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Think Wahammer Tabletop won the thread with that Catachan Commander. I remember thinking when it was released "I am never ever buying that model".

Skaven: The current clan rat model, soon to be replaced with a marginal improvement.

Chaos: The current spawn model, it would be nice if they stood up.

Dark Eldar: Warriors... the incubi look cool, but the warriors really blow.

Got to agree with the Killa Kans - SOOOO much green stuff and filing to fix the gaps

I am almost positive I have read a story of how Nagash was created as a joke.

And any attempt to burn the sainted Jes Goodwin will result in me visiting your house in the wee small hours and laying a chocolate egg in your slippers as an unpleasant surprise for your waking moments...

You mean like those Cadbury creme eggs? I like those.

A pet hate of mine is the chaos dreadnought,it doesn't look great,weighs a ton and if not based properly it will fall over.

That's strange. I have 4 of them and have never had a problem with them falling over. In fact they stand up nicely even without the base. I agree they are in need of a facelift, but work well as a base for conversions.

Wolfgang wrote:For me it has to be the Grotz and Runtherd, the molds on them were terrible and made painting a complete pain..

If you are referring to the new models then I have to both agree and disagree
The quality of casting on mine was very good, there were virtually no mold lines.

However the actual grots have very little in the way of muscular detail.

well, just about every chaos special character (mainly kharn the betrayer), the chaos dreadnought, and the entire dark eldar line.

Ahriman and Fabius B are both good models, Abbadon is just out of scale nowadays due to scale creep.

Fabius was screwed by the pumpkin-head minion models.

Yeah, those 'supasoldier' space marines are fugly, but Bile himself is a really nice model. I also like the Tyrant of Badab bloke. I do hate the Lucius one tho, that sucks balls.

Goliath wrote:
However the actual grots have very little in the way of muscular detail.

That's because weedy runts don't have any muscles

chaplaingrabthar wrote:I WAS around when Nagash was first released. paid GBP9.99 for him from GW Oxford, and he does indeed suck as a model, especially as the illustration of him in the contemporaneous Warhammer Armies: Undead book was utterly fantastic. Then they let Morley sculpt Nagash as his first multi-part metal mini and that thing was the result.

Ha! I got the same mini from the same store

I ended up using his staff for my SoB Cannonness (several years later), his head for nothing and his body for an Inquisitor scale conversion.

My vote for ugliest GW miniature? It's kind of a cheat, but I don't think they've done a decent dragon since the Great Spined Dragon (a truly brilliant sculpt).

This lack of decent dragons is typified by the ugly-ass Wyvern rider

M.

They kept screwing up dragons due to that crapass 'S' shape they gave them to make them all fit on a monster base (actually most of that big range of older dragons were gak looking as well, especially the oddly shaped 'lava dragon'). I always bought Grenadier dragons and smirked when the GW store guys would shout at me from bringing them to the shop, shortly before everyone made a fuss about how good they looked.

The new wyvern is a nice model with some movement to it, it's a step in the right direction, but when you consider some of the dragons out there, GW does seem to miss the boat.

All the dwarfs that come in the Battle for Skull Pass.

ELDAR...all of them

cadian512 wrote:DARK ELDAR...all of them

FYP.

Seriously, you don't like Jes Goodwin's Eldar models? I have Jes' Eldrad & Warlocks, along with Jes' Aspects & Harlies. They're all great models, even though they date back over a decade.

If cadian is who i think he is, he dislikes Eldar because they serve his cadians their a*** on a regular basis

I'm amazed the Beast of Nurgle hasn't been mentioned yet. It doesn't even look like what it's supposed to be. It looks like an odd-shaped rock. It's got lumps and angles all over it in strange places. Its made of corners for feth's sake. Far and away the worst recent GW mini. There's just no excuse these days for ruining a perfectly good creature design with such a terrible sculpt.

Runners up: Dark Eldar of course, Abadon the Despoiler (needs an update). And, wait for it, this will be controversial: most space marines. They just clearly don't require much effort from the sculpters. The end result isn't bad, just lazy.

I gotta defend the new daemonettes -yeah they're not as elegant as the former ones, but I prefer that. They bridge the gap between the Rogue trader style minis and the 3rd edition ones. Still sort of pretty, but monstrous at the same time. They fit the fluff nicely. Daft that they're censored though.

I absolutely HATE the current Tyranid Tyrant Guard, both their look and their current functions. I refuse to use them. I'll stick with the previous version, no matter how much others hated them.

Really? I have one of the older ones, as well as one of the new ones, and I like the new ones better. I just didn't like the whole 2 fused hands = a shield... I think thay might have got the idea across a little better with the idea of this small tank next to the tyrant.... that and it's a hell of a lot easier to build... I found the arm slots for the old Guard were absolutely brutal to get the arms to stay... I don't know how many times I've have to fix it

hell cannon...the model looks awesome but oh for the love of god it is horribly made, no piece fits...not a one

statu wrote:If cadian is who i think he is, he dislikes Eldar because they serve his cadians their a*** on a regular basis

wat he said... saught of...not realy....
my guard own and you know it

SargesSquad wrote:Really? I have one of the older ones, as well as one of the new ones, and I like the new ones better. I just didn't like the whole 2 fused hands = a shield... I think thay might have got the idea across a little better with the idea of this small tank next to the tyrant.... that and it's a hell of a lot easier to build... I found the arm slots for the old Guard were absolutely brutal to get the arms to stay... I don't know how many times I've have to fix it

You're right about how hard it was to build/fix them. That applies to a lot of the metal Tyranids, not to mention a lot of other GW minis. Best to pin them and have the metal glue handy.

I didn't have a problem with the two hands = shield, it was the same kind of thing as two hands = venom cannon. I just think the idea of a guard that actually functions like a real guard, not a guard DOG, let alone a BLIND guard dog, was a better idea. And the idea of SM DNA being used to create humanoid TG's.

That may be a minority view here but that's how I saw it.

Totally see where you're coming from Lord; I just feel like the new look is like a bad guy with his attack dogs... just on defense.

Not argument on this, the current edition Biovore, complete with testys and *richard*. I hate pretty much everything Tomb Kings. The previous edition of terradons was way better and the cold ones should look like the Dark Elves Type.
And opinions don't count if you hate them coz you suck against 'em.

I say this is the worst model so far that I have seen made.

I am of the opinion that the 7th edition Empire State Troops are garbage.

M.