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I'm kind of on the fence with it. It's certainly not a magnificently monsterous monster, but it's weird enough to catch your eye.

However... the paintjob sucks and doesn't do it any favours. I actually thought that the feathers were fungus on his wings at first, and I think fungus might have been a cooler idea and tie it into the forest theme.
The antlers are okay, but look more like the (smaller) Fallow deer rather than a (bigger) Red deer, which would make more sense, and be more evil and spiky.
The pose of the wings reminded me of the vampire dragon too...
Maybe a better paintjob would do it more justice?

(and what's with it being so small?)

Ah... I still didn't realize they were feathers, until just now...

I too find it decent. Not good enough to buy, but interesting.

It would have been better, if they stayed closer to the original Peryton design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton .
Simple reptile paint job and feathers on bat wings don't do the model any favour.

What a godawful miniature. I am tempted to quote Milton.

If thou beest he—but O how fallen! how changed
From him who, in the happy realms of light
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads, though bright!

I.e. FW ain't what she used to be.

Kroothawk wrote:It would have been better, if they stayed closer to the original Peryton design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton .
Simple reptile paint job and feathers on bat wings don't do the model any favour.

I agree with that - chaosifying it did it no favours.

Well, that's a first. Milton on Dakka...what next?

we need the khemeric titan, geez. not this stuff.

Agamemnon2 wrote:What a godawful miniature. I am tempted to quote Milton.

I'm tempted to say you're being pretentious.

Here's a hint - your personal opinion has no bearing on the objective quality of the subject.

Orinoco wrote:we need the khemeric titan, geez. not this stuff.

This.

Repeating this is not spam.
Do not let them convince you otherwise.



Ok, maybe it will be but its acceptable, darn it!

I have already resigned myself to ordering the book when the model comes out.

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His Master's Voice wrote:
I'm tempted to say you're being pretentious.

Here's a hint - your personal opinion has no bearing on the objective quality of the subject.

Not that that's ever stopped people before.

Design-wise, the miniature is all over the place. It looks mostly hairless, but with a few scraggly bits of fur here and there. And it has membraneous wings with the odd feather haphazardly sticking out here and there, which is an odd combination indeed

Agamemnon2 wrote:Design-wise, the miniature is all over the place.

Ignoring the possibility that it might have in fact been the point, the technical values of the sculpt itself are very good. Good value definition, reasonable anatomy, good detail in good measure.

His Master's Voice wrote:

Agamemnon2 wrote:Design-wise, the miniature is all over the place.

Ignoring the possibility that it might have in fact been the point, the technical values of the sculpt itself are very good. Good value definition, reasonable anatomy, good detail in good measure.

and let's not forget it's **supposed** to be hideous, ugly-as-hell and just a random ("chaotic") hodgepodge of creatures, once again with hideous being the frikkin' point
...paintjob isn't all that great, that is true. but some things are supposed to look ugly and perhaps just a little pathetic. I like it.

It is somewhat awkward to make a good looking mini of a bad looking subject.

Well, I dig it. I love the anatomic sense of it, the posing and composition. And the weirdness of the stag-from-Hell bray/roar it's delivering.

I terms oh sheer size, the miniature looks puny, but there I think the fault lies more with GW making massive monsters like the new Griffon or Hell Pit Abomination. The Preyton is, really, appropriately sized for something that could conceivably eviscerate and eat a full grown man.

The more I consider it, the more I like the scaling, since I think the game evolving to where every monster is an absolutely gargantuan beast is starting to annoy my eyes. I still maintain that the model is not up to their earlier standard, however, and that's a belief fire cannot burn away from me.

OK I've gotta call you out "His Master's voice".

No less than 3 times have your stated that the sculpt is technically flawless and the anatomy is dead on. Please explain what is going on on the right arm? Where is the shoulder? Is that another joint above the tricep? Where does the arm terminate distally into the metacarpals? I mean I can't figure out What the heck is going on with it. I won't even bring up the head.

While that's a fair point... I always wonder about people saying models are/aren't anatomically correct. As in, how many of those people have actually had anatomy (I certainly didn't have to take it)

Not to mention the whole "fantasy model" thing, etc etc.

jgemrich wrote:OK I've gotta call you out "His Master's voice".

No less than 3 times have your stated that the sculpt is technically flawless and the anatomy is dead on. Please explain what is going on on the right arm? Where is the shoulder? Is that another joint above the tricep? Where does the arm terminate distally into the metacarpals? I mean I can't figure out What the heck is going on with it. I won't even bring up the head.

That shoulder is correct...not everyones/everything skeletal/muscular structure is the same...my shoulders do that :/

DarkStarSabre wrote:....

Welp. This is official.

GW should just keep away from Moose, Elk, Deer.....

And probably should get new paints. Or at least paint in more than one colour.

Great Stag wasn't such a bad model.

Thought honestly I don't see anywhere near £25 in that model, perhaps £15 at most. You could butcher it for bits but in the end it's just a really average models, much like my response to the K'daii Fireborn it just does nothing for me (and the artwork is much cooler).

Let's hope the magma dragons (when they come out eventually) aren't another Preyton.

It looks like two creatures got blended in a transporter accident and the messy result has moments to live. It looks like it is in pain and about to die frankly.

When the unpainted gray resin shows more detail than your finished, painted model, something has gone horribly awry.

That said, looking at the blank actually makes me like it much more than the painted version. Yes, it's supposed to look ugly, but if it's fooling questing knights then the coloring makes little to no sense.

It's...okay. Kinda plain-looking but I'd rather have that than the alternative, which with GW is so over-the-top and covered in skulls and trinkets and other random gak to a point way past ridiculous. The worst thing is the price, about $40 for what looks to be a rather small model.

jgemrich wrote:

No less than 3 times have your stated that the sculpt is technically flawless and the anatomy is dead on.

No. I said the anatomy is reasonable for a fantasy monster, if you ignore that fact that he'd probably never fly with this muscle structure. Value definition, which again is very good here, is not the same as anatomy.

i think we can all agree this looks like a truelly tortured animal, more so than almost any other fantasy creature.. thats pretty well done at least

I think it's pretty poor. I say, there was a point when every damn release from Forge World was incredible, week after week - even things I wouldn't ever get I admired. Either their quality has been slipping or I'm just getting jaded.

I'd prefer to have the snout somewhat elongated and have more numerous, yet smaller, teeth.

Also, came for this release's MGS retelling of that miniature guy's story, leaving disappointed. :/

LazzurusMan wrote:

jgemrich wrote:OK I've gotta call you out "His Master's voice".

No less than 3 times have your stated that the sculpt is technically flawless and the anatomy is dead on. Please explain what is going on on the right arm? Where is the shoulder? Is that another joint above the tricep? Where does the arm terminate distally into the metacarpals? I mean I can't figure out What the heck is going on with it. I won't even bring up the head.

That shoulder is correct...not everyones/everything skeletal/muscular structure is the same...my shoulders do that :/

in your defence so do mine, looks freaky eh lol

lol Mooselionbatbird

cadbren wrote:It looks like two creatures got blended in a transporter accident and the messy result has moments to live. It looks like it is in pain and about to die frankly.

Then FW actually nailed it , since that is basically what its supposed to look like according to the fluff

Compared to most other WF models, this one falls way short. The mouth is terrible, the pose is terrible, the paintjob is easily the most terrible part of it so far.

Of all the Monstrous Arcanum models they could have done, they picked a mediocre one and gave it a mediocre model.

Where are my Dread Saurians and Magma Dragons?

There are so many cooler things they could be doing instead of doing split kits and ugly middle of the road units. I guess I'll sit here patiently waiting for some better looking nasties to throw at my wife.

Unrelated, my spell check thinks "nasties" isn't a word. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nasties