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Not a particular codex, but very vehicle in the Imperium Armory except for Forge World's Venerable Dreadnoughts.

sisters of battle (with no helmets).

The sisters of battle faces just look really bad to me. I love them with helmets, but the current face art just looks, strange to me for some reason. It's weird, too, cuz SoB have some models I'm a big fan of too. But the faces get me

 Ailaros wrote:
Ork boyz may be silly, but orks as a model range isn't a total waste. Battlewagons and trukks and bikes, etc. still look cool enough.

Well yeah, like I said, I only scrap my idea when I remember the Ork Boyz kit. I'm very fond of everything else in the range, but the requirement of 'more boyz!' is just unacceptable with those models.

Just my thought but, Necrons. They don't look too bad and they are kind of cool, imo they are all the same. Just my thoughts.

How is an army that doesn't look bad and looks cool the worst looking army?

Not to mention, outside of Orks, every army suffers from 'looks the same' syndrome, since they're designed to be painted with a uniform look.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Ailaros wrote:
Ork boyz may be silly, but orks as a model range isn't a total waste. Battlewagons and trukks and bikes, etc. still look cool enough.

Well yeah, like I said, I only scrap my idea when I remember the Ork Boyz kit. I'm very fond of everything else in the range, but the requirement of 'more boyz!' is just unacceptable with those models.

You could always go with 3rd party legs I guess.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

 Ailaros wrote:
Ork boyz may be silly, but orks as a model range isn't a total waste. Battlewagons and trukks and bikes, etc. still look cool enough.

Well yeah, like I said, I only scrap my idea when I remember the Ork Boyz kit. I'm very fond of everything else in the range, but the requirement of 'more boyz!' is just unacceptable with those models.

You could always go with 3rd party legs I guess.

If I ever found any that looked decent I'd consider it. The porblem with the legs is a symptom of the shape of the torso - the J hook at the bottom of the torso reinforces the needed shape of the pelvic area on any legs.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
40k:

ATM it's chaos for me, because the entire range is spread across several aesthetics, designs and about 15 years of minis. Together on a table, the whole thing looks messy for me, not least of all for the 'hey, we put spike on our gak!' half hearted sculpting/modeling that's gone on.

The Dark Vengence set and several of the minis that came out around the same time were a great improvement on the prior 'horns n spike' marines, but without a reworked rank and file kit, no go.

I agree with this and its really what annoys me about gw. With necrons and dark eldar they did such a geat job reinventing the whole range, but since 6th they kind of just "bolt-on" a flyer and oval base mc to the existing range.

I love the dark vengeance and new chaos but like you say, having the old stuff mixed in looks bad.

Well, or just don't field boyz. You can do deffwing or a bike list without a single boy model.

Chaos daemons imo they look so squishy compared to the old models, someone mention warp spiders looking ugly, imo warp spiders and actually most eldar units in the codex are by far the most interesting and unique models in the 40k universe. They needed to revamp some of the basic chaos models and have some extra goodies for their vehicles to give that possessed and evil look imo. But chaos is still most interesting then the vanilla marines imo.

Also, I don't QUITE get the hatred of the demon line either. Yeah, the slaanesh ones look rather crappy (though the exalted chariot isn't that bad), but some of the stuff looks great, especially the nurglings and plague drones. The new flamers don't look that bad either.

I mean, it's certainly not the prettiest army, but I don't see how it quite qualifies as the worst.

Don't like Orks in general, so my vote goes to the Orks.

I would have to say that the worst looking army is most likely a Nurgle army that walked into my local shop roughly...2 weeks ago late at night. It was your standard green with yellow highlights, but not much variety in the colors (which we figured out why about 2 minutes later). The lady had us turn off the lights and go figure, it glowed fairly bright in the dark. Had to give her credit for that.

On the whole Ork thing though, if people hate Ork Boyz, why not run a ton of Gretchin instead?

 Unyielding Hunger wrote:
On the whole Ork thing though, if people hate Ork Boyz, why not run a ton of Gretchin instead?

...really? You expect people to run around with a ton of T2?

I never like Ogryn

Sisters of Battle. I want a SoB army so bad but to me the SoB should be beautiful, graceful, etc, and the current (if you can even use 'current' and SoB in the same sentence) models are just... hideous.

I look forward to the day they redo the SoB... if ever.

I don't really have any problems with any of the 40k armies as a whole, the ugliest ones I see are the flat black blobs that keep showing up to game night. You can't even telll what anything on the table is.

I liked the old scrawny goofy looking orks but I can't stand the necron models. I hate everything about them, they are boring, I hate the theme and most of all I hate the stupid green rods. At least when they originally came out you had to paint the gauss guns properly.

Ric Ringo wrote:
I liked the old scrawny goofy looking orks but I can't stand the necron models. I hate everything about them, they are boring, I hate the theme and most of all I hate the stupid green rods. At least when they originally came out you had to paint the gauss guns properly.

Erm I think they always had the green rods? Not a favourite element of the Necrons for me either though i must say

I don't get all the SOB hate. That line had some really characterful models. I have to confess i've not looked at them for a while though so that might just be mostly nostalgia talking

... not that this was a good-looking model either.

Any army painted looks good to me. 1500 points of grey plastic and black primer looks like crap, no matter what the army.

 Wilytank wrote:

 Unyielding Hunger wrote:
On the whole Ork thing though, if people hate Ork Boyz, why not run a ton of Gretchin instead?

...really? You expect people to run around with a ton of T2?

well, considering you can have 180 of them for about 700 points, if you have the patience for painting it, sure

Orks are so ugly. It can't stand it. Kill them all...

Sisters. Their normal troops look fugly.

I totally disagree with the Dark Eldar being the worst looking army. Their range is amazing, the level of detail is great and the concepts seem to fit together well.

Whilst I don't think the whole army is crap looking, the new Chaos stuff has been really hit and miss for me. That huge monster that is doing the devil horns sign with its hand....it just looks ridiculous.

Some of the other things they've released (the Chaos Space Marines and a few of the Daemons) have been ok though,

Daniel_Holmes wrote:
Sisters of Battle. I want a SoB army so bad but to me the SoB should be beautiful, graceful, etc, and the current (if you can even use 'current' and SoB in the same sentence) models are just... hideous.

I look forward to the day they redo the SoB... if ever.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Sisters. Their normal troops look fugly.

Nah. Sisters aren't supposed to be pretty. They're dedicated soldiers who see a lot of combat, it makes sense for them to not be attractive.

Anyway, my vote goes to the Nurgle Daemons. But in a good way. Their models do a great job of representing what a plague god's forces would look like.

Plaguebearers creep me out.

Kroot. 4 different choises as to what you want. Out side that they all look exactly the same. "yeah these 3 are riding gorillas. These are dogs. These guys with the WWII rifles are my basic and this guy who looks like the rest of them is a special shaper. See? he has his gun above his head!" *snore*

Gotta be Space Marines. The models as a whole aren't that ugly, but the entire range, for me, is just bland and completely devoid of anything interesting. Termies are fairly cool, but that's about it.

Grey Knights take everything silly about SM and exaggerate it. They look like they were designed by a 13 year old.

The new Necron characters and jetbikes imo. The characters have become Tomb Kings in space, losing all of the faceless, implacable Borg style of the previous edition. And the jetbikes... robots on bikes with globes attached to their heads?