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ruminator wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:

ruminator wrote:I really don't like Mephiston ...

I cut his arms and head off.

I am starting to get a warm feeling inside ...

He's solid metal. It was a bitch.

Haruko wrote:I dont like draigo's face, looks really odd to me, and all the inquisitor models, except the guy with the Inferno pistol.

Draigo looks frakking terrified, he looks like hes just walking around in the warp screaming and holding his sword out.

derpknight baby carrier isn't much better.

and did anyone ever try to pin this block of iron, whos wings are heavier the he is.

http://www.durhammodellers.com/40k/one.htm

Righto, I'll tell ye now, lots of gibberish about the old models in the eldar line, like the avatar and phoenix lords... WTF. It is age letting these models down, not the sculpts! Back when I were a lad, those models were mind blowing! They do now need an update to bring them into the fold of the new plastics, but remember, when these models came out the guardians were monopose models with lasguns... 'member dem? Blech!

For me, the irking is Chaos Marines. It's the entire line (but a special kick in the balls goes to obliterators!). Chaos is just 'spikes and horns n gak' now, when back in the day, it was eldrich, unknown and gibbering nasties. Chaos lost it's Lovecraftian terror and replaced it with moustache twirling 'bad guy' cliche.

See, back in Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness days, we had this guy:


Now we have this 'bwahahahaha, Imma tie this sista of battul to the train track!' (presumably to deny the grey knights their blood sacrifice... )


Chaos needs it's gribbly side back and less of the horns and skulls (since the imperium has plenty of that already!).

They used to talk more of "traitor marines" and they were "warped" which meant tentacles and two heads and all individual.

Now they tend to be all skulls and spikes and be painted black/gold. It's really something that started with 2nd edition, it's nothing new.

oh mean green you make me lol so hard.

I was so unhappy with how my girlfriend's carnifexes' heads don't sync up at the neck that I smashed half my green stuff in there and had to take half an hour getting most of it out.

I found a well painted mephiston missing his sword arm for a dollar and just stuck a genestealer arm on there, he looks pretty awesome. lol

New Flayed ones - what happened to them?!

I agree. Before they had succom to a horrible disease that threatens the entire tomb world, now their just kinda homeless guys that like.....found some stuff..and...put it on, oh thats a nice sweater.....maybe a poncho here......

its like they went shopping at thrift town

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Righto, I'll tell ye now, lots of gibberish about the old models in the eldar line, like the avatar and phoenix lords... WTF. It is age letting these models down, not the sculpts!

I dislike the Avatar because it doesn't fit with the rest of the Eldar line. It's a reasonably good sculpt, but when placed next to guardians, striking scorpions, wraithlords, etc. it looks out of place.

I agree with the Phoenix Lords, however. They fit in the line and are simply out-of-date sculpts.

Company Commander.

Guy's meant to be a senior officer, The Guard's trademark HQ. He looks kind of...meh.

Toastedandy wrote:Was Nagash ever considered a good sculpt?

I don't like Ragnar Blackmane because its so dated, also do not like this one with a passion. Stupid pose

''Damn you Xenos!!!!!"

THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!!!!!!111!!!!111!!!!!one!!!

Toastedandy wrote:Was Nagash ever considered a good sculpt?

I don't like Ragnar Blackmane because its so dated, also do not like this one with a passion. Stupid pose

''Damn you Xenos!!!!!"

"I voted for McCain!"

Six pages?

We went six Pages without the Razorgor?



I'll just leave this here....

Someone should totally make a counts-as army using only these terrible models. That would be the best project ever.

I'm not a big fan of the wyches either, and it's not just an issue of wanting them to look like sexy space elves. If you look at some of the top female fighters actually out there, and athletes in various sports, none of them look like female bodybuilders either. Most actually have female proportions like having hips wider than their shoulders. The wyches don't.

Definitely hate the Mephiston model too.

The Dialogus's head has to be one of the worst things they've ever done, or just a horrible joke. The rest of it isn't too bad, but the freehand goes a long way towards that conclusion.




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Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Someone should totally make a counts-as army using only these terrible models. That would be the best project ever.

Or even take the worst parts of the worst models to create one terrible abomination.

Maybe not, it'd end up having several dozen heads.

I'm just saying, is the orc cheerleader *really* that far from the wyches?

Zefig wrote:I'm not a big fan of the wyches either, and it's not just an issue of wanting them to look like sexy space elves. If you look at some of the top female fighters actually out there, and athletes in various sports, none of them look like female bodybuilders either. Most actually have female proportions like having hips wider than their shoulders. The wyches don't.

Definitely hate the Mephiston model too.

The Dialogus's head has to be one of the worst things they've ever done, or just a horrible joke. The rest of it isn't too bad, but the freehand goes a long way towards that conclusion.

That pictured mini has always reminded me of some horrible melding of Joey Ramone and Velma from Scooby Doo.

'Up yours children."

This is a ridiculous and almost stupid pose, I also don't like the face, it reminds me of doctor evil.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440017a&prodId=prod780863&rootCatGameStyle=


UGH.

Mad cow disease daemon

The Slaanesh daemon is a bit pathetic.

Take a look at the current one (either head (but the cthullu wannabe head is worse) and then cruise over to Forgeworld and ogle their take ont he concept...

Nuff said.

We also DESPERATELY need a Bloodthirster that actually looks threatening. Again...look at the GW one, then cruise over to Forgeword...

I think the dialogus is, in part, a bad paint job. The eyes look like they're supposed to be goggles (notice the thin 'strap' to one side) but they're painted white-with-black-pupils and as such look like cartoon googly eyes.

The mouth looks a bit cartoony as well, though.

The body isn't bad, though. I wonder how ti would look painted by someone better.

As I remember the Inquisitors and Retinue had a weird mix of really awesome and really horrible models in the line. A lot were done in the style of 'cybernetics that don't need to be practical'. I think this model, at least, looks like an over-the-top Ecclisarch functionary-type who is probably more focused on maintaining the local guardsmen's "morale purity' than actually, you know, winning the war.

Plastic catachans...Those arms...

Balance wrote:I think the dialogus is, in part, a bad paint job. The eyes look like they're supposed to be goggles (notice the thin 'strap' to one side) but they're painted white-with-black-pupils and as such look like cartoon googly eyes.

The mouth looks a bit cartoony as well, though.

The body isn't bad, though. I wonder how ti would look painted by someone better.

As I remember the Inquisitors and Retinue had a weird mix of really awesome and really horrible models in the line. A lot were done in the style of 'cybernetics that don't need to be practical'. I think this model, at least, looks like an over-the-top Ecclisarch functionary-type who is probably more focused on maintaining the local guardsmen's "morale purity' than actually, you know, winning the war.

The mouth is really what kills it for me. I've always seen the eyes as goggled, but can definitely see the resemblance to the googly eyes. I feel like the mouth just makes the whole thing look like a blow-up doll. Certainly would be willing to see if a really good painter could salvage it, but as for myself I think I'll be going with headswaps. A lot of the others are certainly over the top too. Definitely not a fan of the Arco-flaggelants either. Or repentia, to be honest, what with all of their random adornments and little else.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

That pictured mini has always reminded me of some horrible melding of Joey Ramone and Velma from Scooby Doo.

Who just so happens to be blowing a ghost.

Jinkies!

Begel Dverl wrote:Cold Ones



!STUPIDITY TEST!


Nnnyyyeeearughhhhh....

Loved this one

TheRedDevil wrote:The Tyranid Trygon/Mawloc irks me. The design is great, don't get me wrong, but the chose one of the stupidest poses. Some of the Eldar models could definitely use an update.

As an Eldar and a 'Nid player I couldn't agree more. I've converted my second Trygon from the "here I am please shoot me" pose to this:


I'm also really regretting my purchase of metal zoanthropes. I just picked up 2 finecast venomthropes and they were so easy to assemble and pose. It's a far better material to work with for top-heavy sculpts like those.

So far as Eldar go, it's hard to know where to start. The 18-year-old 'easy rider' jetbike scuplts, warp spiders, and of course the Avatar. Here's hoping the space elves get some love in 2012.

Zefig wrote:The mouth is really what kills it for me. I've always seen the eyes as goggled, but can definitely see the resemblance to the googly eyes. I feel like the mouth just makes the whole thing look like a blow-up doll. Certainly would be willing to see if a really good painter could salvage it, but as for myself I think I'll be going with headswaps. A lot of the others are certainly over the top too. Definitely not a fan of the Arco-flaggelants either. Or repentia, to be honest, what with all of their random adornments and little else.

I think the whole Repentia concept was much cooler in the Citadel Journal version that came out long before Witch Hunters: It was more of a special character (generic, unnamed, but you could only take one, I think) that was disgraced. No 'special gear' for the disgraced: just leftover armor bits (Powered Armor without the 'Powered' and the SoB insignias) and I think she had a bolt pistol and CCW. The whole point of the model was a charge spoiler.

A neat way to do this in a newer Codex would be to use the above, and allow the Repentia (maybe an 0-3 for a slot choice) to be placed in any squad. The Repentias special rules would basically say that in the event the unit it is in is charged, it gets to stand there and stop the charge, allowing the rest of the unit to back up. The charging unit can't follow up and will almost certainly crush the SoB, but that's how it goes for an SoB wanting to atone for doing something horrible.

If the Repentia survives a round, she's obviously favored by the Emperor and gets a cookie (Or in C:WH, generates a faith point, but that's too much math these days I hear...) and the withdrawing squad has to do something else on their turn (You don't shoot into CC with heros). If the Repentia is turned into paste, the withdrawing squad can run away or shoot as appropriate. Normal rules. Repentia doesn't count for morale purposes.

Of course, most of this is just fan-rules riffing off a half-remembered CJ article from more than a decade ago. I liked them better as, well, pentitent, instead of chainsword-crazy nutters. Would rather have seen the Sisters get a more amusing and interesting CC unit, not watered-down berzerkers.

The Space Pope, its a really bad one.
I don't like the DE Ur-Ghul, its just
And not to forget the High Elf Lord on Dragon, the dragon looks truly awful.

I use my Metal Chaos Dreadnought more to bludgeon muggers than actually use that horrendous model.

I wonder why some many think many Eldar models are ugly. I think every single one of them is absolutley awesome, with the exeptions of the older metal Farseers, Eldrad and Warlocks, Guardian Jetbikes, Warp Spiders and the Avatar.

I like all of them, even those! They just show their age, that's all!

Grey Knight Culexus Assassin.

It looks like a bloke in a fething gimp suit wearing Bon Jovi's wig.

Terrifying.

~Ghost