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Kabuki carry on pumping out models with use for several other games. This is their third attempt at this particular sculpt, and they do get better each time it must be said. The helmeted edition will probably be the preorder plus first 50 sales only.

https://www.kabuki-studio.com/home/354-phoenix-knight.html

The sword looks like a flacid... eeeeh...

Not a fan. Not at all. I like Fulgrim, but this model? Bleh.

Wow that sword is...probably not what the artist originally envisioned.

FEAR MY NOODLEBLADE!

I like the pose a lot. The sword is ..... a reason not to buy it.

You guys never seen a khopesh before?

" Ugg hey guy's.... Does my cloak smell funny to you? I think it may smell funny."

Why he has Dark Angel helmet and TS wannabe sword?

 Ketara wrote:
You guys never seen a khopesh before?

That's not a khopesh. Khopesh is a type of sabre, well suited to drawn cuts. This garbage he is holding? It would never cut due to the tip being at wrong angle, at best you could bash with it like with a mace - albeit terrible one because angle would actively work against putting any good force in there by putting all the load on your wrist

but isn't that part of his arrogance, he's so awesome he'll murder you with a floppyblade

Looks like he's using his cloak as a napkin.
"Do I still have mustard on my face ?"

 Irbis wrote:
Why he has Dark Angel helmet and TS wannabe sword?

 Ketara wrote:
You guys never seen a khopesh before?

That's not a khopesh. Khopesh is a type of sabre, well suited to drawn cuts. This garbage he is holding? It would never cut due to the tip being at wrong angle, at best you could bash with it like with a mace - albeit terrible one because angle would actively work against putting any good force in there by putting all the load on your wrist

We're working in a fantasy universe where people murder each other with giant Hellboy fists and the tanks have sponsoons. A khopesh style blade with an inefficient tip is hardly beyond the realms of believability; not when it's wielded by a nine foot demi-God possessed by a demon from another dimension.

If I was going to pick fault with anything, it would be the amount of hair gel he must be using.

I know what a kopesh is and the one Not-Fulrgim is wielding is probably the worst looking kopesh I have seen.

 Myrthe wrote:
Looks like he's using his cloak as a napkin.
"Do I still have mustard on my face ?"

“That’s not mustard “

Any chance of dumping the cack Fulgrim knockoff and getting just the broken angel statue? That part actually looks quite nice.

 Ketara wrote:

 Irbis wrote:
Why he has Dark Angel helmet and TS wannabe sword?

 Ketara wrote:
You guys never seen a khopesh before?

That's not a khopesh. Khopesh is a type of sabre, well suited to drawn cuts. This garbage he is holding? It would never cut due to the tip being at wrong angle, at best you could bash with it like with a mace - albeit terrible one because angle would actively work against putting any good force in there by putting all the load on your wrist

We're working in a fantasy universe where people murder each other with giant Hellboy fists and the tanks have sponsoons. A khopesh style blade with an inefficient tip is hardly beyond the realms of believability; not when it's wielded by a nine foot demi-God possessed by a demon from another dimension.

If I was going to pick fault with anything, it would be the amount of hair gel he must be using.

The tip is pretty minor. The major break in the steel six inches past the hilt is the issue (and he's a duelist and that 'hilt' is worse than useless for protection in a swordfight).

But it honestly looks like an error in the join (that you glue the blade together there), and whoever assembled the model just failed.
The raised center for each piece and the valley between them at the hard angle (which should be a curve) just emphasize how bad it is.

Powerful thighs. Fulgrim never skips leg day.

So, the wind is blowing his hair and his cape, but not the three dangly strips in front of his crotch? Where is this wind coming from? And why is it avoiding his groin?

There's "wind" emanating from somewhere in the near vicinity in the opposite direction causing an extremely localised calm area.

God aweful, he's not only fat/out of shape in Primarch eyes, but carries a 'limp' sword. lmao! Everything says, NOT Fulgrim, but a Fulgrim clone.

I quite like the weeping angel. Not a fan of the big guy...he looks like a police sketch of Fulgrim.

As desperate as I am for an alternative Fulgrim (I just don't like FW's jumping and screaming action pose, I love Egan's alternative sculpt they wouldn't release), this is not it. Setting the sword aside, as I could easily swap that, too many parts of the model just look off to me. The shoulder-pad eagle looks too small and blunt, his head seems too small, etc.

Looks like an awful Anime villain.

Seen khopesh before and this does not look like one.

The blades balance is off. With the khopesh the blade does curve out and then back to the center line from the hilt.
The fauxpesh just continues moving outward at an angle from the joint. So it ends up looking off and not fitting of a reputation of perfection.

Yeah, this is a rare swing-and-a-miss from Kabuki. The proportions are all over the place, the 'sword' is ridiculous, the face is lopsided and the windswept cloak and hair not carrying over to the rest of the model just makes it look weird...

I like the detailing on the armour, though.

This thread has me in Tears.

He's grotesque! Pumping is the right word "just let me dab that off for you with my robe".

Also, I'm not sure if it's the angle, but the helmet eyes appear to be at different levels, yet his unhelmed one isn't. Admittedly having one eye slightly lower/higher than the other is actually normal for a person, I'm just not sure that it's intentional.

He's also got a bit of a pin-head, the legs don't help that effect; massive wrestlers thighs.

*Moar edits*

It gets worse, the top of his crotch-cloth has a South park alien face.

Hot take: we’ve come a long way since Kabuki models were impressive.

His thighs are so damn big...

Ah yes, the famous "foot nonchalantly over some crawling, struggling, naked woman's ass" pose, such a classic!