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 Kanluwen wrote:
For the love of...

Really? Space Wolves get a plastic Techmarine before they release a vanilla Techmarine in plastic!

Space Wolves got a plastic Thousand Son before Chaos. So there's that. Still kind of rageworthy that they've moved on to releasing plastic SM special characters while other armies' basic unit choices languish in the ancient realm of Finecrapia.

On the other hand the new Ulrik is a total boss. So I guess I forgive them.

Quarterdime wrote:One of the things that I'd like you to think about with Ulrik is that he looks pretty unique like that, I mean in the sense that he's a Space Wolf that's actually not a pose of action. I know, I know, not in character, but still. You can't tell me that that's a terrible pose. He looks great.

EDIT: Also, apparently he hangs out with shooting units enough for this to be validated.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
If he was a captain, or a librarian, I could get behind the “standing around” pose. He does look epic and regal, standing on a clifftop, cape blowing in the icy wind. But that’s not chaplains, or Space Wolves in general. He should be mixing it up, action pose.

I can see Wolf Priests being in either an actiony pose or a more sedate pose. I'm not really sure why a Wolf Priest would be any less regal than Wolf Lords or Rune Priests. In general Wolf Priests are some of the most venerated figures within the SW hierarchy. Ulrik specifically is known as being aggressive, but he's also the oldest living Space Wolf, so I could see him being calm before entering a battle or in a dynamic pose.

But I personally don't care for dynamic poses on my more important characters. There's a million and one models "shooting off in to the distance" or "swinging at invisible enemy", I think those poses are better suited to squad leaders rather than the focal point characters, who I usually imagine as being steady from their vast experience in war up until the moment the enemy is face to face.

All that said, I don't know if I like Ulrik yet. I need a better picture. Something looks off about his stance and proportions, but it might just be the small photo at a weird angle.

I think he might be a mini I like more with better pictures. It’s not that he’s bad, just something doesn’t quite “click” for me. More detail shots might help.

 Red Corsair wrote:
He is definitely rocking an Odin vibe, thats for sure.

Which is why I love the sculpt. I might just buy m y first GW more model in over four years because of him.

...I....I don't like Ulrik.

I really don't. Now, a generic Wolf Priest looking like that would be fine. I can imagine some are old, regal, wise and patient like that...

But Ulrik...I preferred him with his helm on. I preferred that sense of menace from his face remaining hidden. This is a guy who won the respect of the World Eaters after all for his prowess. The whole fancy chap vibe just...doesn't sit right with me.

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:
Still kind of rageworthy that they've moved on to releasing plastic SM special characters while other armies' basic unit choices languish in the ancient realm of Finecrapia.

I don't know why people would find it rageworthy any more than any other army getting plastics before you.

The Space Wolf special characters are some of the oldest models still in production. I'm struggling to think of anything much older, maybe the wolves that goblin wolf riders are mounted on (the goblins themselves are newer, but the wolves are old). Other than that I'm struggling to think of much else, they go back to the early 90's.

Yeah not dissing the model, great sculpt, I would buy if you could have Ulrik wearing his helmet so I could put a pointing left arm on him so it looks like hes choosing his next target.

Edit: Reminds me of a Dwarf Thane, couldn't think of what the model reminded me of and it just clicked.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Not every Chaplain is going to be shouting "BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR! GOLDEN SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!". They tend to the Chapter's spirit as well as its fury.

Not every Chaplain has won respect from the fething World Eaters.

 Kanluwen wrote:
For the love of...

Really? Space Wolves get a plastic Techmarine before they release a vanilla Techmarine in plastic!

And he's probably going to cost a mint as well.

Plastic Tech-Priest? Only with a Russ.
Plastic Tech-Marine? NOPE!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
For the love of...

Really? Space Wolves get a plastic Techmarine before they release a vanilla Techmarine in plastic!

And he's probably going to cost a mint as well.

Plastic Tech-Priest? Only with a Russ.
Plastic Tech-Marine? NOPE!

I would hope if they release a plastic techmarine he'd be in a box with servitors and/or thunderfire cannon. Or maybe a rapier/thunderfire dual kit? That'd be awesome if SM got rapiers. Then FW wouldn't need rules for them anymore.

Ulrik is fine, his pose might not be what we expected but I think people are forgetting that Wolf Priests are essentially both Chaplains and Apothecaries for the Space Wolves. Considering he is the oldest living Space Wolf and one of their most venerated leaders, there's nothing wrong with the pose; it's actually nice to have a model with a more static kind of position to contrast the more chaotic Wulfen poses.

The Iron Priest is fantastic, absolutely no doubt about that. It's unusual that a plastic Iron Priest comes out before a plastic Techmarine for any other Adeptus Astartes codex but, eh, what can you do. I'm sure people will figure out how to convert the Iron Priest for their own Chapters in minutes anyway.

Very curious to see if there's another week of Space Wolves, beyond February there's actually very little real knowledge of what is coming which is very unusual; normally we would have a rough idea of what is coming in the next month (March) by now....

@Atia, any ideas or leads would be greatly appreciated Thanks for sharing the pictures by the way!

I quite like the Ulrik model. Its weird but I actually really like the static pose he has. He is considered the sage leader of the space wolfs, a model of contained power and intellect. I really feel like this model captures it very well. The words that come to mind are grace and dignity. A true silverback as it were.

We will have to see if there are arm options for putting his helmet on his head and something else with the mace, but even then I still quite like it.

Sad Panda mentioned a death watch board game sometime before may.

I like Ulrik. However the last time I used him he was on top of a bastion manning the lascannon. So this this pose is perfectly fine in my book.

But Ulrik...I preferred him with his helm on. I preferred that sense of menace from his face remaining hidden. This is a guy who won the respect of the World Eaters after all for his prowess. The whole fancy chap vibe just...doesn't sit right with me.

QFT Brother. The old helm was excellent.

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
For the love of...

Really? Space Wolves get a plastic Techmarine before they release a vanilla Techmarine in plastic!

And he's probably going to cost a mint as well.

Plastic Tech-Priest? Only with a Russ.
Plastic Tech-Marine? NOPE!

I would hope if they release a plastic techmarine he'd be in a box with servitors and/or thunderfire cannon. Or maybe a rapier/thunderfire dual kit? That'd be awesome if SM got rapiers. Then FW wouldn't need rules for them anymore.

SM can have Rapiers when my Cadians get them too.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
For the love of...

Really? Space Wolves get a plastic Techmarine before they release a vanilla Techmarine in plastic!

And he's probably going to cost a mint as well.

Plastic Tech-Priest? Only with a Russ.
Plastic Tech-Marine? NOPE!

I would hope if they release a plastic techmarine he'd be in a box with servitors and/or thunderfire cannon. Or maybe a rapier/thunderfire dual kit? That'd be awesome if SM got rapiers. Then FW wouldn't need rules for them anymore.

SM can have Rapiers when my Cadians get them too.

And Imperials can wait in line for once and let Chaos have some toys of their own for a change!

 Kanluwen wrote:
Wulfen: "Too dynamic! Crap!"
Ulrik: "Not dynamic enough! Crap!"

"Dynamic" doesn't need to mean waving his Crozius Arcanum and shouting. "Dynamic" models should tell a story when you look at them.

It's not hard to envision Ulrik taking a measure of his foe while the tempests called forth by the Rune Priests snap his cloak like a whip.

It's almost like there are different people making different complaints about different models, rather than a collective hive mind.

The Iron Priest is cool, Ulrik looks sort of meh but hard to tell from that pic.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Wulfen: "Too dynamic! Crap!"
Ulrik: "Not dynamic enough! Crap!"

"Dynamic" doesn't need to mean waving his Crozius Arcanum and shouting. "Dynamic" models should tell a story when you look at them.

It's not hard to envision Ulrik taking a measure of his foe while the tempests called forth by the Rune Priests snap his cloak like a whip.

It's not that simple, nice try though. He is a technically lovely model but worse as Ulrik. I mean IMO he isn't even a space marine. If someone posted him in an AoS thread as a Kilsev Wolf priest or whatever, no one would bat an eye.

I also haven't seen anyone bash that amazing iron priest so try to be fair.

I think it is fine to say he is a lovely sculpt, but misses the target when capturing the essence of Ulrik.

what essence did they miss exactly, the artwork; the same old pose 20+ years ago?
It's alright some change of pace once in a while. Reflects on the dwarf lord, master of arsenal, and captain sicarius

Saw this rumour from B&C:

"So someone who *claimed* to see the clam pack sprues stated that

Ulrik & Iron Priest

- have multiple arms, ulrik has 3 sets
- have multiple heads
- have 2 sets of legs

for multi pose figures
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Take that with a huge grain of salt

At this rate we'll see a plastic Rune priest/basic wolf priest in week 3, with the Relaunch of Grimnars War council.

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same guy said an Updated Space wolf codex out in week 3."

Please be true, please be true, please be true. Im bathing in salt and im still praying.

Not buying those Clampack rumors. The "3 pairs of arms, two legs" blurbs are conflated from the Wulfen sprue comments I read elsewhere. The Ulrik is pretty tightly posed, there are NOT a lot of arm options. Maybe (MAYBE) he has a helmet option.

I'd love to be wrong, mind you. But the rumor overlap is STRONG here.

I wanted Ulrik to be more action posed, but I do believe that he is a good looking model. He is going to look odd on the battlefield, but in isolation, he looks pretty great. Need to see a few more angles, but he has grown a lot on me today.

It is from Natfka and the different 'poses' (feet?) are for the Wulfen kit

via anonymous sources on Faeit 212

I was looking through the new WD yesterday at my local GW and checking out the new stuff. (Manager lets me go in the back and see the new stuff!).
I also found out about the Krom clamshell, Ulrik clamshell and apparently we're getting a new codex/cards akin to the Tau treatment after Kauyon... And an Iron Priest!!!
I can't confirm the Iron Priest, but apparently it filtered down from GW HQ.
The Long Fangs are the same but with bigger bases. The rest, I.E. Grey Hunters is just a cosmetic re-package I believe.
The new WD had everything about the Wulfen and it appears there is 5 sets of every load out in the box! Claws, Axes, Hammers, Shields, Launchers etc.
There are TWO unique poses for every model! Including the leader! As there are two sets of feet/ankles and two heads for every body! Which gives crazy amounts of pose-ability! Obviously, there is 3 sets of arms per model as well!! This is 100% fact as I've seen it myself in WD.

http://natfka.blogspot.de/2016/02/new-space-wolves-codex-iron-priest.html


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A truckload of salt

Ah, cheers War, well thats a damn shame.

Not even salt I can almost guarantee that's straight up bullcrap. When was the last time they had 5 loadouts per weapon per box? Two poses per model? That's enough bits to make almost 10 dudes, and GW would not do that in the slightest.

You are welcome. And preorders are up on the NZ website. Well a bit hidden but this link works (for me)

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Warhammer-40-000?N=102331+4294967192&Nu=product.repositoryId&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=cat440130a-flat

Also the Black Library e- and ibook previews should get interesting tonight

Ulrik looks good to me. I can't recall that many stationary at-rest chaplains, so this is a nice pose IMO. The Ironpriest looks to be the overall best miniatures of this release.

Those Wulfen still look like they belong in AOS, there isn't any saving them.

Space Wolves decurion confirmed - pic in the webshop

I dont get why they have split the space wolves box into different kits like that. Surely the wolf guard box (5 man) should cost just half of the 10 man box.

I love both of the new models. Ulrik is fantastic, and he is very much a space marine with Wolves adornments. I mean, look at his greaves and boots, his crozius, the reticle. From the rear, which we can't see, there is probably a PA backpack.

The tech priest is awesome too. A fantastic Mk4 Space Wolves sculpt that does an amazing job of combining techmarine elements with Space Wolves elements.

Will definitely buy both, though really for the painting/modelling aspects than anything else.

Unless I somehow cheated..when I switched back to US from the NZ page, it didn't error out. http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Warhammer-40-000?N=102352+4294967192&Nu=product.repositoryId&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=cat440130a-flat (don't know if it will work for anyone else.