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A lot of the Necrons were from around that period and some of those are pretty great. The Warriors, Destroyers, Nightbringer and the first (far superior) Flayed Ones. I still prefer the clean lines of the Monolith over the over-teched Obelisk.

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The 90's Boxnaught is still the best Dreadnought.

2nd edition retributors.

 Gordon Shumway wrote:
For me the metal Chaos raptors with the pointed jetpacks.

You are an evil person.
I have a squad of those guys painted... horrible, so ugly they almost look good.
You are talking about the bat-wing packs right??
Ah, the tapered and hooked backpacks... nevermind, they are good...

Anyway, I really liked this Mordenheim model:

Bertha Bestraufrung Sisters of Sigmar



I converted her as an Inquisitor for my 40k army (not shown here), the detail on the model is quite good.

I couldn't quite figure out if her arse was hanging out. It looked like that in the blurry photos I could find, but I decided against it.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
I couldn't quite figure out if her arse was hanging out. It looked like that in the blurry photos I could find, but I decided against it.

Actually it does when I think about it more.
I painted it over as "appropriately" tight clothing but yeah I guess it could go the other way.
I mainly liked how armored up she was.

I'll definitely echo the chaplain in Terminator armour and the kasrkin.

I remember walking past a GW as a kid, seeing a poster in the window with a load of kasrkin on it and being immediately hooked by them. And that's how I got involved in 40k.

My fav is the old witch hunter model in the duster with the power sword and inferno pistol.

I'd say the old chaos demon prince still looks miles better than the new plastics.

 Insectum7 wrote:
The 90's Boxnaught is still the best Dreadnought.

The fact that GW redid that kit without changing anything suggests that they agree with you.

The Newman wrote:

 Insectum7 wrote:
The 90's Boxnaught is still the best Dreadnought.

The fact that GW redid that kit without changing anything suggests that they agree with you.

Truth. Just because you are transitioning an older metal sculpt to plastic does not mean you need to do radical changes.



The old metal guy in the middle could pass for a “modern” plastic one until you put him into a sock to beat someone to death with.

Modern in quotes because that kit is getting a little long in the tooth. Not that it’s bad; it’s aged very well. But they are doing so much more with sprue layout and design these days. I feel it could use a nice recut, add more options, tighten things up a bit. They could probably wrap the basic, venerable, and ironclad all together and still keep the frame count the same.

The new ones are pretty good but I will always have a soft spot for this Farseer

I've always loved the Classic Dark Angels Captain, depending on how it's painted, though I was never a fan of the metallic green that whoever painted the original GW example used.

The newer metal/finecast rendition is a good one, and I'd love to get one (even though I have the original classic one) but I hate doing cloaks and I think putting that cloak on let the model down a little...

Looking back through White Dwarf there's a lot of the models of 2nd edition 40k that still hold up today and I look at some of the new stuff today and they're a bit "meh".

Can't find a picture of the original GW example, but I did come across this nice example via Google, don't know who's it is though -

For me the one that has the best age/awesome ration has to be the RT era Ordo Mallus Inquisitor in the Y pose.



I've painting a few over the years and love them all. Such presence! Such a great hat! So much stuff but without being overdone! And he has that early RT Giger feel that was lost.

I have a soft spot for so many random figures, one of which is the Blood Claw Sergeant from the 2nd edition squad. Someone even painted a retro-version up which is nostalgia filled for me.

tinbee wrote:
The new ones are pretty good but I will always have a soft spot for this Farseer

I wish we had more Farseer sculpts that weren't wielding weapons like this one. Their strength comes from their minds, not their guns or blades.