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2017/08/09 22:14:47
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Azreal13 wrote: Not feeling it. Haven't felt it since the very early leaks. Wasnt that excited for it though, and perhaps that god awful paint job is masking a better sculpt than otherwise appears.
What specifically is wrong with the paintjob?
What needs to be wrong with it beyond not being to my taste?
Specifically, it's entirely too bright and multicolored to be appropriate, it's also too clean, but that's inevitable given the GW studio style.
Look at 30K Morty
Look at original Daemon Morty
This deviates too far from the aesthetic of the 30K in the paint job and too far from the established image I've carried in my head for 20 plus years of the daemon.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was just wondering what specifically you didn't like about it, what your tastes are. I don't like the paint-job either, its too bright and gaudy and I don't like the purple and pink.
But I do like the model itself.
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2017/08/09 22:16:16
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Azreal13 wrote: Not feeling it. Haven't felt it since the very early leaks. Wasnt that excited for it though, and perhaps that god awful paint job is masking a better sculpt than otherwise appears.
What specifically is wrong with the paintjob?
What needs to be wrong with it beyond not being to my taste?
Specifically, it's entirely too bright and multicolored to be appropriate, it's also too clean, but that's inevitable given the GW studio style.
Look at 30K Morty
Look at original Daemon Morty
This deviates too far from the aesthetic of the 30K in the paint job and too far from the established image I've carried in my head for 20 plus years of the daemon.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was just wondering what specifically you didn't like about it, what your tastes are. I don't like the paint-job either, its too bright and gaudy and I don't like the purple and pink.
But I do like the model itself.
Too bright and gaudy about covers everything! Technically I'm sure it's top notch (will need more pics to be sure) but technically proficient isnt always the same thing as good paint job.
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The Death Guard models definitely suffer from the cartoony paint jobs they've been given. Excellent models, but the studio scheme looks like something out of a Saturday morning cartoon.
2017/08/09 22:17:39
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
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2017/08/09 22:17:39
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Arbitrator wrote: The Death Guard models definitely suffer from the cartoony paint jobs they've been given. Excellent models, but the studio scheme looks like something out of a Saturday morning cartoon.
I'd love to see John Blanche's take on them.
2017/08/09 22:18:36
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
demontalons wrote: Thanks! Interesting there is no aspiring sorceror pointscost that would be huge if They went down in cost (I think they're overpriced for models that auto die on a miscast)
They will probably pull the AS from the unit altogeather in non-TS armies. And make him more expensive for TS players to bring and add something either totally useless or so niche it will almost always be useless.
What they should be doing is pulling the aspiring sorcerer from the unit altogether, and making him a support unit that fills an Elite or HQ slot.
2017/08/09 22:22:38
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Model looks great. I'll wait for official photograph comes out before passing judgment about the paint scheme based on a terrible cell phone photograph with light reflecting across the entire image.
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2017/08/09 22:24:03
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Desubot wrote: Doesnt seem to be any cool other leaks in that photo thought i cant CSI enhance the top cat walk full of dudes :/
See the top left corner, There are 2 or 3 miniatures like primaris inceptors... I can recognize the new curved flying stands...
I was thinking those might be blight drones cropped so you can't see them at a sideways angle, but could be something else for sure.
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2017/08/09 22:38:29
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Desubot wrote: Doesnt seem to be any cool other leaks in that photo thought i cant CSI enhance the top cat walk full of dudes :/
Inceptors on the right, then the Blight Drone, then the Easy To Build(tm) Death Guard, then on the far left more Poxwalkers (you can tell by the protruding, jagged bones and shortness).
2017/08/09 22:53:26
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
I'm mixed on Morty. Agree the pastel paint job does the figure no favors. Like the body, but think the wings are horrible. Some weird feather/insect hybrid which I think just doesn't work. Curious to see how he would look with the terrorgheist wing or even some blight drone fans.
2017/08/09 22:56:18
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Wow. Even as a EC guy I have to say that is an amazing model. I'm not keen on the bright paint job either, but man that model looks good. He's Guilliman sized right?
I was going to sell the DG models from my two Dark Imperium boxes on Ebay. But I might start a small DG force now.
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2017/08/09 22:56:26
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Sersi wrote: Wow. Even as a EC guy I have to say that is an amazing model. I'm not keen on the bright paint job either, but man that model looks good. He's Guilliman sized right?
It's hard to tell from this photo, but it looks that way. He certainly doesn't seem to be as massive as Magnus.
2017/08/09 23:02:28
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
silent25 wrote: I'm mixed on Morty. Agree the pastel paint job does the figure no favors. Like the body, but think the wings are horrible. Some weird feather/insect hybrid which I think just doesn't work. Curious to see how he would look with the terrorgheist wing or even some blight drone fans.
See, I'm the opposite: his wings are suited to his 'Angel of Death' persona as the tattered wings of an Angel but the legs especially on the body look stupidly big. I know DG are supposed to be big and bloated but Morty was notoriously thin (the appearance of death) even as a Daemon Prince: take a look at the original DP Mortarian to see what I mean.
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2017/08/09 23:03:13
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
I'm..disappointed, to say the least. I was hoping to have a death guard army but Mortarion looks god awful, those wings don't suit at all and you would think he would be much fatter.
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2017/08/09 23:03:54
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Really? I think he's really well done. Take his head and mask for instance with crown/iron halo. Yeah, he's go the spikes growing out of him. But at least from this angle I don't see any random tentacles.
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2017/08/09 23:04:38
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
Sersi wrote: Wow. Even as a EC guy I have to say that is an amazing model. I'm not keen on the bright paint job either, but man that model looks good. He's Guilliman sized right?
It's hard to tell from this photo, but it looks that way. He certainly doesn't seem to be as massive as Magnus.
Well looking from the previously leaked WIP photos
it seems to be on one of those new 130 bases
as such it seems to me hes physical body is about 130mm tall
with wings maybe double it since he is floating as well.
Sersi wrote: Really? I think he's really well done. Take his head and mask for instance with crown/iron halo. Yeah, he's go the spikes growing out of him. But at least from this angle I don't see any random tentacles.
I'll agree if there's no tentacles that would be a pretty big plus.
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2017/08/09 23:14:47
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
I think my reaction is better summed up as what the feth. That thing is hideous.. and not in the FWGUO super awesome appropriate for the fluff sort of way but more like the Robby Gman silly baroque mixed with pumbagore wtf.
2017/08/09 23:19:34
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
I think my reaction is better summed up as what the feth. That thing is hideous.. and not in the FWGUO super awesome appropriate for the fluff sort of way but more like the Robby Gman silly baroque mixed with pumbagore wtf.
I don't think the purple hood helps at all. Purple doesn't suit Death Guard.
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2017/08/09 23:20:35
Subject: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Preorder: August 5th / Release: August 12th)
I think my reaction is better summed up as what the feth. That thing is hideous.. and not in the FWGUO super awesome appropriate for the fluff sort of way but more like the Robby Gman silly baroque mixed with pumbagore wtf.
I don't think the purple hood helps at all. Purple doesn't suit Death Guard.
Yeah i think thats the thing i dont like about it.
All that purple is just reminding me of slannesh or tzeench
silent25 wrote: I'm mixed on Morty. Agree the pastel paint job does the figure no favors. Like the body, but think the wings are horrible. Some weird feather/insect hybrid which I think just doesn't work. Curious to see how he would look with the terrorgheist wing or even some blight drone fans.
See, I'm the opposite: his wings are suited to his 'Angel of Death' persona as the tattered wings of an Angel but the legs especially on the body look stupidly big. I know DG are supposed to be big and bloated but Morty was notoriously thin (the appearance of death) even as a Daemon Prince: take a look at the original DP Mortarian to see what I mean.
To be fair, the original Mortarian is pretty mediocre. I prefer Morty to be properly bloated with Nurgle's gifts.
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