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In all the 20 years I have been playing 40k I have never painted or used Chaos. That is about to change as I have fancied doing a Thousand Sons force for a while.

I bought a couple of boxes of TS today and during the week I got a Magnus The Red model from Ronin.

The mini is fairly big which brings me to the point of this thread, how big was Magnus meant to be? I seem to recall him described as a "giant".

I suppose the good thing about such a large mini is that he will fit the Daemon Prince rules nicely.

Magnus the Red is the Primarch of the Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marine legion. A giant in both physical and mental terms whilst a mortal inhabitant of the materium
- copied from the Lexicanum...ya so I would think he'd be a big boy

sleazy wrote:In all the 20 years I have been playing 40k I have never painted or used Chaos. That is about to change as I have fancied doing a Thousand Sons force for a while.

I bought a couple of boxes of TS today and during the week I got a Magnus The Red model from Ronin.

Where did you find that? I don't see them for sale very often.

A fella on Warseer traded it to me. Is new in box too (and marked number 15 of 150!).

I have an Emperor mini that was done a few years back and its about head and shoulders taller than a marine. Magnus is almost inquisitor scale.

Long time no see
Any pics of magnus?

Fluff indicated that he was pretty huge, so there shouldnt be any probs

sleazy wrote:I have an Emperor mini that was done a few years back and its about head and shoulders taller than a marine.

Jammy bugger, I'd gnaw off my arm to get one of those.

And this is why Ronin miniatures is a great company. They bought GW's primarch sculpts after GW decided they weren't worth producing. I absolutely love the Primarch minis. Swap Shop had a Mortarion up a few months ago too. Absolutely beautiful stuff. I really wish GW would've kept these as special-order blisters.

metallifan wrote:And this is why Ronin miniatures is a great company. They bought GW's primarch sculpts after GW decided they weren't worth producing. I absolutely love the Primarch minis. Swap Shop had a Mortarion up a few months ago too. Absolutely beautiful stuff. I really wish GW would've kept these as special-order blisters.

Eh? They bought the sculpts? I thought they were slapped for producing these because they were copying their source material.

Ok, ill dumb this convo down now, but who are ronin minitures?
Ive seen some models that may have been done by them, but this really interests me

Howard A Treesong wrote:

sleazy wrote:I have an Emperor mini that was done a few years back and its about head and shoulders taller than a marine.

Jammy bugger, I'd gnaw off my arm to get one of those.

its quite nice. Cool thing was they sent me 2 by mistake! I gave the spare to a lad at work.

pictures pretty please
now thers an idea for a thread..put up your pics of rare primarch minis

Well I havent finished assembling it yet but heres a picture of the same mini on CMON

I like
Sleazy, know of anyone selling any of the models?

Checked out that ronin and cant find any of em

metallifan wrote:And this is why Ronin miniatures is a great company. They bought GW's primarch sculpts after GW decided they weren't worth producing. I absolutely love the Primarch minis. Swap Shop had a Mortarion up a few months ago too. Absolutely beautiful stuff. I really wish GW would've kept these as special-order blisters.

No they didn't...who told you that? Ronin made these sculpts, not GW. That's why they're not in production anymore, because GW slapped them on the wrist.

Anyways, it makes sense that Magnus is so big. He was quoted as being huge (a giant) even by primarch standards.

By the way...message me and I 'might' know of someone who frequently sells the Ronin miniatures on eBay .

this linky shows some of the others out there
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr157/ZahrDalsk/PrimarchsPartian.jpg

There was a site up till about a year ago but its no longer active, I guess GW lawyers got involved. Now its seems its just ebay or trading sites. The Fulgrim one is currently on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Scale-Chaos-Lord-Primarch-Fulgrim_W0QQitemZ170411027713QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item27ad49ed01

Thanks mate
There are only 1 or 2 that i dont like.
Looks like this could cost me now lol.

JD21290 wrote:Thanks mate
There are only 1 or 2 that i dont like.
Looks like this could cost me now lol.

Just sent you a message. Most of them are only about $50 (expensive...) but worth it.

I may be interested too Darth if you have any going?

Thanks bob
Ill pick a few up tomorrow.
Just need to ask him if he ships to the UK (Only has US details on there)

JD21290 wrote:Thanks bob
Ill pick a few up tomorrow.
Just need to ask him if he ships to the UK (Only has US details on there)

He lives in Italy so he should.

With any luck thats the case, dropped him a message just now

If so, i see me spending a bit more than i should do

Ebay showed me shipping to uk as $5.99. arrgh really wanna order a few.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

metallifan wrote:And this is why Ronin miniatures is a great company. They bought GW's primarch sculpts after GW decided they weren't worth producing. I absolutely love the Primarch minis. Swap Shop had a Mortarion up a few months ago too. Absolutely beautiful stuff. I really wish GW would've kept these as special-order blisters.

Eh? They bought the sculpts? I thought they were slapped for producing these because they were copying their source material.

I was told they bought the sculpts under a "Limited Production" agreement. Ah well. I'd still do for one of them the same thing I did for a Klondike Bar... On that note, don't ask.

Ordered Horus and Leman Russ from that fella. Might order a couple more when i get paid if he still has some. Really want Lion El'Jonson and Fulgrim too.

Trying not to think about the cost.

Would love to get my hands on a Mortarion...

Mortarion is up on the Swap Shop sometimes