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 sonsoftaurus wrote:
It was nice of them to include some chaos iconography to make oblit conversions easier. Why else have one with chaos stars and three skulls arranged for Nurgle?

The helmets look Chaosy too imo.

Haven't seen the new tank yet, but I've seen the Centurions, and I have to throw my 'WTF?' into the ring as well.

Now, I actually quite like the baby carrier that is the DreadKnight, so I apparently already have what the internet at large would consider bad taste in models, but those things look a tad silly. Still, I have no doubt that they'll be nigh undefeatable on the table (my Wraithguard/Splinter weaponry/horde of Toxin Sac Hormagaunts would say otherwise though) so they'll sell like hotcakes.

And I really hope the Astartes model Evangelion is a bad joke on someone's part. It looks like someone took an R2 unit and bolted it onto a Transformer with weaponry overcompensation issues.

Still, we shall wait and see, and then I shall enjoy the fact that most of the Vanilla Marine players round my way have either bowed out of the hobby due to prices, or are on a limited budget so I probably won't end up facing many of these things anyway!

 schadenfreude wrote:
I like the new centurian models because they have a lot of potential. Paint them black and white, replace the head with a 3rd party stargate looking bird head and then you have the galaxy's most heavily armed penguins waddling across the battlefield to purge the heritics and xenos.

Thanks! Now I have an Exuse to buy the Puppet Wars Hawk Heads, Thanks that image will never leave my head.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be photoshopped? Can you provide the original "robot"?

Can you make things like that from scratch in photohshop?

I'm unsure if it's photoshopped (in the wake of those wobbly marines) but yes, you can make things from scratch in photoshop (or edit other stuff to look like other stuff). You just have to be really incredibly good at photoshop, and maybe illustration.

 heartserenade wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be photoshopped? Can you provide the original "robot"?

Can you make things like that from scratch in photohshop?

I don't think it's photoshooped but yes, you can make things from scratch in photoshop (or edit other stuff to look like other stuff). You just have to be really incredibly good at photoshop, and maybe illustration.

The Mecha is from a Animie Called Armored Trooper Votom [at least thats what my Video Tape says]

It's not often vanilla Marines get a unit that looks flat out terrible. Uninspired, but not terrible.

They definitely have one now though.

 Anpu42 wrote:

 heartserenade wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be photoshopped? Can you provide the original "robot"?

Can you make things like that from scratch in photohshop?

I don't think it's photoshooped but yes, you can make things from scratch in photoshop (or edit other stuff to look like other stuff). You just have to be really incredibly good at photoshop, and maybe illustration.

The Mecha is from a Animie Called Armored Trooper Votom [at least thats what my Video Tape says]

See, that just proves it's real. GW will then sue the creator of Votom for stealing their idea

 Anpu42 wrote:

 heartserenade wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be photoshopped? Can you provide the original "robot"?

Can you make things like that from scratch in photohshop?

I don't think it's photoshooped but yes, you can make things from scratch in photoshop (or edit other stuff to look like other stuff). You just have to be really incredibly good at photoshop, and maybe illustration.

The Mecha is from a Animie Called Armored Trooper Votom [at least thats what my Video Tape says]

In my defense if you put it beside the Centurion it doesn't look like it's photoshopped. It'll just seem like the design team doesn't give a flying feth anymore in design.

It isn't photoshopped.
It's the new tactical marine!

 heartserenade wrote:

 Anpu42 wrote:

 heartserenade wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be photoshopped? Can you provide the original "robot"?

Can you make things like that from scratch in photohshop?

I don't think it's photoshooped but yes, you can make things from scratch in photoshop (or edit other stuff to look like other stuff). You just have to be really incredibly good at photoshop, and maybe illustration.

The Mecha is from a Animie Called Armored Trooper Votom [at least thats what my Video Tape says]

In my defense if you put it beside the Centurion it doesn't look like it's photoshopped. It'll just seem like the design team doesn't give a flying feth anymore in design.

It looks a little bit - especially if you compare it to http://www.yesasia.com/us/easy-build-model-votoms-1-48-scale-scopedog-type-b-kit/1002908056-0-0-0-en/info.html

Centurions would look good in a counts-as AdMech army but not my everyday Space Marines. To clunky looking, to square. I'll pass.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
It isn't photoshopped.
It's the new tactical marine!

We're getting closer...



In all seriousness it appears to be based on the old Imperial robots, specifically the Colossus.

Looks like the dancing robot thing is a joke. Either someone's kitbash or just something thrown together in Photoshop. That's probably why it's so blurry, if it wasn't you'd be able to see through the fakery much more quickly.

Bear in mind that no flying base model has been mentioned at all up to now, no mention of such a thing by whoever was leaking the WD content, or anything else to even hint that such a thing was coming. If there was anything like this in the WD it would have been mentioned long ago. So I'm not going to immediately react with horror because an unconvincing fuzzy picture suddenly popped out of thin air.

 Fezman wrote:
Looks like the dancing robot thing is a joke. Either someone's kitbash or just something thrown together in Photoshop. That's probably why it's so blurry, if it wasn't you'd be able to see through the fakery much more quickly.

Bear in mind no that flying base model has been mentioned at all up to now, no mention of such a thing by whoever was leaking the WD content, or anything else to even hint that such a thing was coming. So I'm not going to immediately react with horror because an unconvincing fuzzy picture suddenly popped out of thin air.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Also, in the case that I am wrong I'll stick this turn-of-phrase here too "Keep your words short and sweet, as you may just have to eat them"

 Fezman wrote:
Looks like the dancing robot thing is a joke. Either someone's kitbash or just something thrown together in Photoshop. That's probably why it's so blurry, if it wasn't you'd be able to see through the fakery much more quickly.

Bear in mind no that flying base model has been mentioned at all up to now, no mention of such a thing by whoever was leaking the WD content, or anything else to even hint that such a thing was coming. If there was anything like this in the WD it would have been mentioned long ago. So I'm not going to immediately react with horror because an unconvincing fuzzy picture suddenly popped out of thin air.

Good we can save all the horror for the centurions then

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be photoshopped? Can you provide the original "robot"?

Can you make things like that from scratch in photohshop?

It's a Scopedog from Armoured Trooper VOTOMS.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
It isn't photoshopped.
It's the new tactical marine!

Awful Centurions are bad enough. Only the AA tank saves this. Anyone willing to repost the Tank pic to cleanse our sight from those crappy "angry marine toys" ?

 5deadly wrote:
That model is by far the stupid GW model I've ever seen.

No. No, I cannot let that stand.



Have you people learned nothing from Gary Morley?

Honestly, IMO, GW has released worse. These models do look silly, but they can look better with a little work (clip side toes, remove extra plates by groin, shave down lower leg).

EDIT:

 Boogie wrote:


It looks a little bit - especially if you compare it to http://www.yesasia.com/us/easy-build-model-votoms-1-48-scale-scopedog-type-b-kit/1002908056-0-0-0-en/info.html

I think it's this one:
http://www.yesasia.com/global/votoms-35max-at-collection-seriess-strike-dog/1004489966-0-0-0-en/info.html

That robot is fake, I'd bet.... No design consistency at all with any other 40k stuff, looks more gundam to me. Centurions aren't that bad, but that yellow pain job is certainly doing them no favors lol! Tank turrets look cool though


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Ninjas! Def the gundam!

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Fezman wrote:
Looks like the dancing robot thing is a joke. Either someone's kitbash or just something thrown together in Photoshop. That's probably why it's so blurry, if it wasn't you'd be able to see through the fakery much more quickly.

Bear in mind no that flying base model has been mentioned at all up to now, no mention of such a thing by whoever was leaking the WD content, or anything else to even hint that such a thing was coming. So I'm not going to immediately react with horror because an unconvincing fuzzy picture suddenly popped out of thin air.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Also, in the case that I am wrong I'll stick this turn-of-phrase here too "Keep your words short and sweet, as you may just have to eat them"

If it's a real model, there are two possibilities:

1. Games Workshop were unable to keep secret the Centurions, two new veteran kits, seven exclusive covers for the book and a whole new weapon category, but were somehow able to keep a giant robot that looks to be several inches tall completely under wraps.

2. Whoever had access to the next WD showed remarkable self-control in not mentioning the fact there was a giant robot which we had previously never heard of in there.

Given every other Codex/army book release in recent memory neither sounds likely. That's why I'm saying its fake until better evidence emerges - I think it's fair to give GW the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Tank is nice. I've still not seen the single shot missile version, but the twin multibarrelled cannons look impressive. Here's hoping they're only S5/6 so my Stormraven can still fly with impugnity...

They predicted it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSxQnZ3TM8&t=0m44s

JaqTaar wrote:

 Boogie wrote:


It looks a little bit - especially if you compare it to http://www.yesasia.com/us/easy-build-model-votoms-1-48-scale-scopedog-type-b-kit/1002908056-0-0-0-en/info.html

I think it's this one:
http://www.yesasia.com/global/votoms-35max-at-collection-seriess-strike-dog/1004489966-0-0-0-en/info.html

If you can't follow that link;

Those Centurians are the worse 40k figures I've ever seen. I will not be buying any of those no matter how over powered the rules are for them.

milo wrote:

 5deadly wrote:
That model is by far the stupid GW model I've ever seen.

No. No, I cannot let that stand.



Have you people learned nothing from Gary Morley?

Yes, that he is a towering Colossus of talent compared to whatever trained monkey-slave they chained to a Mac and forced to digitally sculpt these atrocities against the human eyeball.

That weapon is from the FW Whirlwind. It is funny, but it isn't real.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/LEGION_DEIMOS_PATTERN_WHIRLWIND_SCORPIUS.html

The Centurions look a lot better with helmets, but still look like contestants for The Biggest Loser doing some sort of rock drilling challenge.

 Oaka wrote:
The Centurions look a lot better with helmets, but still look like contestants for The Biggest Loser doing some sort of rock drilling challenge.

Which goes wonderfully with the name of "Tubbynators" that appears to be sticking on other forums.

Have an exalt!