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Plat: Manure. Pure and utter manure. That's the way they stand because they are about to take the rearmost portion of their body and plunge the attached stinger into a target held with their claws, the FOREmost portion of their body. They stand like that becasue they are about to twist themselves into a friggin circle! The FW version is making NO such motion, nor is it about to. And if it were, the tail, really, is way too short to accomodate that motion.

So while the pose with the ass so high and the rear legs stretched out may be accurate to the entymological and inspirational ancestory of the model, it has the square root of feth-all to do with what this model is designed to do with it's form. The form is not following the function. And that is fine, it is great and some people have no problem with it; but I do in this case and merely put forth my opinion on it without trying to ridicule someone elses opinion. Not saying that you were ridiculing anyone, but rather that some have and I am not among their number. This time.

At Plat: Yeah I know its a bit of an insult, but I've only ever heard it used in a tongue-in-cheek manner. I've never heard it used as an actual slur.

But this scorpion isn't trying to stab anything with his tail, he's trying to autocannon the bejesus out of stuff with it. The cannon being so high up helps facilitate that, and frees up the forward claws to chop and crush and smash like crazy. Just like Khorne would want. I see no issue with pose.

@ Railguns: Ass Up, Face Down. That's what's wrong with it right there.

I mean seriously, sexual innuendo aside; look at it. With a slightly longer tail, the auto mega blitzer shooty gun it has could get the same altitude/LOS opportunities. This would allow it to have it's rear hips closer ot the deck, a bit like the front pair if hips. You could still have the body at a bit of an angle rising upward at the rear, which would look cool. But his back legs look like they are almost fully extended pushing it up in the air like that. The way it is, it looks like if it doesn't use it's claws for support it might overbalance and fall on it's not-face, burying it's mawcannon in the dirt. Where it cannot shoot at all without blowing off it's not-head.

And I'm cool ith it not having a face. I think it looks good, and prevents some of the other abominations that could have gone in there. It doesn't NEED a face.

But you know what? I want osmeone ot buy this thing just to see battlefoam make a foam case for it. If there was ever anythign that would give Sgt. Diablo's gear a workout, THIS would be it!

Here's a question: How POSABLE is this thing??? Seeing as how that's my major objection, does it HAVE to have this pose? That, in of itself, could change my whole outlook. Well, the curved plates STILL do give it a bit more of a Eldar influence than I would imagine. But that is my opinion, and I am welcome to it.

You know, the exaggerated amount of overlap on the tail armour segments could be made to work for you as well. You could get in there and lengthen the individual segments by a 1/3 or so, and get the tailgun up where it needs be whilst lower the tail end of the model. Again, IF it is that posable. One could hope. I mean, after all, look at the Warhounds. From what I have been told there's a lot of posability there, in the legs.

grizgrin wrote:But you know what? I want osmeone ot buy this thing just to see battlefoam make a foam case for it. If there was ever anythign that would give Sgt. Diablo's gear a workout, THIS would be it!

If I have extra money from taxes, I'll take you up on this. Mostly cause I want one anyway.

Platuan4th wrote:

grizgrin wrote:But you know what? I want osmeone ot buy this thing just to see battlefoam make a foam case for it. If there was ever anythign that would give Sgt. Diablo's gear a workout, THIS would be it!

If I have extra money from taxes, I'll take you up on this. Mostly cause I want one anyway.

That would be cool. You art sigged so that I remember. See you in April, or whenever you get your taxes back.

grizgrin wrote:That would be cool. You art sigged so that I remember. See you in April, or whenever you get your taxes back.

That all depends on whether we need to file before or after buying our house. Some tax housing bonus thingie, don't know what, my wife just tells me things, I half pay attention.

Yeah, I know what you mean. There's suppossed to be a 15,000 USD tax rebate this year for anyone who buys a home. We might be taking advantage as well. Got a sweet deal going on a 5,000 sqft house. Maybe.

Nice work FW! They are upping their game in line with citadel

If you go down to the bottom of the page you can see the bits unpainted and separate.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/brassscorp.htm

sonofruss wrote:If you go down to the bottom of the page you can see the bits unpainted and separate.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/brassscorp.htm

looks like you might be able to pose it's legs to bring the back end down... Then again, with true los, why would you? It might be worth posing the model in an undignified and compromising position to get a better view of your targets.

OK, now, I want a picture of someone taking TLOS from behind an "ass up" Brass Scorpion.

Oh, the fun we'll have...

Platuan4th wrote:

grizgrin wrote:I just can't stand the "ass in the air, face in the pillow" pose.

The only problem with this statement is that this is actually how most Scorpions stand when using their tails, so it's a fairly accurate pose for something modeled upon a scorpion.

So suddenly it's a Scorpion again, eh?

Anung Un Rama wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

grizgrin wrote:I just can't stand the "ass in the air, face in the pillow" pose.

The only problem with this statement is that this is actually how most Scorpions stand when using their tails, so it's a fairly accurate pose for something modeled upon a scorpion.

So suddenly it's a Scorpion again, eh?

It's always been a Scorpion.

Just one with the wrong amount of legs.

JHDD: Maybe somone could shop in that lazytown brat, Pink McAneuyrism.

Seriously, though I'd be really happy to see some pics of this thing modeled into some less compromising position, tail extensions or no. When Plat4 picks one up I hope he WIPs it good, we could use the thread.

grizgrin wrote:JHDD: Maybe somone could shop in that lazytown brat, Pink McAneuyrism.

You mean this kid?

[Image changed to a link by moderator. Possibly NSFW.]
http://hotimg25.fotki.com/a/71_109/252_111/Stephanie-vi.jpg

JHDD: Pretty sure that's non-wargaming, so should not be an attachment here, aor the Modquisition will get you. Move it to photobucket, STAT!

Yep. One of the most insanely annoying things I have ever seen in my life.

Anyway, I'm hoping to see some pics of this FW model sometime soon.

You know, for a 11 yr old chick she has a bit of a man face in that pic.

No way is she 11 with those breasticles... 15 at the youngest.

*Wait nevermind, her head was obviously superimposed...

She's not 11 anymore. She's 16 or 17.

Ugh. Just as bad. Anyway, I was thinking that fun could be had with her, the In-Heat Scorpion, and P-chop. Anyone care to shoop this?

Mod in:

Let's keep on the main topic, guys, or I'll have to lock the thread.

If you want to discuss Lazytown, you can do it in the OT forum.

Thank you.

Ok, the Dr. has spoken. So how posable is this thing going to be? I mean, the warhound has a million pieces in it's legs, is this one actually jointed at all the joints or is it cast multiple joints to simgle resin cast piece?

[Image changed to a link by moderator. Possibly NSFW.]
http://hotimg25.fotki.com/a/71_109/252_111/Stephanie-vi.jpg

Huh?

Are you guys kidding me?

It's an actress who's practically an adult, fully-clothed in non-revealing attire. How is that possibly "NSFW"?

There's no nudity, no offensive language, no offensive gestures, so what's the deal?

grizgrin wrote:Ok, the Dr. has spoken. So how posable is this thing going to be? I mean, the warhound has a million pieces in it's legs, is this one actually jointed at all the joints or is it cast multiple joints to simgle resin cast piece?

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Chaos/brass%20scorpion/bscomponents.jpg

It looks like the legs are in two pieces each, but the body is a pretty hefty chunk of resin so reposing that would be nigh-on impossible. Even building this one as-is is not for the faint of heart, those legs will have to carry quite a bit of weight.

I like it, legs arguements aside.

And nice to see the rotation of the model, I hope they do that with all their vehicles...

JohnHwangDD wrote:

[Image changed to a link by moderator. Possibly NSFW.]
http://hotimg25.fotki.com/a/71_109/252_111/Stephanie-vi.jpg

Huh?

Are you guys kidding me?

It's an actress who's practically an adult, fully-clothed in non-revealing attire. How is that possibly "NSFW"?

There's no nudity, no offensive language, no offensive gestures, so what's the deal?

It's an underage actress best known for playing a child, wearing her character's wig, and dressed in a tight vest and hot pants.

Better safe than sorry.

People can click the link if they want.

JHDD: If it makes him feel better about the pic and keeps the thread from getting frogstomped, then let it slide, if you could? In the grand scheme of things....