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Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I`m getting metal repentias while they are still on sale.
Sigh. They look stale. Every warcry warband turned out to be more interesting, than a redesign of one of the most grim dark iconic units in the game.

Man, some people just can't take a joke.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
I mentioned that a while back. I’ve been talking about it somewhere else, and we think paint will help make it look less weird.

Honestly it'd look a lot less weird if the interior of it was painted to look like bone whiel the exterior was red and raw.

 Melissia wrote:
I still see what we have in this thread as a vast improvement over the current ones. Probably the only thing that actually bothers me is how disturbingly deep the brands are on their forehead. They're basically bone-deep. But ritual scarification does fit Repentia so eh?

I don't think that's going to be a problem when translated into plastic. Even so, it should be paintable for the folks that aren't strong painters. Anyone that is a strong painter can easily paint to minimize the appearance of depth, or will have the skills to fill it in with putty.

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

I like the new repentia mostly because she looks really weird and different from most other similar miniatures, and also crazed. When I want bondage chicks with chainsaws (who doesn't, from time to time?), a dozen third party manufacturers are there for me, far more over the top than GW ever could be in a company hoping to be family/game store friendly. The sneakers and sack/tennis skirt are once both strange and reasonable. I'd want running shoes too, if I had to charge forward with a chainsaw into gunfire.

Don't love the power armor ports, but eh, Ok.

If I ever do a sisters of battle army, I'm going to do a conclave of different chapters, and use figures from all the great ranges out there - from realistic plate armor, to basically nudes with bolters. Its a big galaxy, and a big internet. I figure SOB chapters range from more or less sensible pious warriors to complete wack jobs, to some Cardinal's fantasy bodyguard. Your fluff (and taste) may vary, of course.

*in short, whatever you think of them, GW managed to come up with something DIFFERENT from what is out there and has gone before*

 Dr Mathias wrote:

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

Why? Seriously. What about these figures speaks to you? Because whatever beauty your beholder is eyeing, I ain't seeing it.

Congrats, GW. You've just sold a bunch of miniatures (for Ebay/Wargame Exclusive/Brother Vinni/based chinaman)

 Melissia wrote:
I still see what we have in this thread as a vast improvement over the current ones. Probably the only thing that actually bothers me is how disturbingly deep the brands are on their forehead. They're basically bone-deep. But ritual scarification does fit Repentia so eh?

From a practical standpoint, that makes it a lot easier to paint. I'd never be able to freehand a fleur on a head and have it look good. I have no idea how people do them on cheeks, I had planned to print decals when the time came.

Well, I think we can all agree that the models are superior to the original Fraternis Militia. We just need to swap out the Eviscerators for more primitive swords/guns.

Those legs, that can crush marine helmets... ugh.
I didn’t know Sisters repented in pajamas.
GW has trouble with sculpting muscles. Another glaring examples - Fyreslayers, Warcry warbands like hunters and dudes with fans.
I guess it’s just a weak part of CAD design, that GW hasn’t cought up with. One can do marvelous things in ZBrush, which have hand sculpted quality.
At least regular sisters look good.
I will probably get repentias in metal this August, a squad of Primaris to convert them into true scale regular black Templar marines and wait for the plastic release.
I hope we get some crazy new units, which won’t be a drool to look at. Penitent engine.. what will become of you???

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

Why? Seriously. What about these figures speaks to you? Because whatever beauty your beholder is eyeing, I ain't seeing it.

Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

I like them. They look like they are fighting in their PTs with some devotional charms stuck on them and some pain inducing devotional items. But they still look like they are highly trained professional military stuck facing draconian punishment.

 Melissia wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

Why? Seriously. What about these figures speaks to you? Because whatever beauty your beholder is eyeing, I ain't seeing it.

Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

They don’t look crazed, they look angry. They don’t look like women, they are not too far away from being built like Goliath gangers (which look pretty cartoonish and too exaggerated). They do have a chainsword.

 Melissia wrote:
Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

"I will seek redemption through death with this gigantic power-chainsaw!!! Just as soon as my hot yoga class gets out!!! YEARGH!!! Between the Starbucks and the Trader Joe's is my rage!!!!"

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:
They don’t look like women

I keep hearing this, and yet, no one actually provides anything other than just saying it.

They got boobs. They got feminine faces. Their hips are wider than their waists. They look plenty feminine to me. Seen women at the gym who don't look too far off that.


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 Sqorgar wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

"I will seek redemption through death with this gigantic power-chainsaw!!! Just as soon as my hot yoga class gets out!!! YEARGH!!! Between the Starbucks and the Trader Joe's is my rage!!!!"

Please, these women are way too swole to go to starbucks. They need their protein shakes to keep those muscles up.

 Melissia wrote:
Seen women at the gym who don't look too far off that.

Exactly my point.

Please, these women are way too swole to go to starbucks. They need their protein shakes to keep those muscles up.

Swole? They look like tennis players. Their version of grimdark is when Taco Bell doesn't put enough guacamole in their grilled stuffed burrito.

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

Why? Seriously. What about these figures speaks to you? Because whatever beauty your beholder is eyeing, I ain't seeing it.

Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

They don’t look crazed, they look angry. They don’t look like women, they are not too far away from being built like Goliath gangers (which look pretty cartoonish and too exaggerated). They do have a chainsword.

Too masculine, is bad model.

Sqorgar wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

"I will seek redemption through death with this gigantic power-chainsaw!!! Just as soon as my hot yoga class gets out!!! YEARGH!!! Between the Starbucks and the Trader Joe's is my rage!!!!"

Too feminine, is bad model.


....Dakkadakka folks.

 BrotherGecko wrote:

Too feminine is bad model.

I don't have a problem with feminine. I have a problem with them looking like soccer moms on a morning jog. They are about as threatening as that middle aged lady who loudly counts how many items are in your cart behind you in the 10 items or less lane.

I'd like them to be more feminine though. Even without the bondage gear, the earlier Repentias look both buff as hell and feminine - ladies you don't want to feth with. The new ones all look like they get together to discuss romance novels over tea.

 Sqorgar wrote:
I don't have a problem with feminine. I have a problem with them looking like soccer moms on a morning jog.

They don't.

 Sqorgar wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

Too feminine is bad model.

I don't have a problem with feminine. I have a problem with them looking like soccer moms on a morning jog. They are about as threatening as that middle aged lady who loudly counts how many items are in your cart behind you in the 10 items or less lane.

I'd like them to be more feminine though. Even without the bondage gear, the earlier Repentias look both buff as hell and feminine - ladies you don't want to feth with. The new ones all look like they get together to discuss romance novels over tea.

Yah if you keep stretching like this your going to pull something.

Definitely classic dakkadakka story making to explain why your not digging a model your secretly going to buy.

 BrotherGecko wrote:

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

Why? Seriously. What about these figures speaks to you? Because whatever beauty your beholder is eyeing, I ain't seeing it.

Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

They don’t look crazed, they look angry. They don’t look like women, they are not too far away from being built like Goliath gangers (which look pretty cartoonish and too exaggerated). They do have a chainsword.

Too masculine, is bad model.

Sqorgar wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

"I will seek redemption through death with this gigantic power-chainsaw!!! Just as soon as my hot yoga class gets out!!! YEARGH!!! Between the Starbucks and the Trader Joe's is my rage!!!!"

Too feminine, is bad model.


....Dakkadakka folks.

Well, people do have different opinions, so yeah.
If dropping the feminine/masculine dispute, the way muscles are sculpted is still underwhelming. The only good thing I can say about them- I like the poses. Someho I find this design lacking in character. And what the hell is with a 2 inch missing puzzle piece in their foreheads? They make this detail so freaking massive, yet we see cad designs, where the sculptor doesn’t bother too much with making braids of hair, which makes it look like a big piece of melted bubble gum

Melissia wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
I don't have a problem with feminine. I have a problem with them looking like soccer moms on a morning jog.

They don't.

insaniak wrote:

BrotherGecko wrote:Yah if you keep stretching like this your going to pull something.

Actually, stretching helps warm up the muscle so that you don't pull anything, and if you do, stretching is an important part of the healing process. I learned this with the other soccer moms and Repentia in my aerobics class at the gym.

Definitely classic dakkadakka story making to explain why your not digging a model your secretly going to buy.

I don't actually play 40k, and these models are literally the thing that have turned me against starting a Sisters of Battle army. Like, I was going to play 40k, now I'm not.

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

Why? Seriously. What about these figures speaks to you? Because whatever beauty your beholder is eyeing, I ain't seeing it.

Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

They don’t look crazed, they look angry. They don’t look like women, they are not too far away from being built like Goliath gangers (which look pretty cartoonish and too exaggerated). They do have a chainsword.

Too masculine, is bad model.

Sqorgar wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

"I will seek redemption through death with this gigantic power-chainsaw!!! Just as soon as my hot yoga class gets out!!! YEARGH!!! Between the Starbucks and the Trader Joe's is my rage!!!!"

Too feminine, is bad model.


....Dakkadakka folks.

Well, people do have different opinions, so yeah.
If dropping the feminine/masculine dispute, the way muscles are sculpted is still underwhelming. The only good thing I can say about them- I like the poses. Someho I find this design lacking in character. And what the hell is with a 2 inch missing puzzle piece in their foreheads? They make this detail so freaking massive, yet we see cad designs, where the sculptor doesn’t bother too much with making braids of hair, which makes it look like a big piece of melted bubble gum

Certainly people have different opinions but one thinks they look like little soccer moms and you think they look like the Hulkster. So one of you is wrong and I want to see y'all fight over it.

 Sqorgar wrote:
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That proves about as much as this proves that all marines are flamboyant and campy. If you deliberately go out of your way to paint something to look ridiculous... WHAT A SHOCK! It will look ridiculous.

 BrotherGecko wrote:

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:

 BrotherGecko wrote:

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Dr Mathias wrote:

I really like these, GW is nailing this release as far as I'm concerned.

Why? Seriously. What about these figures speaks to you? Because whatever beauty your beholder is eyeing, I ain't seeing it.

Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

They don’t look crazed, they look angry. They don’t look like women, they are not too far away from being built like Goliath gangers (which look pretty cartoonish and too exaggerated). They do have a chainsword.

Too masculine, is bad model.

Sqorgar wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Let's see, crazed warrior women seeking redemption through death with gigantic power-chainsaws? Yep, has everything I could ask for in a Repentia.

"I will seek redemption through death with this gigantic power-chainsaw!!! Just as soon as my hot yoga class gets out!!! YEARGH!!! Between the Starbucks and the Trader Joe's is my rage!!!!"

Too feminine, is bad model.


....Dakkadakka folks.

Well, people do have different opinions, so yeah.
If dropping the feminine/masculine dispute, the way muscles are sculpted is still underwhelming. The only good thing I can say about them- I like the poses. Someho I find this design lacking in character. And what the hell is with a 2 inch missing puzzle piece in their foreheads? They make this detail so freaking massive, yet we see cad designs, where the sculptor doesn’t bother too much with making braids of hair, which makes it look like a big piece of melted bubble gum

Certainly people have different opinions but one thinks they look like little soccer moms and you think they look like the Hulkster. So one of you is wrong and I want to see y'all fight over it.

Well, you have to prepare an inflatable swimming pool filled with chocolate first. You know the rules.

 Sqorgar wrote:

Melissia wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
I don't have a problem with feminine. I have a problem with them looking like soccer moms on a morning jog.

They don't.

insaniak wrote:

Spoiler:

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That would be some scary soccer mum.

Honestly, I'm not seeing the complaint, here. While I think the outfits are horrible, their builds are perfect. They're clearly female, but they also clearly built like actual fighters, with actual muscles instead of the swimsuit model build that we normally wind up with for female warrior miniatures. On that, at least, I think GW have found a perfect balance, and it's one place that they're definitely better than the preceding metal models.

I was about to invoke the Commorragh slaves, saying “at least they don’t look like this”, but apparently the models no longer exist on the GW store. Finally.

The repentia are awful sculpts.

I want to see if GW is going to make new units for the sisters.

 Sqorgar wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Seen women at the gym who don't look too far off that.

Exactly my point.

So your point… is that repentia… look like they train for their job, and are similar to real life women, hence don't look like women?

 Sqorgar wrote:
The new ones all look like they get together to discuss romance novels over tea.

Hey honey, how many sugars for your tea?
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I'll take two, thanks!
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 Casbyness wrote:
As more of an old school player who remembers the original Hammersmith store, I'm disturbed by the idea of finding any character in 40k 'heroic' or worthy of emulation.

Come on, how could you not want to emulate Vect?


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I mean who talks like that?

Matthew?

I'm not sold on the new repentia models.
I mean, I'm not sold on repentia- have a full squad of them that I never field because they just don't perform on the table except as a 200-odd point handicap.

I was hoping for a look more akin to that artwork from the Witch hunters codex- covered in scrolls etc. This "updated" look does not meet that hoped for artwork and just doesn't appeal to me.

Good to see the musculature that is hidden under all the Battle sisters power armour.

Think my biggest complaint just comes down to that they don't look female enough to me. The torsos look like something from a catachan guard kit...hmm, female catachan guard conversions I foresee with this.

I'd always assumed the plug ports were an interface for the black carapace on marines which is why I initially thought it odd these models had them. Not a fan of them myself.

LOVE the eviscerators on them though, they look beasty.

To each their own, some will love the look and get a whole army of them. Me, I'll stick with what I've already got.

I may have to buy some now. They're appreciating in value as conversation starters.

I hope some enterprising third party releases Canoness Karen, Speaker-to-Managers with her Starbucks Mermaid standard bearer.