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 Bulldogging wrote:
He needs a helmet or facial hair.

Hey, you should be happy he has any hair at all!

Forgive me if this seems obvious, but, does Scoria's leg-assembly thing look a lot like the legs from a Defiler?
I'm a bit behind on HH stuff, I presume he's one of the dark mechanicus techpriests?

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
Forgive me if this seems obvious, but, does Scoria's leg-assembly thing look a lot like the legs from a Defiler?
I'm a bit behind on HH stuff, I presume he's one of the dark mechanicus techpriests?

He is more like a mini FW Brass Scorpion as he has 8 legs, a pair of claws and a curled round tail gun. Lovely model, very intricate, but saddled with a stupidly large base. It should be possible to rebase him onto your own base easy enough though.

Yes, the base does seem excessive - I'm sure it's very impressive as a display/diorama model, but if you actually intend to use him on the Tabletop, I'd go for a simpler base.

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
Forgive me if this seems obvious, but, does Scoria's leg-assembly thing look a lot like the legs from a Defiler?
I'm a bit behind on HH stuff, I presume he's one of the dark mechanicus techpriests?

Scoria is the Dark Mech equivalent to a Primarch. He's a real nasty piece of work.

Man, I totally missed the Scoria pics, could someone point me in the right direction? Cheers

Scoria:

 RiTides wrote:
Man, I totally missed the Scoria pics, could someone point me in the right direction? Cheers

 djones520 wrote:

chaos45 wrote:
So anyone else in the, if they get 8th edition rules I will buy some but otherwise 30k is pretty much a dead game where I play category?

I've had tons of 30k resin basically sitting mostly unused since 8th dropped so not investing more till they start at least doing rules for both editions for 30k releases.

Ummm... no dude, you're very much in the minority on that one. Despite the BlackBlowFly ranting to the contrary, 30K is very much alive and well.

I think it depends on your location. In my area, the game did die after 8th came out. I went back and played a game of 30K about three weeks ago, and it was miserable. Compared to 8th, the 7th rules set was so clunky. Armor facings and weapon angles made it a tiresome bore to painstakingly plan out every little move, etc. I also noticed that there didn't seem to be as many people playing in the 30K event at LVO this year, though I did see some beautiful models there so that's good.

I like the game and the models, but unfortunately I decided to put mine in a tub until they get a rules update.

Hi. Has anyone got any pics of the Grey Slayer upgrade packs. Thought I saw it mentioned somewhere

Oh wow, that scoria model is intense! At first I wasn't sure if I liked it, but the more I look at it the more fantastic it seems... although that is a little over the top on the base

The Horus Heresy fanatics at Black Label Painting converted this one for me last year (to go with nerdfest's awesome work!) but that FW model is reeeeeaaaalllly tempting

 RiTides wrote:
Oh wow, that scoria model is intense! At first I wasn't sure if I liked it, but the more I look at it the more fantastic it seems... although that is a little over the top on the base

Agree about the base. Apparently he's on an 80mm, so it looks like Scoria himself should fit on a 60mm.

So I am looking at the Space Wolves Grey Slayers pack, they do know that they modeled the receiver of the Phobos Boltguns upside down yeah?

Don't you mean sights, but yes!

Unless the Space Wolves have their own pattern.

Okay that is really bizarre. Looks like a freak mistake.

Well the bayonet lug is upside down too, so I just figured its easier to say receiver.

Maybe receiver housing is more apt.

Space Wolf Phobos-Invertus pattern Boltgun.


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 Crimson wrote:
Okay that is really bizarre. Looks like a freak mistake.

Its shown on all of them in the group shot.

 BrookM wrote:
Don't you mean sights, but yes!

Unless the Space Wolves have their own pattern.

Definitely their own pattern

I do want to see them now with the chain bayonets mounted up top.

If you're being charitable, you could say that since it has a little nubbin on it, they're not ironsights but a laser dot, and since it would be wielded one-handed with a laser dot they just didn't bother putting ironsights on at all?

But yeah for reals that looks like someone hit the wrong button in the CAD software and didn't notice until after they'd already cast up the first batch of stock

beast_gts wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
Oh wow, that scoria model is intense! At first I wasn't sure if I liked it, but the more I look at it the more fantastic it seems... although that is a little over the top on the base

Agree about the base. Apparently he's on an 80mm, so it looks like Scoria himself should fit on a 60mm.

His legs look like they're as wide as the base and if they're whats holding him up then a 60 will be completely useless.

I must be the only person who really likes that base he's on.

He's a monster with that base.

I mean, for a while now we knew what his face was like:



But I never knew nor imagined that such a monstrous body would be attached to it! Truly this thing is worthy of being the father of the Dark Mechanicum.

I mean, he also has the option to take an Abeyant, but I guess that body already counts as one eh?

That'll be one big abeyant!

 Togusa wrote:

 djones520 wrote:

chaos45 wrote:
So anyone else in the, if they get 8th edition rules I will buy some but otherwise 30k is pretty much a dead game where I play category?

I've had tons of 30k resin basically sitting mostly unused since 8th dropped so not investing more till they start at least doing rules for both editions for 30k releases.

Ummm... no dude, you're very much in the minority on that one. Despite the BlackBlowFly ranting to the contrary, 30K is very much alive and well.

I think it depends on your location. In my area, the game did die after 8th came out. I went back and played a game of 30K about three weeks ago, and it was miserable. Compared to 8th, the 7th rules set was so clunky. Armor facings and weapon angles made it a tiresome bore to painstakingly plan out every little move, etc. I also noticed that there didn't seem to be as many people playing in the 30K event at LVO this year, though I did see some beautiful models there so that's good.

I like the game and the models, but unfortunately I decided to put mine in a tub until they get a rules update.

I'm with you on the rules. And you know, it is what it is, and we're all big boys and girls and can each proceed how we want. What gets me salty is internet strangers claiming to know the local scene of others better than they do, apparently out of some need to be 'right' about 7th edition.

I’d seen that bolter mistake too, wasn’t sure if Wolves had some special reason for doing that or not, like they might hold bolters like Africans or Detroit gang-bangers...

 Nostromodamus wrote:
I’d seen that bolter mistake too, wasn’t sure if Wolves had some special reason for doing that or not, like they might hold bolters like Africans or Detroit gang-bangers...

New space wolf recruit spotted:





That can't be right, surely?

It's been done.

I wonder how easy it would be to remove Scoria from his base, or give him a more reasonable one? It looks like a staircase, meaning that his legs may be incompatible with being flat on the ground.

I could always have him walking on a carpet of Space Marine corpses, but the color of the armor may sort of drown out Scoria himself.

 Imateria wrote:
His legs look like they're as wide as the base and if they're whats holding him up then a 60 will be completely useless.

I must be the only person who really likes that base he's on.

The base is definitely growing on me, too . I just don't like that the edge isn't flush with the plastic base.

It honestly might not need a plastic base at all, just paint the bottom edge to match your army's base rims! That front lip actually looks perfect for this

"He's more base now than miniature. Heavy and expensive." - Obi-Wan Kenobi

Why is Scoria so ridiculously OP anyway? From what I've read about him in my red book he never seemed to have any real reason for being the primarch+ tier of demigod that he is on the tabletop, especially considering how absolutely irrelevant he is in the grander scheme of things.

It's kind of like Sharrowkyn except that guy at least was bound by the limits of Marinehood. This guy just randomly is ten times more powerful than his fellow machinedudes. Why exactly can he 1v3 Cawl, who certainly is no smaller? He just randomly has probably the deadliest weapon in the galaxy and it doesn't even get any background?