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Techmarines are awesome.

Eidolon looks amazing.

Porting over from ze previous page.

 BrookM wrote:
New stuff:



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Lord-Commander-Eidolon-of-the-Emperor-s-Children



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Techmarine-in%20Mk-III-Armour



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Techmarine-in-Mk-IV-Armour



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Imperial-Fists-Mk-VI-Shoulder-Pads


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And Eidolon comes with an optional helmet as well!

Eidolon is fabulous even if his base is a little silly. I'm in two minds with the techmarines, FW were showing a techmarine with servitors previously, I'd hate to buy one of these then another with servitors make an appearance as there is only so many techmarines that I need.

The Techmarines look pretty sweet. Will we be seeing one with a Servo Harness or is this not around in 30k?

Eidolon with helmet looks cool, the bare head looks silly imo.

These models are probably meant as part of a Techmarine Covenant or as a Forge Lord, whom can take servo automata as an optional thing, unlike their Auxilia and Mechanicum counterparts, who must take four.


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 Hanskrampf wrote:
The Techmarines look pretty sweet. Will we be seeing one with a Servo Harness or is this not around in 30k?

The 30k equivalent is called the Machinator Array and it is sadly a Mechanicum only upgrade at this point. Techmarines can only get the servo-arm.

I'm in love.

I adore that Eidolon model.

Not keen on the Techmarines, and they're pricey too - I can get two Apothecaries for £1 cheaper than one Techmarine costs.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Not keen on the Techmarines, and they're pricey too - I can get two Apothecaries for £1 cheaper than one Techmarine costs.

I love them, but I'm not getting them at that price :-(

Also back on sale soon:



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Tamurkhan-the-Maggot-Lord

 ImAGeek wrote:
I adore that Eidolon model.

Not keen on the Techmarines, and they're pricey too - I can get two Apothecaries for £1 cheaper than one Techmarine costs.

Yeah, after the mail order exclusive, Suzerain and Blade-slaves I suspected that a price shift was going on and £22 Techmarines pretty much confirms that for me (I also think some of the older 40k SM character models have had price adjustments with the relaunch, but I'll have to compare to a catalogue).

Bumping the cost with massive resin bases I can make myself just irritates me too, look at the cost of Abaddon & Loken versus Eidolon, or even Eidolon versus older character releases, and also the two most recent Primarchs.

Thanks Forge World, I won't let the door hit me on the way out.

I love the stylised bell on Eidolon's thunder hammer. Very cool.

Eidolon looks glorious!! Helmet looks awesome and the head/hair really gives a feeling of pomp & arrogance! Love it!

It's great to see Toad Dragon will be returning. I've thought about buying him before, I'm glad to get a second chance.

Eidolon looks great but I'm not sure if the hair works for me, good to see he has a helmet option. He'll fit in nicely into my E.C force.

The exclusive Centurion is the worst sculpt that Forge World have ever made, or at least I can't think of a worse one at this moment in time. It's like the sculptor rebelled after being told to sculpt a Space Marine with more "heroic scale" proportions.

I suspect that many of the exclusive/limited things may well be test pieces done by new workers,

or other things determined to be not quite good enough or without sufficient broad appeal for a full release

so rather than just sticking them in a cupboard they get a short glorious life as a limited release

In addition to the website being incredibly annoying and far more time consuming to navigate now, they seem to have snuck a price rise onto an awful lot of products (I'll admit I've mainly looked at the Space Marine lines to establish this).

That Legion Praetor excites me not one bit. I wasn't a particularly big fan of the original sculpt it's based on that people seemed to love so much and the alterations have done nothing to revise that opinion.

Eidolon looks pretty cool, as blingy as one would expect of an Emperor's Children character,but that base is ridiculous and he definitely needs to wear his helmet.

Techmarines get a giant meh from me. The axes are both dreadful, I know they're consistent with the 30k Iron Hands designs so far, but I hated those too. Loincloths made of armour are always a loser for me too. Quite like the Mk. III's armour, but feel the model as a whole is somewhat lacking. The helmet on the Mk. IV is horrible, really hate it. Backpack feels kind of insubstantial for even a lone servo arm and what is with the random cables hanging out the back? So many! It looks like someone went a bit nuts with one of those greenstuff cable maker tools. The ones that have sockets/connecters on the end I don't mind, but most of them have no such attachment and so look completely pointless in addition to being aesthetically unappealing. Then you look at the individual prices... I see nothing to warrant that level of expenditure and really hope that this isn't a sign of FW being brought more in line with GW proper. I say that knowing FW has always been pricier (though often not by much in recent times), but very rarely did it feel like poor value.

Swing and a miss FW, which is a shame after the quad-mortar and it's awesome MK. IV crew (those targetter helms!!) knocked it right out of the park last week.

MK. VI pads are cool and it would be nice to see this done for everyone eventually.

I NEED that Mk IV techmarine. He looks great! Too bad he has a Servo arm not a Servo harness.

Servo harnesses weren't around back then.

 BrookM wrote:
Servo harnesses weren't around back then.

Shouldn't be too hard to rig one together using that model as a base though. The vents on the side look like they could be used as mounting points for the other arms.

Edit: First White Scars, now EC get bitchin' helmets. Why can't other legions try to be this awesome? Stupid Imperial Fists and their being boy scouts.

I think I'm going to keep the head detachable on Eidolon.

Ha!

Didn't that actually happen to poor ol' Eidolon in one of the HH books?

I want 10 of that Techmarine for my Techtical Squad.

Very nice model.

I take it back. I kinda like the new site now. Browsing around it I discovered a whole bunch of stuff that I forgot even existed like the outrider bikes and the legion basilisk.

Not very impressed with the techmarines though. While some bits of them look nice, the shoulder pads, legs, and helmet look very lazily sculpted. I think it is the fact that they are big blocky sections with recessed details that would be simple for any relatively skilled sculptor to achieve. What I liked about FW was looking at their models and thinking how did they sculpt that?

The price creep is also scaring me. By the time we get to Prospero I get the feeling I will have to stick to (the excellent) third party parts for my Thousand Sons as I will have been priced out!

Really conflicted about Eidolon.

Loved the initial images from the weekender, but now I'm not so sure.

Firstly, he looks very much like he's glued on top of the base, rather than stood on it.

Secondly, I've no issue with static poses, in many cases I think they're much more evocative than models screaming and swinging their weapon, but this feels wooden. Compare it to something like Curze, who is in a static pose, but looks like he's only just taken a breath before launching himself back into the fray. Eidolon just kinda looks like he's stood there.

Thirdly, the base is ridiculous, and it doesn't have a component shot to figure out what can be done about it.

The 360 shot (a nice improvement with the new site) shows what looks like a normal MKIV jump pack, not a huge deal, but one would have thought there would be some sort of decoration on a guy as important as Eidolon.

That said, the face/head is one of the best in a while (especially in light of the web only model, who looks like he's had a stroke) and there's lots of awesome little details.

I would like the studio to stop highlighting gold so heavily with silver though, really not a fan of that look.

Eidolons face/head is absolutely terrific as is the cloak.
I kinda agree on the base though. However I wonder if its because he himself is painted so cleanly and the base is heavily weathered and ruined. Could the striking contrast be throwing us off?

The techmarine is a bit meh for me, dont like the body armor piece on him.

 Ratius wrote:
Eidolons face/head is absolutely terrific as is the cloak.
I kinda agree on the base though. However I wonder if its because he himself is painted so cleanly and the base is heavily weathered and ruined. Could the striking contrast be throwing us off?

The techmarine is a bit meh for me, dont like the body armor piece on him.

Which one? The Mk IV or Mk III ?


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 Azreal13 wrote:


I would like the studio to stop highlighting gold so heavily with silver though, really not a fan of that look.

The silver highlights work better when drybrushed on IMO. Not really a fan of the edge highlight look for metallics.

Which one? The Mk IV or Mk III ?

Both Im afraid :(
Dont like the vent port thing on the mark 3 and the mark 4 looks like a tank track stuck on.

 BrookM wrote:
Servo harnesses weren't around back then.

I refuse to believe that lol. Isn't tech supposed to be better in Great Crusade/Horus Heresy era?

Helmet Eidolon is best Eidolon.

Female Space Marines confirmed!



The FW newsletter I got described Eidolon as perfection and I'd be lying if I didn't ever describe the Game of Thrones actress with that word in the past. I find myself having strange and unfamiliar feelings towards this new astartes. I blame Slaneesh!

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Servo harnesses weren't around back then.

I refuse to believe that lol. Isn't tech supposed to be better in Great Crusade/Horus Heresy era?

There is something called the Machinator Array, which is like the servo-harness, only available to the Mechanicum and not Astartes or Auxilia.