Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Could be fun to model the knight in the standard "stepping on a fallen enemy" pose, but scaled up to his massive size.

Perhaps he could be stepping on a rhino with the top plate heated and bent so he's denting it in.

 Tuagh wrote:
Could be fun to model the knight in the standard "stepping on a fallen enemy" pose, but scaled up to his massive size.

Perhaps he could be stepping on a rhino with the top plate heated and bent so he's denting it in.

A Rhino is a bit small for that. I'd go for a Land Raider or battlewagon. Riptides are about the right side to be stepping on a Rhino, and I've seen a few modeled that way already.

DaddyWarcrimes wrote:

 Tuagh wrote:
Could be fun to model the knight in the standard "stepping on a fallen enemy" pose, but scaled up to his massive size.

Perhaps he could be stepping on a rhino with the top plate heated and bent so he's denting it in.

A Rhino is a bit small for that. I'd go for a Land Raider or battlewagon. Riptides are about the right side to be stepping on a Rhino, and I've seen a few modeled that way already.

I want to see a Wraithknight stepping on a Riptide stepping on a Rhino.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
The aircraft.... Horrible. May be in contention for worst design yet, next to the SM chickenhawk.

I was going to ask if they even consult engineers before they build these things, but it's obvious now that they don't.

I don't think it's as bad as any of the Space Marine flyers, but yeah, it is a big disappointment for me. The two major problems I have with it, they didn't make it long and sleek like existing Eldar flyers, which is one of the things I like about existing Eldar flyers. Secondly, what's the deal with the stupid arse gunpods? If it weren't for the gunpods, I might think it could actually possibly fly, but the gunpods just ruin it for me.

Bingo. Those pods would make it impossible for it to fly more then the speed of a biplane.

 djones520 wrote:
Bingo. Those pods would make it impossible for it to fly more then the speed of a biplane.

Science fiction.

Unless there is a force field directing the air flow around the openings of the pods and the skin of the aircraft modulates itself to adjust the skin friction coefficient, changing the air velocity over various portions of the air frame to change the amount of lift each surface generates.

I preferred the more docile Wraith look, these are looking far too dynamic! Also think they could have been better if they were taller like the old ones.

 BrassScorpion wrote:

"I love the Wraithknight, hate the new flyer."

"I hate the Wraithknight, love the new flyer."

Perhaps for fun someone could count the number of these contrary posts in this thread.

I love the Wraithknight, love the new flyer.

$115 for the Wraithknight? Will that be about £70-80 in the UK? That's crazy.

DaddyWarcrimes wrote:
Unless there is a force field directing the air flow around the openings of the pods and the skin of the aircraft modulates itself to adjust the skin friction coefficient, changing the air velocity over various portions of the air frame to change the amount of lift each surface generates.

Then just build a giant block and attach guns and an engine to it. Don't need to build flimsy aerodynamic designs if you've got a forcefield that can keep things like that under control.

 djones520 wrote:
Then just build a giant block and attach guns and an engine to it. Don't need to build flimsy aerodynamic designs if you've got a forcefield that can keep things like that under control.

Giant blocks don't look cool.

FallenAfh wrote:

 BrassScorpion wrote:

"I love the Wraithknight, hate the new flyer."

"I hate the Wraithknight, love the new flyer."

Perhaps for fun someone could count the number of these contrary posts in this thread.

I love the Wraithknight, love the new flyer.

We'll have to wait and see how everything gets together money- and point-wise.

i love both and will buy them. No money left for a couple of boxes of wraithguard, probably in the future. (and another plane just because)

There was a time we worried about codex one upmanship. Now we have to worry about models getting to big for the table.

Consider that the Dreadknight 5-6", Riptide 6-7', and now the Eldar Wraithknight 9". Can you possibly venture a guess at the Ork construct?

Think mini Gargant 12"

RB

Now I am looking forward to my $200 12 inch tall 2 foot long squiggoth !!!!!

Since the current trend is a big thing and flyers. What are they going to do with marines and orks I wonder. We already have our flyers orks have 3 marines have 2.

Thunderhawk and squiggoth I am guessing.

Ok on topic. Sorry

I like the wraith gaurd. I always wanted to do a wraith guard army and never did do to cost. I only have ever played orks, so be nice to have an "opposite army". Meaning my orks are numerous while I could switch it up and play a small wraith guard list.

Ha ha, who am I kidding, going to chop up those wraith guard to make Grotsnik's Ork-Bots !

 pretre wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
Then just build a giant block and attach guns and an engine to it. Don't need to build flimsy aerodynamic designs if you've got a forcefield that can keep things like that under control.

Giant blocks don't look cool.

I'd imagine that most of the design choices the Eldar make are as much aesthetic as functional. They shape it in a way that resonates with the psyche of the pilot, and then use superscience to make it fly.

DaddyWarcrimes wrote:
Unless there is a force field directing the air flow around the openings of the pods and the skin of the aircraft modulates itself to adjust the skin friction coefficient, changing the air velocity over various portions of the air frame to change the amount of lift each surface generates.

Science fiction

 Popenfresh wrote:

Maybe the 5 model dire avengers box is really a 5 model all aspect box?

I'd be up for that.

Although an interesting idea, that'd be a lot of bits shoehorned into one box.

 Popenfresh wrote:


Who are those red dudes in the middles of the host?

Firedragons


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 Popenfresh wrote:


Maybe the 5 model dire avengers box is really a 5 model all aspect box?

To me looks to be a Firedragon and DA box that would work with only A head and gun swap!

 djones520 wrote:
The aircraft.... Horrible. May be in contention for worst design yet, next to the SM chickenhawk.

I was going to ask if they even consult engineers before they build these things, but it's obvious now that they don't.

I hope you realize this is the same race that can keep their souls in stones after they die.

It is interesting to see that GW is testing the limits to see how price insensitive the 40k community is

 Blackmoor wrote:
It is interesting to see that GW is testing the limits to see how price insensitive the 40k community is

That didn't start with this release.

 Manchu wrote:

 Blackmoor wrote:
It is interesting to see that GW is testing the limits to see how price insensitive the 40k community is

That didn't start with this release.

Pretty sure that started about 10-15 years ago.

 pretre wrote:

 Manchu wrote:

 Blackmoor wrote:
It is interesting to see that GW is testing the limits to see how price insensitive the 40k community is

That didn't start with this release.

Pretty sure that started about 10-15 years ago.

You just keep testing until you run out of cake.

And to be fair GW actually had a reasonable expectation already of what people would pay based on a similar product of size recently released.

Odd that people think the Dreamforge model is well priced and then claim a taller model with all the parts is to expensive just cause it's produced by GW.

 Wilytank wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
The aircraft.... Horrible. May be in contention for worst design yet, next to the SM chickenhawk.

I was going to ask if they even consult engineers before they build these things, but it's obvious now that they don't.

I hope you realize this is the same race that can keep their souls in stones after they die.

Verisimilitude

In fantasy/scifi, we assume everything adheres to our reality.
If something detracts from reality, an explanation is given (magic, technology, soulstones, etc)
If an explanation is not given, then it is silly (Flying Bawkses, Tau Plot Armor, Heldrake)

Essentially, categorizing something as "scifi" or "fantasy" is not free reign to descend into surrealism.

DaddyWarcrimes wrote:

 Tuagh wrote:
Could be fun to model the knight in the standard "stepping on a fallen enemy" pose, but scaled up to his massive size.

Perhaps he could be stepping on a rhino with the top plate heated and bent so he's denting it in.

A Rhino is a bit small for that. I'd go for a Land Raider or battlewagon. Riptides are about the right side to be stepping on a Rhino, and I've seen a few modeled that way already.

Uh..

My Phantom begs to differ that its appropriately sized for a puny Wraithknight.

Have the author(s) for the Codex and Iyanden supplement been confirmed?

A bit OT: How is Iyanden pronounced?

 pizzaguardian wrote:


You just keep testing until you run out of cake.

And the science gets done and we make a neat gun


Has anyone noticed that instead of giving us the forked nose every eldar vehicle, except jet bikes, have. They have painted it so that it at a quick glance looks forked?