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The other topic was months old so I guess I'll start a new one for their stuff

In june they released a standard bearer, Archdiacre Sariel (20.00 EUR)





And now in august they have two new models, Holy Gates Keeper St. Peter (17.00 EUR) and ArchFather Proturbo (23.00 EUR)

hightechminiatures wrote:
ProTurbo" - Powerful ArchFAther of Iron Giants

Lol.

Sweet! Excellent Iron Warriors-like Lord!

Zweischneid wrote:

hightechminiatures wrote:
ProTurbo" - Powerful ArchFAther of Iron Giants

Lol.

creative juices running dry....not bad models, improvement over the last stuff i saw

These are worse than Scibor. And I didn't think that possible...

~Eric

I mean, seriously are there people spending money for these press-moulded "sculpts"?

What makes them bad in your opinion?

Personally, I like a lot of Scibor's stuff, such as the not-custodes and not-Emperors. His gun sculpts look like Nerf ball cannons, however...

I'm definitely going to pick up a model or two from HiTech Minis to compare.

rubbish like this reminds me why i buy stuff like mcvey and statuesqe ..even scribor is better than these ...

Hello,
I do like a few of their models, however for the price, no. I will pick up Scibor.

Regards,
Carl

Interesting, as always.

"ProTurbo" is a LOL name too!

Side note: could we make this thread the place for all things HiTech moving forward, instead of creating a new one each time?

Thanks!

I'm not fond of either Scibor or this.

Can we maybe keep the feedback constructive as well. Your opinion is after all your opinion but some of these comments are pointlessly harsh. It takes countless hours to sculpt mold and cast these for a small business like hitech and scibor. I think it is low to simply proclaim it crap three posts in without any intelligent feedback. You don't have to purchase them, but you also have to discourage as well. Or you can post your army that you have modeled for countless months and I will simply one line post it as rubbish so you can get the point.

I think they are definitely of a specific genre stylistically. You will either like it o hate it, but either way I am a big fan of the crisp details and hard lines they achieved. I would be curious to see these painted.

HiTech stuff is kinda hit or miss, much like Scibor. The general level of sculpting seems to stay the same, just some designs are...odd.

Id pick up a few but the price kills...as it does for many US customers. Direct currency translation from Euros or worse GBP hurts, unless the price is very low to start.

I really like Hi-Tech's "Not-Obliterators".

While I'm not a fan of the ones in this thread, I REALLY like that shield and banner. I wonder if they'll make more stuff like that and sell it separately.

Red Corsair wrote:Can we maybe keep the feedback constructive as well. Your opinion is after all your opinion but some of these comments are pointlessly harsh. It takes countless hours to sculpt mold and cast these for a small business like hitech and scibor. I think it is low to simply proclaim it crap three posts in without any intelligent feedback. You don't have to purchase them, but you also have to discourage as well. Or you can post your army that you have modeled for countless months and I will simply one line post it as rubbish so you can get the point.

I think they are definitely of a specific genre stylistically. You will either like it o hate it, but either way I am a big fan of the crisp details and hard lines they achieved. I would be curious to see these painted.

well the fact that they want people to pay for them opens them as fair game for our opinions what ever they are , and its completely different to a hobiest posting there own work for feedback.

Nothing says "HiTech Miniatures" like a wonderfully detailed miniature that just has a little too much going on.

Alpharius wrote:Side note: could we make this thread the place for all things HiTech moving forward, instead of creating a new one each time?

Their release schedule isn't exactly the fastest. The thread could vanish to page 5 or 6 between releases. It's probably not worth it.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Nothing says "HiTech Miniatures" like a wonderfully detailed miniature that just has a little too much going on.

Alpharius wrote:Side note: could we make this thread the place for all things HiTech moving forward, instead of creating a new one each time?

Their release schedule isn't exactly the fastest. The thread could vanish to page 5 or 6 between releases. It's probably not worth it.

kenshin620 is a smart one, I think he could manage it quite well!

Easy as pie, in fact!

What say you, kenshin620?!?

I thought their obliterators were terrible (though still better then GW's) but these are definitely better. Proturbo© is even fairly good, imo.



Why, I say. I do believe that chap has a turbofan intake duct for a face. Or, perhaps that's his back. Still funny though.

praetor24 wrote:I mean, seriously are there people spending money for these press-moulded "sculpts"?

Press molding may not be your thing, stylistically, but these are still pretty good figures. I don't feel compelled to buy them but I'm certainly not going to rip them just because someone used a press mold as part of their model making technique.

Alpharius wrote:
kenshin620 is a smart one, I think he could manage it quite well!

Easy as pie, in fact!

What say you, kenshin620?!?

I'll wait a few months to see if I'm smart

The relief on the banner and shield is way too prominent. Who would carry around a shield with a 3D montage on it?

And more so, who would carry a banner around that had fiberglass details sticking out of it?

Banner and shield pictures should be as 2 dimensional as possible.

praetor24 wrote:I mean, seriously are there people spending money for these press-moulded "sculpts"?

Oh Jesus not this again.

Where does this elitist snobbery over "press moulds" come from?

Aerethan wrote:The relief on the banner and shield is way too prominent. Who would carry around a shield with a 3D montage on it?
.

I totally would. To the gym. Or the library.

A 3D shield makes some sense - ornate armour is deliberately fancy and has no reason to be flat. But a 3D banner, not so much - even a heavily embroidered real banner is relatively flat, whereas this banner looks more like a thin mattress

Other than that, I think these figures are pretty good, and all the nerd-rage puzzles me somewhat.

I'm not getting the nerd rage either. The models are covered in detail to the point of being busy and I find the weapons a little oversized, but other than that, they look fine.

The Holy Gates Keeper is particularly nice. The others don't grab me and I find the banner is too thick and obscures the model too much on the archangel.

Aerethan wrote:The relief on the banner and shield is way too prominent. Who would carry around a shield with a 3D montage on it?

And more so, who would carry a banner around that had fiberglass details sticking out of it?

Banner and shield pictures should be as 2 dimensional as possible.

in all honesty, in the 40,000 AD , who the hell would carry a banner?


I mean really, why not make a servo skull do it?

DIDM wrote:
in all honesty, in the 40,000 AD , who the hell would carry a banner?
I mean really, why not make a servo skull do it?

Everyone. While leading from the front, not wearing their helmets and asking the driver of their tank to drive faster so they can hit the enemies with their swords.

These figures are an interesting mix of awesome and awful. Unfortunately, that mix is on each of the individual figures, so probably not something I'd use.

I uhh......thats....erm...interesting


(Female Ordo Malleus in termie armor? First time I've seen that)

16.50 EUR

BLACK WIDOWS

Female Grand Commander "Katja"

Huh. There's a guy over at Warseer that has a female Space Marine army called the Black Widows which uses the Web motif. Wonder if this was a commission?

Charax wrote:
Huh. There's a guy over at Warseer that has a female Space Marine army called the Black Widows which uses the Web motif. Wonder if this was a commission?

He posted here too, but his fluff horrors couldn;t be handled by the average gw fan and he was flamed away into lurking...