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SaintHazard wrote:It's his left arm.

Damn, once again my lack of left/right distinction betrays me!

Come on now! Only the Sanguinor guard and the Sanguinor have shiney, sorry sparkely nipples they are meant to be angelic and they are supposed to emulate Sanguinius, which they do quite well. The deathcompany on the other hand look terrifing they dont look like a bunch of pansies.

I care not for blood angels, I do however care for the OP's list of 'good' vampire movies. Van hellsing was bad and no Near Dark? That's a gem I tell you!

Near Dark was far better than Lost Boys.

Agreed, why did IT not make the list?

I also care little for BA, but I also care little for DA, UM, SW, BT and spiky-bad-marines.

Why crossmatch the vampire marines with Twilight?

Come on now, that's obvious. They are the vamps of the moment. The BA of Mephiston's vintage (the model) were more Stoker's Dracula (the armour of Mephiston is meant to be reminiscent of Dracula's armour in that movie). Vamps were more badass back then. These days, not so much. If Jes Goodwin ever gets to resculpt MeFabio, he might get a more grimdark version.

BA are also meant to embody the renaissance feel and look as well as the Romanesque. That they will be the "pretty, pretty boys" as a result of this is a side-effect.

I still stand behind my theory that the sanguinary guard and some of the new blood angels models are designed to attract female players. I do agree that Eldar are pretty as well, however, in my opinion the most beautiful model is Saint Celestine.

Mephiston on jetbike?

But seriously, mephiston is a pretty terrible model, I personally think he would look a lot more menacing with a helmet.

HELLSING!


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That's what you should be thinking, not Twilight.

loranafaeriequeen wrote:I still stand behind my theory that the sanguinary guard and some of the new blood angels models are designed to attract female players. I do agree that Eldar are pretty as well, however, in my opinion the most beautiful model is Saint Celestine.

I have to agree, Saint Celestine is one of my favorite GW sculpts. My favorite is probably a two-way tie between her and this guy:



Now if more of GW's 40k sculpts were based around the "Khorne Chaos Lord on Juggernaut" school of thought, we'd have a lot more beautifully badass sculpts.

Laughing God wrote:

Them... those can be the model vampires im looking for that this chapter should have been based off. Grrrrr... I blame trueblood too for glamorizing the vampiric image. .....Im going to go sprinkle some more gore on my flesh tearers.

Don't forget to glitter the nipples.

Yes i did forget Near Dark, I also have soft spot for From Dusk Till Dawn just for the cheesy comedy of it all.

Agreed ont the khorne lord, hands down the most badass looking model GW makes IMO.

Andrewm9- I was talking to SaintHazard with the second remark, sorry for the confusion.

Well this thread has certainly changed my view on the blood angels. Perhaps because I go at things with an open mind but I see most of you people are right. GW could have done something great with this army and made them the Grim dark space draculas they could have been. But instead chose the tragic hero emo pretty vampire theme.

Really I think it was for balance. How could they have pulled off the bloodthirsty monster/Creature of the night theme without making them chaos? They gaurd there hidden thirst like a secret? DA already has enough secret grim darkness for the whole imperium. Really this doesnt change my take on my flesh tearers. I love my grim dark, bloodthirsty rage machines that fight for the good guys blood god. But I degress... GW you suck for making recent BA fluff blow.

The "pretty boy vampire" thing is fairly recent. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they did it to capitalize on the popularity of Twilight.

To be fair, the Flesh Tearers avoid the whole "pretty boy vampire" aesthetic pretty well. It's a shame Gabriel Seth is one of the more lackluster HQ choices in the BA codex.

^Agreed.
He is unique in the army background wise and model wise. Shame for the rules though.

Ditto on both accounts. While I'm trying to make my flesh Tearers as fluffy as possible, using gabriels rules just arent worth it. Not into the whole "looking good and fluffy losing" thing. Prolly use a counts as thing for dante or asswrath.

asswrath

Butt kicking or are we back to the Gehy Jokes?

Sanctjud wrote:

asswrath

Butt kicking or are we back to the Gehy Jokes?

Neither.

He went to Mexico and drank the water.