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Just got an email with these, those Gal Vorbak are awesome!

Whoa:

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Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project - Second Edition £36 seems oddly cheap ....?!

There's also bags, hoodies etc etc

Vulkan is nice looking. Ornate without being overly blingy.

Since he's in a battle pose I guess he's bluing with one of his brothers primarchs. Do we know who it is yet?

 reds8n wrote:
Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project - Second Edition £36 seems oddly cheap ....?!

It was (and no doubt remains) the thinnest of all the IA books.

Are they dropping "second edition" from the cover?

Is the plastic knight going to end up as the runt of the knight litter once FW have added however many variants they're planning?

Gah! That Tyranid thing looks awful. Not at all what I pictured from the WIP photos from before.

Maybe it'll look better from different angles, I dunno, but right now I'm not impressed.

Vulkan looks cool I guess.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Whoa:

Want. Right now. Gimme gimme gimme!

 Snrub wrote:
Vulkan is nice looking. Ornate without being overly blingy.

Since he's in a battle pose I guess he's bluing with one of his brothers primarchs. Do we know who it is yet?

IIRC (and I drink a lot, so I may be wrong) at Istivaan, he never got to tango with any, although he and Angron nearly got into a scrap before a big bada-boom.

I don't think they are covering the crazy BS that went down in Vulcan Lives, though.

For Christ's sake, who the hell designed that?!

It's the WORST thing I've seen from forge world for a very long time.

:( <\3

Edit: I'm talking about the giant bug/ thing.

Eurgh.

Edit:: maybe a new head might help it look better...

 Baragash wrote:
Are they dropping "second edition" from the cover?

Is the plastic knight going to end up as the runt of the knight litter once FW have added however many variants they're planning?

Yes, I think so!

The plastic Imperial Knight is really, really small!

Well, at least compared to other things in the same 'class' - it just feels like it should be taller...

The GW Imperial Knight is fine at the size it is. These mega lanky knights are too big. They should have scaled them down slightly so there were stll taller than the knight but not as ridiculously huge as they are now.

It would be nice if FW or GW came out with more weapons for the plastic kit and a more complete list. All this Knight related business is really undercutting the point of the Knight Codex.

Also the Dimachaeron is pretty nice. I just feel sticking to that one head design really lets it down. It makes the model seem as if it should be somewhere between a Lictor/Tyrant in terms of size. It would be nice if they went back to different heads for the larger beasties. I guess they are just getting behind the GW studio design philosophy for the nids. Giving it more eyes or no eyes might help.

FW.. you did it again. I love the Knight, even more than the Cerastus.

yeah,
there's something not quite right with the new nid.
are it's legs too thin?... too long..?


Panic...

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
there's something not quite right with the new nid.
are it's legs too thin?... too long..?


Panic...

It's:

The legs are too thin, the arms are thicker than the thighs!!
The head is far too big and generic. Completely boring.
The tail looks HUGE and way outa proportion
The body was a cool idea, kinda like Independence Day aliens just awfully executed for a professional sculpture.

Sigh!

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
there's something not quite right with the new nid.
are it's legs too thin?... too long..?


Panic...

I think its too many appendages. The upper set of arms breaks off into the two scythes which just looks wired to me, then it has a set of lower claws, then the rib cage and the tentacles are protruding out from the chest as well. Combine all that with the lean it has to it and the rediculous can opener hoodie and I think its a huge fail, but I didn't like the previews we had seen either.

I'm hoping different angles make it look a bit better...

The Tyranid creature is suffering from a severe case of Trish Carden-itis.

It's far too large for it's form. Most tyranids of that size use four limbs to move around.

I'm hoping better angles save it.

 reds8n wrote:

Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project - Second Edition £36 seems oddly cheap ....?!

I for one am happy that it isn't super-expensive for a change, yay.

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
there's something not quite right with the new nid.
are it's legs too thin?... too long..?


Panic...

It's sleek, it's scary, and if I saw it in an alley, I'd wet myself.

Hoping a better angle improves it. That said I want that knight!!!!

 Panic wrote:
are it's legs too thin?... too long..?

I think it's great, but you're not wrong. The legs are... "off".

 Medium of Death wrote:
The GW Imperial Knight is fine at the size it is. These mega lanky knights are too big. They should have scaled them down slightly so there were stll taller than the knight but not as ridiculously huge as they are now.

The scale differences are the same as in Epic, though.

 kronk wrote:

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
there's something not quite right with the new nid.
are it's legs too thin?... too long..?


Panic...

It's sleek, it's scary, and if I saw it in an alley, I'd wet myself.

Yeah, but you wet yourself if you get too excited about breakfast.


Really liking the new Knight, makes me glad I wasn't able to afford the Lancer yet!

 Alpharius wrote:

 Baragash wrote:
Are they dropping "second edition" from the cover?

Is the plastic knight going to end up as the runt of the knight litter once FW have added however many variants they're planning?

Yes, I think so!

The plastic Imperial Knight is really, really small!

Well, at least compared to other things in the same 'class' - it just feels like it should be taller...

It's actually pretty much spot-on, it's the FW offerings that are massively oversized. Your basic Knight chassis is only supposed to be approx 9m tall IIRC.

I just hope they'll be offering the arms as separate packs, so I can convert properly-sized Lancers and Barons out of the plastic kit rather than being stuck with Forgeworld's emaciated-Warhound.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
The GW Imperial Knight is fine at the size it is. These mega lanky knights are too big. They should have scaled them down slightly so there were stll taller than the knight but not as ridiculously huge as they are now.

The scale differences are the same as in Epic, though.

Almost nothing in Epic was in-scale, either when compared to the background descriptions or to each other. Lancers are described as being a reasonable bit taller and much lankier looking than the normal patterns, but the FW model is so huge it doesn't look lanky at all relative to the basic Knight since it's just plain bigger in all dimensions; legs and arms are thicker, feet are bigger, carapace/torso is just as broad and deep but taller(from what I can tell from the pics), and the shoulderpads are slightly larger too. Even the head is nearly twice the size.

Emaciated Warhound... perfect description.

At only £6 more than a GW codex this seems like a price point I could get behind for Imperial Armour books. It'd would be nice if they took this route with IA more often. Thinner books covering more settings with a smaller number of combatants. Obviously they can still do their massive books like Vraks & Badab but this method may finally get us seeing that Thousand Sons on a Prison Asteroid IA that was talked about many moons ago.

That Vulcan is kick ass, though.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

 Baragash wrote:
Are they dropping "second edition" from the cover?

Is the plastic knight going to end up as the runt of the knight litter once FW have added however many variants they're planning?

Yes, I think so!

The plastic Imperial Knight is really, really small!

Well, at least compared to other things in the same 'class' - it just feels like it should be taller...

It's actually pretty much spot-on, it's the FW offerings that are massively oversized. Your basic Knight chassis is only supposed to be approx 9m tall IIRC.

I just hope they'll be offering the arms as separate packs, so I can convert properly-sized Lancers and Barons out of the plastic kit rather than being stuck with Forgeworld's emaciated-Warhound.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
The GW Imperial Knight is fine at the size it is. These mega lanky knights are too big. They should have scaled them down slightly so there were stll taller than the knight but not as ridiculously huge as they are now.

The scale differences are the same as in Epic, though.

Almost nothing in Epic was in-scale, either when compared to the background descriptions or to each other. Lancers are described as being a reasonable bit taller and much lankier looking than the normal patterns, but the FW model is so huge it doesn't look lanky at all relative to the basic Knight since it's just plain bigger in all dimensions; legs and arms are thicker, feet are bigger, carapace/torso is just as broad and deep but taller(from what I can tell from the pics), and the shoulderpads are slightly larger too. Even the head is nearly twice the size.

I guess I should have been clear - I understand that the scale differences 'in game universe' are 'correct', it is just that the plastic Imperial Knight looks too dinky now.

I'd have been happier if FW would have not made their versions so much taller, in order to make the whole Knight class of models more aesthetically pleasing.

I really would have preferred them to have just made weapon options and a Chaos Knight conversion kit.

The Tyranid thing looks silly. The double scything talon thing just looks like something from a bad conversion. As other people have said, the head is too generic. Its overall physiology (particularly the lanky legs) look almost like they saw the success of the Cerastus Knight-Lancer and thought that making everything really skinny and tall is the way to go. I'm quite disappointed. I was so looking forward to a lovely new gribbly.