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 Kanluwen wrote:

 Jomy wrote:

 Nuclear Mekanik wrote:
I'm ok with the pricing too, I was actually quite pleasantly surprised that he's not £80. I would now consider getting him on Sunday at GD even though fluffwise he's one of the Primarchs I'm least interested in.

By comparison, he costs £10 more than the Ork Warboss on a bike, and he comes in a really nice presentation box, rather than just a plastic bag with a FW card label stapled to the top.

Really nice presentation box? please clarify, what's so nice about this box? and in what way/s does a presentation box differ from a box?

I don't think he really needs to explain/clarify much more than what he said.

The little box he comes in looks to be very similar to the nice, silver inlaid "Book Holders" that came with the "Siege of Vraks" campaign books.

It's still a cardboard box, certainly, but it looks nice.

It's a box that looks like it's made from thick, textured black card, with silver inlaid font... compared to the normal FW presentation of a plastic bag stapled shut with a card label on, this is a presentation box. It might as well be a solid gold chest lined with padded red velvet, complete with a choir that sings every time you open the lid, compared to what we are used to.

They really need to bring in a professional for painting, for such a huge release like this, to throw out that model with that paint job is a horrible decision.

FW painters are more used to tanks. I would say they are some of the best tank painters out there actually! By no means is it a bad paintjob, I would certainly be hard pressed to do better! I see where you are coming from though. I mentioned the same thing last page.

 Fists of the emperor wrote:
They really need to bring in a professional for painting, for such a huge release like this, to throw out that model with that paint job is a horrible decision.

I'd hardly call it a horrible paint job. In fact, it's pretty close to the art.

 Nuclear Mekanik wrote:

Legion of Damnation wrote:
You can just tell them at the stall they have. There's a few sets strewn about but you can get the rest on your request (hope that helped).

How do you mean, sorry, I'm not clear on what you are saying here.

Basically, Forge world have a stall at games day. It's a massive table with staff behind it and there were kits on top of it. If the kit you were looking for wasn't there, you could ask a staff member to fetch the correct kit from the stacks of crates behind the stall. Sorry about the unclear answer - I was typing from my phone hope it cleared things up.

Legion

 Medium of Death wrote:

 Fists of the emperor wrote:
They really need to bring in a professional for painting, for such a huge release like this, to throw out that model with that paint job is a horrible decision.

I'd hardly call it a horrible paint job. In fact, it's pretty close to the art.

QFT, it's not the normal style of painting that we're used to (nor what I prefer), but I completely appreciate the technical merit of FW's gritty paint jobs. Their painting books are also pretty inspirational.

I'm not refuting the fact that their tanks look amazing and the weathering is some of the best I've seen, but this is a primarch, even when they are on the battle field it should look better than just brazen brass with a wash, not to mention the flesh tone and face paint look horrible.

 Fists of the emperor wrote:
I'm not refuting the fact that their tanks look amazing and the weathering is some of the best I've seen, but this is a primarch, even when they are on the battle field it should look better than just brazen brass with a wash, not to mention the flesh tone and face paint look horrible.

And what you're missing is that this is Angron.

He didn't give a crap about how he looked. He only wore such heavily gilded armor because it was gifted to him by the Emperor. His chainaxes were a pair he made himself.

Hell, the whole reason the World Eaters are red in the "present" for 40k's background is because they are echoing the fact that he and his Legion did not bother cleaning their armor of blood after they purged their Legion of Loyalists.

I think the paint job looks really good it really brings out the wartorn battle look of the grim dark future.

I always prefer the FW battlefield looks to the clean GW style.

The brass is spot on in my opinion, I believe there was a lot more work involved than just brass with a wash. You can see the different shades of metal on the flatter surfaces.

I think the price is perfectly reasonable. Since I'm not uber wealthy, I want all the Primarchs, but I'm not sure I'll be able to afford them all at this price. But I could totally see buying all of my favorites at this price. No complaints from me, though I think the paint job on Angron could be better.

Put me down for Horus, Mortarion, and Alpharius/Omegon if they're as good quality as this guy.


P.S. I guess with this Horus Heresy thing we can expect to finally get a new Abaddon, as well. That makes me happy.

Is anyone going to this? I'd really like to get one, but I can't go to the UK. Send me a PM for payment arrangements!

 Necroagogo wrote:

 Earthbeard wrote:
I'm intrigued to see what diorama's the others will get now.

It'd be cool if Fulgrim's and Ferrus's interlocked to form a single diorama. Ferus could come with a removable head, too!

I like Angron more now that I could see the 360 degree turnaround.

Still not a fan of the designs from Blanche, but the sculptor managed a really well done piece. Still hate the cape and diorama base though.

~Eric

Edit:
I can't wait to see them all, honestly. They all have something that makes them interesting as characters that makes me want to see them as models.

Top ones that I am looking forward to would be Sanguinius, Rogal Dorn, and Leman Russ.

Just had a look back at the tanks, and I really do like them a lot. Feels like well done Rogue Trader era stuff (which they were obviously shooting for).

It will be great as a display piece.

The three I am looking the most forward to:

Corax (of course)
El'Johnson
Ferrus Manus

Isn't the current Kharne model holding Gorechild?

Cannot wait for ferrus and corax. Of course Dorne should look the sex too.

I wonder about other special characters like Sigismund? He was pretty important.

OOOhhhh The Golden Throne!

im relived to here that thanks guys i can put my rope and gin away

so world eaters are one of my top 3 leigons and thanks to GW ive got some money spare

 kronk wrote:
I wonder about other special characters like Sigismund? He was pretty important.

I would be surprised if they got dedicated special character models, but not surprised if they got rules.

OOOhhhh The Golden Throne!

Complete with authentic "Brooding" action?

I guess what I'm saying is this, that for all the details that were put into that model, forgeword would have been better off painting it in a different style to highlight the detail, rather than a very dark model with weathering that prevents the buyer from seeing the product

I just hope they do:

The Mournival
Garro
Lucius
Typhon
Kharn
Saul Tarvitz
The Deathshroud
Ka'Bandha
Nero Vipus
Erebus
Eristede Kell
Koyne
The Garantine
Iota
Jenniker Solam
Fon Tariel

Man. Touché with the assassins. Be nice to be able to field a nice FW one rather than the old ass GW ones.

 kronk wrote:
Isn't the current Kharne model holding Gorechild?

Spoiler:

Yes, Kharn inherited it from Angron. Not sure if they've actually elaborated on how or when the inheritance happened.

Didn't Kharn turn into a daemon prince and Sanquinius killed him?

Or was that another big evil daemon who's name started with A?

You're thinking of Ka'Bandha;

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ka'Bandha#.UFz-mLKPXfQ

All good looking stuff. Definitely preordering the book. Also, loving the jet bikes. Question now becomes - Imperial Fists, Iron Warriors or White Scars?

Also, just thinking, I wonder how much this will distract from the main 40k release, especially codex chaos? From my point of view, this is so much more interesting and exciting (compare what Forgeworld has put out for this so far to the GW produced toy-esque chaos action figures - batteries not included!)

I'm really looking forward to more Primarchs. I think the minis/models will become more inspired and better over time. Although I'm not sure I can wait for Sanguinius and Perturabo!

Those are the only 2 that I must have, but I guess it will all depend on how the rest look. I like the Imperial Fists and Night Lords as well.

It all comes down to how FW works out the dioramas. I really like the way you can remove the smaller base to actually use the figures.

Someone else brought it up earlier, I too am wondering if there will be multiple versions of certain Primarchs for the different stages of the HH or perhaps something like a final battle diorama with Horus, Sang, Big E, etc...

This thing is really a way for FW to basically just print money. All the special characters they could make, battle scenes, multiple version of Primarchs, it just goes on and on.

Those all look really sweet. I love the cataphracti terminators, and Angron looks incredible. I dig the grittier paintjob, actually...

 Darth Bob wrote:
I think the price is perfectly reasonable. Since I'm not uber wealthy, I want all the Primarchs, but I'm not sure I'll be able to afford them all at this price. But I could totally see buying all of my favorites at this price. No complaints from me, though I think the paint job on Angron could be better.

Put me down for Horus, Mortarion, and Alpharius/Omegon if they're as good quality as this guy.


P.S. I guess with this Horus Heresy thing we can expect to finally get a new Abaddon, as well. That makes me happy.

Hang on. Are you actually saying that you're okay that the prices are so high that you cent afford to buy everything you would like to? Despite the items in question having a very low intrinsic cost per unit and the likely demand offsetting the usual low volume arguments that can be applied to Forge World?

Don't get it.

We were daft not to think FW wouldn't naturally price gouge anything relating to the Heresy.

As someone else said however, I did kind of think FW 'was on our side'. This blatant money grab is a bit disappointing.

The MkII and MkIII armors were a test. As were the Tartaros. They have probably sold buckets loads of them by now. So they new they could charge more for Heresy specific stuff.