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Amphsix wrote:

Hox wrote:Exist and then they still sell this...

because if you make everything the very top of badass, Chaplains become mundane.

If I'm paying 10 dollars for a plastic model, it had better be as badass as it can possibly be.

Hox wrote:

Amphsix wrote:

Hox wrote:Exist and then they still sell this...

because if you make everything the very top of badass, Chaplains become mundane.

If I'm paying 10 dollars for a plastic model, it had better be as badass as it can possibly be.

Also down to opinion, like this whole thread is.
I think terminators are amazing. You think they're not badass enough.
Jup, subjectivity is key...

blood reaper wrote:

'I iz robo manz'

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Well Assholetep the King of the Dick Dynasty hates you too.

The original necron lord and the rest of the original necrons are of the worst. A whole army of these faces. How are you supposed to take them seriously? Even more so, how did they ever get approved for production? They look like a 3rd grader designed them!


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blood reaper wrote:

'I iz robo manz'

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Stupid Stompas

It's a damn shame that the most powerful weapon in the Ork arsenal is a giant fat ballerina.

Spanish Birdman wrote:

Stupid Stompas

It's a damn shame that the most powerful weapon in the Ork arsenal is a giant fat ballerina.

Oh really? I think it fits the Xenos quite well But seriosly, yes that is a harrid moddel indeed

Wow, are they really doing those original Necron sculpts in resin now?

Could not disagree with the OP more. Sisters models are pretty awesome, and making them look like female marines would have been terrible. Now they do need some plastic, since they tend to rely on numbers and my armycase weighs a metric ton. If sisters ever do get plastic, they will likely be more marine like, since they really can't get the level of detail that the current sister sculpts have.

Sisters repentia on the other hand, are awful, and were completely useless. Now they are okay if they can steal a transport, but still not good.

DreadlordME! wrote:

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Clauss wrote:Fiends of slaanesh...and end thread here

I see your fiends and raise you one Sister Dialogus:

WHAT THE HELL IS DAT THING!

I think that if this appeared preaching in the middle of a battle between some Chaos Deamons and Grey Knights. the deamons and Knights would work together to Kill, mane, and DESTROY all that remains of that ABOMINATION. Even Nurgle looked away...

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Wulfen Andy wrote:I would have to say ALL Tau! They look like lego gone bad!!!!

You go back as far as I do, then all the "new" races look terrible.

Back in the old days, everyone modeled their own Dark Eldar, insisting that there must be Dark Eldar since Fantasy Battles has Dark Elves. Then, when the Dark Eldar finally came out, a lot of people wished they hadn't. The Dark Eldar, as a whole, have always been pretty silly in their description, and their models more or less uninspiring. For me, the Anime Mecha League, er, sorry, Tau Empire have always just seemed like a shameless rip off of anime stuff designed to sucker in new players. Which, I guess makes sense since 40K never really had a single unique idea. Why not have the Anime Mecha League? And Necrons were better before they became a complete army too. Or maybe better never being born.

How about this ugly SOB.


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Trondheim wrote:

Spanish Birdman wrote:

Stupid Stompas

It's a damn shame that the most powerful weapon in the Ork arsenal is a giant fat ballerina.

Oh really? I think it fits the Xenos quite well But seriosly, yes that is a harrid moddel indeed

But I like the Stompa... It's the paragon of comical Orkiness.

Deathly Angel wrote:

Trondheim wrote:

Spanish Birdman wrote:

Stupid Stompas

It's a damn shame that the most powerful weapon in the Ork arsenal is a giant fat ballerina.

Oh really? I think it fits the Xenos quite well But seriosly, yes that is a harrid moddel indeed

But I like the Stompa... It's the paragon of comical Orkiness.

At least it isn't like the Epic Gargant.

lowmanjason wrote:The original necron lord and the rest of the original necrons are of the worst. A whole army of these faces. How are you supposed to take them seriously? Even more so, how did they ever get approved for production? They look like a 3rd grader designed them!

Because it was the mid 90s and everything looked goofy as hell. A lot of the "worst sculpts" in this thread are just really dated models from a time when things looked really, really cartoony. The only 40k models that I think were completely unacceptably bad for their time were the metal Possessed:

Considering about 6 months later the current (very good) plastic kit came out, it always struck me as odd.

Brother SRM wrote:

lowmanjason wrote:The original necron lord and the rest of the original necrons are of the worst. A whole army of these faces. How are you supposed to take them seriously? Even more so, how did they ever get approved for production? They look like a 3rd grader designed them!

Because it was the mid 90s and everything looked goofy as hell. A lot of the "worst sculpts" in this thread are just really dated models from a time when things looked really, really cartoony. The only 40k models that I think were completely unacceptably bad for their time were the metal Possessed:
Considering about 6 months later the current (very good) plastic kit came out, it always struck me as odd.

Then they should be updated. If grey knights can be so detailed in plastic then captain khorne on his tonka triceratops I posted above should no longer be available for purchase. I know its expensive to redo the molds but if a model is beyond ugly, I would not buy it even if it was good. I dont know if thats just me but if I spend money, it had better look good sitting on the table.

Deathly Angel wrote:
But I like the Stompa... It's the paragon of comical Orkiness.

If you "get" orks, you realize they have the absolute best models in the game. If you don't, their stuff looks silly.

Veteran Sergeant wrote:If you "get" orks, you realize they have the absolute best models in the game. If you don't, their stuff looks silly.

So true, especially in the days when 50% of the units in their codex was made from the same box. Seriously Slugga boys, shoota boys, skarboys, 'ard boys, flash gits, lootas, ect. They used to all be made my modding a box of basic boys (and stikkbombers were a waste). Until the new codex came out, they didn't even make boys with big shootas (at least none that I could find while I was playing orks). People who started playing Orks recently never realized that those of us who did it before 5th edition didn't even have models for several units, and had to mod almost everything.

Armless Failure wrote:

Veteran Sergeant wrote:If you "get" orks, you realize they have the absolute best models in the game. If you don't, their stuff looks silly.

So true, especially in the days when 50% of the units in their codex was made from the same box. Seriously Slugga boys, shoota boys, skarboys, 'ard boys, flash gits, lootas, ect. They used to all be made my modding a box of basic boys (and stikkbombers were a waste). Until the new codex came out, they didn't even make boys with big shootas (at least none that I could find while I was playing orks). People who started playing Orks recently never realized that those of us who did it before 5th edition didn't even have models for several units, and had to mod almost everything.

I think that makes for a very cool army though!

Armless Failure wrote:
So true, especially in the days when 50% of the units in their codex was made from the same box. Seriously Slugga boys, shoota boys, skarboys, 'ard boys, flash gits, lootas, ect. They used to all be made my modding a box of basic boys (and stikkbombers were a waste). Until the new codex came out, they didn't even make boys with big shootas (at least none that I could find while I was playing orks). People who started playing Orks recently never realized that those of us who did it before 5th edition didn't even have models for several units, and had to mod almost everything.

Well, that hasn't really changed all that much. Ardboyz are still up to the modeler, skarboyz don't exist, stormboyz have new models, lootas just have different guns on the same bodies, and stikkbommas rightfully don't exist in the same way. There were big shoota/rokkit/burna models in 3rd ed, but they were metal. Vehicles back then though, that was something else. Almost no kits whatsoever and pretty much everyone had to make due with conversions.

Hox wrote:
Then they should be updated. If grey knights can be so detailed in plastic then captain khorne on his tonka triceratops I posted above should no longer be available for purchase. I know its expensive to redo the molds but if a model is beyond ugly, I would not buy it even if it was good. I dont know if thats just me but if I spend money, it had better look good sitting on the table.

Oh, how I wish they were! If Ragnar Blackmane could get a model that wasn't older than 50% of this forum the world would be a better place. That old school donkey model could definitely be redone with either the current Warriors of Chaos juggernaut lord or a plastic bloodcrusher and Khorne Berserker.

Hox wrote:

If you are going to run this guy, you should just mod a Khorne Chaos Lord on a juggernaught from WHFB.

Armless Failure wrote:
If you are going to run this guy, you should just mod a Khorne Chaos Lord on a juggernaught from WHFB.

But I want my silly man to ride a brass donkey from He-Man!

Veteran Sergeant wrote:

Deathly Angel wrote:
But I like the Stompa... It's the paragon of comical Orkiness.

If you "get" orks, you realize they have the absolute best models in the game. If you don't, their stuff looks silly.

I like all the rest of the Ork arsenal, but I imagine the conversation when the first Stompa was build went something like this:

Mek 1: We'z gotta get one a dem big 'umie walkers, stomp em all up!
Mek 2: Yeah! But it's gotta 'ave loads of dakka too. Big rokkits and stuff.
Warboss: WHAT IT NEEDS IS A SKIRT
Mek 1: Wut bos?
Warboss:
GIVE
IT
A
SKIRT

Brother SRM wrote:

Armless Failure wrote:
If you are going to run this guy, you should just mod a Khorne Chaos Lord on a juggernaught from WHFB.

But I want my silly man to ride a brass donkey from He-Man!

Yes! Even chaos lords want their own battlecat equivalent. That model is so old, when it was brand new people only had 3-4 teeth. Thats far back on the evolutionary ladder I'm sure. But anyways in all seriousness, who said those oblong horrible skulls with 3-4 teeth were ok for production.

If you are going to run this guy, you should just mod a Khorne Chaos Lord on a juggernaught from WHFB.

If I'm going to spend 50ish bucks on a single unit, the damn thing better not need me to cut it apart it and then remake it. Can I rebuild him? I have the technology but not the desire. Theres a standard that most companies are held to. Unfortunately due to GWs lack of solid competition, they do whatever the hell they want. Imagine if a computer company updated their systems once every 6-10 years. They would fail almost immediately.

I'm telling you, modify a plastic bloodcrusher. It has the potential to look boss, and you get three in a box for like $45. Or just get one on a bits site and go hog wild.

Brother SRM wrote:I'm telling you, modify a plastic bloodcrusher. It has the potential to look boss, and you get three in a box for like $45. Or just get one on a bits site and go hog wild.

I know I prefer the WHFB Jug though. Just sayin' I shouldn't have to make my own. There is a fantastic jug model that would be simple to make a chaos 40k lord for and they just cant be bothered.

Whats with all the 80s hating? Thanks to the power of hindsight, they do look bad, but 99% of the sculpts from back then were bad. Things that I dislike would be:

Scouts. The artwork from all the codexes these apear in make them look very cool, and with a little conversion work they make excellant models. But a little head variation would be nice.



Any grey knight with no helmet on, or duel weilding swords.



All the phoenix lords save Maugen Ra



The Haemonculus, The possessed, Khorne Berzerkers (Unless they have a REAL good paint job), the new bloodletters and 80% of the necrons.

The possessed are great models with awful rules, Berserkers are merely okay. The new Bloodletters look like updated 80's Bloodletters and don't look generic like the 3rd/4th ed ones. New Necrons are fine for the most part, I don't know what your problem with them is outside of the Flayed Ones.

Toastedandy wrote:

this is not maugan ra- it is asurmen and he is definitely not the worst looking pheonix lord out there. You all know it , you all hate it . It is jain zar....

or maybe" the eldar farseer with shruken pistol"

Scout sniper rifle pack is infinetly better then those other ones.