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nudibranch wrote:
Wait, what models don't have monopose legs? I know Khorne berserkers and scions have one leg that's separate, but I'm pretty sure that's for casting reasons...

I think he means the Chicken Walker, much like the Knight, it has a criminal lack of posing options (in this case two leg options) whereas many other manufacturers seem to be able to produce much more sophisticated kits at a lower price.

nudibranch wrote:
Wait, what models don't have monopose legs? I know Khorne berserkers and scions have one leg that's separate, but I'm pretty sure that's for casting reasons...

I think he means the walker, not the troops
edit: ninja'd!

 Clang wrote:
People are over-thinking the 'near-perpetual motion' thing - it could just mean their engineers are having problems understanding the gearbox design (damaged STCs and all that) and can't make the neutral gear work

Model-wise, I love these, but price-wise (NZD$78 for a infantry box, NZD$98 for a walker) they're stupidly expensive. Without even a usable codex yet, only a rich masochist will buy them.

There's this car and I think it's a Chrysler, it's stuck in constantly circling if you put gas /petrol in it it just drives in a circle , the wheel doesn't work it just drives as long as it has petrol. They don't know why it does this as I understand think they disassembled it a few times and they don't know why it acts this way it just does. It's in a Automotive Lab I think now.

Could it be something like this?

I'm warming to the walker fluff; imagine taking a pocketwatch apart when it broke and trying to fix it when you have no manual/instructions and no understanding about gear ratios and radial springs.
Thats how i'm rationalizing this lack of maintainence at least.

 Azreal13 wrote:

nudibranch wrote:
Wait, what models don't have monopose legs? I know Khorne berserkers and scions have one leg that's separate, but I'm pretty sure that's for casting reasons...

I think he means the Chicken Walker, much like the Knight, it has a criminal lack of posing options (in this case two leg options) whereas many other manufacturers seem to be able to produce much more sophisticated kits at a lower price.

Ah, thanks!

You guys do realize (especially those talking about the Dark Mech) that AdMech are basically Fantasy Dwarves, and the Dark Mech is the Chaos Dwarves. Right?

 Azreal13 wrote:

nudibranch wrote:
Wait, what models don't have monopose legs? I know Khorne berserkers and scions have one leg that's separate, but I'm pretty sure that's for casting reasons...

I think he means the Chicken Walker, much like the Knight, it has a criminal lack of posing options (in this case two leg options) whereas many other manufacturers seem to be able to produce much more sophisticated kits at a lower price.

I am. Games Workshop's very own Sentinel has multi-part posable legs, so it's not really acceptable on this thing. At least the Knight is big enough to be fairly easy to re-pose, but the size of those legs will make it much more awkward.

Anvildude wrote:
You guys do realize (especially those talking about the Dark Mech) that AdMech are basically Fantasy Dwarves, and the Dark Mech is the Chaos Dwarves. Right?

Not... really? Whilst they do produce some steam punk-y machinery, the Dwarves are more interested in HONOUR and GRUDGES and are your typical stoic warrior dudes. The Adeptus Mechanicus doesn't give a gak about honour, often stealing irreplaceable artefacts from Space Marine chapters and holy temples, far more interested in claiming the holy technology for themselves.

To the Dwarves, technology is a tool. To the Mechanicus, it is god.


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Wait, seeing that Dwarf gyrocopters are beer powered, does that make them... beerpunk?

 Frozen Ocean wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:

nudibranch wrote:
Wait, what models don't have monopose legs? I know Khorne berserkers and scions have one leg that's separate, but I'm pretty sure that's for casting reasons...

I think he means the Chicken Walker, much like the Knight, it has a criminal lack of posing options (in this case two leg options) whereas many other manufacturers seem to be able to produce much more sophisticated kits at a lower price.

I am. Games Workshop's very own Sentinel has multi-part posable legs, so it's not really acceptable on this thing. At least the Knight is big enough to be fairly easy to re-pose, but the size of those legs will make it much more awkward.

I'll want and see how it turns out. if the mono-pose legs mean greater stability I might be willing to forgive em

It's a plastic model on a plastic base, the weight involved as well as the material and solvents means that you'd have to wilfully assemble it in a ludicrous pose with the tiniest contact points for stability to be a real issue.

It's just either lazy design or catering to the lowest skill level of modeller, heck the FW Cerastus Knights have adjustable hydraulic rams for the legs to accommodate different poses. In resin.

Anvildude wrote:
You guys do realize (especially those talking about the Dark Mech) that AdMech are basically Fantasy Dwarves, and the Dark Mech is the Chaos Dwarves. Right?

Where did you come up with that?


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 Azreal13 wrote:
It's a plastic model on a plastic base, the weight involved as well as the material and solvents means that you'd have to wilfully assemble it in a ludicrous pose with the tiniest contact points for stability to be a real issue.

It's just either lazy design or catering to the lowest skill level of modeller, heck the FW Cerastus Knights have adjustable hydraulic rams for the legs to accommodate different poses. In resin.

How is that stability in the resin? That thing will snap by just looking at it.

So far, its fifty/ fifty in my opinion of this stuff. I like the Mechanicus, but this model is just plain garbage. They could have done better, but chose not to.

Just imagine being the guy grafted into that walker who doesn't have anything to do but play around with two stupid little claw hands. Must be frustrating as hell.

 Grot 6 wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
It's a plastic model on a plastic base, the weight involved as well as the material and solvents means that you'd have to wilfully assemble it in a ludicrous pose with the tiniest contact points for stability to be a real issue.

It's just either lazy design or catering to the lowest skill level of modeller, heck the FW Cerastus Knights have adjustable hydraulic rams for the legs to accommodate different poses. In resin.

How is that stability in the resin? That thing will snap by just looking at it.

I was kinda making a second point about poseability - if FW can make a much larger model in a heavier material poseable, and produce adjustable pieces to accommodate that and still look joined up, it makes it even harder to excuse it in plastic.

 Quarterdime wrote:
Just imagine being the guy grafted into that walker who doesn't have anything to do but play around with two stupid little claw hands. Must be frustrating as hell.

Ranger: Hey, Servitor, are you being deployed for combat?
Servitor: Yes, why?
Ranger: Because I thought we could fire up an Ironstrider!
Servitor: Cool idea! Which part do I get? The huge, arcane guns?
Ranger: No.
Servitor: The stomping feet? The mighty engines?
Ranger: No. The arms...
Servitor: I'm, err, busy that day... I have to change a bolt on... something...

 Yodhrin wrote:
Out of interest, given your information/intuition that this is actually a full release not a Tempestus-style pre-supplement, do you have any idea what that means for the multiple books/Cult Mechanicus rumour? Is it just wrong and we're only getting one book, or is the CM the supplement, or is it something else entirely?

Sadly I have no more info than what I've been told.

 Quarterdime wrote:
Just imagine being the guy grafted into that walker who doesn't have anything to do but play around with two stupid little claw hands. Must be frustrating as hell.

given it's a lobotomized serviator I doubt it's capable of feeling frustration...

or doing much more beyond working the legs and drooling

Tiny non-functional arms were the braking system of the perpetual motion mechanica- for there was no way to stop the power flow once the spirit of the machine had been invoked. Attempts to create perpetually mobile or simply mobile repair units proved... problematic.

Thus, an alternative outlet for the energy was created. When the machine is told to brake, it indicates this with an intricate series of hand gestures, showing that it is safe to approach the machine. This safety dance is why every adept looks at the hands before maintenance is begun. Sadly, the crew was driven to dance for eternity as well. Their legs were used as the core of the next perpetual motion device, and the practice continues to this day.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:
Just imagine being the guy grafted into that walker who doesn't have anything to do but play around with two stupid little claw hands. Must be frustrating as hell.

given it's a lobotomized serviator I doubt it's capable of feeling frustration...

or doing much more beyond working the legs and drooling

Hey, and you know what else? It also looks like he controls the legs and engine!

 Quarterdime wrote:
Just imagine being the guy grafted into that walker who doesn't have anything to do but play around with two stupid little claw hands. Must be frustrating as hell.

figured the little naf guy was the driver

 Quarterdime wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:
Just imagine being the guy grafted into that walker who doesn't have anything to do but play around with two stupid little claw hands. Must be frustrating as hell.

given it's a lobotomized serviator I doubt it's capable of feeling frustration...

or doing much more beyond working the legs and drooling

Hey, and you know what else? It also looks like he controls the legs and engine!

Spoiler:

It was a fething joke.

Not everyone is good at understanding sarcasm. especially over the internet. I myself had to train myself to recognise it.

nudibranch wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:
Just imagine being the guy grafted into that walker who doesn't have anything to do but play around with two stupid little claw hands. Must be frustrating as hell.

given it's a lobotomized serviator I doubt it's capable of feeling frustration...

or doing much more beyond working the legs and drooling

Hey, and you know what else? It also looks like he controls the legs and engine!

Spoiler:

It was a fething joke.

Not everyone is good at understanding sarcasm. especially over the internet. I myself had to train myself to recognise it.

That's partly why I got frustrated. Half of what I had was hope.

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Tiny non-functional arms were the braking system of the perpetual motion mechanica- for there was no way to stop the power flow once the spirit of the machine had been invoked. Attempts to create perpetually mobile or simply mobile repair units proved... problematic.

Thus, an alternative outlet for the energy was created. When the machine is told to brake, it indicates this with an intricate series of hand gestures, showing that it is safe to approach the machine. This safety dance is why every adept looks at the hands before maintenance is begun. Sadly, the crew was driven to dance for eternity as well. Their legs were used as the core of the next perpetual motion device, and the practice continues to this day.

But do their friends dance?

Only if they want to.

If they don't, leave them behind.

Obviously the tiny arms are for incredibly intricate inter-walker paddy cake games during down time.

Guys, check out the two off to the side, circled in Pink.

BUT ALSO check out the one in the middle, right behind the TA in SKITARII.

Looks like a Ranger, but check out the cables coming around from it, one with a spike... Hint at a character model???

Lol wtf are those?! Also the guy in the middle (behind the word Skitarii) looks like a possible character model??

ooohhhh - concept sketches. I love concept sketches. Used to pour over Jes Goodwin's Eldar and Necmnd sketches for hours

I always love concept art. My avatar is actually some really early tau art.

if it's concept art I'd avoid reading TOOO closely into it as it could just be rejected ideas for the Skritarii, if it's a concept art for some sort of unit we've yet to see, my guess would be something in the elites catagory Maybe close combat specialist infantry? both the troop selections admech has are pretty shooty after all