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Makes me want to do an evil Salamanders army.

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Meade wrote:
Yeah, great models for an Heavy Metal army.

Heavy metal slannesh?

I just think a daemonette with boobs would look great riding that dragon... with a nice whip...

Ha ha, but only with a guitar strapped to her.

Love the new models, excited to build/paint them. Not excited for the dent in my wallet.

Wow, this thread exploded since I last posted this morning.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I think in this case a lot of people who are disappointed right now will come around.

Chaos has been "imperials with spikes" for a long time and the majority of us agreed it needs to change; but of course any departure from this norm will look out of place for a while.

My first reaction to most of these models was "nice model, but doesn't fit in the army visually." Guess what? This is the new visual style for Chaos. In a few years it'll be the spiky Rhinos that will seem out of place, and armour-plated beasts will be normal.

My thoughts exactly. And it was time for a new visual direction.

The dragon rocks my socks. The dinobots look like mini warhounds, which is cool. I think these are great.

I really want the book most at this point. That and a new model for abby.

Damn! That is just...speechless.

Come on maaaaan, wheres the rest of the pics?


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Seriously that dragon is going to look badass in person though.

 SickSix wrote:

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Holy crap... beautiful models!

I have to admit, I am a competent painter and modeller, the level of detail scares the kak out of me though, couldn't imagine tackling an army of these!

This!

The amount of detail coming from GW plastics is getting insane. (i am praying these are all plastic)

I will see how well I can manage to paint my DV Chosen and then decide if I can paint this new style of chaos competently.

this was the first thing I saw when opening the first page this morning. Amazed that the editor for white dwarf would allow such gak composed pictures to be used in page layouts of the new magazine. The Maulerfiend is a great example of this. Either they photographed it in a well lit environment with good lighting and then photshopped it onto a boring black to red gradient. Come on!

These are going to be fun to paint!

Jesus.. i'm going to be bankrupt after this weekend.

oh yeah Warpsmiths for all :/, smegging GW, stop taking my Legions things away

I might have to alter my paint scheme after seeing these new models. I was going to go for a fallen Brazen Claws scheme, but quartered armour will just make these models look way too busy I think.

 Meade wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Meade wrote:
Yeah, great models for an Heavy Metal army.

Heavy metal slannesh?

I just think a daemonette with boobs would look great riding that dragon... with a nice whip...

I'd love to throw ole Doomie on that thing.

My more serious opinions on these things:

Helldrake: I'm torn. Animal-ish Daemon Engines have been around since the old Epic days (see the Epic Tzeentch flyers) and for a Daemon Engine it works. However there's still something I don't really like about it, it seems entirely animal and not very attack aircraft.

Forgefiend: Actually don't have a very big issue with it. Daemon engines look like that

Maulfiend: Same as Forgefiend

Warpsmith: No problem with it

Warp Talons: Too over-the-top, prefer the old Raptors (which I already have so won't bother to replace).

Btw I m happy that chaos is out finally.
Surely most of you are right, everyone has a voice and comments that should be heard equally.
That's the power of democracy. IMO I m happy about the new models. I wasn't expecting to see all the models released.
As said earlier I had friends that waited 2 years after their codex release to see models.
And after all I m happy that chaos has changed in that way. I was bored by the same things.
It's time we move on and we say yes to new models.
Oh and hit me if I'm wrong but if the fiends and dragon are super competitive
All will use them. And you will see people who play against necron scythe armies to field Dragons
And while before play testing they said "what an ugly model" they will say woowww....

Models look very cool, I'm excited to see the army shift away from "space marines, but with spikes".

My only complaint is it looks like the dragon basically has no back side. Could just be the angle in the picture, but I would love for that thing to have a wicked looking tail.

Regardless, can't wait to start playing my chaos again.

Time for more pics I think.

My body is ready

 SickSix wrote:
The amount of detail coming from GW plastics is getting insane. (i am praying these are all plastic)

I will see how well I can manage to paint my DV Chosen and then decide if I can paint this new style of chaos competently.

I'm confident the Raptors will be Finecast, yes?

 Alpharius wrote:

Avoid extremes

1. Excellent advice. They were a horrible 90s band.

2. But that warpsmith is the hottest thing that I've seen GW put out in quite some time!

3. I'm super excited for Chaos. My Chaos is, well, at the initial stages of expansion.

 Ouze wrote:

 SickSix wrote:
The amount of detail coming from GW plastics is getting insane. (i am praying these are all plastic)

I will see how well I can manage to paint my DV Chosen and then decide if I can paint this new style of chaos competently.

I'm confident the Raptors will be Finecast, yes?

I will WEEP if those gorgeous figures are Finecast. WEEP!!!

Please can there be more plastic than just the Forgefiends.

pretre wrote:

 -DE- wrote:
To add insult to injury, that isn't even a piece of artwork on the cover, just a shot of a model! How cheap is that...? :/

Apparently about as cheap as your glasses...

That's a piece of artwork of the new model.

Squigsquasher wrote:And so Dakka's monthly ungrateful moaning competition begins again...

If someone here had done a kitbash and produced those everybody would be applauding them and telling them how awesome they look.

But since this is GW, and if you like anything GW does you're a White Knight, they automatically suck.

Nice one guys.

These sorts of posts are the opposite ends of the 'why discussions about new releases" invariably suck lately. Seriously, I wish you guys would stop.

Poster A.) There is no need for someone to pick up the sword and the shield and take on all comers just because some people don't like some or all of the models.

and

Poster B.) There are tons of people posting about how much they like them; and an equal amount of people who like some of them. Taking the small percentage of people who liked none of them, pretending that was all of them, is self-delusion at best and flat-out trolling at worst. Has even one person posted they don't like the Warpsmith? C'mon, that thing is the balls. Unanimous hurrahs there.

Lets just pretend that we can accept some people honestly don't like them, and some people honestly do like them, and not do this weird, stupid, super-polarized factionalizating thing.

It's a new Chaos codex! This is exciting stuff.

So is that it? All the models released? If this is it, so much for that rumor about them turning off the wave machine. Hope Chaos players don't mind waiting till the middle of next year for the rest of their minis.

Or, it could be the first wave as has been rumored by multiple people and the second wave is two weeks later...

I like the models good enough, but not enough to make any of them must haves. The Fiends seem very Khornish to me and I think they will look really good mixed in with some juggies. The Helldrake as it is looks pretty good for any of the non cult armies, but will probably require a lot of conversion to fit into a cult - especially Nurgle and Slannesh. I also wonder how hard it would be to convert the head into a cockpit with a pilot. It might actually make a pretty good plane with swept forward wings.

I like these daemon engines but it certainly looks like they're more daemon than engine. The simplest justification I can see for the more animalistic look- they'll be transplanted into Codex Chaos Daemons at some point. These seem more suited alongside the Soul Grinder than the standard Defiler. Double duty makes the most sense, since they'd also fill gaps in the Daemon line and army list.

Goresaw wrote:
So is that it? All the models released? If this is it, so much for that rumor about them turning off the wave machine. Hope Chaos players don't mind waiting till the middle of next year for the rest of their minis.

Maybe that was just all the models featured in WD? There isn't any reason to think the latter yet.

I'm expecting to see a number of rounds of releases for the Chaos book. No need to hit the panic button yet.

Sorry if I missed it in the thread, but do we have a date for the new chaos codex yet? I am just holding off on painting my DV chaos guys until I have the new codex in hand and know what theme my army is going to have.

Sure their are people who are going to hate the sculpts or love the sculpts but from what I've been reading there is a lot more people who like them than when the two latest loyalist flyers came out. So in that regard, GW is probably hitting closer to what people were expecting.

I was really worried about the dragon myself, but I can see it has its own set of possibilities.