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HH 3 Extermination.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 Zuul wrote:
Oh geez. If you're already getting your limited edition all the way down there, where is mine??

I'm much closer to you Zuul and I got mine on Monday.

For real? I hope mine didn't get lost in transit...

 Zuul wrote:
Oh geez. If you're already getting your limited edition all the way down there, where is mine??

Dude, I got my LE Box set last Thursday and I live North of Chicago. Where are you, exactly? Did you get your "Shipped" notice?

got mine about 3 weeks ago

 kronk wrote:
Dude, I got my LE Box set last Thursday and I live North of Chicago. Where are you, exactly? Did you get your "Shipped" notice?

Heh. I was right. You did get yours before me.

Load of stuff up for pre-order http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff
I'm particularly liking the WE heads.

Ah yes.

Now I can just convert plastic marines into WE

The EC buys are nice, but most of my EC will be in MkII and MkIII armor.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Dude, I got my LE Box set last Thursday and I live North of Chicago. Where are you, exactly? Did you get your "Shipped" notice?

Heh. I was right. You did get yours before me.

Well, I am very handsome, so the UPS chick brings me my stuff pretty quickly. And humble. I'm more humble than all you fethers.

 kronk wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Dude, I got my LE Box set last Thursday and I live North of Chicago. Where are you, exactly? Did you get your "Shipped" notice?

Heh. I was right. You did get yours before me.

Well, I am very handsome, so the UPS chick brings me my stuff pretty quickly. And humble. I'm more humble than all you fethers.

I'm a million times as humble as thou art.

 kronk wrote:

 Zuul wrote:
Oh geez. If you're already getting your limited edition all the way down there, where is mine??

Dude, I got my LE Box set last Thursday and I live North of Chicago. Where are you, exactly? Did you get your "Shipped" notice?

I'm in the suburbs of Minneapolis. The dispatch notice came april 28th. I'm getting a little worried.

Emperor's children torsos good, both helmet sets meh.

The upgrade sets look pretty cool, though I don't have much use for them.

I can see some potential for the Emperor's Children helmets. they remind me very much of the HH cover art for some of the Dark Angels books (Minus the topknot)

Seems a bit far fetched but someone on eBay claims to be selling a model of Mortarion for £110.00

Source: http://battlebunnies.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/mortarion-is-here.html

Well there you go. Not so keen on the top handle coming off the side, but otherwise he's nice.

He's a bit awkwardly posed, might have looked better with the arms and scythe resting against his thigh. The primarchs have been fantastic so far, by and large, think this is probably the worst of them.

Think I would probably go for the Kabuki version..

Bronzefists42 wrote:Ah yes.

Now I can just convert plastic marines into WE

This is what I and many other people did for years prior to the FW stuff arriving, just cut the bunny ears from a Khorne Bersker helm.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Well there you go. Not so keen on the top handle coming off the side, but otherwise he's nice.

I agree with you from an aesthetics point of view, although real scythes have that handle, so even if he looks a bit weird, at least he is an efficient reaper

Bear in mind we're only looking at the model from one perspective. I like it, and will be buying him to lead my pre-heresy force.

 reds8n wrote:

Do want!

That looks pretty terrible, in my honest opinion.

I mean don't get me wrong, from a sculpting perspective they did a good job. Just, the pose and overall design, from his head to his weapon to his armor, seems really "meh" to me.

How do you even use the scythe holding it like that?

 BlaxicanX wrote:
How do you even use the scythe holding it like that?

How a scythe is meant to be used, in big sweeping arcs. Real scythes are like that, it makes the scythe more efficient to use. Scythes have never been particularly effective weapons, because they are only really good for lopping off people's legs in big slow arcs.

They did an excellent job sculpting a model using a scythes exactly like it is supposed to be used.

Doesn't make it a smart weapon, but it's accurate...

But you can barely swing it in a large arc while holding it like that. You would have to twist your entire body, from your upper torso to your legs, to twist that thing far enough to strike someone with the bladed end.

You can't really fall back on realism there, scythes with that kind kind of appearance were never used as weapons, so it's not even realistic, it's just dumb.

Warscythes were used in a similar manner to naginatas. I've never seen a scythe with that awkward handle branching off of it.

Yeah, it is based of a real working scythe. Warscythes were usually modified to have the blade sticking out vertically from the top of the pole, so then they were like a glaive or naginata. The shape of a scythe just isn't practical for a weapon, because the blade is on the inside of the arc. However, it doesn't really have the grim reaper feel to it if it no longer looks like a scythe, there is the image to uphold here I suppose.

Oh of course, it's the Weekender today&tomorrow isn't it. One of you buggers better be filming all the seminars for the rest of us mooks

You're right, but he's not holding it like a Grim Reaper, he's holding it like its a battering ram, lol.



I mean, why bother going for the "iconic", yet unrealistic look, if you're going to mess it up by holding it in a non-iconic stance. If they were going to go that direction and throw realism out the window, they should have just gone all the way and had him hold like the iconic Grim Reaper.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110312202131/warhammer40k/images/9/9f/Mortarion,_Prince_of_Decay.jpg

imo.