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 Elbows wrote:
I can see a bit more potential in the updated picture from the video.

I'd still

-Swap the wings
-Change out the scythe
-Lose the plaguefly-censers
-Find a better way to mount it to a normal base

But with a good paintjob and those fixes I'd find it acceptable for sure. Basically take the whole thing from 11 to a nice 9.5 in the styling department and it'd be a winner.

Those aren't plague flies, they're Nurglings. Robed, winged, cherubic Nurglings. It'd be a shame to lose them.

No...no it wouldn't.

I quite like them myself they are fun in an appropriate for nurgle way. Plus I imagine Morty hates them which makes it funnier.

SilverAlien wrote:
I quite like them myself they are fun in an appropriate for nurgle way. Plus I imagine Morty hates them which makes it funnier.

The joke is the nurglings are actually herding morty to where nurgle wants him to go.

otherwise he would collapse into a sloth like form and not give a damn.

just gotta say, that vid bought a smile to my face

He is not my jam. I expected him to be like in the artwork from a couple of sites ago, swinging his scythe over his head and slowly waltzing forwards while reaping his enemies. Does somebody know a similiar miniature?
This flying posture just doesn´t make it for me, but at least the wings are beautifull.
His right leg seem to be elongated and he has too much stuff hanging around his torso. I hate his left "look at the weapon I got" hand. Same as the Noxious Blightbringer from the DI box, which I cutted down a lot.
For 100€ there are too many cons for me, but I will wait for the 360 degree view.

I think the Lord of Contagion and his mathematician will be together with a Malignant Plaguecaster in a command box to build as the same as the 3 TS sorcerers were in a box. I also dig that abacus for the skull counting, he will be mine.

Please excuse my bad english, not my first language.

Oh, evil saturday morning death guard dudes. Was that video supposed to be funny? Because its more in soul-crushingly awful category.
Mortarion looks nice tho.

At the end of the dialogue in the video, did anyone notice the shoulderpads sticking out from the right? Looked like DG cataphractii terminators.

It wasn't as cringe inducing as it could've been. Faint praise I suppose, but for me the video is just an excuse to hunt out new details and models. Not a ton here though, sadly.

Also hoping we don't have to wait till September for any additional teasers and little bits of info.

Loving the 80's Saturday morning cartoon vibe they went for.

It's better than them taking themselves too seriously.

From what can be seen from the photo I don't think Mortarian is a patch on Magnus. Has a bit of a steampunk Batman Scarecrow vibe for my liking but it might just be the face which could be replaced I guess. Hold final judgement until see it up close and I'd say once it is released there will be far more suitable paintjobs among the community (think very dark grimey paintjobs)

The nurglings on the base are easily my favorite part. Morty has all his little buddies with him.

10/10, Cannot wait to put in a superheavy with Magnus.

Here's a re-paint on it, no purple, grungier, maybe some will change their minds a bit, I think the model is solid -

yup, much better. Looks less like a skittle now.

Ok that pic is a lot better

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Here's a re-paint on it, no purple, grungier, maybe some will change their minds a bit, I think the model is solid -

This is exactly how I was picturing painting mine when I get him. Darker, grittier. All the grimdark love that the setting needs, none of that cartoony stuff going on.

Love it. I think they nailed the 'angel of decay' vide that they were (presumably) going for. A more standard pose of walking around swinging his scythe would have been more badass, but the way they went with makes him seem more demonic, like a spectre of death that can't be fought. A more existential method of intimidating. It was brave of them to go for a novel wing design that breaks from the bird-bat-insect trio seen across fiction but they still look like they are little off, can't put my finger on it.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Love it. I think they nailed the 'angel of decay' vide that they were (presumably) going for. A more standard pose of walking around swinging his scythe would have been more badass, but the way they went with makes him seem more demonic, like a spectre of death that can't be fought. A more existential method of intimidating. It was brave of them to go for a novel wing design that breaks from the bird-bat-insect trio seen across fiction but they still look like they are little off, can't put my finger on it.

The insect wings are a great idea that fits thematically, but I think the shape is off. Fly wings don't have swoopy tips like that. It seems like they tried to split the difference between angelic and insect wings, and they didn't quite hit it either way. Love the model in general, the vid and the above edited pic really sell it.

They look like moth wings to me, like a mix between an Atlas moth or a hawk Moth, just my interpretation though~

 matphat wrote:

FudgeDumper wrote:
Mortarions pose is not menacing. Its a childish effort to create something that seems menacing.

From a strictly technical standpoint he actually looks worse in the new pictures due to severe flaws in the sculptors perception of anatomy and the golden cut.

What is your basis for comparison? Could you please show me a sculpt that represents your personal vision of menacing that has proper anatomy? I'm not calling you out, I genuinely want to see better because I love this model.

No offence but if you love this model you probably wouldn't understand anyway. its all about subtlety, knowing what to hide and what to show backed up by perfect structure of the subject body. I am not aware of such a model since most sculptors are inspired by cartoons.



PS: Look at the deathshrouds gauntlet, its a mini plague spitter.

One thing I noticed is that he still has the Death Guard Legion symbol on his knee. Yet none of the Plague Marines have the Legion symbol anymore. I actually wish you could throw some Legion symbols onto the DG models.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Love it. I think they nailed the 'angel of decay' vide that they were (presumably) going for. A more standard pose of walking around swinging his scythe would have been more badass, but the way they went with makes him seem more demonic, like a spectre of death that can't be fought. A more existential method of intimidating. It was brave of them to go for a novel wing design that breaks from the bird-bat-insect trio seen across fiction but they still look like they are little off, can't put my finger on it.

It's probably because they aimed for insect type wings, but gave them curved tip. They are more of an avian shape, but with membrane instead of feathers it just looks weird. Was hoping they would do a 360 on him in the video, but they don't show the back so not sure how easy it will be to replace.


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 Thanatos73 wrote:
One thing I noticed is that he still has the Death Guard Legion symbol on his knee. Yet none of the Plague Marines have the Legion symbol anymore. I actually wish you could throw some Legion symbols onto the DG models.

Probably so the plague marines could be "generic". There might be some bits in the multipart kits for the symbols.

I think they were trying to do something a bit different. Insectile but fleshy, giving them a more organic look than pure bug wings would have. Plus the angel motif. I actually quite like them myself.

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
Don't think that's Typhus, looks to be the Champion of what was formerly known as the Deathshroud Terminators. In the wide shot with Mortarion behind him, you can see another scythe-wielding Terminator with the same fungal stacks to the right of the tallyman.

 Galas wrote:
About the Terminator of the video

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Here's a re-paint on it, no purple, grungier, maybe some will change their minds a bit, I think the model is solid -

Yep it looks much better there, better when you cannot see the swirly stuff too !!
I am loving the nurglings !







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FudgeDumper wrote:
Mortarions pose is not menacing. Its a childish effort to create something that seems menacing.

From a strictly technical standpoint he actually looks worse in the new pictures due to severe flaws in the sculptors perception of anatomy and the golden cut.

Its chaos man, being anatomically wrong is what its all about, the wings are a perfect example, a warped mix of fly, bird and god knows what else !

Hey look, put Morty in muted colours without the garish purple and he looks pretty darn good.

And how can that Terminator not be Typhus?

Tallyman is interesting. Good to see his abacus has skulls for the counters.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:


Tallyman is interesting. Good to see his abacus has skulls for the counters.

I kinda want to see about fabricating a tally counter that looks that way now for tracking like command points and kill points and stuff... really have no idea how, but I reaaaaaalllllllly want to.

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:


Tallyman is interesting. Good to see his abacus has skulls for the counters.

I kinda want to see about fabricating a tally counter that looks that way now for tracking like command points and kill points and stuff... really have no idea how, but I reaaaaaalllllllly want to.

Off topic a bit but its really easy with steel rods and some skull beads they sell them at art shops.

 Voodoo_Chile wrote:
Some ropey acting and a quick look/360 of Mortarion

That was great and the model looks good. "Just fudge the numbers"

Warhammer is inherently silly; if you can't make some jokes about something that describes itself as "grimdark" then you probably don't find much to be funny at all.

Loving the new models, will definitely be picking them up when I can. I hope the Tallyman has good rules.