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 kronk wrote:
Awful, really?

Yes, that is my opinion.

Yeah, I can see with people don't like this new FW paint stile but I don't see what about it is awfulll. It looks a little like... an oil-painting. At least the faces.

It's been a fairly consistent criticism from a lot of people since this guy's work started being featured regularly (I think the BB stuff was the first?)

Being technically proficient, which this stuff undoubtedly is, isn't the only criteria of producing a pleasing paint job. For me, and, it seems plenty of others, the artist consistently makes decisions about colour and/or technique that just don't excite me to purchase the model, in fact they actively put me off, and for a commission that's supposed to illicit the opposite response, that's got to be considered a failure.

Much of this can be filed under the 'Different People Like Different Things" category and probably shouldn't clog up this thread too much more - if at all...

Thanks!

Have the specifically mentioned fires or when it’ll be announced?

gendoikari87 wrote:
Have the specifically mentioned fires or when it’ll be announced?

It is slated for 2018 per Tony from the Twitch stream recently. No firm date, because FW doesn't do that.

Nice to see Robocop back in action.
Gotta wonder where he got the sword from, though.

It's the same one Culln used to have, nice detail there. Makes me wonder how it survived Cullns death, as they said they needed a bucket to recover what remained of him.

gendoikari87 wrote:
Have the specifically mentioned fires or when it’ll be announced?

Unfortunately no. Nasty infohazard going around the FW office, whenever anyone says “Cyraxus” their head explodes. Best not to press the question.

Astraeus looks like it was done by some trainee during his lunch break. At least the price is somewhat reasonable, for such a lump o resin.
Scorp characters look nice.

OMG OMG OMG SO EXCITED MOAR SPACE MARINE DOORS I WONDER WHAT IS BEHIND THEM. THANK GOD WE HAVE THIS DOOR AND NOT FOC.

The doors are all pretty cool though.

I bet more doors, behind those doors - you see, some are still missing :\

Guess i have some doors to order to mix in with the old versions so it isnt 9 cloned razorbacks/predators.

I wonder if the tendency to ever larger centerpiece models is doing the hobby any good. I mean, I am certainly not going to start buying into a new game or army if I know that I'll need several 250€-units just to be vaguely competitive.

Certainly I can see the point that the new Gravtank doesnt aesthetically fit in with the rest of 40k.

well at least the new grav tank isn't competively mandatory or even good. FW tends to err on side of weak generally.

 Kosake wrote:
I wonder if the tendency to ever larger centerpiece models is doing the hobby any good. I mean, I am certainly not going to start buying into a new game or army if I know that I'll need several 250€-units just to be vaguely competitive.

Certainly I can see the point that the new Gravtank doesnt aesthetically fit in with the rest of 40k.

Hell I pretty much gave up on modern 40K when the possibility of having to deal with several HUEG 250 quid units on the regular become a serious prospect. I have zero desire to play 28mm Epic, and collecting a "normal" army isn't fun for me any more because you *have* to "spam" loads of boring duplicate units in order to cram enough heavy firepower into a list to deal with the big stuff. These days in the few cases I venture away from specialist games stuff I make armies sized for early 3rd Ed.

The sad thing is it isn't even FW's fault. They always made these big units because they were cool models and made great centerpieces for display shelves and the occasional megabattle with your buddies, it was the main studio(or the moneymen who rule them) who made all this nonsense part of the core game and created the daft arms race that the modern game has become, and not because it made the game better but to further line their pockets with the bigger margins on giant plastic kits.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
From Facebook:

This image shows brilliantly why I would never buy one. It just doesn’t look like it belongs in the same IP as the others.

Looks like something from a setting like Infinity, or Gates of Antares.

I wish they did the 3 rhino deal with your choice of doors.

 AegisGrimm wrote:

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
From Facebook:

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This image shows brilliantly why I would never buy one. It just doesn’t look like it belongs in the same IP as the others.

Looks like something from a setting like Infinity, or Gates of Antares.

I don't know, it doesn't look like a Baneblade, but it has some definite design elements in common with the space marine tanks (and even more elements if you look at the primaris tank). IMO the problem is not that it doesn't fit into the setting, it's that it's a poor design in general.

... is it just me or does the white scars rhino door not make any sense? The older kind, I mean. There doesnt actually seem to be a seam where it could open...?

 Tyr13 wrote:
... is it just me or does the white scars rhino door not make any sense? The older kind, I mean. There doesnt actually seem to be a seam where it could open...?

Good catch.

 Peregrine wrote:
OMG OMG OMG SO EXCITED MOAR SPACE MARINE DOORS I WONDER WHAT IS BEHIND THEM. THANK GOD WE HAVE THIS DOOR AND NOT FOC.

I LIKE THEM AND I DON'T MIND HAVING SOME MORE VARIETY FOR SOME OF MY CURRENTLY UNBUILT RHINOS LOL MOAAR DOORS OMG.

Shame they're not for everyone though. Oh well, can't please all people all the time.

Uhh... The white scars door doesn’t seem to open. There’s no line on it.

Edit: Dang, somebody else brought it up.

alphaecho wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:
OMG OMG OMG SO EXCITED MOAR SPACE MARINE DOORS I WONDER WHAT IS BEHIND THEM. THANK GOD WE HAVE THIS DOOR AND NOT FOC.

I LIKE THEM AND I DON'T MIND HAVING SOME MORE VARIETY FOR SOME OF MY CURRENTLY UNBUILT RHINOS LOL MOAAR DOORS OMG.

Shame they're not for everyone though. Oh well, can't please all people all the time.

Don't worry, Perry doesn't really do jokes so he isn't familiar with how they work. Nor, apparently, when they're done to death and the very tiny ember of comedy they may have originally cradled has long since been extinguished.

Space Wolf Praetor and some Hired Guns:



He looks a bit awkwardly stretched for someone wearing Cataphractii plate.

Grizzly Adams, the desert rose and a gimp. As with the original Scum minis, there's two I like and one I'm not so keen on, but he's not bad as such.

Definitely getting the gimpy Road Warrior guy and also Lauren of Arabia there, but I'll probably give the bionic hunchback a miss unless the 360 shot is something special.

I wish they'd preview everything in bare resin first, their house painter's style just doesn't show things off very well IMO, it seems to look best in the "moody" action pics with terrain and less sterile lighting, but in those white background bright photo lighting rig shots they do for promos & the webstore they often look awful.

Of course in the case of the SW guy the quality of the sculpt itself is a bit lacking tbh, I think it's the fur that's putting me off - you can get away with "lumpy fur" on plastic kits, but once you move to resin you're inviting comparison to stuff like Mierce and that kind of style begins to look a bit amateurish.

I'm guessing that the Hive Scum will come as a set of 3.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Of course in the case of the SW guy the quality of the sculpt itself is a bit lacking tbh, I think it's the fur that's putting me off - you can get away with "lumpy fur" on plastic kits, but once you move to resin you're inviting comparison to stuff like Mierce and that kind of style begins to look a bit amateurish.

That explains nicely why I thought the SW character looked like he was a plastic clampack. Almost certainly not, but looks like one.