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Rymafyr wrote:I'm guessing, despite the obvious detail, that Jes and Juan were not the ones sculpting the Haemonculi, Wracks or Grotesques... We're sure to find out once another of 'Jes' Notebook' interviews is posted concerning the models. I'm not put off with the poses for the wracks or the Haemonoculi...but the Grotesque? Please... more variety than just weapon swaps. Unless they are going for some Zombiesque posing.

Given that Wracks are I4, I don't think the shambling zombie explanation holds up. They move as fast as Eldar and SMs when fighting in melee. They really should have more varied poses. I like the idea of replacing their legs with Mandrake legs.

dumbuket wrote:http://www.paulsongames.com/catalog/item/7434381/8690730.htm

multi-pose resin alternative grotesques from paulson games
$20 each seemed expensive, but nowadays...

The GW Grotesque will probably cost more than that model anyway.

i for one like the new minis well enough. would like better poses but eh what ever gonna use some of the skaven bits for proxies. and perhaps talos/chronos bits for more flavor in weps. and heads. the New de have been everything ive wanted except the beasts those are a giant f up in my eyes. any one got any info on the special hqs like the baron or duke or the lady?

paulson games wrote:

Wow, that is actually a lot better than the GW versions, far more dynamic. It also reminds me of the 'Men of Iron' in the Gaunt's Ghosts series. As for the thin waist: it's supposed to be disconcerting, it's called a grotesque for a reason.

I'm still waiting for an official release. I'd like to see the kits clearly. Still hoping for this before the end of the week.

It's uncanny what the other model has in common with Grotesques... The mask, the size, the patchwork skin, the hunchback, the adrenaline injectors sticking out of it. Even the thin waist. (Look at the picture in the Codex, Grotesques have a ridiculously thin waist, as their vital organs were transferred up to that big hunchback.) I'm convinced it was made deliberately to replace the GW Grotesque...

I'd say it has a lot in common with the Venom Joker and Bane from Batman Arkham Asylum. Big mutated steroid injected guys with distorted/exaggerated features are hardly something new or exclusive to GW.

Hulking freaks of nature are not unique, but that model does look a lot like the sketch in the codex, particularly the mask and waist.

From a differant angle.

That picture makes me hate the model slightly less. But its still terrible

I still can't get the "Singing in the Rain" vibe out of my head.

Ooooh... I actually like it from that other angle!

Assuming I'd only take a single unit (if that) anyway, bending the one arm on one of them would do the trick varying it up for the most part.

Woot...

Frankly hacking off that fugly claw and doing some converting wouldn't be that hard

I'm not sold on them, especially after the long wait and anticipation, but we'll see when I can actually get my mitts on one

Is that a pirouette

I like the claw, but agree that hacking it off shouldn't be a problem...

Also, from this angle it looks like they have soles strapped to the bottom of their feet, for those freaking out about them possibly stepping on broken glass

RiTides wrote:Also, from this angle it looks like they have soles strapped to the bottom of their feet, for those freaking out about them possibly stepping on broken glass

Now I have a horrible image stuck in my head. Of a squad of choreographed grotesques dancing to Annie Lennox's "Walking on Broken Glass". [shudder]

Now for further horor imagine them doing rocky horror's Rocky song

Or 'sweet transvestite'

I'm an evil evil guy

I'm very unimpressed about the way the Liquifier gun is oriented like he's bashing somebody with it.

Reminds me of the Tasmanian Devil sneaking on someone:

I think that different angle only helps because there aren't 2 others exactly like it standing next to him. If I get any grotesques, I will get 4, and I am a little afraid they will look ridiculous all standing next to each other doing a dance number. I like to avoid converting, but I think I will have to make an exception here.

Ysclyth wrote: I think that different angle only helps because there aren't 2 others exactly like it standing next to him. If I get any grotesques, I will get 4, and I am a little afraid they will look ridiculous all standing next to each other doing a dance number. I like to avoid converting, but I think I will have to make an exception here.

Clearly, you need to sculpt little Babershop Quartet hats and change their CCW into canes. It must be done.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440160a&rootCatGameStyle=wh40k

Advance orders are up. 3 Razorwings for me...

My fiance just told me she thinks the wracks are "very cute" I'm not sure if I can get them now...

Well, at least GW is releasing all the various options for Haemonculi...



In the original picture, it seems there is also a stinger pistol. And to GW's - rapidly vanishing - credit they do have 5 different bodies in the box.

Not the lame 3 they usually do. So bravo there.

Also, the site lists that they are sold in 22 components. I figured 2 hands each (resin ends at the wrists) plus a separate head, plus body... That's 20 pieces. Plus the Stinger Pistol. Plus.... ??? Maybe another Haemonculus weapon.

Maybe somebodies back-spines...

lol, as much as I defended the wracks earlier, I am tickled to think that the words "Citadel Finecast" will become synonymous for "boring, single-pose models that cost more than the metals because...?".

Considering how painfully "meh" the Tomb Kings ushabti looked, and the uniformity of the new wracks/grotesques, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't going to be a new trend. I really hope it's not because I don't see how you could possibly sell the models at that point...

Back in the day when GW did that monopose plastic crap, they charged much less for them. One of their excuses for raising the prices to where they are today was the quality of the new plastic sets like the detail, the options, the variable poses, etc. So if they start doing monopose models again and charge high dollar for them, what's the excuse going to be now? "Oh they're cast in resin now, the detail is AMAAAAZING!" Yeah but they still look like gak regardless because I have ten dudes standing next to each other and they all look exactly the same...

Like I said before though, I can kinda accept that for the wracks, but I still would have preferred different poses and now I'm worried that future releases will be the same way. "Citadel Finecast: Because you fat nerds like choreographed dance lines, right?"


EDIT: Holy gak why is the haemonculus $18.25? Good thing I only need one I guess...feth you too, GW.

I must say out of these new coven releases I like the wracks the best. I was not disapointed by the hexrifle which I will be using. Now the main problem I have is with the haemonculus. The upper set of arms is kind of a tragedy. Will almost certainly have to do something about them. Though I like the blade in the left hand. The right hand says "high five d00d" I wouldn't normally complain, but at $18:25 per model, and my army will by using four, I am quite disappointed. I will likely not be buying any grotesques.

I wonder how many liquifiers are going to be in the box. I'm hoping for two, I suspect 1.

EVERYBODY!!, go back to the GW web Page and click on the advanced orders tab, the new Wracks Razorwing Grotesk and Hemokuli is erased. I'm pretty sure this has been leaked? It may just be my computer...

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