Forge World News and Rumour Thread : p212 Knight Porphyrion

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**Yaraton**

How do we know it's legit and not somebody's custom work?

**em_en_oh_pee**

Mymearan wrote:
BrookM wrote:
Interesting to see it painted up as a Night Lord.

Well he is summoning a demon!

Right and the NL's were all that big on that stuff, right?

I would have expected this in Thousand Sons colors. I think that would look awesome.

Gorgeous model either way. Maybe I will be able to find one on eBay someday.

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Yaraton wrote:
How do we know it's legit and not somebody's custom work?

Because it is here.

**ImAGeek**

Yaraton wrote:
How do we know it's legit and not somebody's custom work?

It's from the FW Bulletin.

If you were at Warhammer fest you may have picked up the latest event exclusive Forge World model. With the Forge World Open day coming up, the Forge World studio team decided that one exclusive model isn’t enough, so there’s another one coming! Check it out…

A Space Marine Librarian summoning a daemon? Sounds heretical to me, but it’s a fantastic looking model. Here’s a look at it unpainted, and you can see that there is plenty of fantastic detail in this model.

You’ll be able to get one first at the Forge World Open Day, and then at every event we attend this year. If you have a ticket for the Forge World Open Day, you have until Monday 11th July to place an order for collection at the event with free shipping. Just make sure you’ve selected the UK as your shipping destination and choose the Forge World Open Day from the list of events.

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/blog/blog.jsp?_requestid=9746930

**Yaraton**

It looks better unpainted.

**bubber**

HH rules FAQ has been updated:
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/Horus_Heresy/Horus_Heresy_7th_Edition.pdf

**Rygnan**

Only change I noticed is the addition of the Arioch Claw rules. Is there anything I missed, or is this it? Missed a perfect opportunity to clear up Book 6 with stuff like BA Moritats and the Ironwing RoW that I've seen people debate about

**Yodhrin**

*sigh* Oh well, looks like those of us hoping for a return to FW using their event-only models to do something interesting should probably just give up, afterall what's a chance to showcase niche or non-battlefield parts of the setting compared to the opportunity to buy yet another Big Shouty Space Manz?

And before anyone starts - it's a perfectly serviceable Big Shouty Space Manz, but it's just another Terminator character, the event models used to be genuinely special.

**Zingraff**

Yaraton wrote:
It looks better unpainted.

Yeah but that's often the case with Forge World for a couple of reasons. In my opinion, the conventional, by-the-book Studio way of painting miniatures, with highlights and bright colours, doesn't suit FW at all. Having said that, I don't agree with you in this particular case.

**sockwithaticket**

Maybe it's HH fatigue and the fact that I seem to be one of the few who doesn't like Cataphract armour, but this does nothing for me. Neither have the last few special HH terminator models.

**Bull0**

I don't really like it much either, not for eye-roll-and-sigh type reasons but just objectively - it's an awkward pose, weird constipated facial expression, odd arrangement of adornments on the armour... not much to like on the whole.

Besides, I don't recall reading descriptions of sorcerers summoning daemons directly out of their powerfists, is that a thing?

**sockwithaticket**

Bull0 wrote:
it's an awkward pose, weird constipated facial expression, odd arrangement of adornments on the armour... not much to like on the whole.

You've just described how I feel about 90%* of marine models that come with a stock pose. The sculptors really do need to occasionally get up and try out what they're sculpting just to see if it's anything even approaching practical/realistic.

*Perhaps a slight exagerration, but certainly seems that way recently.

**Desubot**

I dunno i feel like i would probably have the same facial expression as a daemon pops out of my hand :/

**Bi'ios**

Mymearan wrote:
Wow! Another event exclusive

[MOD EDIT - Please find a different way to express yourself - Alpharius] I (someone who went to college as an English major) lack any other descriptive terms that sufficiently describe the way it makes me feel

Sorry mods.

**Lockark**

Between this guy, the last one and the guy only coming out in UK stores. I'm super sad I will never have a chance to buy any of these minis unless I go threw recasters.

**commander dante**

The Model Contradicts the Rules/Fluff

Its painted as Night Lords, but only Word Bearers would summon daemons...
(Plus only word bearers can summon daemons in the rules)

**Gamgee**

Maybe it's dark and he wants some light? So he summons this flame thing to light the way.

**Desubot**

Wait

is it really nightlords?

the only part the lightning shows is one arm which is a lightning claw and the belt which i have no clue why its on the belt.

he also has a bunch of runes on his armor as well.

did word bearer libs paint there armor blue?

**ImAGeek**

commander dante wrote:
The Model Contradicts the Rules/Fluff

Its painted as Night Lords, but only Word Bearers would summon daemons...
(Plus only word bearers can summon daemons in the rules)

Early on in the Heresy maybe. Midway through we already have possessed Sons of Horus (the Lupercii), Emperors Children summoning Daemons, Mortarion summoning daemon Grulgor back (And he hates that kind of thing), Fulgrim and Angron are already Daemon Primarchs...

Plus it's the Night Lords, they do what they want. He might come with rules that let him summon daemons or we might get a new traitor consul that can summon daemons or it might just be for flavour.

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Desubot wrote:
Wait

is it really nightlords?

the only part the lightning shows is one arm which is a lightning claw and the belt which i have no clue why its on the belt.

he also has a bunch of runes on his armor as well.

did word bearer libs paint there armor blue?

Night Lords have runes too, and no Word Bearer librarians weren't blue. Blue Librarians is from the Codex Astartes I believe. The trim on the armour is also pretty NL, similar to Sevetars armour.

**Desubot**

Well there goes my sorta justifications. i still dont think its a night lord unless im miss remembering things as i though nightlords had lightning all over the place. as well the lightning on the model follows the way the daemon is being summoned. like they painted on the energy flow on the model instead of it being a decoration.

**ImAGeek**

There's no set pattern to where they had lightning, in Massacre some have it all over and some have none/hardly any.

**Lockark**

Nothing on the model makes it specificity night lords except that they painted him as one. I also woudn't be surprised if when you get the model you get rules to field him and summon deamons in any traitor army. FW has been making a point that any event model should be usable in games.

**Swampmist**

He also has a chainaxe, which NL don't have. I suspect it's a 40k model tbh

**nerdfest09**

Really like that model! much more of the style I prefer and seems very animated, would be great to use and convert

**hotsauceman1**

Swampmist wrote:
He also has a chainaxe, which NL don't have. I suspect it's a 40k model tbh

It is a force axe with a serrated edge. Not a chainaxe.

**BigWaaagh**

Mymearan wrote:
Wow! Another event exclusive

Just damn!

If this is their new 2016 Event mini for the rest of the year, I'll be definitely picking one up at the Forge World booth at GenCon in August.

**Gordy2000**

Like it or not, that paint job is light years ahead of the usual FW work. Be interested to know who they used for the brushwork.

Interesting mini - but as an event exclusive I'll never see/own it anyway.

**Crazyterran**

I want to make a traitor force just to include him, hot damn.

**Ankhalagon**

Looks like a wrong painted WB. Still, its just beautiful.

**foto69man**

As a Night Lords player, I shake my head a bit fluff wise at this. But hey, at least FW is using our scheme on event models now. I'd paint him as a Word Bearer, Thousand Sons, or the Son of Horus that got possessed.

(the books all talk about the dislike of psyker and demons. Sevatar had choice words about them and the Gal Vorbak)

**ImAGeek**

The Night Lords strike me as a legion without a unified opinion on basically everything. Some Night Lords would hate psykers and daemons, but I'm sure there were some among their number who dabbled in that kind of thing, especially later in the heresy.