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Athera wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Nothing useful for you. Consider that there are people out who play Imp Fists, Crim Fists, Raven Guard, various flavours of Blood Angel, Iron Hands and Blood Ravens.

"For Mahreens eveything, the rest, nothing." Right?

No, the GW motto is: All for Space Marines, Space Marines for all.

I like the designs in this set actually, but I think FW should have gone for a smaller size with both the power fist and the bolt pistols, the pistols look larger than the current ones which are themselves oversized already.
The sword frankly is a joke, I've half a dozen similar swords from DA packs and elsewhere, it should have had an ornate basket hilt, say a refined version of the hilts that the relic blades in the Sanguinary Guard set had. As it is, it is nothing special.
The plasma pistol is obviously based on the old one, at least the vent casing is because the old one is much wider at the back. For such a "rare" weapon that only the best of the best get to use it's nice to see some variation in style rather than just tacking on a scope.

"Stay on Target!, Stay on Target!"

Platuan4th wrote:

Again, insert Jes Goodwin line about GW Marines being true scale and the rest of the sculptors not being able to adhere to the scaling system he originated.

The older metal guard like the Steel Legion were smaller, as were humans like the Frateris Militia and so forth. The scale has really been mucked up since the release of the plastic Catachans.

cadbren wrote:The scale has really been mucked up since the release of the Metal Catachans.

FYP.

Seriously, compare one of them to a 2nd ed metal marine.

Alpharius wrote:Good point - let's take the "TS Issue" to its own thread and stay OT here.

Agreed. I have seen my fare share of scale wars on other forums

I got one of the new warjacks to use as a dp and they are smaller than the metal ones.

cadbren wrote:No, the GW motto is: All for Space Marines, Space Marines for all.

Please don't feed this one.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

cadbren wrote:No, the GW motto is: All for Space Marines, Space Marines for all.

Please don't feed this one.

But then I would have to ignore my Phil Kelly quote signature.

I really want to like the "Iron Hands" set but only the combi-flamer and, maybe, the PF are anything I would want. I would hate to have to use that leg. Then again, I guess in 40k, Imperial limb replacements have machine spirits that do not allow them to be armored or covered up and so they must be exposed to being damaged or the elements.

temprus wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:

cadbren wrote:No, the GW motto is: All for Space Marines, Space Marines for all.

Please don't feed this one.

But then I would have to ignore my Phil Kelly quote signature.

I really want to like the "Iron Hands" set but only the combi-flamer and, maybe, the PF are anything I would want. I would hate to have to use that leg. Then again, I guess in 40k, Imperial limb replacements have machine spirits that do not allow them to be armored or covered up and so they must be exposed to being damaged or the elements.

It might be that ceramite is too valuable to waste on covering up a bionic body part with the bionic part considered strong enough to last at least a battle. How that equates to a sealed environment for the rest of the marine is best left to the background forum.


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Platuan4th wrote:

cadbren wrote:The scale has really been mucked up since the release of the Metal Catachans.

FYP.

Seriously, compare one of them to a 2nd ed metal marine.

Don't recall coming across the earlier metal Catachans so can't compare, do have some 2nd Ed metal marines though which are smaller than the current plastics, and power fists weren't so oversized. I take it the Cats were bigger than the marines.