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 MajorWesJanson wrote:
They could easily have both the corset style and this banded style on different units. The banded style could represent the heavier celestial armor.

Aren't the articulated plates just what the actual Sororitas power armour looks like under the decorative cloth corset/basque thingy they usually wear?

 Galas wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

timd wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

 aracersss wrote:
their artwork is accurate to the models though

It is? Well then, point me to where I can get that commissar, please

https://www.ragingheroes.com/collections/si-fi/products/olga-sf

https://www.ragingheroes.com/products/kapitan-ivanka-kurganova-28mm

https://www.ragingheroes.com/products/ivanka-kurganova-snow-version-battalion-commander-kst

Is there a word for talented garbage?

Raging Heroes

Raging Heroes has some really good models (Like this ones that I use as my Vindicares). But their style is... yeah. You love it or you hate it.

Thats not cheese cake though. They must be slipping.

Personally dont like cheesecake, and i would be a tiny bit embarassed to play against an army of cheesecake models, but what can youndo?

 Crazyterran wrote:

 Galas wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

timd wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

 aracersss wrote:
their artwork is accurate to the models though

It is? Well then, point me to where I can get that commissar, please

 necrontyrOG wrote:

Yeah, that is clearly accurate to the female commisar on the cover.



...inasmuch as it is a female, and is a commisar, that is. I wonder, had I said I wanted to get the mini that is an accurate representation of the primaris marine on the cover, would you have linked a robed Dark Angels regular marine?

I think you could kitbash something that looks similar to that commissar using Victoria Miniatures bits :
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/female-squads-and-bits/products/greatcoat-legs-x5-female
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/female-squads-and-bits/products/female-dress-uniform-torsos
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/female-squads-and-bits/products/tannenburg-officer-sprue-female-1
It would have a closed longcoat instead of an open one, which looks a bit less cool, though.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I think you could kitbash something that looks similar to that commissar using Victoria Miniatures bits :
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/female-squads-and-bits/products/greatcoat-legs-x5-female
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/female-squads-and-bits/products/female-dress-uniform-torsos
https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/female-squads-and-bits/products/tannenburg-officer-sprue-female-1
It would have a closed longcoat instead of an open one, which looks a bit less cool, though.

Victoria does some lovely minis... I'll need to take a look. Thanks!

What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

 Ashiraya wrote:
What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

Same thing that's wrong with tanks looking like functional tanks, that's for sane factions and I don't care to play those.

 Ashiraya wrote:
What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

What's wrong with things people like staying the same instead of change for the sake of change?

 necrontyrOG wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:

 Galas wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

timd wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

 aracersss wrote:
their artwork is accurate to the models though

It is? Well then, point me to where I can get that commissar, please

I'M A PORCHE!!!

 Albertorius wrote:

Victoria does some lovely minis... I'll need to take a look. Thanks!

If you don't mind a head swap to a beaked hat (and maybe a hand swap to a sword), the Artel W Colonel Regina model might be good.

https://artelw.com/#w--ul-id-570-2/Colonel-Regina-*PREORDER*/p/106399658/category=27134181--w

I have that one earmarked already . Probably the whole command diorama.

The female commissar stuff is cool, but it seem off topic. Maybe take it to another thread?

 warboss wrote:
If you don't mind a head swap to a beaked hat (and maybe a hand swap to a sword), the Artel W Colonel Regina model might be good.

https://artelw.com/#w--ul-id-570-2/Colonel-Regina-*PREORDER*/p/106399658/category=27134181--w

Spoiler:

Woah that's an awesome model!

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

What's wrong with things people like staying the same instead of change for the sake of change?

Did you post the same about pre-5th edition DEldar, I wonder?

SoB are not much younger than them, and I'd redesign them equally thoroughly.

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

What's wrong with things people like staying the same instead of change for the sake of change?

Did you post the same about pre-5th edition DEldar, I wonder?

SoB are not much younger than them, and I'd redesign them equally thoroughly.

Was there a huge fan outcry over the "redesign"? I don't recall much of one, just lots of people praising it and holding it up as an example for years afterwards during the darkest of the Kirby Years.

By contrast, I've seen a grand total of three actual Sisters fans(two, if that doesn't actually include yourself) clamouring for a redesign, and hundreds hoping they stay as similar to the classic aesthetic as possible. Given GW's attitude so far, I'd say my assessment of the balance(or, more accurately, complete lack of any) between the two views is pretty accurate, and yours is decidedly the minority.

Which is really the key point that your comparison doesn't really work with - "things people like". If lots of people didn't like it, there would be no issue with changing it, because that would be giving them what they want. The fact they do like it means it should remain the same until that fact changes, rather than being altered on a whim or because of a noisy minority.

I guess the DE aesthetic before the redesign was pretty dated, whereas the actual design of the Sisters still holds up today (like Celestine, generally follows the same design as the old models). There isn’t as much need to redesign the sisters as there was DE.

 ImAGeek wrote:
I guess the DE aesthetic before the redesign was pretty dated, whereas the actual design of the Sisters still holds up today (like Celestine, generally follows the same design as the old models). There isn’t as much need to redesign the sisters as there was DE.

Indeed. This is exactly what they said in the article that this thread is nominally about; the aesthetic of the Adepta Sororitas doesn’t need to be changed because it’s alraedy awesome, so they’re just remaking it but in plastic. Hopefully with all the additional flexibility that plastic multi-pose kits would normally imply.
The old Dark Eldar though… I still have a few and the only ones I care to retain are the old bikers, though even then they’re getting a significant overhaul to include the updated weapon designs, and the old Incubi. The rest of the range doesn’t even look like a GW product any more…

I like the old design and the new one to be honest.

Maybe its a new mark of armour for the new millennia. I will mix and match as I do with the Dark Eldar.

 Mr Morden wrote:
I like the old design and the new one to be honest.

Maybe its a new mark of armour for the new millennia. I will mix and match as I do with the Dark Eldar.

What new design?

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
I like the old design and the new one to be honest.

Maybe its a new mark of armour for the new millennia. I will mix and match as I do with the Dark Eldar.

What new design?

The one in the RPG artwork in previous posts. The one actual model we have seen thus far matches the old model

The RPG one is probably a touch of artistic license, while no doubt GW signed off on it it isn't a GW in-house product and it'd be unlikely that they'd be showing off all new secret armour designs to the artists of a third party while publicly saying they weren't looking to make huge changes to the base design but just bring it up to modern standards.

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
I like the old design and the new one to be honest.

Maybe its a new mark of armour for the new millennia. I will mix and match as I do with the Dark Eldar.

What new design?

The one in the RPG artwork in previous posts. The one actual model we have seen thus far matches the old model

You mean the third-party commissioned artwork that directly conflicts with first party statements made through their official news source?
I think you need to add more

And that doesn't match the revealed demo model (which looks like the classic artwork, and metal figs).

Wow, wrath and glory is definitely a miss for me. I am glad the model showed by GW is a true sister of batte.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
I guess the DE aesthetic before the redesign was pretty dated, whereas the actual design of the Sisters still holds up today (like Celestine, generally follows the same design as the old models). There isn’t as much need to redesign the sisters as there was DE.

Indeed. This is exactly what they said in the article that this thread is nominally about; the aesthetic of the Adepta Sororitas doesn’t need to be changed because it’s alraedy awesome, so they’re just remaking it but in plastic. Hopefully with all the additional flexibility that plastic multi-pose kits would normally imply.
The old Dark Eldar though… I still have a few and the only ones I care to retain are the old bikers, though even then they’re getting a significant overhaul to include the updated weapon designs, and the old Incubi. The rest of the range doesn’t even look like a GW product any more…

It does... you just have to admit to yourself that GW has a bevy of embarrassingly bad sculpts in their closet. Including a couple of Sisters of Battle - including preachers, repentia and the poor inquisitorial henchman they packed into the 'current' command squad as a dialogus (with the clay mouth hole and googly eyes).

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

What's wrong with things people like staying the same instead of change for the sake of change?

I get that sentiment, I really do, but I've also absolutely loved almost everything GW have done over the last couple of years when it comes to design decisions. So an update would be welcomed by me, just for the sake of seeing what the end product looks like.

Besides, if you wanted the exact same thing as before then... just... buy that exact same thing. There's almost no point in a rerelease if all you want is the original models. They're not going to simply convert the existing models from metal into plastic, and I'd feel short-changed if they did. They're going to do a full rethink of the concept, the design, the overall aesthetics... I mean, hopefully. And that's all great.

Voss wrote:
It does... you just have to admit to yourself that GW has a bevy of embarrassingly bad sculpts in their closet. Including [...] the poor inquisitorial henchman they packed into the 'current' command squad as a dialogus (with the clay mouth hole and googly eyes).

How dare you, how DARE you disparage bae like that, she is the best, most cosplayable model ever!

 ekwatts wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

What's wrong with things people like staying the same instead of change for the sake of change?

I get that sentiment, I really do, but I've also absolutely loved almost everything GW have done over the last couple of years when it comes to design decisions. So an update would be welcomed by me, just for the sake of seeing what the end product looks like.

Besides, if you wanted the exact same thing as before then... just... buy that exact same thing. There's almost no point in a rerelease if all you want is the original models. They're not going to simply convert the existing models from metal into plastic, and I'd feel short-changed if they did. They're going to do a full rethink of the concept, the design, the overall aesthetics... I mean, hopefully. And that's all great.

They've already said they aren't changing the aesthetic:

The classic gothic design of the Sisters of Battle is, to be frank, awesome, and with the new range, the design studio hasn’t been trying to change that – instead, we’ve gone back to the original art and looked at how we can truly bring it to life using cutting edge design technology. The first model of the new generation of Sisters of Battle is based – almost detail-for-detail – on some of the most iconic Sisters of Battle art ever made, and you can expect the rest of the army to follow the classic design cues you know and love.

 ekwatts wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
What's wrong with armour that looks like armour?

What's wrong with things people like staying the same instead of change for the sake of change?

I get that sentiment, I really do, but I've also absolutely loved almost everything GW have done over the last couple of years when it comes to design decisions. So an update would be welcomed by me, just for the sake of seeing what the end product looks like.

Besides, if you wanted the exact same thing as before then... just... buy that exact same thing. There's almost no point in a rerelease if all you want is the original models. They're not going to simply convert the existing models from metal into plastic, and I'd feel short-changed if they did. They're going to do a full rethink of the concept, the design, the overall aesthetics... I mean, hopefully. And that's all great.

I've got a pile of genestealer cult that say you can do a great deal to improve 20 year old models without seriously changing the aesthetic. If they actually allowed powerswords anywhere I could drop all the old cult models I have into the lot and they'd just look like slightly lumpier versions of the rest of the crew.

More importantly, they're now actually in stock reliably and they have something resembling actual support from GW. Both of which were questionable for sisters in the last few years, say this having tried to get a few tanks prior to the gathering storm caming out.