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 Yodhrin wrote:
Someone over at B&C(sorry I forget who, I saved it and reupped) did this edit, and that brings it almost all the way to acceptable for my tastes. I'd still probably try and figure a way to replace the cherry red pumps with Dread feet or somesuch, and something needs to be done about the Blaster arm variants, but even just swapping out the "head" and adding decent shoulders goes a long way.



Quite glad I've still not got around to assembling my Castellax yet, I should be able to InstantMold the top piece easy enough.

Yikes, that makes for one expensive robot! Looks much better though, I'll definitely give you that

I'm guessing the Castellax is a little on the small side to represent these Ka(ugh)stallans? Because if not, then they make a perfect substitute.

 Accolade wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Someone over at B&C(sorry I forget who, I saved it and reupped) did this edit, and that brings it almost all the way to acceptable for my tastes. I'd still probably try and figure a way to replace the cherry red pumps with Dread feet or somesuch, and something needs to be done about the Blaster arm variants, but even just swapping out the "head" and adding decent shoulders goes a long way.



Quite glad I've still not got around to assembling my Castellax yet, I should be able to InstantMold the top piece easy enough.

Yikes, that makes for one expensive robot! Looks much better though, I'll definitely give you that

I'm guessing the Castellax is a little on the small side to represent these Ka(ugh)stallans? Because if not, then they make a perfect substitute.

Oh no danger I'm sawing my Castellax apart, I'll take a mould of the domepiece and replicate it in putty, and fashion the shoulderpads out of plasticard.

The Castellax look to be a touch shorter than the new Kastelans, but most of the difference seems to be in the great bloody Epcot Centre on top and the gigantic feet. You'd have to find a grade-A pedant if you wanted someone to object to them being used for counts-as

I wonder what's the size difference to one of Dreamforce small leviathans. Might make for good stand in.

 inqscott wrote:
I wonder what's the size difference to one of Dreamforce small leviathans. Might make for good stand in.

No chance lance.

Ri Tides had some and they are a good bit bigger than a Contemptor IIRC from his blog.

Yeah, the 15mm leviathan is about the size of a dreadknight.

Just throwing this out there - anyone who has a Thanatar has a spare pair of feet. might make an acceptable replacement?

 MrFlutterPie wrote:

 Accolade wrote:
I like most of this release except the robot (as a number of others have said). But what really irks me about them, perhaps irrationally so, is the damn misspelling in the name! WHY does it have to be Kastellan?

Because the proof reader is a Ork.

'Da Spell Chekka' - GW editor job description. Hey it's hard to find good help these days.

That would explain why things like Imperium anti-air missiles are called "Flakk", and the one of the charts in the Imperial Knights codex is the "Stompy" chart. Instead of, you know, "Glorious Airborne Xeno-Grounding Missiles" and "The Emperor's Wrathful Footfalls" charts.

 Accolade wrote:
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I'm guessing the Castellax is a little on the small side to represent these Ka(ugh)stallans? Because if not, then they make a perfect substitute.

Its a bit smaller. Comp pic on same sized bases below. A mod or two; taller feet, extend waist, higher base... done!

Anvildude wrote:
That would explain why things like Imperium anti-air missiles are called "Flakk", and the one of the charts in the Imperial Knights codex is the "Stompy" chart. Instead of, you know, "Glorious Airborne Xeno-Grounding Missiles" and "The Emperor's Wrathful Footfalls" charts.

Now that I think about it, I guess the Imperium IS pretty close to North Korea..

In any case, now that I compare the two robots, I think the Kastelan would benefit from borrowing the crotch, shoulders and feet from the Castellax. It's lacking a bit of that square industrial (aka STC) vibe.

Well, I now have an extra Castellax head. yay one critical surface! Given that I already have 2 of these things and 3 Vorax (which will work nicely for the shooty version of the robots) I think I'll just need a single kit of the new boys and that'll be more than enough robots to grind my enemies into the red sands of mars.

So I'll use this head, and the spare sets of Castellax feet and their heights will match nicely.

now the only concern is mounting the head... it looks like the Castellax torso has quite a bit more of an oblique surface to it than the new guy's. I'll have to do some fiddling when I get him.

And, wait. What the frick is that imperial eagle doing slapped on his chest? Screw that noise, this thing is a freaking piece of 5000 year old archeotech there is no way a god damned imperial guard officer was allowed to slap one of those stupid eagles on it.

Aaaaaand we're back to casting.

I think if this release inspires me to do anything, it's going to be starting a 30k Mechanicum army!

the_scotsman wrote:
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And, wait. What the frick is that imperial eagle doing slapped on his chest? Screw that noise, this thing is a freaking piece of 5000 year old archeotech there is no way a god damned imperial guard officer was allowed to slap one of those stupid eagles on it.
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The Aquila is the badge of the Imperium, not just of the Guard.

I wonder if dreadnoughts would be too stocky to be a suitable proxy.

Do we have a price list on the new stuff? The electro priests, etc?

 catharsix wrote:
Do we have a price list on the new stuff? The electro priests, etc?

Not yet, we will get the prices with the white dwarf leaks for that release. So far we only know the price of the Kastellan robots I think. Unless ive missed anything...hopefully the electro priests aren't too expensive. Im also curious to see if there are any duel kits with the cult mechanicus release, so far no real confirmation.

timd wrote:

Spoiler:

The left one almost looks like someone took some generic, dollar store robot toy and glued it to a plastic base. I don't even want to know how much GW is going to charge for it, the fact that someone in that company signed off on this garbage is infuriating enough.

The reason the forgeworld stuff looks so much better is because it's 30K, not 40K, obviously technology and stuff looks worse the farther into the future you go, like star wars! HAHA!

I don't know how to properly articulate just how disappointed I've been with the 40k admech release so far. It's not terrible, but it's in no way lived up to much expectations.

I know I'm not the first to say it, but I reckon those Kastallans are pants. They've got nothing on the Castellax.

Everything's just been close, but not quite up to scratch; the skitarii stuff is all too pristine and uniform. I guess it's not grimdark enough. Admittedly I adore those new servitors, but that's just because they're the same aesthetic as the FW tech-thralls. The new techpriests are cool, but I still prefer the FW titan one...

I like to think the FW sculpts are based on the legends and myths of what stuff was back then and the robots actually looked like this stuff when it was finally rediscovered.

That said, I like the robots.

I think the robots are very derpy looking. However, it will take very little effort to make them look much better. Quad toe blocky feet, plasticard shoulder pads and a smaller head with a Gypsy Danger V visor rather than googly eyes. Much as I like the Castellax I think after conversion the Kastellan will look better due to its bulkier legs and Power Fists.

Excuse my terrible Paint Skills.

Justyn wrote:
I think the robots are very derpy looking. However, it will take very little effort to make them look much better. Quad toe blocky feet, plasticard shoulder pads and a smaller head with a Gypsy Danger V visor rather than googly eyes. Much as I like the Castellax I think after conversion the Kastellan will look better due to its bulkier legs and Power Fists.

Excuse my terrible Paint Skills.

Needs the circle (or a square) gypsy danger style reactor with a AM symbol in the center.

Might look cool.

Now it needs to be punching a Tyranid, and it's perfect.

That is definitely beyond my paint skills. But I agree it would look good. Sadly now I am contemplating purchasing some.

Me too, what have you done?

Would make a nice base for a Hulkbuster conversion.

Christ, stop bringing up Gipsy Danger, I can't stand the thought of Gipsy being compared to that garbage.

I actually kinda like the rest of the Ad Mech range so far, but this model in particular stands out. It really is just the worst, and it doesn't fit in with the rest of the Ad Mech line at all. It's actually kinda jarring, you can see how all the other releases kinda fit together and you can buy that they're all part of the same army, but then you see this crap and it's like "Wait, WTF?!"

Can ICs join the Kastellan unit? would make for some scary possibilities