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 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

Voss wrote:
And I hate to think of how that is 'attached' to a base.

I can tell you exactly how it's attached to the base.

By you. Repeatedly. All the time.

That thing looks like it'd wiggle and break from whatever is holding it up, all it'd take is one grilled-chicken fart nearby and it's gonna 'plink'.

I think I might be giving mine a scratch built "scenic" base just I can have something to anchor him onto that will weigh him down.

SilverAlien wrote:

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

Voss wrote:
And I hate to think of how that is 'attached' to a base.

I can tell you exactly how it's attached to the base.

By you. Repeatedly. All the time.

That thing looks like it'd wiggle and break from whatever is holding it up, all it'd take is one grilled-chicken fart nearby and it's gonna 'plink'.

I think I might be giving mine a scratch built "scenic" base just I can have something to anchor him onto that will weigh him down.

If you look at the tiny pics that leaked ages ago there are at least 4 contact points with the base. It is by no means perfect but it looks better than some of the recent floaty minis.

Magnus blew me away, and despite not being a big fan of Guiliman fluffwise, I have to admit that his model looks alright.

Not a big fan of Mortarion however.
He's hideous, and not in a "good/Deathguardy" way.
Might be the paintjob that ruins it though.

I like the model a lot! Exactly what I was hoping for. I'll probably change his paint scheme, but I don't think this one looks 'terrible'.

I'm glad he still has his respirator on, I didn't want some weird goofy baby face, like the Dark Imperium sorcerer. I never liked the face on the forgeworld 30k one either.

I always envisioned Morty having feathered wings, but I think it will look cool to have him with these bug-like wings, magnus with bird ones, angron will have his dragon wings, and not sure what type Fulgrim will have, but nice that there's some diversity at least so far.

lol at whoever talking gak about the paintjob. no clue

I think aside from the captain planet villain joke... he looks way too slaaneshi. What's with the purple-blue tentacles?

its a GW paint job. the guy isnt david soper painting nurgle lol

I think it looks dope. Slaaneshi? Don't think so.

A couple of different spot colors would solve that anyways, though personally a lot of gross injuries are purple and blue

I can see this being a long, long, long model to paint though, just like Magnus and the LoC, if you actually hit every detail to a high level this will take weeks.

Another win for GW if you ask me though. Only major mistep from them lately for me is that wtf 30th anniversary marine. I prefer my special edition stuff to be identifiable if I put it next to bog standard baseline troops

I'm sorry but the look of the old Epic miniature was just stupid. He couldn't be more uninspired and generic. (EDIT: This doesn't means is bad to like it. I like too the classical grim reaper figure, but for a Daemon Primarch... nah)

The Paintjob is very clear, yes. But because you want a clear paintjob that show all of the details in your marketing photos.

Chikout wrote:

SilverAlien wrote:

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

Voss wrote:
And I hate to think of how that is 'attached' to a base.

I can tell you exactly how it's attached to the base.

By you. Repeatedly. All the time.

That thing looks like it'd wiggle and break from whatever is holding it up, all it'd take is one grilled-chicken fart nearby and it's gonna 'plink'.

I think I might be giving mine a scratch built "scenic" base just I can have something to anchor him onto that will weigh him down.

If you look at the tiny pics that leaked ages ago there are at least 4 contact points with the base. It is by no means perfect but it looks better than some of the recent floaty minis.

I'm just shocked this photo leak from almost a year ago was accurate that has to be one of the oldest confirmed leaks of a model image.
The model looks great people bitchin don't give the model justice and can't see past that purple/pink paint job.

Mortarion looks amazing but could certainly benefit with a paint job that actually suits the model.

Something about it seems off to me. It isn't really all that that blinged put but it his armor just looks too busy to me all the same.

Yeah it's the scattershot placement of too much doo dads and little bits and things all over the place that really distract from him. His legs look like he has tumors in them or gout and are hilariously disproportionate to his whole body.

I think the only thing that looks good are his wings, but that's nott he main part of the model really.

Hmm... I have mixed feelings about Morty...

On the one hand a great many details that can be weathered and made to look proper with a good color selection that stays away from purple/neon pink.

On the other hand, his proportions and pose look just as cartoony as the plague marines. I was hoping for a more intimidating looking sculpt.

As always, more photos are needed. It's high time we saw the rest of this line. It's been 4.5 months since the teaser!

think nobody bothered to notice given is morty and all but ... anyone saw the models above him? ... new foetid drone?

 aracersss wrote:
think nobody bothered to notice given is morty and all but ... anyone saw the models above him? ... new foetid drone?

Pretty sure all the other models are the DI set of models, with some hard to see Inceptors by the drone.

The bloat drone looks to be the same as the current model so far as I can tell. Even the weapon appears to be the same.

so annoying seeing bad painters say a paint job doesn't do the model justice.

A - we cant really see the detail
B - they don't put in 400 hours to these models
C - you don't have any idea what constitutes a good paint job
D - nurgle is virtually impossible to paint well without tons and tons of time put into it refer to david soper if you need to see what good nurgle looks like and then understand he spends 100s of hours

I think most of us just don't like bright purple on nurgle. A decent portion also aren't fond of what I think is bright green base (I'm colorblind so that doesn't apply for me).

eosgreen wrote:
so annoying seeing bad painters say a paint job doesn't do the model justice.

A - we cant really see the detail
B - they don't put in 400 hours to these models
C - you don't have any idea what constitutes a good paint job
D - nurgle is virtually impossible to paint well without tons and tons of time put into it refer to david soper if you need to see what good nurgle looks like and then understand he spends 100s of hours

So you're saying that because people are pointing out that a paint job dosen't do a model justice, in their opinion, then that means they're bad painters? Yeah. Cool. Sounds fair.

eosgreen wrote:
so annoying seeing bad painters say a paint job doesn't do the model justice....

You don't have to be a good painter yourself to know that you don't like a paint job.
It's the same thing people have been saying about all the Death Guard so far. It's technically great paint job, and they know why it has to be clean, but the gaudiness of the overall effect doesn't do the Legion or their Primarch any favours.

I agree - it's not my style, and I prefer "dirty" Nurgle...

That said, if you disagree with someone please do so in a polite manner - we're talking about toy soldier paint jobs, after all!

Thanks all

This is not worth $220 in my opinion, which is what it will cost in Australia.

Brian888 wrote:

They look like thuribles, with purple smoke coming out of some of them.

Smoke? Ah. That's... well... hmm.
Smoke, eh?
An interesting attempt, to be sure.

I thought they were flaming meteors or comets.

SilverAlien wrote:
I think the purpose stuff is smoke and demon fly things but it's hard to tell. Not sure what you mean by hammer.

The hammer floating below the 'bulb' on the 'scythe.'
Something pink is holding it.

 Tim the Biovore wrote:

eosgreen wrote:
so annoying seeing bad painters say a paint job doesn't do the model justice....

You don't have to be a good painter yourself to know that you don't like a paint job.
It's the same thing people have been saying about all the Death Guard so far. It's technically great paint job, and they know why it has to be clean, but the gaudiness of the overall effect doesn't do the Legion or their Primarch any favours.

i'm saying that as a guy who people ask to do commissions all the time, I can paint a bad model with colors that don't compliment each other and people will love it regardless. I can show those same people a complimentary painted model with bad blending and they are none the wiser. So you don't like the "paint job" is that really what it is? What specifically. His choice to use a desaturated purple and red to paint the cloth on the model? Could that be a brown or grey? yes but the colors compliment each other so you are not disliking the "paint job" as much as the sculpt and color choices which are objective. I think the model looks great and the paint job is impossible to judge since we cant see closeups

Voss wrote:

Brian888 wrote:

They look like thuribles, with purple smoke coming out of some of them.

Smoke? Ah. That's... well... hmm.
Smoke, eh?
An interesting attempt, to be sure.

I thought they were flaming meteors or comets.

SilverAlien wrote:
I think the purpose stuff is smoke and demon fly things but it's hard to tell. Not sure what you mean by hammer.

The hammer floating below the 'bulb' on the 'scythe.'
Something pink is holding it.

That hammer is one of the Poxwalker models.

Yeah sorry, Morty is another miss. It's another huge expensive model with so much 'bling' on it that it takes away from what morty should be. The paint job isn't doing it any favors either. The 'flying' pose is just irritating, it's like when GW 'discovered' the pointing finger model and almost EVERY special character model was pointing for a few years there.

I wish they would take a chance and do something really creative with their 3-D sculpting/CAD designs and their mold technology instead of boring copy/paste with "insert faction bling" on their huge center piece models that are grossly over priced.

I know they got the talent, I know they got the technology, they just need the will to let the design studio be creative instead of letting marketing and upper management dictate what is made and how it looks.

photo is somewhat over exposed so could be effecting the paint job

but the model is very busy, can happen to nurgle models... just goes over that line from nurgly to a hot mess

I don't think it's too messy, I can see exactly what's going on. He has a hood and a mask, shoulder pads with the Nurgle logo and horns on, some pipes going from his chest to around his sides, a cloth robe on and some disease filled sensors hanging off of him.

I think the over exposure of the photo of a photo that's been photoshopped to be bright is giving off the wrong impression. While I'd paint him differently, the colours do compliment, though are possibly the reason he's looking a bit too busy. With a little less contrast in some places and a different colour choice for the robe/hood (I'd go dirty white), and seeing him in person, he'd look utterly beast, imo.

Everyone will have different opinions on what colours they want to paint him, but that's one of the main points of this hobby. GW are going with the purple because it's a main complimentary colour for green, so it picks out the detail and contrasts well. We don't have to paint it that way, it's just for photos. Please don't fight and cause the thread to be locked, I like this thread.

Also, by the looks of the old weird Russian leaked images, it looks like he can be built in a slightly different pose, with the arm currently holding the scythe pointing his pistol and the other arm holding the scythe down. I'd probably go with that pose if it's possible

Huh, I always imagined him as tall and gaunt, not fat and bloated. But it's a very nice model.