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Holy. Crap.

 azreal13 wrote:
HORUS!!

...I am the happiest Sons of Horus player right now.

He actually looks like a noble son of the emperor there instead of a piece of Gak. Wel Done Forgeorld, now go work your magic on that IG truck that is half looted.

I think having had time to process the image more, while he is everything one could ask for from a Horus sculpt, I find him a bit vanilla. I would like to own a Horus model, but I think I'll wait until he gets his Battle Of Terra/Final Confrontation Chaosified incarnation.

Really makes the classic mini seem really dated.

That cape...

 aka_mythos wrote:
Really makes the classic mini seem really dated.

Which classic mini?

 Alpharius wrote:

 aka_mythos wrote:
Really makes the classic mini seem really dated.

Which classic mini?

I'm assuming he's mixing Horus up with Abaddon

Horus looks pretty bad ass to me.He will be joining my Sons Of Horus upon release.

They did a very nice job with the face. It makes me think of Lex Luthor, but that's not a bad thing.

See now we clearly see the difference between GW and FW.

Forgeworld does agood job of placement with all the bling. Horus is covered in the eye of Horus, but not terribly. If GW proper made Horus he would have horus eye nipples and horus eye bits down below too

I really want to see how they chaosify him up later, and if he will stay very similar or not.

 azreal13 wrote:
I think having had time to process the image more, while he is everything one could ask for from a Horus sculpt, I find him a bit vanilla. I would like to own a Horus model, but I think I'll wait until he gets his Battle Of Terra/Final Confrontation Chaosified incarnation.

I think you're right. While he's definitely solid, and there aren't even any points to call out as not good, he's not really striking in any way. This is particularly bad for THE villain of this EPIC story. The Emperor and Horus (and to a lesser extent, say Sanguinius, etc.) should really deliver a larger-than-life sculpt/fig. Depending on the price, I might get one and slightly alter/jazz it up.

-C6

Damn, they've hit Horus out of the park. That is genuinely a 10/10 model, the perfect blend of gravity, presence, subtly and menace. Blows even the other awesome primarch models away.

I'm not a fan myself. Could have used a more dynamic pose.

I believe the intention was to do two version of the Traitor primarchs. It makes a certain amount of sense, especially given the popularity of "Pre-Heresy" armies; kind of hard to do Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children and the like when they're lead by an avatar of the dark gods and a purple snake-monster if the intention is to do them before all that happened.

I quite like the Horus sculpt, he looks extremely noble, and air of confidence and power, but controlled, refined, mature. Matches how I would picture him prior to everything going sideways (which is why I hope they finalize the Fulgrim sculpt which appeared some time ago of him holding the standard of his legion, rather than fighting Manus.)

The idea with these "character series" models seems to be to try and capture the essence of the character at a specific moment in time, some iconic action or phase. Some are better than others (Abaddon and Loken remain, probably, my favourite), but I wouldn't consider any of them a failure or missed mark yet.

That Horus model is fine. He just looks epic, and the paintjob really looks good on the miniature.

 Theophony wrote:
See now we clearly see the difference between GW and FW.

Forgeworld does agood job of placement with all the bling. Horus is covered in the eye of Horus, but not terribly. If GW proper made Horus he would have horus eye nipples and horus eye bits down below too

I really want to see how they chaosify him up later, and if he will stay very similar or not.

That's because FW is staffed by hobbyists. GW is staffed by businessmen

I second cincydooly that sculpt actually got a "holy crap" out of me and I almost never outburst for things like that.

Horus will probably be the first primarch I buy .

 cincydooley wrote:
That same mammoth tank is referred to in one of the newer HH books as well. I'm trying to find which it is.

It's in fear to tread, where they are blazing to the bone castle to kill Kyriss and Ka'Bandha. Hope that helps

OT: That Horus model captures him brilliantly, the air of arrogance and superioty that surrounds him, all captured in that bald head of his! I Think this is before the battle of Istvaan, when he was a loyal son of the Emp.

Horus looks very nice. He'll make a great Wolf Guard in TDA to lead my truescale space squad once I obliterate a few eyeballs.

 azreal13 wrote:
HORUS!!

His face looks lile handsome squidward....

XD

 warboss wrote:
Horus looks very nice. He'll make a great Wolf Guard in TDA to lead my truescale space squad once I obliterate a few eyeballs.

I'd be careful before you blow £55+ on him for that purpose, the pics for the Primarchs are deceptive, they're absolutely huge - Ferrus still has a solid 1-1.5cm over my newest truscale marines, and I made those in 32mm scale(ie the marines are 40-42mm fully-upright). Hell just the head of his mace looks to be around the size of a Terminator's whole torso.

Truly lovely model though, I suspect we're going to see a lot of dioramas of that famous painting of the Emperor discovering Horus over Sanguinius' body at Golden Daemon over the next few years.

Now I really want my Mortarion

His head reminds me a bit of Peter Weller as Robocop.

 tomball0706 wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
That same mammoth tank is referred to in one of the newer HH books as well. I'm trying to find which it is.

It's in fear to tread, where they are blazing to the bone castle to kill Kyriss and Ka'Bandha. Hope that helps

OT: That Horus model captures him brilliantly, the air of arrogance and superioty that surrounds him, all captured in that bald head of his! I Think this is before the battle of Istvaan, when he was a loyal son of the Emp.

Yes! You rock. I couldn't remember where it was!

 Yodhrin wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Horus looks very nice. He'll make a great Wolf Guard in TDA to lead my truescale space squad once I obliterate a few eyeballs.

I'd be careful before you blow £55+ on him for that purpose, the pics for the Primarchs are deceptive, they're absolutely huge - Ferrus still has a solid 1-1.5cm over my newest truscale marines, and I made those in 32mm scale(ie the marines are 40-42mm fully-upright). Hell just the head of his mace looks to be around the size of a Terminator's whole torso.

Truly lovely model though, I suspect we're going to see a lot of dioramas of that famous painting of the Emperor discovering Horus over Sanguinius' body at Golden Daemon over the next few years.

Feel free to PM me a link to any pics of that and I do appreciate the heads up warning. I'm actually hoping to add him as the Iron Hands techmarine in my Deathwatch truescale marine squad as well (unchanged except for maybe removing the rock under his foot that inflates his size). I suspect and hope that Horus is even bigger but I'm actually OK with that seeing as how I made the "regular" power armor marines out of mainly terminator bits and wouldn't mind an actual terminator in the squad to tower over them as in the old Blood Angel codex cover.

Best Primarch model they've done so far IMO. Though Ferrus and Angron aren't far off either lol

Agree, that's one beautiful miniature. Glad they have gone for a more regal, intelligent look rather than 'horns, evil, raarrghh!' chaos-type leader.

That horus looks magnificent. I want one and I don't even have any sons of horus.

I'm eagerly awaiting the mortion sculpt as well. They just seem to be getting better and better.

I'm glad to see that Horus actually looks fantastic, unlike Fulgrim or Lorgar. If I ever make a Luna Wolves army, no question, I'm buying him. I also like how they made him work perfectly pre-chaos taint, so he works just as well with the Luna Wolves as the Sons of Horus.