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 sockwithaticket wrote:
That paint job is not selling it. Wanna see bare resin to judge it properly.

Better...that paint job elicited a genuine "What the feth?" from me when I scrolled down.

 Crimson wrote:
I think the second edition one was the best look, I wish they'd recreate that.

Me too, I had that one when I was a kid (vanilla SM version).

I think that is what they are trying to modernize. But if it's a throwback to that it isn't a very faithful one, or really an inspired one. So i'm really not sure what they are going for here. Also the heavy bolter looks really derpy (too big, not enough modern HB detail) as does the plasma cannon (also too big) though not as bad.

Overall not a good interpretation.

 ceorron wrote:

 Crimson wrote:
I think the second edition one was the best look, I wish they'd recreate that.

Me to, I had that one when I was a kid (vanilla SM version).

I think that is what they are trying to modernize. But if it's a throwback to that it isn't a very faithful one, or really an inspired one. So i'm really not sure what they are going for here. Also the heavy bolter looks really derpy (too big, not enough modern HB detail) as does the plasma cannon (also too big) though not as bad.

Overall not a good interpretation.

Nah, it's a modernization of the 1st edition landspeeder. It's more visible with the limited speeder, but this is what they're copying:

One day we'll get a new book and the remaining Primarchs. Until then, land speeders that are completely unnecessary , blood bowl and random lizard creatures!

Ah well that makes more sense, still not a good model though.

I'll take Bloodbowl, Necromunda, random lizard creatures and Lord of the Rings over more space marines of various colours.

 Kirasu wrote:
One day we'll get a new book and the remaining Primarchs. Until then, land speeders that are completely unnecessary , blood bowl and random lizard creatures!

Technically, according to published background information, the plastic Landspeeder didn't exist until after the Horus Heresy, so this is the only canonical model to use in HH games (excepting the old 1st and 2nd edition models, most likely). In that sense, it fills a hole in the army lists.

The lizard creature is a pet for Necromunda, so it is another Specialist Games release.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I'll take Bloodbowl, Necromunda, random lizard creatures and Lord of the Rings over more space marines of various colours.

I imagine you wouldn't be saying that if you were actually invested in their half a decade effort to finish the Horus Heresy... then stopping abruptly without finishing. After all, the HH models supplied FW with massive amounts of cash (much like all space marines do) in order to pronounce random models.

Sumpkroc!!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/10/15/forge-world-preview-the-sumpkroc/



Which I hope means that the feline pets will also be released sometime very soon as they were shown around the same time as each other in the previews months ago

 ImAGeek wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
That paint job is not selling it. Wanna see bare resin to judge it properly.

Ta, see that looks really good.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I'll take Bloodbowl, Necromunda, random lizard creatures and Lord of the Rings over more space marines of various colours.

Well thats good news because it looks like Forgeworld are also doing those.



I'm not into any of that or the SM land speeder as it is.

Did FW fire all the decent painters? The teeth alone are cringeworthy.

I wonder why they use a pure white background for painted minis. Sky blue fade has been the general default for decades.

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Did FW fire all the decent painters? The teeth alone are cringeworthy.

C'mon man, don't be that guy. Nothing wrong with it IMO.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Did FW fire all the decent painters? The teeth alone are cringeworthy.

C'mon man, don't be that guy. Nothing wrong with it IMO.

It's horrid. The only excuse I can come up with is that it wasn't finished when they photographed it and the artist intended to add a sepia wash in places or something.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Did FW fire all the decent painters? The teeth alone are cringeworthy.

C'mon man, don't be that guy. Nothing wrong with it IMO.

I would point you to the Necromunda news thread where the estimable Major Tom did a very comprehensive, yet succinct and accurate breakdown of everything that is wrong with it.

i ned 3 in my life.

 sockwithaticket wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Did FW fire all the decent painters? The teeth alone are cringeworthy.

C'mon man, don't be that guy. Nothing wrong with it IMO.

I would point you to the Necromunda news thread where the estimable Major Tom did a very comprehensive, yet succinct and accurate breakdown of everything that is wrong with it.

I love MajorTom and his skills are off the chart, but he was also positive that the leaked pictures of the primaris marines were absolutely conversions and not anything else.

Still the model is not top notch in my opinion though.

 Theophony wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Did FW fire all the decent painters? The teeth alone are cringeworthy.

C'mon man, don't be that guy. Nothing wrong with it IMO.

I would point you to the Necromunda news thread where the estimable Major Tom did a very comprehensive, yet succinct and accurate breakdown of everything that is wrong with it.

I love MajorTom and his skills are off the chart, but he was also positive that the leaked pictures of the primaris marines were absolutely conversions and not anything else.

Still the model is not top notch in my opinion though.

Look, I'm all for not ever letting Tom forget that, but it has absolutely no bearing on this discussion whatsoever. Plus this isn't the first time people have seen a new FW sculpt, gone "urgh" and then seen naked resin and subsequently decided no that's ok after all. Which is the complete opposite of what studio paint jobs are supposed to achieve. Studio painting should make poor sculpts look decent and have people clamouring to buy the good ones.

I have no great ego when it comes to my painting, I'm better than some and worse than many, but I'm convinced I could have done better on the sumpcroc, and that's about as strong a criticism as I can offer.

 Theophony wrote:

I love MajorTom and his skills are off the chart, but he was also positive that the leaked pictures of the primaris marines were absolutely conversions and not anything else.
.

As were quite a few of us. I'm puzzled as to what bearing that has on his qualifications to critique paintwork, though...


The model is fantastic. The paint job... Not so much.

The reason I asked Tom is because he is such a good painter... and he was denigrating my fav technical paint.

I think it's a sneaky sneaky ploy! they show us a mini that is painted questionably to fuel an argument hopefully enticing people like myself to buy it as an experiment to see how I can make it look! ..... Well played

 insaniak wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

I love MajorTom and his skills are off the chart, but he was also positive that the leaked pictures of the primaris marines were absolutely conversions and not anything else.
.

As were quite a few of us. I'm puzzled as to what bearing that has on his qualifications to critique paintwork, though...


The model is fantastic. The paint job... Not so much.

I didn’t go to the other thread to read Major Toms post, but I was replying to the previous post where sockwithaticket basically said it sucks because Major Tom said so. My response was Major Tom is not always right. While it’s not a great painted figure, it’s still better than my standard. If GW/Forgeworld are going to put that quality out there, then that’s their prerogative. Maybe they don’t want it to sell well so they don’t have to spend lots of labor making them (stupid idea), or maybe it got moved up in the cue for release and they needed a quick turn around on the paint job and they couldn’t find a can of spray paint. They are doing fantastic as a company, but every time they do anything the critics pop up and say how they could do so much better.

 Theophony wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

I love MajorTom and his skills are off the chart, but he was also positive that the leaked pictures of the primaris marines were absolutely conversions and not anything else.
.

As were quite a few of us. I'm puzzled as to what bearing that has on his qualifications to critique paintwork, though...


The model is fantastic. The paint job... Not so much.

I didn’t go to the other thread to read Major Toms post, but I was replying to the previous post where sockwithaticket basically said it sucks because Major Tom said so. My response was Major Tom is not always right. While it’s not a great painted figure, it’s still better than my standard. If GW/Forgeworld are going to put that quality out there, then that’s their prerogative. Maybe they don’t want it to sell well so they don’t have to spend lots of labor making them (stupid idea), or maybe it got moved up in the cue for release and they needed a quick turn around on the paint job and they couldn’t find a can of spray paint. They are doing fantastic as a company, but every time they do anything the critics pop up and say how they could do so much better.

While it being MT lends the critique an increased measure of credibility, I was primarily pointing you to it because, as stated, it was a comprehensive and yet succinct assessment of issues with the paint job (imo, obviously; in fact I'd be harsher than he was). Since you didn't seem to accept someone having an issue with it, I thought I'd point you towards a good representation of why someone wouldn't think it was fine.

If the critique had been written by another poster, but similar in quality I still would've recommended it.

Any guesses how big this croc is? Do the plastic Necro bases come in 40mm yet, or is that a 32mm it's on?

- Salvage

Vorgaroth the Scarred & Skalok the Skull Host of Khorne - €465,-

It's a beauty and I really hope the designer is now working on another dragon (only because that dragon has too many khorne skulls and stuff to fit into an Order army)

I much preferred the original rider to the one it ended up with.

Now thats more like it !