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 Formosa wrote:
£10 and ill buy one, any more and ill pass

Lol, even it was free I'd think twice about making the trip to my local gw for this.

 Formosa wrote:
£10 and ill buy one, any more and ill pass

You're more generous than I would be. I spent $15 on the 3 pack of snapfit Primaris so that I could make some characters out of them. I would not pay more than $5/model for what looks like a monopose Primaris at this point, and probably won't buy any more of them at this point for any amount of money.

The great thing about marines (just calling them marines at this point since they are the future of the range) is that there are so many variants that there is no need to pick up an expensive one-off. This guy looks fine, but looks more like a promo item for the release of the Primaris rather than the celebration miniature for the last 30 years.

I was pretty firmly in the "oh stop freaking out about primaris" camp, but it does seem like they're memory holing oldmarines pretty hard.

Oh well, once oldmarines stop existing, all my oldmarines become marines. In fact, I might cut down those three Primaris I got to be the same scale as the others.

Bahaha, 'Old-scaling Primaris Marines'... Now there's a project for the serious modeller

Why selling a single model when GW has released the 10 man box less than two months ago? Oh well, wait a second, I got it: this guy is supposed to be a special dude.... nah, it's just a standard primaris with the helmet painted in red.

 Formosa wrote:
£10 and ill buy one, any more and ill pass

I think that's pretty much a guaranteed pass for you then!

No way this thing is that 'cheap' - though it should be even cheaper.

Maybe even free with a WD purchase too!

While acknowledging 30 years is not a number people usually go crazy celebrating over, this seems like a pretty bland effort overall. Especially compared to the 25th anniversary piece, and even last years 30 years of Space Marines mini. I might pick one up if the opportunity comes, but I won't cry over it if I never see one.

 Crimson wrote:
Super meh. Sure, it looks good, but so do all intercessors, so this is completely unnoteworthy. I understand that they wanted to do a primaris marine, but they should have made a primarised version of some classic model or space marine art. Connecting eras like that would have made much more sense as 30 years celebration model.

Completely agreed with this. I like the Primaris models, but this guy is so unspectacular it's almost spectacular.


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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Funny how a limited edition model that isn't covered in skulls is considered bland.

It's not about that - it's that it looks so unremarkable that it could have come from the starter boxed set.

My gods how uninspiring... The most unspecial of all special editions I can remember. Pass.

They could have done almost anything else and it would've looked better. They could've had him firing off his boltrifle with one hand while giving commands with the other. They could've had him in the process of reloading his rifle. They could've had him sling his boltrifle and checking his wrist computer. Hell, they could've had the guy stepping over a dead chaos marine with his sword at the ready.

Why they chose this pose is beyond me. It's such a stock marine pose I want to fall asleep looking at it.

What's that model got to do with the 30th anniversary? It's just a marine?

I like the model.

 Primark G wrote:
I like the model.

A lot of us like the model. I don't like the fact that this is the limited edition 30th anniversary thing.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:

 Primark G wrote:
I like the model.

A lot of us like the model. I don't like the fact that this is the limited edition 30th anniversary thing.

Yeah, it's not that there's anything wrong with the model. It's that I can't tell the difference between it and the 20 other marines sitting on my desk other than that it's colored blue instead of green.

Oh man, you know what would have been really cool? A beakie primaris! That is to say a space marine in beakie armor, but primaris scale. I'm not really into primaris, and I don't go out of my way to collect beakies, but man, I'd have bought at least one of those for the novelty.

 daedalus wrote:

 NivlacSupreme wrote:

 Primark G wrote:
I like the model.

A lot of us like the model. I don't like the fact that this is the limited edition 30th anniversary thing.

Yeah, it's not that there's anything wrong with the model. It's that I can't tell the difference between it and the 20 other marines sitting on my desk other than that it's colored blue instead of green.

Oh man, you know what would have been really cool? A beakie primaris! That is to say a space marine in beakie armor, but primaris scale. I'm not really into primaris, and I don't go out of my way to collect beakies, but man, I'd have bought at least one of those for the novelty.

The heads are the same size as current marines.

If you want a beaky primaris, give it a beaky helmet.

 TalonZahn wrote:

The heads are the same size as current marines.

If you want a beaky primaris, give it a beaky helmet.

Good to know, but I thought the beakies all had a very plain, simple armor too. Like, with the studded shoulderpad? Maybe I'm just inventing something in my head that wasn't ever actually there?

 daedalus wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:

The heads are the same size as current marines.

If you want a beaky primaris, give it a beaky helmet.

Good to know, but I thought the beakies all had a very plain, simple armor too. Like, with the studded shoulderpad? Maybe I'm just inventing something in my head that wasn't ever actually there?

Mk6 corvus is the one with no lipped shoulder pads no knee pads and the cables on the outside.

beakys look REALLY good on primarus marines btw.

What a lazy model. I can't believe this made it into some powerpoint slide at a company meeting.

It'd be some fantastic to release something like a Rogue Trader to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 40k. Or some reimagining of an iconic piece of artwork or miniature.

Instead... I'm going to forget about this model as soon as I hit the 'submit' button.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
What's that model got to do with the 30th anniversary? It's just a marine?

He has the same birthday as GW, and finds all these comments very hurtful.

 daedalus wrote:
I thought the beakies all had a very plain, simple armor too. Like, with the studded shoulderpad? Maybe I'm just inventing something in my head that wasn't ever actually there?

Yeah, the most recent generation of beakies are based on RT, meaning 3 tubes on the chest in a W converging, one studded shoulder and neither with trim, generally not a ton of detailing.

I honestly thought that this was a collectible piece, like GW used to do with Werda, rather than an actual miniature for gaming.

There were infinitely better choices for a 30th anniversary miniature. We have so many seminal pieces of art from the last three decades which could have been used instead, a re-release of classic figures, or a Primaris re-imagining of a classic miniature.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
... or a Primaris re-imagining of a classic miniature.

As has been established, it is a Primaris re-imagining of a classic miniature.

This one.

 Fafnir wrote:
It'd be some fantastic to release something like a Rogue Trader to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 40k. Or some reimagining of an iconic piece of artwork or miniature.

Instead... I'm going to forget about this model as soon as I hit the 'submit' button.

By the power vested in me I declare this to be the official 30th anniversary model...



http://knightmareminiatures.com/product/space-raider-original#prettyPhoto

Echoing others here, but damn, this is bland.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
It'd be some fantastic to release something like a Rogue Trader to celebrate the 30th anniversary of 40k. Or some reimagining of an iconic piece of artwork or miniature.

Instead... I'm going to forget about this model as soon as I hit the 'submit' button.

By the power vested in me I declare this to be the official 30th anniversary model...



http://knightmareminiatures.com/product/space-raider-original#prettyPhoto

I'd be okay with this. Old and grungy as it may be, it at least has some personality.

30 years of 40k and this is the best GW can come up with? An anniversary model should be more imposing, not look like it's taken 5 minutes and a quick rummage in a bits box to throw together .

Yeah, there are plenty of classic codex covers to update and iconic characters that either have never gotten models or only gotten those pretty embarrassingly ugly LE BL ones.

this is kinda bland, and I definatly feel myself asking "is this it?" if it was part of a "Armor through the ages" set that'd be awesome but alone it's kinda bland, still if this is cheap eneugh I could see it being alright, if you got one of those demonstration Primaris Marines, and a 3 pack of the push to fit ones, this sergent would round out a squad nicely