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As far as jump infantry goes they certainly aren't Night Raptors. But then the best jump infantry models should obviously belong to the best jump infantry legion.

beast_gts wrote:

 warboss wrote:
As a hibernating Blood Angel player (admittedly 40k and not HH), I think those look like crap. They look more appropriate for pre heresy Emperor's Children to me. Ymmv.

Our local Blood Angel player thinks they look more Death Guard (mainly due to the shoulder pad)

I'm not very familiar with HH DG myself so can't comment. The reason I said EC was because they have oversized shoulderpad wings in previous HH legion releases plus the helmets remind me of screaming speaker noise marines (or raptors to a lesser extent). YMMV.

The earlier BA releases looked pretty good, but this round looks embarrassingly bad. The painting style doesn’t help either. Completely different from earlier HH BA.

The contrast with the HH DAs is huge.

Qin Xa from the White Scars

More pads have gone:

Iron Hands Mk IV
Thousand Sons Achean Pads
Salamanders Mk IV
Thousand Sons Mk III
Imperial Fists Mk VI

If you haven't already, get your pads as Forgeworld have confirmed that they won't be restocking the pads when they've gone...


Edit:
Some doors have gone as well

Honestly, these are the ones that normally don't go well with their legions.
From my experience, I've very rarely seen MKIII Sons, MKIV Hands/Sallies/Fists - these legions just look so much better in MKIII/MKIV.

Night Lords mark 3 shoulder pads are gone from the fw sight. That makes sense seeing as how they're one of the two legions featured in the upcoming Thramas Crusade.

Phew...that is a terrible special character.

Pic is broken for me lol.

FW seem to be unloading a ton of older items lately.
Hopefully they come out with replacements/new items to cover them.

Jackal90 wrote:
Pic is broken for me lol.

Warhammer Community is currently down for maintenance.

 Elbows wrote:
Phew...that is a terrible special character.

That face is..... wierd.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
Phew...that is a terrible special character.

That face is..... wierd.

I think it's the paintjob. For a lot of the bare-headed models I've felt the same, until I see the unpainted version on the website at which point I realize it was just painted badly.

I honestly think it's a great model. The helmet is neato. It has some very interesting and cool details without feeling too cluttered.

I like the armour a lot but it makes me sad that 40k era Scars lost their fancy gear.

Pic is back now.
I’m actually liking the model a lot.

Again, they have enough detail to make it interesting but haven’t flooded it with random clutter for the sake of details.

It's weird, Forgeworld used to be one of the most exciting and news-worthy releases from GW, but it's all a bit samey now, with yet more marines, and with much more exciting stuff coming from the main studio.

grahamdbailey wrote:
It's weird, Forgeworld used to be one of the most exciting and news-worthy releases from GW, but it's all a bit samey now, with yet more marines, and with much more exciting stuff coming from the main studio.

~~Complains about the studio almost entirely dedicated to HH releasing only marines~~

Okie dokie buddy

 Nah Man Pichu wrote:

grahamdbailey wrote:
It's weird, Forgeworld used to be one of the most exciting and news-worthy releases from GW, but it's all a bit samey now, with yet more marines, and with much more exciting stuff coming from the main studio.

~~Complains about the studio almost entirely dedicated to HH releasing only marines~~

Okie dokie buddy

There used to be the Imperial Armour books and quite a bit of Xenos items coming from Forge World . Also, there's generally no new Solar Auxilia now either (besides that one tank they had a while back).

Now there's no more Imperial Armor (with the upcoming one being in development for a long long time) and the guy who did Solar Auxilia is gone. I think there aren't as many Custodes and Chaos vehicles and beasts or Dreadnaught stuff as previously too but maybe that's just confirmation bias or something. Feels like most of it's been Marine infantry lately.

The thing is, Forgeworld's thing used to be making stuff that the main studio couldn't. With the main studio now able to turn out plastic titans, Forgeworld needed a new direction.


And, quite frankly, I suspect that Heresy marines sell considerably better than most of their previous releases.

There is also a backlog on parts for titans, and no new mechanicus/mechanicum stuff in a while.

 insaniak wrote:

And, quite frankly, I suspect that Heresy marines sell considerably better than most of their previous releases.

Just not the shoulder pads though, evidently!

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
There is also a backlog on parts for titans, and no new mechanicus/mechanicum stuff in a while.

The lack of new Mechanicum models is a particular annoyance, because I can't shake the sense that the reason we've not had any more is the main Studio told them to stop so their whackadoodledoo 40K range would have a free run.

There’ll at least be some Dark Mechanicum stuff with book 10.

Maybe they will bring back the awesome macrocarid explorator. Don't know why that went away when the ugly karaktos thing is still around.

FW fails so bad. 11:33 and they still can't sort their website nonsense. Maybe that's why they are getting rid of sculpted shoulder pads. Transfers for everyone!

Maybe new Transfers this week? Seems like they've put an advert on their frontpage but no product.

Dark Angels and White Scars with the Emperors Children sheet returning:

yeah, that is clear ... but clicking on the button is still not successful ... so we do not know if there are other new transfers on top of the three you mentioned

Just those three - they're now live

Good that they've brought these out considering the shoulder pads are for the chop. Looks like the word bearers have been chopped and some more doors.

Aarrgghh! I don't want transfers. I want my legion's shoulder pads damnit!

New "Road to Thramas" blog post coming tomorrow, apparently about the Night Lords. Fingers crossed for Atramentar!