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I've avoided SM bikes, centurions, and Wraithknights so far for both looks and fluff I don't like.

I was avoiding Harlequins for looks reasons (their fluff is awesome though), but some of my meta are so sick of Aspect Warriors that I figured I should field some Harlies where I can.

SM bikes have grown on me as a part of a Company. I think one squad would work, so I'm sure I'll get them eventually.

Kilkrazy wrote:I wouldn't use a model I didn't like, however I would build or convert something else in order to fill a slot.

This.

There aren't all that many models that I don't like, but when I don't like them, the quality of the models won't stop me from fielding the unit if I want to field that unit. It just means I need to break out the hobby knife, plasticard, greenstuff, and bitz box.

I don't like the taurox model any better than most, but if I wind up playing tempestus, I'll find some way of making taurox models that I like so that I can play them without feeling dumb.

On the other hand, have I ever played with something just because it looked cool? I don't... think... so. That said, I've included stuff in my army for non-looks reasons that wound up sticking around a lot longer than it probably should have because it looks cool. I'll also stick with an army style longer than usual if it has an appealing look to it on the table. For example, when I started playing the 5-vanquisher russ army I did, I had more incentive to keep sticking with it and making it work as my opponents adapted because it looked so cool on the table.

I started off in 6th with a dark angels army trying to be both. I love deathwing knights, just the whole da robes and power armour look. Of course, i'm actually pretty rubbish at winning per se, so i've started getting more and more into chaos as the aesthetic appeal is taking priority. If im gonna get shot to bits by tau gunlines, might as well look good doing it right

 MWHistorian wrote:
I actually don't like the exorcist model, but I love the rules so I convert whirlwinds.

I used to be ambivalent about the Exorcist - it's a ludicrous looking model - but over time I've come to love it. Despite being a 3rd edition model for a 2nd edition army it's so outrageous it feels like some relic of the RT era, before 40K started taking itself so seriously.

I do wonder if this was the inspiration...



But I entirely get how you wouldn't like it. It is very OTT.

For me, the miniatures are far too expensive to buy any that i find visualy repulsive.

I don't use models I don't like. Even when building a tournament army, I'll build it and optimize it only using models I like. No reason to spend money on buying ugly models, building ugly models, painting ugly models, and the effort of transporting them only for them to sit there and be ugly on a table.

I only buy miniatures when I like the way they look. The rules are only a secondary concern. Rules change, models not, and 40k is primarily a modelling hobby to begin with.

I'll only buy and therefore play models i like.

I have however magnetised scything talons and devourers for my bugs so they can go for looking great to beign good.

I loathe the snake aesthetic some Tyranid units have. So I'll never field them.

I've been tempted by Trygons but haven't given in.

For eldar: Warp Spiders. AMAZING rules...ugly as sin.

For DE: Wracks and Haemonculi. Not ugly per say, but more fragile then a 15 year old girls emotions.

I must be in a fortunate situation, because there are exactly 0 models in the Tau Empire codex I don't like the look of. They are all pretty awesome in my opinion.

Ok, I take that back, old stealth suits look much better than walking toasters. But since I have enough old style suits to field a complete squad I don't really notice.

Most of my lists I like to give some sort of style or theme to them... like putting a 5-man squad of Van Vets w/ jump packs and thunder hammers in a list which is HQ'd with matching captain that has a jump pack and thunder hammer.

I have a RIptide that I built, then promptly ripped apart again when the pose turned out to be utterly meh. I refuse to field it in anything less than the perfect pose, and I'll only ever field one. I didn't plan on getting on in the first place, but GW sweet talked my parents before Christmas.

I don't think I own one model that I dislike.

Its not that they haven't made anything thats lame...or rather things have aged terribly.

I guess the beauty of Orks is that so many 3rd parties make up for the terrible models left on the line, that I don't have to worry about much.

I don't field models I don't like. However, one can always convert if the stock model looks ugly.

I'm an impulse buyer with cash to burn.

Me and my wife's bloated collections can be just about anything.

I generally don't dislike any model, and sometimes just make my own/convert if I really want to.

I need a life.

I use Mandrakes! I win all of you!

Seriously, while i don't always use them Mandrakes and Scourges have some of the most beautiful poses and models in the game by a fair margin. Scourges are sorta useful but they are not competitive and everyone knows about the tactical sense of Mandrakes but when they look that good, who cares?

I love the look of scourges too^^^^^^^^^

Annihilation Barges...I use them, they are ugly

I had to use some old, old, old versions of khorne flesh hounds to get the squad size to 16. The ones that have been around since 2nd edition.

Well, absolutely not.

E.g., Flayed Ones or Wraithguard have no place in my armies.

I would never use the new flayed ones.

Lucky for me, I have 20 of the old ones.

If a unit looks awesome but has awful rules, I will buy it, paint it, and let it hang out on the shelf until I get an Apocalypse game going.

If a unit is hideous but has great rules, I'll seek an alternative model and use it as a count-as. I see no point in owning terrible things like GW Obliterators.

KingDeath wrote:For me, the miniatures are far too expensive to buy any that i find visualy repulsive.

Agreed. This is why I would never in 40,000 years field an Obliterator, or Mutilator, or anything of Nurgle.
Although, though I'm a bit on the edge about the Brass Scorpion, since it's ugly, but seems sort of good and it would be a welcome addition to my Khorne army.
On the plus side, I do think the Lord of Skulls looks epic.

wuestenfux wrote:E.g., Flayed Ones or Wraithguard have no place in my armies.

Flayed ones, sure, but wraithguard?

I don't play with models that have terrible rules on the TT just because they look awesome. But nothing stops me from painting them which is just as fun and a far better use for them. ie. Mandrakes & 1K Sons.

Generally I'll only get models I like, but if there is one I don't, ill just convert one that suits me isntead!

 MWHistorian wrote:

I love dreadnaughts, but they suck, but I use them anyway.

Hah, that's me.

Now that the WD rules for it are out, I've gotten myself the Flaming Chariot kit just for the Exalted Flamer so I can run him off of the Chariot.

Actually, I might not even build the Chariot at all. For $40, I essentially got the Exalted Flamer, a Tzeentch Herald, two Screamers, and a Disc Platform I'd rather use for my BSB in WHFB WOC. Maybe next time.

I don't like dumb looking models, noo way would I take the time to put it together, paint it, and play it.