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Ok seriously. Why? WHY!??!?!?! They look incredibly stupid on every model I've ever seen them on. Orks, chaos, space marines, you name it. They look borderline idiotic. Why on earth do they exist in the 40k universe? Is it just a holdover from the "fantasy in space" days? I would really like to know. It can't be because they look "cool" because they definitely fail miserably at that. I've been clipping the top knots off my ork boyz for a while now, and after getting some more AoBR stuff the other day I've started clipping them down as well. I just can't stand the sight of them. It is literally the only thing that has caused me to rage in 40k.

Surely I'm not the only person bothered by these ridiculous looking things... right?

Because samurai wear them and samurai are beyond awesomesauce.

I think they look kinda cool. I mean, fashions will surely change in the next 38,000 years

Who says you can't be Heretical AND fashionable??

This year topknots are in and ascotts are out! ..here comes Warmaster Abaddon looking chic in his Black legion chaos armour and his full topknot...Death to the Emperor?..Death to bad hair days!...Thank you Abaddon...

Next up is Warboss Gofftoof looking resplendid in his polished knob boots and ork teef necklace....makes anyone want to scream WAAGH

To be fair, most of the minis were created during a horible hangover from the 1980's.

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Anyways, think of it less as a goofy style, and think of it more as the glam-rock-grimdark version of the helmet plume.

Because when you apply a flame thrower to them they run around with their heads on fire and its incredibly hilarious.

Who says you can't find humor in endless war? You only need to set someones silly looking hair on fire.

I would take 80's glam hair over topknots literally any day of the week. It looks at least slightly possible. Top knots are just impractical, and practically come with a sign saying "hey, want to decapitate this guy? Grab here and his head is ripe for the taking!"

Also, don't get me started on Dark Eldar (I assume that's what the other two are) I hate an extreme hatred of them for some reason. Although it's not so much their hair as them in general

Jes actually answered this at the Australian Games Day.

Jes had a solo seminar, where I accosted him about his constant use of topknots on minis (he likes the feral yet combat ready look, it allows Eldar to have hair but not be too slicked down, it helps with multi part minis to have long hair as if it isn’t tied up you can’t pose the head, and he thinks they’re cool). The fallout of this is that I have to send Jes a photo of my hair in a topknot when it is long enough.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha The hate that MrMoustaffa has for top knots is fantastic! I agree with ya, I hate the top knot, except for Samurai which it is actually a respected part of the whole Samurai thing. But for the 40k Universe, unless this Adeptus Astartes or Ork or whomever came straight from Japan and wields a "Power Katana", I am not in any accepting mood for it!

 Ailaros wrote:
To be fair, most of the minis were created during a horible hangover from the 1980's.

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Anyways, think of it less as a goofy style, and think of it more as the glam-rock-grimdark version of the helmet plume.

And about half way through is when I get out the clippers and green stuff to make less horrible hair myself.

40,000 years from now, Topnots are very popular. Who are you to say different?

I usually just clip them off and file the heads smooth or don't use that bit because they look silly.

Topknots look better on the Tau as opposed to Chaos and Orks i feel. Suits the Japanese/Anime/Samurai look.

More to the point. Where can i get one of these things from?

 Ailaros wrote:

 Engine of War wrote:
Because when you apply a flame thrower to them they run around with their heads on fire and its incredibly hilarious.

Who says you can't find humor in endless war? You only need to set someones silly looking hair on fire.

Cause it is - its even in the fluff - ork burnas love "making people do the burny dance"

It could definitely be worse. Instead of topknots, everyone in the 40K universe could be emulating Vampire Jesus and wearing a mullet.

Zarryiosiad

Snrub wrote:Topknots look better on the Tau as opposed to Chaos and Orks i feel. Suits the Japanese/Anime/Samurai look.

More to the point. Where can i get one of these things from?

Lol, topknot tau.

Anyways, I'm pretty sure that's a picture of the inquisitor-scale abbadon. As such, it's more like 6" tall and less like 1".

To be serious for a second;

It is most likely because top-knots (and long flowing hair) is an easy way of conveying a sense of movement to an otherwise static model.

I think top knots look quite bad ass on certain models.
Like on Dark Eldar and on pre-heresy Space Marines.

I always found the Space Wolves hairdoes the worst of the lot
I feel top knots fade in comparison.

I dont know why people keeping bringing up samurai topknots and the topknots models in 40k sport. They're almost nothing a like, with few exceptions.

That being said, the topknots look pretty cool on helmeted space marines, like a helmet plume/crest.

Because it's likely easier to sculpt?

40k topknots aren't even topknots, they're scalplocks.




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 Purifier wrote:
I always found the Space Wolves hairdoes the worst of the lot
I feel top knots fade in comparison.

Guido blowout wolves are the worst. I have so many of these bits filling up my box and they will never, ever, ever be used.

 Ailaros wrote:
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Anyways, think of it less as a goofy style, and think of it more as the glam-rock-grimdark version of the helmet plume.

With the exception of Lelith, all of those minis preceded Steel Panther. So, yeah...

Yeah Ailaros, you picked a bad example there, if you want a good example of 80's hair, make sure you pick one of the "serious" 80's bands. Steel panther knew how silly it looked and did it that way on purpose.

Rant on 80's metal that I love aside, wow, I didn't think I could hate space wolves anymore than I did right now.

And I was proven very, VERY wrong.

What were they THINKING!?!??!?! That makes a mullet look like high fashion!

 Purifier wrote:
I always found the Space Wolves hairdoes the worst of the lot
I feel top knots fade in comparison.

Haha dear god. Space Wolf hair is hideous!

I ave cut the top knots off every Ork I own.
I use them for flames or trophies.
All my Orks is bald, cuz bald is best!

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Yeah Ailaros, you picked a bad example there, if you want a good example of 80's hair, make sure you pick one of the "serious" 80's bands. Steel panther knew how silly it looked and did it that way on purpose.

Besides, Lelith has more of a "Croydon facelift" thing going on than a topknot.

You want to know why they use so many Top Knots?

It's because they are...... Top Knot-ch!

*Sunglasses*

YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Although I agree on some models they do look terrible and I actively avoid them on the likes of Chaos Marine heads etc.

The top knot makes sense for Orks. Most of them would only be able to afford one hair squig.

Well, thanks to the options presented by the Chaos Marines sprue, I actually had several heads left over. Topknot heads.

Thanks to those topknot heads, I got to give two Berserkers a new lease on life. Only 6 out of 10 heads I like in that sprue, and 8 Berserkers. This left me with the problem of having Berserkers wearing the derpy skullface helmet - until I face-transplanted from the topknot helmet onto the Khorne helmet.

Thank you, top knots, for letting two World Eaters know that they too can be pretty. (No, they don't have top knots. Just the faces)

 DeathReaper wrote:
Because samurai wear them and knights are beyond awesomesauce.

FTFY