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I want to find something nice to say about these or the heads.

But the only thing I am even considering ordering are the friggin' stowage and eagles for my Chimeras/Sentinels.

They both look like they're hung like horses. I am strangely aroused by this.

Just the thing for those folks who look at the Bloodbowl Ogres and wished more figures featured Frankentard face.

As I play IG and enjoy painting and collecting in general I will order a set, I just with they would of had them on the Advance Order page so I could of asked my local shop to order them for me.

As for the heads....nice try GW but no thanks, back to the drawing board if your going to try and take a market share from Iron Pig and others.

I may consider getting one set of the models, but I'd shave off the coat-guy's boner. Or, swap heads with the other guy so he's squinting at something arousing. Hehe.

Ah, immaturity in the teen years.

Rico.

My Dad was in the Royal Tank Regiment and I guarantee that he didn't have to repair his Tank.

These guys should be labelled as Tank Engineers not Tank Crew.

Tank Crew don't repair vehicles IRL.

I was hopping the "Tank Crew" would of been a release of the old tank crew, at least they had weapons on the run.

radiohazard: Tank Crew don't repair vehicles IRL.

Keep in mind in WWII the tank crews have a history of maintaining their AFVs in the field.
Which is more in line with how the IG are anachronistically styled.

radiohazard wrote:My Dad was in the Royal Tank Regiment and I guarantee that he didn't have to repair his Tank.

These guys should be labelled as Tank Engineers not Tank Crew.

Tank Crew don't repair vehicles IRL.

Well I guess the Brits dont but I have alot of old buddies who are US tankers, and although they dont "mechanic" their tanks I assure you they do work on them! They can fix track and all that sort of stuff.

Captain Vyper wrote:

radiohazard wrote:My Dad was in the Royal Tank Regiment and I guarantee that he didn't have to repair his Tank.

These guys should be labelled as Tank Engineers not Tank Crew.

Tank Crew don't repair vehicles IRL.

Well I guess the Brits dont but I have alot of old buddies who are US tankers, and although they dont "mechanic" their tanks I assure you they do work on them! They can fix track and all that sort of stuff.

I agree.

I got a friend based at I think Rammstein, Germany and he was fixing his tank tracks in Basra, Iraq a few years ago. A bullet grazed his ear and killed his CO.

I'm pretty sure most tank crews would be able to patch their tank up - not so much repair it, but get things that break all the time wokring again, or bypass things to bring stuff back to working order - nothing too fancy, just enough to keep certain systems going.

And those heads are just... wow... Pig Iron all the way I say.

Probably the worse looking figures they have released in a long time in my opinion... Would of been better to rerelease the old tank crew.
Mick


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Belphegor wrote:
Fingers crossed for civilians (though they've been crossed like that for about 15 years, they're getting cramped).

Civilians were released for the original SoB army the Fraterias Militia I think they were called. i have about twenty of them

Mick

Those new GW heads are horrible looking.

As for the tankers, I like the M2, I mean 'Heavy stubber' barrel he has in his hand. The squinty face reminds me of Clint Eastwood.

but,,,,its house...hes a doctor,,,and an imperial tank crew...:(

jamessearle0 wrote:oh my god, the cadian is house!

Tank crews have always had to do a lot of the dirty work, including changing tracks, refueling, greasing bogies, clearing mud and even repainting. Maintenance crews do the big jobs like changing engines.

These latest Guard releases are a real mixture of the good, the bad and the indifferent. For all the complaining about GW, this is their fundamental problem - inconsistency.

For a start, they've suddenly taken a step backwards and essentially replicated the (IMO) best bits from the plastic vehicle accessory sprue with a blister of metal stowage. This doesn't make sense, other than from a cost perspective - suddenly we're back to gluing metal bits onto plastic models. What should have been released was a revised Guard accessory sprue, with lots of stowage and maybe some extra crew and without any of the bits that are already included on the revised vehicle sprues. I guess the metal stowage will help add weight to plastic tanks, but it seems like a cop-out to me.

The tank crew are rather ugly looking, and not very imaginative. Crewmen working on tanks don't generally wear their best gear, so there's not much they can do with that, but the sculpting is off and they could have made them look more interesting. The heads are simply horrible, and are presumably the work of a trainee sculptor. There's nothing really wrong with the commanders, except that they're old models and don't really belong with the current line of plastic Guard. Meanwhile, Straken and Harker are amongst the best Guard characters they've done, and show up the other stuff being released alongside them. It feels as though they ran out of resources for the first wave of Guard releases, and have padded it out with odds & sods.

I don't think I'd buy any of these for a nickel. Much rather spend the cash on Pig Iron heads.

Ugly, but a some of them are quite Tech Guardy. I can see some of these selling on that basis and the one on the bottom left hand side also looks like Ron Pearlman?

One step closer to Adeptus Diagnosis...

Where did the upper arms on the left guy go?
I'm really unimpressed by these two - The anatomy seems way of and the posing is akward.

I will get them, just to add one of each to my ever growing collection.

Re: IG separate heads. Why are those ugly fethers a fiver (£5) for ten? Mercedes of miniatures? Ha!

There are also the tank commander blisters that for some reason GW did not advertise. They just showed up as new releases. Unless I missed somthing. They are pretty cool.