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Dammit, now that you guys said something about Constantin being a girls name, I can't unsee the female looking head on the mini.

Cabeza Grande the Shield Captain.... that has to be an issue with the photo.

Wait. Wait wait wait. Are these the ones?

Yay! Special spears for the Custodes. Been waiting a while for those.

I actually quite like valdor, the claw and trophy shoulder I need a better pic of to judge.

He reminds me of yoshitaka amano art

Vyronii transfers available? Looks like another clock broke!

Somebody page Em_En_Oh_Pee!

Maybe it's the paint style and the photograph of a photograph, but Valdor but It's what I'd expect of a great triumphalist painting rather than a miniature. It's more like one of those ostentatious paintings of Napoleon I, designed to feed his ego.
Which is actually what I'd expect from the Custodies, they are supposed to have all sorts of symbolism and hints to their past deeds on the armour are they not?

Yea I like it, not as much as I like Dorn.

Ooh, they finally did them decals? Did they get rid of the previous artist and get a new one or something?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yay! Special spears for the Custodes. Been waiting a while for those.

Where where where where where x infinity!

Personally I think the Valdor mini is amazing. Could be my first HH character model.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yay! Special spears for the Custodes. Been waiting a while for those.

Where where where where where x infinity!

Borrowed from the Battle Bunnies Blog

Saucy! And indeed, Dakkalicious!


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 Mothman wrote:
I actually quite like valdor, the claw and trophy shoulder I need a better pic of to judge.

Same. It is actually interesting looking model, and not just another identical looking dude in golden armour. The claw and bullhead just look a tad too big, but otherwise it looks pretty excellent.

Oh good, I was running out of what to buy from FW...I wonder if Valdor will have a helmeted head as well, since most other 'well know' marine chars do come with that option. Or I'd just put Eidolon's head it for extra pimp

I'll be getting Valdor, but I need to see more angles before I decide how badly I need Valdor.

After Dorn (who is perfection) I'm just left kinda meh about Valdor so far.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Although, TBF, androgynous is probably more accurate than feminine, but either way, not the visage I'd expect from one of the hardest blokes in the galaxy.

I like that he is just not another frowning grizzled macho dude.

 Crimson wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
Although, TBF, androgynous is probably more accurate than feminine, but either way, not the visage I'd expect from one of the hardest blokes in the galaxy.

I like that he is just not another frowning grizzled macho dude.

I really liked that about the art, but I don’t like the models head.

I'm gonna happily swim upstream here and say that Valdor is a spectacular sculpt. Sure, he's blinged out...because he's the leader of a very blinged out faction. *shrug* I think some opinions will shift once we see some other painting approaches to the model.

I'll wait for a better picture of Valdor before weighing myself.

Theres only one miniature of Valdor and it is this dude:


For me, the problem with the Shield Captain is not that the head is so big. The ears are the problem! He looks like dumbo!

And those special spears will have rules for 40k? Or are only HH?

HH only, for the minute.

The Heresy Era stuff will be getting 40k rules, but how much of it we don't know.

We may know tomorrow though?

 Galas wrote:

And those special spears will have rules for 40k? Or are only HH?

HH only

 Galas wrote:
Theres only one miniature of Valdor and it is this dude:

Spoiler:

For me, the problem with the Shield Captain is not that the head is so big. The ears are the problem! He looks like dumbo!

And those special spears will have rules for 40k? Or are only HH?

They’re tubes, or the bottom part of the “ears’ are at least.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Wait. Wait wait wait. Are these the ones?

IS THIS REAL!??!?? SOMEONE BUY ME TWO THREE PLEASE. RIGHT MEOW!

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Galas wrote:
Theres only one miniature of Valdor and it is this dude:

Spoiler:

For me, the problem with the Shield Captain is not that the head is so big. The ears are the problem! He looks like dumbo!

And those special spears will have rules for 40k? Or are only HH?

They’re tubes, or the bottom part of the “ears’ are at least.

Yeah, I know. But even with that, he has giant ears. I know, people is different, and theres no reason a Custodes wouldn't have giant ears, some humans have them, but it looks so...

BrookM wrote:I'll wait for a better picture of Valdor before weighing myself.

You're beautiful BrookM no matter what the scale says! Don't let Forgeworld's svelt models fat shame you.

gorgon wrote:I'm gonna happily swim upstream here and say that Valdor is a spectacular sculpt. Sure, he's blinged out...because he's the leader of a very blinged out faction. *shrug* I think some opinions will shift once we see some other painting approaches to the model.

It's an opinion just like the negative ones. If you like him, go wild and buy/assemble/paint him to your heart's content. I suspect he'll be a polarizing model much like the Blanche style illustrations he's clearly influenced by (and I also suspect the opnion lines will be drawn similarly to those on his art style).

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Wait. Wait wait wait. Are these the ones?

IS THIS REAL!??!?? SOMEONE BUY ME TWO THREE PLEASE. RIGHT MEOW!

See my sig, join the group, trust to luck!

I honestly don't know if anyone in said group is attending, but worth a shot?

 warboss wrote:

BrookM wrote:I'll wait for a better picture of Valdor before weighing myself.

You're beautiful BrookM no matter what the scale says! Don't let Forgeworld's svelt models fat shame you.

gorgon wrote:I'm gonna happily swim upstream here and say that Valdor is a spectacular sculpt. Sure, he's blinged out...because he's the leader of a very blinged out faction. *shrug* I think some opinions will shift once we see some other painting approaches to the model.

It's an opinion just like the negative ones. If you like him, go wild and buy/assemble/paint him to your heart's content. I suspect he'll be a polarizing model much like the Blanche style illustrations he's clearly influenced by (and I also suspect the opnion lines will be drawn similarly to those on his art style).

Do you have a link to that art, please? The only Constantin Valdor art I know are this two:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Wait. Wait wait wait. Are these the ones?

IS THIS REAL!??!?? SOMEONE BUY ME TWO THREE PLEASE. RIGHT MEOW!

See my sig, join the group, trust to luck!

I honestly don't know if anyone in said group is attending, but worth a shot?

Oh, don't worry. Already joined, and have joined the tens of Americans begging for a Valdor.

Hopefully the Café will alleviate the need for trans-atlantic transactions on some exclusives!

 Galas wrote:

Do you have a link to that art, please? The only Constantin Valdor art I know are this two:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Both of those look uper generic. As someone pointed out, you can pretty much assemble guy looking like that from the Custodes plastic kit.