs. That doesn't preclude it from being a 40k weapon, of course.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Zero design in common with IDK.
Gonna be something unguessable like a Necromunda merc.
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Post by: Mr_Rose
Its a trident. Watery guys like tridents. Therefore its an oblique reference to Warhammer: the Old World - Raiders and Pirates featuring: Vampire Coast zombie pirates, Black Ark Raider forces, and at long last, Fishmen!
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Post by: GaroRobe
Pusgoyle Blightlords have tridents, the winged stormcast too, and I'd assume idoneth. Not sure it matches any of them, though
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
I'm going with my usual guess of not Leagues of Votann.
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Post by: Bob Lorgar
 Mr_Rose wrote:Its a trident. Watery guys like tridents. Therefore its an oblique reference to Warhammer: the Old World - Raiders and Pirates featuring: Vampire Coast zombie pirates, Black Ark Raider forces, and at long last, Fishmen!
Will the Pan- Fo also be reviled?
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Post by: semajnollissor
That's a name i haven't heard in a long time.
I won’t believe it until it’s posted on Portents.
I’m sure Barpharanges will make a cool conversion.
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Post by: Theophony
New Khorne unit for 40K. Similar to scouts, but with a much more gladiator theme to them.
Or Lilith from Dark Aeldar/ new combined Aeldar starting a new cult/aspect
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Post by: Geifer
We should also consider that this may not be a trident but the silverware of the Culinary Colossus, the token model Sons of Behemat get with their next battletome.
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Post by: His Master's Voice
Wych Impaler, because hope dies last.
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Post by: StraightSilver
I'm gonna go "out there" and say Necromunda: Sump Sea character or new gang.
I don't know why...... It just looks Necromunda to me.
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Post by: Mr_Rose
Bob Lorgar wrote: Mr_Rose wrote:Its a trident. Watery guys like tridents. Therefore its an oblique reference to Warhammer: the Old World - Raiders and Pirates featuring: Vampire Coast zombie pirates, Black Ark Raider forces, and at long last, Fishmen!
Will the Pan- Fo also be reviled?
They always were, but thats for 40k
Tho now you mention it, the Fimir are due for a resurgence.
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Post by: KipCujo
Kharadron Overlords? Seems like there's some matching design details:
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
That’s a bloody good eye you’ve got there!
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Post by: KipCujo
Can't take full credit, someone pointed it out to me! Couldn't unsee it afterwards.
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Post by: Fayric
If a perfectly good Fishmen tease turns out to sky dwarfs I will never forgive them.
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Post by: Nevelon
 Fayric wrote:If a perfectly good Fishmen tease turns out to sky dwarfs I will never forgive them.
Well the sky dwarves will need tridents to hunt the sky fishmen from their skyboats. All is not lost…
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
 Nevelon wrote: Fayric wrote:If a perfectly good Fishmen tease turns out to sky dwarfs I will never forgive them.
Well the sky dwarves will need tridents to hunt the sky fishmen from their skyboats. All is not lost…
Must... not... repost terrible Votann joke...
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Post by: MajorWesJanson
"We're sailors of the Runes! We carry our harpoons!"
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Post by: SKR.HH
28 Jan 2025
A book is a window to another world, or so they say. The trouble is, when it comes to Warhammer, other worlds are real and they inevitably contain a multitude of inconceivable evil, which is why you gotta wear gloves and keep them firmly closed. Whose first novel is this?
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Post by: The Phazer
The fingers are probably too thin to be Marines, and they are human, but otherwise that could be literally anything.
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Post by: SKR.HH
First thought; fingers are too long to be human... But maybe it's a cousin of that Bretonnia Lord. 
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Post by: Nevelon
Humanoid wearing gloves with a book covers a lot of ground in GW’s worlds.
Probably fantasy based, but that’s only a vague leaning. Plenty in 40k fit that bill.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I’m thinking Elf, due to glove and length of fingers.
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Post by: Mr_Rose
Very crude for an elf-made book though. Not saying it can’t be a human book they picked up somewhere, just not really in theme.
Can’t even tell if it’s 40k or fantasy either. Could be a new inquisitor or a sigmarite witch hunter.
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Post by: Olthannon
Didn't spot that before
New rumour engine is a little tricksy. Unlikely to be something elvish. Is it upsidedown?
Maybe this is for that alleged Cathay release upcoming for TOW.
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Post by: Asmodai
Grey Knight and Inquisition books all feature similarly styled corner protectors - but it could really be anything.
I've painted enough Cadians with 10" long trigger fingers to not read much into that detail.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Obviously the Witch Hunter leader for Mordheim 2025
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
my first thought is either CoS or some kind of elf... so clearly that means that GW is finally getting around to the delf CoS refresh! (that's very unlikely)
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Cities are meant to be getting a hefty second wave if rumours are to be belived. Could be an engineer like on the great cannon for some other weapon.
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Post by: The Power Cosmic
Overdue Library Book of Sigmar
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Post by: KidCthulhu
Book isn't ornate enough for 40K, so I'm thinking either TOW or AoS. I know that doesn't narrow it down much, but that's the vibe I'm getting.
Maybe another Witchunter Underworlds team?
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Post by: Shadox
I have books from Grey Knight sprues that look exactly like that.
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Post by: Dryaktylus
Olthannon wrote:
New rumour engine is a little tricksy. Unlikely to be something elvish. Is it upsidedown?
Looks like. Or it's Trump holding a bible.
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Post by: Theophony
 Dryaktylus wrote: Olthannon wrote:
New rumour engine is a little tricksy. Unlikely to be something elvish. Is it upsidedown?
Looks like. Or it's Trump holding a bible.
Hands are too big 
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Post by: Fayric
Cities of sigmar sounds like the obvious guess, but to spice it up, I will go with CoS Ogor battle preacher.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
I'm going to guess that it's NOT the Leagues if Votann... or Tyranids or Skaven or Necrons or Tomb Kings or Dark Eldar or Catachans or Grey Knights or Sisters of Silence or Ogre Kingdoms or Vampire Counts or Death Guard or Alpha Legion or Emperor's Children or Eldar or Imperial Knights or the Adeptus Titanicus or the Adeptus Mechanicus or Orks or High Elves or Tau Empire or Battlefleet Gothic or Blood Bowl or Death Korps of Krieg or Ultramarines or Blood Angels or Iron Hands or Deathwatch or World Eaters.
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Post by: MajorWesJanson
 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:Cities are meant to be getting a hefty second wave if rumours are to be belived. Could be an engineer like on the great cannon for some other weapon.
Maybe some sort of shrine/pulpit thing with a bookshelf on it? Maybe some sort of acolyte pulling it down for a preacher of some sort.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
guess i'll be the one to post it this week Automatically Appended Next Post: my guess is something mechanicus/admech. or maybe a servitor of some kind, or possibly those kson robots that are rumoured
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Post by: Shadox
My first guess would be something shock staff for herding cattle (one kind or the other...)
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Post by: Tastyfish
Hard to tell from the LI figures, and I've not seen the Stalker Construct box art up close in real life, but I could easily believe that the Harpax Swarmer constructs have a electro-prod at the end of one of their tentacles.
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Probably something Necromunda.
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Post by: Geifer
 Shadox wrote:My first guess would be something shock staff for herding cattle (one kind or the other...)
Yep, definitely a grox prodder. We already have the Fronteris enclosure, now we get livestock and farmers to go with it.
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Post by: Dysartes
Given the hazard stripes on the cable, I assume this is hazardous.
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Post by: Dysartes
It was a possibility posited when that Rumour Engine first cropped up - I think the conclusion at the time was that it was different enough from the FW Alpharius model to be something different, but it is still up in the air.
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Post by: InyokaMadoda
Fair enough. I missed that. Thanks.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
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Issa leg.
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Text usually means nothing, but possible hunk of meat hanging off a new ogor piece?
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Post by: SKR.HH
Are minis from the old world a possibility? Because then I assume it's Wood Elves...
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Post by: lord_blackfang
The painting is very neat, wouldn't surprise me if it was an elven mount.
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Post by: Mr_Rose
New wild riders?
Could also be an anomalously well-groomed Beastman…
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I’m wondering about the overall size of this. We can see brushstrokes for very fine highlighting. And that’s not something I recall GW bothering with on horsey scale 28mm?
Not saying it’s anymore than an observation, but it’s got me wondering.
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Post by: Overread
It feels like its more deer than horse so could be woodelf, Kurnothi, beastmen or similar.
Of course it could also be a dead leg hanging from an ork or gargant - we've had things like that before. I recall some scale patter than looked 100% like Seraphon/Lizardmen that wound up being a dead scale cloth on a space marine character.
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Post by: Geifer
AoS has cow elves. Maybe it's an elven wizard's cowmunculus.
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Post by: Nevelon
 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I’m wondering about the overall size of this. We can see brushstrokes for very fine highlighting. And that’s not something I recall GW bothering with on horsey scale 28mm?
Not saying it’s anymore than an observation, but it’s got me wondering.
This was my thought as well. Look horse-like, but way more detailed paint then I’d expect. I’d expect beastmen to be more shaggy, but will admit to not being that familer with their range.
Giant stag?
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Post by: Tim the Biovore
I'm absurdly confident it's a Centigor Chieftain
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Post by: SnotlingPimpWagon
The pose does indicate the creature either walking down, or mostly standing on hind legs, which might be hinting at a character, imho
New Centigors would be a dream come true, even though I like the originals.
But the leg does look well groomed as pointed out above.
Besides, beastmen should be right around the corner - too small of a gap between the teaser and a release, no?
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
i think it's something alive, at least, as opposed to being dead meat
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Yeah, if it was hung meat, the muscles wouldn’t be bunched.
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Post by: Sotahullu
Centigors? Some are bold or foolish when making such claims.
Although it is bit weird that picture ends just slightly before we would see hooves or claws.
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Post by: Theophony
New version of Kurnoth for Old World???
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Post by: The Phazer
They very, very rarely do Specialist Games any more on the rumour engine, so I'd be inclined to think it's for AOS or Underworlds.
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Post by: skrulnik
Centigor is my pick.
They've framed it to make sure we cant see the hoof/foot, or any chains & skulls hanging
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Post by: Fayric
Come on guys, its a bull centaur.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
What's on the horizon that fits this?
Something elfy, I bet.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
Don't give me hope where there is none
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Post by: Overread
The last time GW did a new centaur it was for Destruction - the time before that Chaos - both great looking models but yeah poor beastmen!
I'm all for other races appearing in other armies; indeed I think its a good thing worldbuilding wise; however yeah its a shame that even the basic god of beastmen was for another army and other grand alliance (at the time when they were in AoS)
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Post by: Olthannon
I would be surprised if it was Centigors given the paint and lack of shaggy fur. I'd guess a Wood Elf hero.
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
I mean, if we're going for leg structure
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Post by: Overread
Could be named character rider those are popular with GW!
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Post by: skeleton
Its a great stag for the woodelves.
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
When's the last time a specialist game appeared on the rumour engine anyway?
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Last year?
IIRC - It was a necromunda model.
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Post by: Jadenim
Definitely looks like some kind of deer to me.
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Post by: Dysartes
Of course it'll be deer - it's a GW model, and they don't come cheap.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Surely Kruleboyz?
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Could be Mawtribes or a number of things really. If we tie it back into that leg from last week being a hunk of meat, could be linked together.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Knife looks much too dainty for an Ogre. And I think the cross guard is a tooth, which if that’s a human head, would make the handle too small too?
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Post by: OrlandotheTechnicoloured
Hobgrots was my immediate thought
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
definitely something destruction, tho maybe it could also be Khorne
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Post by: lord_blackfang
It's brain soup literally served to be eaten, spoon and all. Only Ogors and FEC would have something like that.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
 lord_blackfang wrote:It's brain soup literally served to be eaten, spoon and all. Only Ogors and FEC would have something like that.
+1 this. I don't see how it could be any different.
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Post by: Tim the Biovore
The Butcher is a pretty good candidate for a low-fanfare plastic revamp to fulfil a new model tax for a battletome update. The knife being on the smaller side is easily explained by it not being for combat, rather culinary utility (as much as those can be said to be distinct for ogres)
If it's a larger release, and I don't know what the rumours are, then literally every other kind of ogre is also a likely candidate.
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
I have half a feeling ogors are going to be some sort of launch faction for a new ed. With Skaven done and beasts kicked, they're the last faction due a complete overhaul.
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Post by: Overread
That is unless they pick one of the mini-armies. Fyreslayers might not need an overhaul of what they've got but they could do with - well - having an actual model range that isn't leaders 
Even armies like Daughters of Khaine are popular; got a lot of lore and marketing push but have actually got very few models (way fewer if they ever update the cauldron kit as that alone is doing a whole host of various things)
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Harpoon? Harpoon shaped warhead?
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Post by: GaroRobe
Wasn’t that face a rumor engine? It’s on a noise marine backpack
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Yup!
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
I'm half tempted to say Kharadron.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Could be a piton, for a landing strut?
I’m confident it’s meant to stick in something, that’s for sure.
Looks more 40K than AoS though.
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Post by: SKR.HH
On a completly separate note: I love all the food puns so far this year...
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
first thought was a missile launcher. kharadron would make sense tho
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Post by: silverstu
Thought it was Votann myself .. looks more 40k but Kharadron would fit nicely too..
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Post by: Tsagualsa
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Could be a piton, for a landing strut?
I’m confident it’s meant to stick in something, that’s for sure.
Looks more 40K than AoS though.
Something like this was my first impression too, more grappling hook than harpoon. If so, it might be either Kharadron or Votann - they're still missing some sort of flyer, and a flyer that "anchors" itself with some contraption like that could be made to fit both their industrial/mining theme and the "roughed wilderness explorers" of their scouty subfaction (Hernkin?).
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
It's a chaos grappling hook?
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Post by: Fayric
The chaos bit beeing its not actually able to grappling anything, nor beeing a hook. I could actually see GW pulling that off!
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Post by: The Power Cosmic
Based on the size of the brushstrokes, it's stuck into something about bolt pistol size. More Grot Kommandos? Nah, it's too neat for them. But something like that.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I was right! Brother Josef!
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Post by: Dysartes
Solved by the Cherub in the new Kill Team preview - I think some others might be, too (specifically the wing from Jan 14th also being on the Cherub).
Looks to be a different angle, but I believe this is the weapon off the Impaler from the Khorne side of things.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Also the bionic leg.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Harpoon too!
Automatically Appended Next Post:
And another one
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Mmmm. Ambiguous smoke.
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Post by: Nevelon
The smoke is pretty normal, but what is it sitting on?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Super basic basing is my guess.
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Post by: Geifer
I suspect it's meant to be something like granite or obsidian, and an incense burner bowl for a priestly model.
Possibly Chaos Dwarfs for AoS.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
Maybe tactical rocks are being replaced with tactical smoke?
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
 Geifer wrote:I suspect it's meant to be something like granite or obsidian, and an incense burner bowl for a priestly model.
Possibly Chaos Dwarfs for AoS.
Chorfs were my thought, too. we're probably getting that this year, so it'd be about the time to start teasing that
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Tactical Smoke is a BattleTech thing.
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Post by: SKR.HH
11 Mar 2025
After last week’s easy win, you’re probably expecting today’s Rumour Engine to be a real brain-scratcher, and you’d be right. There’s no possible way you can guess what this is. In fact, we’re willing to stake all of our Rumour Engineers’ jobs on stumping you this week,
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
I'm going to throw out a rope bridge piece of scenery for a new Warcry edt.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Possibly a basket of some kind if it’s not a rope bridge.
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Post by: Geifer
Looks like there's a bend in there, so probably not a rope bridge. Might be a guard rail on a howdah or something.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
I immediately though the carriage for a hot air balloon. Maybe the goblin sky pirates they keep promising for AOS?
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
i don't think we're getting new AOS goblins anytime soon
terrain was my first thought. struggle to see how this would go on an infantry model. maybe a boat?
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
StudentOfEtherium wrote:i don't think we're getting new AOS goblins anytime soon
terrain was my first thought. struggle to see how this would go on an infantry model. maybe a boat?
Do they rumor engine terrain sets?
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
 Lathe Biosas wrote: StudentOfEtherium wrote:i don't think we're getting new AOS goblins anytime soon
terrain was my first thought. struggle to see how this would go on an infantry model. maybe a boat?
Do they rumor engine terrain sets?
some pieces of warcry/ AOS terrain have ended up in there, yeah
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Cool, thanks.
As for my guess, I have no idea, since my AoS/Warcry skills are lacking.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not for Legion Imperialis or Adeptus Titanicus. 
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Post by: HoverBoy
Could be an endless spell, something that surrounds models like the Sanctum of Amyntok but maybe as some kind of snare or prison.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Sploosh!
Obvious, possibly too Obvious? Evil Fish Elves.
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Post by: Nevelon
Fish elves is the obvious go-to, but maybe swamp orcs?
Water caste tau?
Decorative fountain?
Nurgle sneeze?
Fishmen?
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Post by: Inquisitor Gideon
Must be Deepkin with their book coming up after the Vamps.
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Post by: Fayric
First thought was "obviously troll vomit" but its to clean, no fish bones or half digested lumps.
And most likely an upward splash, like something jumping out of water.
Could be the salmon of knowledge that Finn spent so long fishing for?
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
fishes or some kind of nurgly whatever were my two thoughts. but this could be for a lot of things, AOS has a lot of guys who do things with large bursts of liquid-like things. could even be, tho it feels unlikely, some sort of scenic greeble for a particularly flashy 40k model
my money's on fish
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Post by: The Power Cosmic
Blood spurt from a possessed mushing a poor reiklander youngblood. Mordheim 2025 confirmed!
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Post by: Tastyfish
We don't have an incarnate of the river do we for Realmlords?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
It’s either a not very good or useful music genre originating from British morons, or an industrial tool.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Only GSC use the three leafed clover drill layout AFAIK
The claws around it make me think it's a weapon, not a tunneling vehicle, sadly.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Then, and the Leviathan Dreadnought’s Siege Drill.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
Maybe an updated, plastic Termite assault drill?
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Post by: Tastyfish
That fits precisely with Valrak's rumour of a new large (Questoris I think) Chaos Knight with a siege drill.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Possibly. But, the Plastic Heresy kits tend to be pretty direct copies of the resin
So, I don’t think it is, but not ruling it out.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
GSC was my first thought, but massive drill for chaos knights is also a possibility. i also thought it might be squat stuff for Necromunda, since they have some similar stuff there
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Post by: lord_blackfang
It definitely looks at least Knight arm scaled.
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Post by: zedmeister
Titanicus siege drill arm? Siege titan?
Only other thing I can think of is a new hades breaching drill
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Post by: Snrub
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:It’s either a not very good or useful music genre originating from British morons, or an industrial tool.
What's wrong with grindcore?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I wasn’t meaning Grindcore. I was meaning the daft, talentless, inexplicable “Drill”.
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Post by: Quixote
I hope it's for Knights, it would be nice to see and option that's not claw or saw.
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Post by: Oguhmek
Primaris Centurions!
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Post by: Laughing Man
 Tastyfish wrote:That fits precisely with Valrak's rumour of a new large (Questoris I think) Chaos Knight with a siege drill.
Abhorrent, technically, if it's Chaos Knights. I'd be surprised if they got a new Abhorrent kit, mind you: The current one already builds three, and was fairly recently updated with the Abominant. I'd hope for a plastic Tyrant before that, tbh.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Better than Chaos Knights... they already have too many options.
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Post by: Fayric
Could be a garbage disposal unit for the recycling centre Cawdor run in the weekends.
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Post by: Hellebore
I would love a Votann Termite. The squats had the Termite and Hellbore superheavy. Would be cool to see them again.
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Post by: Tastyfish
 Hellebore wrote:I would love a Votann Termite. The squats had the Termite and Hellbore superheavy. Would be cool to see them again.
They already exist as the...Termite and Ordinatus Aktaeus (latin for european mole)
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Post by: chaos0xomega
Drill originated in chicago
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
It did??
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Post by: Quixote
From the most trustworthy site in the history of mankind, Wikipedia:
Drill music, also known as drill rap or simply drill, is a subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar to the gangsta rap subgenre.[2][3] Drill lyricism is noted for its dark, "ominous", confrontational, and taunting nature, often including references to gang violence and specific criminal incidents, such as murders.[4] Drill rappers often issue disses, threats, and taunts to rival gang members through their music, and mock deceased rivals.[3][5] The subgenre's name is derived after a slang term for attacks on rival gangs.[2]
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Post by: Shakalooloo
 Quixote wrote:
From the most trustworthy site in the history of mankind, Wikipedia:
Drill music, also known as drill rap or simply drill, is a subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s. It is sonically similar to the trap music subgenre and lyrically similar to the gangsta rap subgenre.[2][3] Drill lyricism is noted for its dark, "ominous", confrontational, and taunting nature, often including references to gang violence and specific criminal incidents, such as murders.[4] Drill rappers often issue disses, threats, and taunts to rival gang members through their music, and mock deceased rivals.[3][5] The subgenre's name is derived after a slang term for attacks on rival gangs.[2]
I think the Doc refers to another musical Drill, who are also described on Wikipedia:
Wikipedia wrote:Drill are a band from North East England. They were formed in early 1989 and released albums on the Abstract Sounds, Retribution Records and Muza Muza labels. After splitting in 1994 they reformed in 2005 releasing a new album in 2008. The Drill project was shelved late 2009.
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Post by: chaos0xomega
Ah never heard of the band
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Post by: Shakalooloo
To be fair, they did split over fifteen years ago.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
That has to be a Chaos Knight, surely. Probably pairs with the rock drill thing.
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Post by: Nevelon
No arguments here. Looks like a large scale chaos flamer. Knight is the obvious choice.
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Post by: Tsagualsa
If paired with the rock-drill thingy, it kinda replicates the 'classic' siege dread loadout (the Imperial Armour one, before leviathans were a thing) of siege drill and inferno cannon - oversized and reimagined for a modern-day audience!
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
I think it could be a Horus Heresy Chaos dreadnought bit... but...
I wouldn't mind it being a Chaos Knight... because that means it's not an Imperial Knight as we already have a Chainfist/Flamer Knight that no one uses.
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Post by: SamusDrake
Chaos Knight for Kill Team. 
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Looks Armiger sized to me, somehow
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
You keep misspelling words... it's supposed to read " Imperial Knight for Kill Team. The most fair and balanced formation ever created by Games Workshop and a shining beacon of game balance and immersive storytelling." 
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Post by: SamusDrake
Lathe Biosas wrote:
You keep misspelling words... it's supposed to read " Imperial Knight for Kill Team. The most fair and balanced formation ever created by Games Workshop and a shining beacon of game balance and immersive storytelling."
I have a feeling that Duncan Rhodes is your spirit animal...
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Post by: Fayric
The hooks on the chain match hooks on the chaos armigers (war dogs).
But the war dog flamer dont look anything like this.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
So, 28mm scale, either 40K or Heresy era.
Fingerless gloves, technological doodad with a pair of analog sticks.
I’m gonna reckon this is…..control panel for a Heavy Mole Mortar, tying into the Mole Mortar shell we saw previously. Most likely Votann.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Those do look like vile xenos hands... probably Votann.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’m gonna reckon this is…..control panel for a Heavy Mole Mortar, tying into the Mole Mortar shell we saw previously. Most likely Votann.
I'd agree
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Post by: Nevelon
I was going to guess GSC.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
It could be. The hands done appear to have talons though. As in, fingernail ones.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
I would also guess Votann given the boxy angles of the device.
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Post by: Mr_Rose
Could be a Necromunda thing also; are there any drone-controller hangers-on?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Not that immediately spring to mind, no. But that’s not to say my knowledge there is encyclopaedic, nor that such a thing couldn’t easily be added.
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Post by: Scottywan82
I was assuming it was an Orlock with the fingerless gloves, but the mole mortar makes way more sense.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
Votann was my thought, too
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Post by: Fayric
Guilt by association says Orlock for the cut of glowes, but the boxy remote looks more military.
The only ones that could pull off 80s cool guy enough to have cut off gloves, besides Orlock, is Catachan.
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Post by: Dysartes
I do like the freehand on the screen
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Post by: Olthannon
I'd say 70% likely it's Votann but it could well be a Necromunda or a Kill Team dealie.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
And early one today.
Could be a Navigator’s bonce in there you know.
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Post by: Snrub
Black Templars have a similar piece in their upgrade frame.
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Post by: Nevelon
3rd eye does have navigator vibes.
Don’t nurgle sometimes have a third eye? Or a cyclopian one? Or tzeench?
The halo smacks of SM iron halo/back banner stuff for command.
Could be a chaos lord of some flavor.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I’m thinking it’s the top of a staff myself.
And whilst spiky, I’m not sure it’s Chaos Spiky?
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Post by: Nevelon
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I’m thinking it’s the top of a staff myself.
And whilst spiky, I’m not sure it’s Chaos Spiky?
Mmm. Good call on a staff topper. Which would be a very navigator thing to have.
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Post by: Theophony
Navigator skull, spot for their third eye.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
I get Chaos vibes from that spike array. A chaos sorcerer or similar using a Navigator skull for a trophy makes a lot of sense.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
It could be a "Death to Psykers" Black Templar trophy...
But that feels like a reach.
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Post by: Nevelon
KidCthulhu wrote:I get Chaos vibes from that spike array. A chaos sorcerer or similar using a Navigator skull for a trophy makes a lot of sense.
The spike array is not out of line for what loyalists are sporting today. Take a look at a few new captains and chaplains, and you will see things that would match.
Not to say the OG spiky boys wouldn’t also sport such fashionable accessories, but it’s not just them.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Yeah, I think for me, the spikes are too uniform to be Chaos.
Mind you, with another look? I’m not seeing any cables or obviously technological gubbins. So I’m not going to rule out this is something for the AoS setting.
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Post by: kendoka
Yes, the soft cheekbones of the skull reads AOS to me.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Really? Because I was getting more of an ToW vibe.
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Post by: Laughing Man
I can't unsee this as a googly eye glued to the skull.
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Post by: Tsagualsa
Snrub wrote:Black Templars have a similar piece in their upgrade frame.
Nevelon wrote:3rd eye does have navigator vibes.
Don’t nurgle sometimes have a third eye? Or a cyclopian one? Or tzeench?
The halo smacks of SM iron halo/back banner stuff for command.
Could be a chaos lord of some flavor.
Theophony wrote:Navigator skull, spot for their third eye.
Lathe Biosas wrote:It could be a "Death to Psykers" Black Templar trophy...
But that feels like a reach.
In my opinions, Templars is spot on, it might be this specific piece of equipment (notably a explicitely three-eyed skull with dead-to-psykers effects):
https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Skull_of_the_Cacodominus
Mucho similaro, it's not much of a stretch that maybe they put it on a stake or staff:
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Yes sir, I’ll accept it!
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
To quoth the 21st Century: Seems Legit.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
it's definitely a dead Navigator, regardless of who is holding it
i do find it interesting that the teeth don't make it into the picture, tho. probably doesn't matter, but it stands out to me
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
StudentOfEtherium wrote:it's definitely a dead Navigator, regardless of who is holding it
i do find it interesting that the teeth don't make it into the picture, tho. probably doesn't matter, but it stands out to me
Do you think they were obscured on purpose? Maybe they are pointy like Chritopher Walken in Sleepy Hollow?
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Post by: Shakalooloo
The staff of a Navis Nobilite, bearing the skull of one of their inbred ancestors.
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Post by: Fayric
The staff has a nemesis warding stave wibe, just more gothic and pointy.
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Post by: Altruizine
This one is interesting to me because of how small the circled details would have to be if those are human-sized hands. Go look at the thumbs on a contemporary GW human figure and then compare them to the well-defined details on the device. Crazy to see that in HIPS (unless my imagination is misfiring). But I can't really think of any 40k bigfolk who'd be using a device like that. Vothannds might be a little chunkier? The Necromunda ones definitely were, but I feel like the 40K Votann were pretty close to human-sized?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
That’s a genuinely good point.
Given we still get quite fine points on plastic kits, I wouldn’t say the joysticks can’t possibly be plakky.
But, and as ever not presenting myself as the font of all knowledge or an expert? I can’t think of a kit with such a feature cast as a single piece (as in the control box thing), or with anything quite as delicate looking as the joysticks, in 28mm.
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Post by: No wolves on Fenris
Looks like the iron halos and decorative pieces on current Marine back packs. Maybe one for a new Librarian perhaps on a bike?
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Inquisitor reboot confirmed!
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Post by: chaos0xomega
I want this more than anything....
...in 28mm.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Bah! It needs to be done in 11,889.76mm! Bring on the LARPers!
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Post by: kendoka
 Altruizine wrote:This one is interesting to me because of how small the circled details would have to be …
Nah. I believe this is just a really fiddly paintjob on the remote, making the details look sharper/separate.
Look at the thumbs.
Not even fingernails - indicating that this is a really small bit.
Space Dwarf or IG.
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Post by: ThirstySpaceMan
Definitely navigator head guessing on a staff. I actually have a navigator I'm converting with the bt skull cut off the chain and attached to the gsc female magos. Waiting on a echer hunter set for to arrive for a head. Guessing navigator or BT. Wild guess is new astropath/inq mini
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Knighty Knight?
Skull isn’t the Ad-Mech skull, but I think some details on Knights are just skulls?
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Post by: lord_blackfang
It's clearly a flux capacitor powered by the original space marine bike tyre
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Post by: Snrub
100% it's the atomantic pavaise for the resin deredeo from like 6 years ago.
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Post by: Nevelon
Don’t void sheild generators look like that?
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Could be something heresy Y’know.
Maybe something from the rumoured new Dreadnought pattern?
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Post by: semajnollissor
 Snrub wrote:100% it's the atomantic pavaise for the resin deredeo from like 6 years ago.
This?
https://www.barreldrill.com/2018_forge_world_review/2018_forge_world_review_3/
I disagree. The size may be similar, although that is difficult to say since there is no scale reference, but the angles and overall arrangement don’t match.
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Post by: Snrub
Man, it was a throwaway comment. No need to go debunking it. There isn't a resin Deredeo any more and it isn't even a wargear option any more in 2.0. It's clearly not the pavaise.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Could be something heresy Y’know.
Maybe something from the rumoured new Dreadnought pattern?
The Furibundus (or something that sounded like it) was mentioned at some point wasn't it?
Could also potentially be a shield generator option for the new tarantula turrets.
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Post by: SamusDrake
Apparently the new Imperial Knight has a shield gimmick, so I'm guessing it's that...
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
it's definitely the new knight shield generation that's been rumored
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Missile pod of some kind. Possible mounted on a Knight’s armpit?
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
Spikes. So probably a Chaos Knight.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
I’m not sure they’re spiky enough to be Chaos. It all just seems too clean in its lines to be Chaos.
Not a slam dunk evidence like, but I still don’t think is necessarily Chaos.
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Post by: Overread
Chaos can do clean spiky and dirty spiky. It really depends on how corrupted the unit is. Plus when you zoom in close even dirty spiky can appear clean when you can only see a tiny snapshot of the model.
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Post by: tauist
Whatever it is, the paint grain and visible tide marks in the shading make this look like its quite a small part
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Wait.
Hold on.
It….it couldn’t be an updated Defiler, could it?
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Post by: Quixote
No. No hope for Chaos Players... ever.
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Post by: SamusDrake
That can only be a rocket pod....
With Knights up next on the roadmap...The Humbling River is once again living rent free in my head.
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Post by: Theophony
PreChaos Havoc launcher update
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Post by: chaos0xomega
Oh my.
Dont do that.
Dont give me hope.
I want it to be so...
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Post by: Overread
I'd love an updated Defiler and also soulgrinder as they share the same parts.
They came from a very blocky/chunky era of GW along with a few other models that were serviceably good but never artistically stood out. Old Demon Prince; the plastic Varghiests and a few other things are in there
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Post by: chaos0xomega
It does look a lot like an updated havoc missile launcher in the style of the defiler - also framed on the correct side of the "body"
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Post by: lord_blackfang
We already have pre-chaos havoc launchers tho and they don't look like that.
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Post by: SamusDrake
Given the popularity of the Ad-Mech, I can see a Dark Mech codex dropping in 11th edition and the Defiler would be an ideal unit.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
it certainly feels like they're trying to frame this as chaos... a defiler update would be neat, tho. always felt like that kit had a lot of potential that was horribly underserved by its model
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Post by: Mr_Rose
I’m going to put in a properly wild guess: a new titan! Specifically the long-assumed non-Nemesis Warbringer. Those are one of its shoulder mounts. It fits pairs over-the-shoulder Warhound-class weapons with a centreline Reaver-class mount.
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Post by: MajorWesJanson
SamusDrake wrote:That can only be a rocket pod....
With Knights up next on the roadmap...The Humbling River is once again living rent free in my head.
Looks like a havoc mount in a shoulder slot where the stubber usually goes.
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Post by: chaos0xomega
Mr_Rose wrote:I’m going to put in a properly wild guess: a new titan! Specifically the long-assumed non-Nemesis Warbringer. Those are one of its shoulder mounts. It fits pairs over-the-shoulder Warhound-class weapons with a centreline Reaver-class mount.
Have they ever d9ne a rumor engine for LI/ AT?
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Post by: The Power Cosmic
Sisters of Battle versions of the Space Marine Centurions, so basically heavy support versions of the Paragon Warsuits.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Alternatively, the most expensive model GW has ever put out: a 6-pack of eggs.
That's for my fellow US peeps.
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Post by: skeleton
Seeing the last 3 pictures fromn the rumours i would say its votan, they have a lot of those spikes, but are no spike but atenna's
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Post by: SamusDrake
chaos0xomega wrote: Mr_Rose wrote:I’m going to put in a properly wild guess: a new titan! Specifically the long-assumed non-Nemesis Warbringer. Those are one of its shoulder mounts. It fits pairs over-the-shoulder Warhound-class weapons with a centreline Reaver-class mount.
Have they ever d9ne a rumor engine for LI/ AT?
Not to my knowledge, but there has been the odd weak cough and whisper of a plastic Titan in 40K / 30K scale.
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Post by: Lathe Biosas
SamusDrake wrote:chaos0xomega wrote: Mr_Rose wrote:I’m going to put in a properly wild guess: a new titan! Specifically the long-assumed non-Nemesis Warbringer. Those are one of its shoulder mounts. It fits pairs over-the-shoulder Warhound-class weapons with a centreline Reaver-class mount.
Have they ever d9ne a rumor engine for LI/ AT?
Not to my knowledge, but there has been the odd weak cough and whisper of a plastic Titan in 40K / 30K scale.
They've done Necromunda, there's no reason why they can't use the Rumour Engine for another Specialist game.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Boots McFoolish
Makes me think Tau, but the foot is all wrong. Votann?
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Post by: KidCthulhu
Gue'vesa Kill Team?
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Post by: Snrub
Does seem to be sort of Tauish, doesn't it? Gue'vesa would be cool to see. Finally.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Honestly?
Far stranger things have happened in the past few years! Automatically Appended Next Post: Just checked the Kin boots, and they’re different. More rounded and ribbed on the upper.
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Post by: Snrub
For as much as I'd like to see it, realistically though, what are our chances of another Tau Auxiliary kill team? Especially so soon after the Vespid one.
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Post by: KidCthulhu
From Warcom...
Whose hoof is this? Let us know in the comments on Facebook and Instagram. Anyone who makes a quip about a Primaris Lieutenant will be servitorised.
Don't Tau technically have hooves? Maybe my Gue'vesa guess is closer than I originally thought 
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Post by: Mr_Rose
Yeah, it’s stylistically T’au but clearly a plantigrade foot. The Kroot don’t wear shoes as such, or much T’au armour at all actually, the Votann have their own style and so do the Eldar.
So yeah, Gue’Vesa fits but it could also be a completely new humanoid alien T’au auxiliary.
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Post by: Quixote
It's the new Primaris Tau! 
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Post by: Dryaktylus
It's not a KT base though and the Codex is already out without Gue’Vesa, so it's not necessary to give them 40k bases.
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Post by: StudentOfEtherium
Votann was my first thought. it's clearly something 40k, whatever it is. Gue'vesa would be really cool, tho i'm not sure T'au would be getting another KT so quickly
don't know what other factions it would be. clearly not human/chaos
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Post by: Shakalooloo
Snrub wrote:For as much as I'd like to see it, realistically though, what are our chances of another Tau Auxiliary kill team? Especially so soon after the Vespid one.
We do get a lot of Imperial Guard kill teams one after the other, so why not let the xenos join in on the fun?
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Post by: MajorWesJanson
 Shakalooloo wrote: Snrub wrote:For as much as I'd like to see it, realistically though, what are our chances of another Tau Auxiliary kill team? Especially so soon after the Vespid one.
We do get a lot of Imperial Guard kill teams one after the other, so why not let the xenos join in on the fun?
Guevesa would be both Tau aux and imperial guard
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Post by: semajnollissor
In decreasing order of likelihood and increasing order of wishful thinking…
My first thought was (as stated above) human foot in Tau armor.
My second thought was a new style Votann robot foot.
My third thought was exodites.
I guess it could also be Votann as Tau auxiliaries.
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Post by: vim_the_good
Space marine I'm his space marine slippers. Doing a little gardening after work.
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Post by: Dysartes
I lean towards it either being a new Votann boot design, or a very heavily disguised Eldar Ranger.
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Post by: MajorWesJanson
 vim_the_good wrote:
Space marine I'm his space marine slippers. Doing a little gardening after work.
Sump Crocs will always be tacky, no matter who wears them.
Could be a real oddball and be a Drukhari model, like a beastmaster.
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Post by: Olthannon
Based on the other robotic feet of the Votann, most certainly of that variety. Though could be Necromunda Squats.
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Post by: Nevelon
Looks to not mesh with any know faction. Guessing a 1-off character for necromunda or something like that.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
I don't think any Necromunda models so far had static grass on the base.
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Post by: Mentlegen324
Nevelon wrote:Looks to not mesh with any know faction. Guessing a 1-off character for necromunda or something like that.
It's actually a fairly close fit to Votann. It broadly matches their design for bionic feet, but not entirely.
They have 3 segmented/grooved sections in the same place as that does, they have a curve containing a ball joint in the same place as the curve there, and they have an example of something attached with 2 buttons/bolts like that has.
It's different in that it doesn't have the toes and the ball part isn't visible, but votann miniatures aren't all exact and have some variety. It could just be some sort of covering for it.
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Post by: skrulnik
I feel like that concave bit with screws/bolts on the top of the foot is familiar, but I can't place where I've seen it.
Something I have assembled had that detail...
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Post by: semajnollissor
Upon further reflection, I believe it is a Votann foot. It bears some similarities to the iron head squat feet (without the mudguards/spats that those models have).
However, this image has gotten into my brain and all I can think about now when I see it is - how cool would a human auxiliary killteam be for the Tau, right?
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Post by: Theophony
 MajorWesJanson wrote: vim_the_good wrote:
Space marine I'm his space marine slippers. Doing a little gardening after work.
Sump Crocs will always be tacky, no matter who wears them.
Could be a real oddball and be a Drukhari model, like a beastmaster.
Alpha Legion have infiltrated the Tau. This guy just didn't get the memo about Tau feet 
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