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On further reflection, it isn't completely impossible- just wildly impractical and improbable. BEHOLD!



It does happen in our world.... although with a close faced helm, it becomes far, far more difficult.

''Of all the things to complain about...''

A model looking stupid is absolutely worth complaining about!

zreef wrote:
Of all the things one could complain about in terms of design, complaining about the horn really seems to be scraping at the bottom of the barrel.

People have been complaining about lots of things; the silly horn positioning is just the latest. The model line has lots of mistakes that are surprising from one of the largest companies in the industry, especially at that price point. The refrain "That's a silly thing to complain about!" is a constant, however. Which is strange to me. It is not clear what would NOT be a silly thing to complain about, if just about every particular of the models that people dislike (pin heads, strange jumping poses, exceedingly difficult to use musical instrument/armor combos, and peering through the instrument being the first four to pop to mind) is too silly to bring up.

Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

Chikout wrote:
Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

I zoomed in to like 500% and it looks like a standard margarine helmet. It does have some weird shine near the mouth of the helmet but still. Is there a better picture somewhere?

It also doesn't change the fact he looks like an astronomer trying to find some stars. Or maybe he is doing a staring into the sun competition with his mates.

What stormcast can even have a musician?

Chikout wrote:
Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

Unless you are looking at a different picture, its anything but clear. I too zoomed way in and still couldn't make anything out beyond a normal helmet.

TBH though I would not be at all surprised for GW to have fluffed it as some sort of spyglass. It wouldn't be the stupidest thing they have put on a model.

I hope that works. I personal don't care for this model, but it is a plastic miniature that has been poorly posed and painted.
Edit. Still no good. Never posted a picture on here before. is there a high quality setting?It is a picture from the free iBooks preview of the Stormcast battle tome. In the process of taking a screenshot and uploading it has lost a lot of detail. The original photo is pretty sharp. I assumed everyone had seen it.

If you click the image it goes into CSI mode.

Wow he really does have a face... but the detail of that face is bad it's probably why they painted it gold maybe?

If they aren't supposed to be metal people, they really have done a bad job making that clear in the designs.

Huh. Well at least the design makes sense with that in mind, even if the paint job doesn't.

 Swastakowey wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

I zoomed in to like 500% and it looks like a standard margarine helmet. It does have some weird shine near the mouth of the helmet but still. Is there a better picture somewhere?

It also doesn't change the fact he looks like an astronomer trying to find some stars. Or maybe he is doing a staring into the sun competition with his mates.

 Swastakowey wrote:
it looks like a standard margarine helmet.

LOL, he probably won't make many saves wearing one of those!

And even without zooming, I can see little doodads on either side of his mouth. The painter may have even made that part skin toned but the pic is too blurry to tell.

And why wouldn't he point the horn up in the air? Should he point it towards the ground or something? Come on...

But I agree if it's closed, it would be a little silly.

 Swastakowey wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

I zoomed in to like 500% and it looks like a standard margarine helmet. It does have some weird shine near the mouth of the helmet but still. Is there a better picture somewhere?

It also doesn't change the fact he looks like an astronomer trying to find some stars. Or maybe he is doing a staring into the sun competition with his mates.

Maybe he's just finished sounding the horn? That's what the pose looks like to me.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

I zoomed in to like 500% and it looks like a standard margarine helmet. It does have some weird shine near the mouth of the helmet but still. Is there a better picture somewhere?

It also doesn't change the fact he looks like an astronomer trying to find some stars. Or maybe he is doing a staring into the sun competition with his mates.

Maybe he's just finished sounding the horn? That's what the pose looks like to me.

Looks like he's had a blow, it made no sound, so he's checking for obstructions?

 zedmeister wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

I zoomed in to like 500% and it looks like a standard margarine helmet. It does have some weird shine near the mouth of the helmet but still. Is there a better picture somewhere?

It also doesn't change the fact he looks like an astronomer trying to find some stars. Or maybe he is doing a staring into the sun competition with his mates.

Maybe he's just finished sounding the horn? That's what the pose looks like to me.

Looks like he's had a blow, it made no sound, so he's checking for obstructions?

Battlefields aren't the cleanest of places

Huh, zooming in am I the only one who noticed that he is holding that horn in a kinda suss way?

 jonolikespie wrote:
Huh, zooming in am I the only one who noticed that he is holding that horn in a kinda suss way?

it's alright by the looks of the horde coming his way he'll be dead soon...on another note since they are wearing full helms how is he sounding the horn? I betcha he's pushing a button and the sound just comes out

I still say he's trying to shove it in his eye.

 WillyBRags wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:
Huh, zooming in am I the only one who noticed that he is holding that horn in a kinda suss way?

it's alright by the looks of the horde coming his way he'll be dead soon...on another note since they are wearing full helms how is he sounding the horn? I betcha he's pushing a button and the sound just comes out

As noted earlier, the hornblower isn't wearing a full mask; hi mouth and chin are exposed so he can blow on his horn.

Rules:

"To use The Telescope Of Ashrah, place a toy telescope (or cardboard tube) to your eye and shout "FOR SIGMAR!" Upon doing so, this grants D3 rerolls for that turn.

Skaven players may wish to apply a ring of black paint to the eyepiece of the toy telescope/tube. If they succeed in getting the Sigmarite player to print a black ring on their eye, the Skaven player immediately wins the game."

If they release Storm Caste cavalry will they be called Knight Ridors?

 angelofvengeance wrote:


Maybe he's just finished sounding the horn? That's what the pose looks like to me.

Maybe he's putting the horn up to his forehead because he was a unicorn in his past life.

Heraldor?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Heraldor?

I was wondering the same... Maybe Hornor, Tootor, Tootelor and Honkor didn't sound cool enough?

Maybe they forgot the punctuation. Herald, or?

Herald,or astronomer? You choose

It's like Herald, but you can slap a giant copyright on it

 Kilkrazy wrote:
If they release Storm Caste cavalry will they be called Knight Ridors?

LOL!

If you actually think about it, mounted knights make no sense when you can give your knights wings that allow them to fly faster than the mounts can charge But then again, when did not making any sense ever stop GW from making a cool looking mini

 Talys wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
If they release Storm Caste cavalry will they be called Knight Ridors?

LOL!

If you actually think about it, mounted knights make no sense when you can give your knights wings that allow them to fly faster than the mounts can charge But then again, when did not making any sense ever stop GW from making a cool looking mini

Actually I think a horse is more suited to combat than someone who can fly. The horse has much greater shock value and is much more resistant to arrows than something with wings. Wings would be way better for scouting, but if those winged creatures tried to engage another unit they would have a worse time than horse would, at least the horse has a shock value to it. Flying units would just lose their wings to ranged weapons in a flash.

Unless of course the enemy is fleeing, then they could harass the fleeing enemy but so can horse... just horses do all the other combat jobs too.

In sieges however flying soldiers would be amazing to have, and for scouting.


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 pax macharia wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Looking at the picture of the hornblower, you can quite clearly see a triangular slot cut into the bottom of the helmet leaving his lips and chin exposed. Unfortunately the painter took rather less care than the designer and painted this gold too. I know Age of Sigmar bashing is a popular sport around these parts, but taking a moment to use your eyes before rushing to judgement wouldn't hurt.

I zoomed in to like 500% and it looks like a standard margarine helmet. It does have some weird shine near the mouth of the helmet but still. Is there a better picture somewhere?

It also doesn't change the fact he looks like an astronomer trying to find some stars. Or maybe he is doing a staring into the sun competition with his mates.

 Swastakowey wrote:
it looks like a standard margarine helmet.

LOL, he probably won't make many saves wearing one of those!

And even without zooming, I can see little doodads on either side of his mouth. The painter may have even made that part skin toned but the pic is too blurry to tell.

And why wouldn't he point the horn up in the air? Should he point it towards the ground or something? Come on...

But I agree if it's closed, it would be a little silly.

Whoops yea Margarine helmets would be so gross too.

I don't know about you, but whenever the horns finish blowing they are promptly angled downwards, it also does not explain why he seems to be looking through it, I think it's likely the way the model has been assembled, it's likely you can assemble it at the mouth but maybe it slid up during the glue process or something.

$10 to the first person to pose Heraldor like the heralds of /tg/