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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Seriously with what GW is bringing up these day, Sisters players are among the least salty of the whole playerbase, lately

Yeah nah. You never disappoint Hybrid.

I love absolutely everyting about this model.
Everything.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Damn.


Now what the hell are we going to do for next April Fools?

Oh, they still have options.

Pariahs.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle
Plastic Thunderhawk
Ork Cheerleaders.
Dark Angles

And that's just from the top of my head.

Actually did Dark Angles a few years back. Something about their acute sense of justice, their obtuse aversion to fear and desire to make things right.

This is a wonderful rendering, and I'm confident GW can manage the translation to plastic well.

One tiny whinge.

Her gun has no weight. Not as bad as the Squat, and I guess it -could- be excused by power armour. Also (okay, two whinges) her stance with the weight over one hip is not *quite* right, but I'm guessing (again) that this could be excused by 'cos heroic'.

Still, ignore me. It's wonderful anyway and I'm just saddened buy the complete lack of Ork news.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Damn.


Now what the hell are we going to do for next April Fools?

Oh, they still have options.

Pariahs.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle
Plastic Thunderhawk
Ork Cheerleaders.
Dark Angles

And that's just from the top of my head.

Actually did Dark Angles a few years back. Something about their acute sense of justice, their obtuse aversion to fear and desire to make things right.

I know, it was great

That's all right, isn't it.

If this is where they're going stylistically, then I have no reason to be concerned about their redesign, because this is pretty much how I'd like them to look. Also we've seen GW CAD models in the past which looked 100% like the finished counterparts. You can actually tell by how some of the lines slope in or out, how and where the mold lines are going to be, so it's fairly easy to deconstruct the model. All that remains to be seen is whether this represents a character, or the level of detail we should expect for every trooper model.

Karl Kopinski is my favorite GW artist as well, so that's neat.

Starting to get excited about this, which is probably bad since we're probably still about 1 year away.

At Warhammer Fest (or Adepticon) did they mention if this was going to be a more 'minimalist' release, kind of like (imho) Grey Knights when they went plastic or more of a complete and total overhaul similar to Dark Eldar?

Please, oh please, GW, whatever you do...DON'T MAKE EVERY SINGLE UNIT LEADER AND UPGRADE ITS OWN $25 PLASTIC CLAMPACK!!

 godswildcard wrote:

Please, oh please, GW, whatever you do...DON'T MAKE EVERY SINGLE UNIT LEADER AND UPGRADE ITS OWN $25 PLASTIC CLAMPACK!!

Don't give them ideas. Already every HQ/Elite single model will be a clampack.

OTOH, I wouldn't put it past GW to make a Forge Bane style boxed set with 2x5 Battle Sisters, 5 Seraphim, 5 Dominion, 5 Retributors and a Canoness versus some new Ork models because you know that would sell a billion copies in a heartbeat and it would shut up 2 sets of players at once.

It would be the perfect codex primer for sure, or a tie-in to a future campaign book.

 John Prins wrote:

 godswildcard wrote:

Please, oh please, GW, whatever you do...DON'T MAKE EVERY SINGLE UNIT LEADER AND UPGRADE ITS OWN $25 PLASTIC CLAMPACK!!

Don't give them ideas. Already every HQ/Elite single model will be a clampack.

OTOH, I wouldn't put it past GW to make a Forge Bane style boxed set with 2x5 Battle Sisters, 5 Seraphim, 5 Dominion, 5 Retributors and a Canoness versus some new Ork models because you know that would sell a billion copies in a heartbeat and it would shut up 2 sets of players at once.

Considering we won't see Sisters until 2019, I'm pretty sure that the Ork players would scream bloody murder rather than shut up.

Plus everyone knows a Sanctuary 101 set would be best.

I'm partial to some Sisters vs Genestealer cultists or Chaos cultists myself.
Sisters raiding on some hive, fighting off masively outnumbering opponents that are dangerous heretics, speaks to me.

I doubt we'll see a Sanctuary 101 set, as these campaign sets seem to be more geared towards the current time line instead of the past.

Sisters versus Orks on Armageddon is always a thing.

 BrookM wrote:
I doubt we'll see a Sanctuary 101 set, as these campaign sets seem to be more geared towards the current time line instead of the past.

Sisters versus Orks on Armageddon is always a thing.

That's certainly the biggest con to a Sanctuary 101 set. Too much ancient history.

I'm not aware that Sisters featured prominently before on Armageddon and I think they are too prone to going for what they consider iconic match-ups to throw Sisters against Orks (plus personally I think Armageddon will just be a Baal 2.0: Orks are at the brink of a massive victory, then some Khornates swoop in to save the day). Cultists as Hybrid suggests are more of a thing. Even Genestealer Cults that are technically xenos are the enemy within that Sisters should be fighting.

Most importantly though I think GW would rather take the chance to give us the latest on Guilliman's relationship with the Ecclesiarchy with a campaign box, so if I had to guess I'd say it'll be an army of faith taking the fight back to Chaos (perhaps on what's left of Cadia) than some random xenos.

Oh, I know. Plastic Sisters happen just in time for the rumored Slaanesh releases. Now there's a match-up worth thinking about!

Sisters have a convent on Armageddon and the reason why the robes of the Order of Our Martyred Lady are crimson is because of the losses sustained there.

Very happy to see some movement on the SoB front. Model looks great to boot! Already excited to start my first Imperium army.

I am so ready for this.

Saving now so that I can just jump right in with a new army the second these come out of the gates.

That face. It's a man with a wig on!

 womprat49 wrote:
That face. It's a man with a wig on!

If I any harder, my eyes will disappear into the back of my head.

 womprat49 wrote:
That face. It's a man with a wig on!

That face is perfect! She looks totally badass.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

 womprat49 wrote:
That face. It's a man with a wig on!

That face is perfect! She looks totally badass.

She certainly looks like she's reacting to that comment.

 womprat49 wrote:
That face. It's a man with a wig on!

That face is really good you philistine.
[edit]Is "philistine" ok by rule #1? If I'm banned I want my last word to officially be "Bye, cruel world!!!"[/edit]

If in doubt simply don't post it.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 womprat49 wrote:
That face. It's a man with a wig on!

That face is really good you philistine.
[edit]Is "philistine" ok by rule #1? If I'm banned I want my last word to officially be "Bye, cruel world!!!"[/edit]

Not really. If they were copying the artwork then they messed up a bit there. Tad too heavy. Its not bad, but they could have done better in making a faithful version of the art.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 womprat49 wrote:
That face. It's a man with a wig on!

That face is really good you philistine.
[edit]Is "philistine" ok by rule #1? If I'm banned I want my last word to officially be "Bye, cruel world!!!"[/edit]

Not really. If they were copying the artwork then they messed up a bit there. Tad too heavy. Its not bad, but they could have done better in making a faithful version of the art.

Could they at 28mm heroic though? Remember this isn't supposed to be a truescale display piece, but a functional character model that can be used on the tabletop and that fits in with the other existing models. All 28mm heroic models make compromises on proportions, and this is most obvious at the render stage. The actual model will likely look much better alongside other models on the tabletop because of it, than if they'd more faithfully followed the source material.

 Haighus wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 womprat49 wrote:
That face. It's a man with a wig on!

That face is really good you philistine.
[edit]Is "philistine" ok by rule #1? If I'm banned I want my last word to officially be "Bye, cruel world!!!"[/edit]

Not really. If they were copying the artwork then they messed up a bit there. Tad too heavy. Its not bad, but they could have done better in making a faithful version of the art.

Could they at 28mm heroic though? Remember this isn't supposed to be a truescale display piece, but a functional character model that can be used on the tabletop and that fits in with the other existing models. All 28mm heroic models make compromises on proportions, and this is most obvious at the render stage. The actual model will likely look much better alongside other models on the tabletop because of it, than if they'd more faithfully followed the source material.

Ok, that's fair a fair point. Don't the Elven models have thin faces though? I mean, structurally speaking the sister's face in the artwork would be like an Elf's or Eldar's model wise.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Haighus wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Not really. If they were copying the artwork then they messed up a bit there. Tad too heavy. Its not bad, but they could have done better in making a faithful version of the art.

Could they at 28mm heroic though? Remember this isn't supposed to be a truescale display piece, but a functional character model that can be used on the tabletop and that fits in with the other existing models. All 28mm heroic models make compromises on proportions, and this is most obvious at the render stage. The actual model will likely look much better alongside other models on the tabletop because of it, than if they'd more faithfully followed the source material.

Ok, that's fair a fair point. Don't the Elven models have thin faces though? I mean, structurally speaking the sister's face in the artwork would be like an Elf's or Eldar's model wise.

They do, but I think they are intentionally made thinner than human faces, and are still chunkier than their own artwork equivalents (which are generally somewhat more slender than human artwork).

 Haighus wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Haighus wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Not really. If they were copying the artwork then they messed up a bit there. Tad too heavy. Its not bad, but they could have done better in making a faithful version of the art.

Could they at 28mm heroic though? Remember this isn't supposed to be a truescale display piece, but a functional character model that can be used on the tabletop and that fits in with the other existing models. All 28mm heroic models make compromises on proportions, and this is most obvious at the render stage. The actual model will likely look much better alongside other models on the tabletop because of it, than if they'd more faithfully followed the source material.

Ok, that's fair a fair point. Don't the Elven models have thin faces though? I mean, structurally speaking the sister's face in the artwork would be like an Elf's or Eldar's model wise.

They do, but I think they are intentionally made thinner than human faces, and are still chunkier than their own artwork equivalents (which are generally somewhat more slender than human artwork).

Yeah I can understand that. It would be nice if they were more faithful to the art, but if they can't because of technical restraints then that's that I guess.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Not really. If they were copying the artwork then they messed up a bit there.

Well I really like it.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Yeah I can understand that. It would be nice if they were more faithful to the art, but if they can't because of technical restraints then that's that I guess.

I wouldn't say it is technical constraints so much as a conscious design choice to go with heroic proportions on the model to make them practical game pieces. Having said this, that could've been a technical restraint several decades ago, and now they are stuck with the aesthetic.

I think the test model looks very similar to the old esthetic and for that I am happy.

My two cents,

CB