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If you like Dark Elves (and I'm planning to like them a lot !)... piccies of the new boxed sets and army cover:-

DE Corsairs, Cold One Knights and Army Book

awesome heh ?!

Pretty cool, I like the corsairs, but I wonder if you could/or will be able to structure an army around them. The knights are ok, but the helms look like feudal Samurai helms? The hydra looks bad from the front, but the pics I saw over on warseer make it look ten times better, but I wish it was a plastic kit though...I have no idea why they made it a metal kit??

those cold ones are insanely wicked. I have to concur I am not real big on the new armour, I would have preferred something more styled and less platemail looking.

They look like the baby godzillas from the Godzilla 2000 movie. Lol

Chaplain Pallantide wrote:Pretty cool, I like the corsairs, but I wonder if you could/or will be able to structure an army around them. The knights are ok, but the helms look like feudal Samurai helms? The hydra looks bad from the front, but the pics I saw over on warseer make it look ten times better, but I wish it was a plastic kit though...I have no idea why they made it a metal kit??

The hydra at the bottom of thep age is the old fugly kit. I haven't seen anything on my release sheets about metal or plastic.

Sigmar wrote:If you like Dark Elves (and I'm planning to like them a lot !)... piccies of the new boxed sets and army cover:-

DE Corsairs, Cold One Knights and Army Book

awesome heh ?!

Dead sexy!!! That might be enough to get me back into the Dark Elves!

Vale,

JohnS

Cold Ones look great, though I really can't see much of the Corsairs. Was there even a problem with the old Corsairs? I thought they looked great. Then again, they weren't in plastic.

EDIT: Ok, the new helms on the Corsairs are an improvement. I would still like to see how the new Sea Dragon Cloaks (if they still carry them) look.

I've been waiting a long time for this. I'll finally be able to start up my second fantasy army.

I dont really play fantasy but those cold ones have given me a brilliant rough rider conversion idea

Ratbarf wrote:They look like the baby godzillas from the Godzilla 2000 movie. Lol

No... that's these guys.

BYE

Oh my those cold ones are amazing, I dont care much about DE but the cold ones are on my wish list, they are plastic dinos right?

Over at WARSEER (Tactics!) there are pictures and conversations that make it look as if the new Hydra is indeed plastic!

Can anyone confirm or deny?

My local store guy confirmed it was a metal release... mind its Portugal and its not a GW store ( we dont have GW here) so take it with a grain of salt.

Alpharius wrote:Over at WARSEER (Tactics!) there are pictures and conversations that make it look as if the new Hydra is indeed plastic!

Can anyone confirm or deny?

100% guarentee you it is metal-- the pics are of the master.

Ah, oh well...

I do like the model, though it looks to be fun to put (and stay!) together.

The new cold ones will probably make me buy the army!

Here's a nice profile shot of the new Hydra painted, thanks to the fine folks over at "The dead Tau project:"



enjoy,

Thanks,
Chappy P!

Nicely painted.

Hmm.. I like it!

They would have benefited immensely from having smaller heads. But it doesn't look that bad.

Needs smaller heads or a bigger body to counter balance itself. Otherwise it's cool.

A definite step up in the quality of the figs. These look great (even the Hydra)!

*Shuts eyes and prays that the Dark Eldar look even half this cool*

Three of the head are identical. It's a bit annoying. Better than that current, hydra, however.

The Cold Ones are probably the best Cold Ones they've ever done, and they've made many over the years. It looks like I've finally found my space marine riding lizards.

Okay, I have been calling the new hydra fugly ever since I saw the first pictures of it.

I have officially changed my mind. I recant all the bad things I said, about the model and about Trish. Now that I have seen 1) a good close up of the miniature with 2) a good paint job, I like it. I like it a lot.

Which brings me to this question- why do so many studio paintjobs of new miniatures (which you would think would be planned to make the figures look good) actually make them look so so bad? I had this same reaction with the new plastic dire wolves- the studio job GW used in their ads & on the spearhead box cover made the models look awful. Only after some hobbyists got ahold of them and tried alternative paint schemes did we get to see the true potential of the miniature.

I think that the answer to that one is: "Everybody makes mistakes."

Like all GW reptilianesque monsters, the body is too small. Why!?

bigchris1313 wrote:Like all GW reptilianesque monsters, the body is too small. Why!?

To fit with all GW humanesque style! huge heads and hands, small bodies thats what GW is all about. Me likey.

bigchris1313 wrote:Like all GW reptilianesque monsters, the body is too small. Why!?

QFT.

It is an OK looking model. Maybe a squatter body and raised heads like in God of War would be better but meh.

i really love the new hydra model. the old one is proberly in my top 10 most terrible miniatures of all time list.

ive just picked up dwarves because im too impatient to wait for the dark elves but i dont think i can resist buying an army.

The cold ones are gorgeous! So is the Cover art of the book. Very nice!