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The most irratating thing about the horrors is the design. It was so easy not to screw these up. And what's up with the super muscular arms? They should be skinny and spindly. But, instead they're ripped! They look like a mix between khorne and bubblegum. plus I hate the massive eyes. They do look cartoony.

Rbb wrote:Plastic dp is $2 cheaper than the metal one. You win GW. I will buy your new daemon prince.

I'm a bit surprised at the price for this one. I was expecting around $40 for the box. As much as I said previously that I wasn't a huge fan of the DP earlier in this thread, the khorne one on the GW site does go to show even a little conversion work can really improve the look of the model. I'm still not sure it's enough to get me back into the hobby and buy a new army, but I may just pick one of these up for a fun modelling project. The Daemon Prince has always been one of my favorite characters in 40k, and after browsing through Liber Chaotica I've got some crazy conversion ideas brewing. Damn you, GW.

Munch Munch! wrote:They look like a mix between khorne and bubblegum.

QFT.

Got an email from GW. You can now advance order some of the new stuff!

The email told me to 'lick on the images for more info'. No joke.

After seeing the new plastic Daemon Prince I'm glad I asked my friendly GW staff to keep a metal model for me so that I can get it when when I get some more money. Interesting that the Plastic DP is $2 less than the metal one on the US site but is £2 more than the metal DP on the UK site.

I don't mind most aspects of the Daemon prince, the only thing I find really dissapointing is the lack of leg options, I'm not digging the double jointed only thing...

I'm not a chaos player, but I think I'll buy the Daemon prince. I like the model quite a bit.

Munch Munch! wrote:The most irratating thing about the horrors is the design. It was so easy not to screw these up. And what's up with the super muscular arms? They should be skinny and spindly. But, instead they're ripped! They look like a mix between khorne and bubblegum. plus I hate the massive eyes. They do look cartoony.

Almost as though they were the servants of a god of change or something.

Servant of the god of change:


GTFO with the fail:

I must be rare in the fact that I really like all the new Daemon releases (except for the Seekers - but that's a given - all the NuDaemonettes are gak).

The biggest disappointment for me is actually the fact that aside from the big 40K arms, the Daemon Prince has exactly one left arm, and it has no weapon. You think they could have made one of the weapon arms for the left arm.

TempusCorvus wrote:After taking another look at the DP's sprue pics, I noticed something. While they do have the fantasy and 40k torsos, all the arms are clearly designed with 40k in mind. cables, tubes, battery pack or something on the sword...That's kinda irritating to be honest.

The big armour-clad arms have the cables, in a style that mimics the current metal 40K one. The other arms do not have cables, and are not specifically 40K like the other ones.

GW did not put the plastic bloodcrusher on their website yet...

I took a closer look at the horror models and I noticed something weird. All of them have bling, and are flailing their arms and tongues, as if they should be attending a rock'n'roll concert. Photo evidence below. Especially the horror on the right.(the first pic) Looks lie he's sayin' "rock on y'all!1!11!!!"

DPs and Seekers:

Munch Munch! wrote:I took a closer look at the horror models and I noticed something weird. All of them have bling, and are flailing their arms and tongues, as if they should be attending a rock'n'roll concert. Photo evidence below. Especially the horror on the right.(the first pic) Looks lie he's sayin' "rock on y'all!1!11!!!"

My sentiments entirely. They look like they're screaming "METALLICA!!!!!!!"

I realy like the new deamon prince kit altho i can agree the legs would have looked better if there were closer to that of the orginal deamon prince.

But that aside we now have some nice bits to put wings on rather than having to buy those seperately using something from a different kit.

Even tho i allready have the metalic prince I'll defently pick up box or 2 of those to make different style deamon princes for different chaos gods

anyone have any ideas if it would be easy to convert the legs to look as though they are running? any ideas? the DP kit is decent but excellent for its price, if i can get it to have an action pose it'll make the model excellent! p.s where is the crusher set and its price? anyone with a decent ammount of bits will totally be able to make quite a few converions with the new DP, maybe even 2!

Munch Munch! wrote:... flailing their arms and tongues, as if they should be attending a rock'n'roll concert.

If you were a Horror, wouldn't you?

We need a headbanging emORKticon...

BYE

H.B.M.C. wrote:Those Seeker sprues sure are sparse.

The Horrors I'm... not sure on yet.

Prince is ace, 'cept for the two WFB heads that are complete gak.

I actually love the way someone converted the WFB head with Bloodletter horns though. Looked really good!

WAIT! Spoke too soon, it's the 40K head, lmao!

I don't even play deamons and I want that DP model. Sigh. Think i'm starting a deamons army.

... the legs would have looked better if there were closer to that of the orginal deamon prince

The legs on the new plastic Daemon Prince model are similar to the look of the original Daemon Prince. The Daemon Prince model that is currently for sale is NOT the original Daemon Prince model produced by GW. The older, "original" Daemon Prince model had legs similar to the new plastic one.

Yeah, and no one likes the original DP models. They were junk.

And besides, we know he's talking about the current 40K Daemon Prince, so nitpicking his choice of words hardly helps anything.

no one likes the original DP models

I'm not sure one person's opinion qualifies to say that "no one" liked it.

we know he's talking about the current 40K Daemon Prince

As many users point out here all the time, they are new to Warhammer and Games Workshop and they would have no familiarity with the history of the model range going back that far. Just because the long-time GW customers know that doesn't mean that everyone does. My post was informative without being provocative.

so nitpicking his choice of words

Irony here. Since I joined Dakkadakka a year ago I see certain users complain about and nitpick virtually everything, something I'm hardly known for given my low post count and generally positive or neutral posts. If I have something negative I generally keep it to myself.

Personally, I've liked all the Daemon Prince models they've done over the years. I still use the wings from the oldest version for conversions occasionally. The Azazel version of the old Daemon Prince is still hot at flea markets when people are lucky enough to find one. The new plastic kit is versatile and can look dedicated to 40K if desired or not out of place in either game without the 40K specific looking parts. At $33, a surprise as I was expecting it to be more than the current metal kit, I think it's a winner.

I liked the original 40k DP's amount of detail , in that sense it looks like a real Chaos DP of 40k.
but it had a really bad pose , and having multiple of it looks just plain silly in the same army.

New one... less detail , looks less sci fi , the pose is still bland , but atleast its generic enough to not look bad if field more than one.

New Horrors , the way i see it , i guess "it cant be helped"

The previous metal ones were truly work of art , the sculptor captured them in mid morphing , duplicating perfectly. Very deserving of both the name
"Chaos" and "Horror"

However , turning them into plastic... i guess it cannot be helped... i guess in the transition of materials used they had to go a with a simple design.
( actually no , im not going to sugar coat this -_- , we can all see the lvl of detail plastic can do , look at Space Hulk )

I will however give them a chance , and will purchase them as Vampire Count Ghouls if i ever decide to finish that army.

Another good looking shot of the new DP:

Ktulhut wrote:Another good looking shot of the new DP:

Too bad it looks like that's the only good combination of bitz...

Am I the only one to notice the DP's base has Doubled in size (40mm base, or "Termie Base" to 80mm Base, or "Dred Base")?

It may be on one of the other 20 some pages, but I am surprised its not getting more talk, as it effects the DPs Melee ability (as far as "Defenders react" is concerned and will be more frustrating to some people then the whole "I'm using old Termies/Oblits, I can use 20mm bases rite guiz?" fiasco...

It's a 60mm base, and the metal Nurgle DP has had one for as long as he's been out.

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:"I'm using old Termies/Oblits, I can use 20mm bases rite guiz?" fiasco...

Doesn't GW force them to do this with their ridiculous rules? (I'll go search this- Not trying to start an argument )

Is anyone disappointed by how static the new DP is? It took a lot of blood (literally- stupid spikes!) sweat and tears to chop and bend my Khorne DP to look like it was moving forward. I know GW would never release two sets of legs for a model like this (to force people buy separate kits) but the "I'm going to stand here going 'Mwahahahaha!' rather than coming to get you" pose is a bit too subtle.

Also, I'd like to share my annoyance at the lack of duel close combat weapon options. It was similar for the (otherwise excellent) Termilord kit. You want a gun? Have a gun! You want a CC weapon? Have one! You want two cc weapons that aren't lightning claws?! Sorry!

All that said, however, lots of potential with this kit. You could combine it something like Belakor if you want it a wee bit more sinister.

Daemon-Archon Ren wrote:Am I the only one to notice the DP's base has Doubled in size (40mm base, or "Termie Base" to 80mm Base, or "Dred Base")?

"I'm using old Termies/Oblits, I can use 20mm bases rite guiz?" fiasco...

Is the Dread base really "only" 80mm? It seems bigger...

Dunno about old Oblits, but old Termies were on 25mm bases, not 20mm squares.

No. The Dreadnought base is 60mm.