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Since we've got the thread about sucky models we hate, and a couple threads about awesome models we love, how about a thread for models that you like but other people tend to dislike?

For me, I'd say:

1) Castellan robots! I love their big chonk atomic deco 1950s kill-bot aesthetic! I don't really understand the hate they get, either. Especially from people who like stuff like the Domitar and Thanatar automata, or UR-025.

2) Tyranid raveners! I like how they're less humanoid than most smaller tyranids, and also I really really dislike how the nids' projectile weapons are usually shaped like guns when they could be represented in dozens of much cooler ways (hives, orifices, spore-pods, fungal-like growths, etc) and the raveners avoid that.

3) Space marine flyers! Of COURSE the space marines' planes would look like big fists and bricks on rockets with guns attached. Of COURSE. That's 100% the space mariney way to go about it. They're the big, beefy, unsubtle, punchy hammer of the Imperium.

4) Lord of Skulls! This guy, to me, is the perfect epitome of everything joyously, wonderfully stupid and over the top and metal and hilarious about 40k, I absolutely love it.

But I don't know what models people don't like enmass that I like. I mean I looked in on that "models I don't like" thread and it seems that for everything GW releases there's someone who hates it and someone who loves it.

There's really no overall patterns of either.You can basically list any model and someone somewhere will hate it and someone somewhere will love it.

 Overread wrote:
But I don't know what models people don't like enmass that I like. I mean I looked in on that "models I don't like" thread and it seems that for everything GW releases there's someone who hates it and someone who loves it.

There's really no overall patterns of either.You can basically list any model and someone somewhere will hate it and someone somewhere will love it.

Yeah, but there's definitely models that get a lot more hate than others, and show up in threads about disliked models much more often. Some obvious example: Forgefiends, Invictor Warsuits, Corpuscarii Electro-Priests, the Space Wolf Odin guy in a sled who's name I forget, the Grey Knights dreadknight baby-bjorn thing, SM centurions, the new version of Drazhar, etc etc etc.

the Primaris Repulsor, a lotta people bash it but... I think it's not that bad, it's basicly a hover bradley and if you look at the gun placement... the gun placement on it actually makes a fair bit of sense.

I would have to second the Raveners. I think that they are my favourite Tyranid model! I too don't like the bio-guns, and I think their lack of legs really buys into the alien feel of the Nids. I actually wish their general body outline was the standard shape for Nids.

But after reading the dislike thread, I'll have to go for daemon engines. I didn't realise they garnered so much hostility. I think they look great, and were a major cause for me to get back into 40k. Back in 3rd the weirdest thing Chaos got was the janky looking Defiler, but I think that the Mauler-, Venom-, and Forge- fiends all look great! And the Heldrake is a thing of beauty.

 TonyH122 wrote:
I would have to second the Raveners. I think that they are my favourite Tyranid model! I too don't like the bio-guns, and I think their lack of legs really buys into the alien feel of the Nids. I actually wish their general body outline was the standard shape for Nids.

But after reading the dislike thread, I'll have to go for daemon engines. I didn't realise they garnered so much hostility. I think they look great, and were a major cause for me to get back into 40k. Back in 3rd the weirdest thing Chaos got was the janky looking Defiler, but I think that the Mauler-, Venom-, and Forge- fiends all look great! And the Heldrake is a thing of beauty.

Yeah, I think the daemon engines are pretty cool too. I don't like the heldrake, but the maulerfiend, forgefiend and venomcrawler are all pretty cool IMO, and fit well with the current CSM aesthetic. If I were to ever make the Emperor's Children army I sometimes dream about, I'd definitely pick up the robot spider boi.

New repentia. Old sculpts were lazy as heck Leg Avenue halloween costume jokes, new sculpts have some really excellent two handed weapon melee poses.

One of the things that has frustrated me with 40k since the release of AOS was the AOS models have some really excellent posing in their melee units and so many 40k melee units have to pose around having a sword and a pistol, which is a fighting style that has basically never been a thing (I know there are lots of miniatures of pirates and napoleonic officers and things with swords and pistols, but in reality those pistols were essentially one shot, so it would really be a guy with a sword who had the option to pull his pistol out for a second).

Most improved sculpt from old to new sisters range, hands down IMO. Honestly, the only one that needed improving from a concept standpoint and didn't just need to be a plastic resculpt.

New Typhus. I love how bulky the new model is and how he stands out from the rest of the army with his raised manreaper. He really feels like a legendary general leading a legion.

I did leave off the silly flies though.

Dreadknights!

Reivers.

They are my favorite 40k model as I think they represent the setting's awesome, over-the-top and endearingly stupid elements in model form. That said, I modeled most of my knives as chainswords just feel right for Reivers.

nataliereed1984 wrote:
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3) Space marine flyers! Of COURSE the space marines' planes would look like big fists and bricks on rockets with guns attached. Of COURSE. That's 100% the space mariney way to go about it. They're the big, beefy, unsubtle, punchy hammer of the Imperium.
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No, no, no, the Astra Militarium is the big unsubtle hammer of the Imperium, the Marines are a scalpel. Second on the SM fliers being awsome though, I don't see why anyone would dislike them.

Centurions. A handful of people love that model and everyone else seems to think it's deep-fried puke.


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 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:
Reivers.

They are my favorite 40k model as I think they represent the setting's awesome, over-the-top and endearingly stupid elements in model form. That said, I modeled most of my knives as chainswords just feel right for Reivers.

I couldn't bring myself to do that even though a Chainsword and a Combat Knife are functionally identical now because GW has a bad habit of changing weapon stats. Having said that though, I have a fairly big pile of Chainfist attachments from my Tartarus-pattern Teminators that are just the right size to do that conversion without actually changing the Reiver poses at all and that would look awsome.

Old marines. Especially Rogue trader marines.

Phoenix lords - I get that those are outdated as hell, but were gorgeously fresh when I started playing 40K and they remain the gratest vintage models IMHO. And having seen what GW did with Jain Zar lazy resculp (seriously, those hair where sculpted for a classic pose and then simply stretched to match someones „great” idea to lift her up in the air a bit, you can clearly see the stretch) I don’t believe GW is capable to do trully magnificent Phoenix Lords right now.

 jeff white wrote:
Old marines. Especially Rogue trader marines.

other then the odd guy who hates anything that's not xenos, I've not encountered anyone who hates marines.

I like the Stormraven. It looks like a Thunderhawk made smaller and I wish I could use them as Space Wolves.

Fantasy Minotaurs and Centurions.

I just love big, bulky, stupid looking things. But I also love minotaurs in all of their shapes and forms, since Age of Mythology and Kamos.

Chaos Terminators(old and new, though both boxes suck in terms of options, but I like their huge tusks and fences on their backs) and the old metal Chaos Dreadnought. Though to be fair aside from the stupid Deredeo every Dreadnought looks great.

The Taurox. Just love that little truck tootling around and trying his best.

Ahem, cough, hack, spit.

(Clears throat)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sly Marbo.

Invictor Tactical Warsuit, although I feel it's not universally hates, probably an even split.

Militarum Tempestus Scions.

They exude “killer” and “black-ops commandos.”

Their kit contains so many throwbacks to the older versions—retaining gorgets on officers, targeters on hot-shot las rifles, lots of extra pouch’s and gear (though GW never shows off all these pieces of cool kit in their advertising, for whatever reason), heads with berets, an appropriate amount of back pack bulk, and cables weapons, of course.

The gothic/baroque pieces really tie them to the setting. I imagine a bunch of Sam Fishers or Solid Snakes when I look at Scions.

Literally every Primaris sculpt. Love them. Repulsors are exceptionally cool.

The only one I'm hesitant on are Incursors, because of the visor, but a simple headswap changes that.

XVwhatever Coldstar

 necrontyrOG wrote:
The Taurox. Just love that little truck tootling around and trying his best.

I didn't like it until I saw one converted with wheels. And then I saw one where someone had bought one third-party wheel set and put wheels on just the front of two Tauroxes to make a halftrack and thought to myself "That is exactly what that model has always wanted."

 Apple Peel wrote:
Militarum Tempestus Scions.

They exude “killer” and “black-ops commandos.”

Their kit contains so many throwbacks to the older versions—retaining gorgets on officers, targeters on hot-shot las rifles, lots of extra pouch’s and gear (though GW never shows off all these pieces of cool kit in their advertising, for whatever reason), heads with berets, an appropriate amount of back pack bulk, and cables weapons, of course.

The gothic/baroque pieces really tie them to the setting. I imagine a bunch of Sam Fishers or Solid Snakes when I look at Scions.

I don't believe anyone hated those sculpts, just agreed that the pricing scheme was insane.

 sing your life wrote:

 Apple Peel wrote:
Militarum Tempestus Scions.

They exude “killer” and “black-ops commandos.”

Their kit contains so many throwbacks to the older versions—retaining gorgets on officers, targeters on hot-shot las rifles, lots of extra pouch’s and gear (though GW never shows off all these pieces of cool kit in their advertising, for whatever reason), heads with berets, an appropriate amount of back pack bulk, and cables weapons, of course.

The gothic/baroque pieces really tie them to the setting. I imagine a bunch of Sam Fishers or Solid Snakes when I look at Scions.

I don't believe anyone hated those sculpts, just agreed that the pricing scheme was insane.

Eh. I’m on different forums than here as well. The price is just exemplary of all the recent mult-unit kits with lots of new bits.

stormcraft wrote:
Dreadknights!

Yikes
[insert meme of the little girl shaking her head in disgust]

 Fajita Fan wrote:

stormcraft wrote:
Dreadknights!

Yikes
[insert meme of the little girl shaking her head in disgust]

I'm just impressed they had the courage to admit it!

The Night Lords bat ear helmets.

I grabbed about 20 of them back when GW used to sell individual bitz

Logan Grimnar on Stormrider, Thunder wolf cavalry, fenrisian wolves, and Wulfen (i'm not a fan of their hair tho). These are the units that got me to pick SW over other SM!


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Also the Landspeeder storm, The first thing I bought, and painted as a kid. Sadly I never use it.