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Pomander Cask wrote:
The sprue looks good, lots of dynamic poses and interesting extra bits.

Based on the pictures so far - three poses each for the battle sisters, seraphim, and repentia. Plus weapon/leader models.

And the hits keep coming.

It's a good thing they had like twenty years to develop ground breaking plastic moulding technology to create those complex fabric/cloth portions. Surely the dark ages of the early 2000's were far to backwards to pull off such a sophisticated feat of engineering. We finally live in the future.

 catharsix wrote:
It's a good thing they had like twenty years to develop ground breaking plastic moulding technology to create those complex fabric/cloth portions. Surely the dark ages of the early 2000's were far to backwards to pull off such a sophisticated feat of engineering. We finally live in the future.

We kinda always knew that was BS though. I mean they admitted in the original adepticon panel that they were not even considering doing sisters until they got the feedback from the community survey.

ERJAK wrote:

 catharsix wrote:
It's a good thing they had like twenty years to develop ground breaking plastic moulding technology to create those complex fabric/cloth portions. Surely the dark ages of the early 2000's were far to backwards to pull off such a sophisticated feat of engineering. We finally live in the future.

We kinda always knew that was BS though. I mean they admitted in the original adepticon panel that they were not even considering doing sisters until they got the feedback from the community survey.

Did we? I think the solution was more a production one - they gave up trying to do what they wanted to do (flowing robes on an ork boy era kit), and just relied on now being able to do huge numbers of new sprues - and essentially the 'metal model' model of lots of unique models with limited or single poses, just in plastic.

 catharsix wrote:
It's a good thing they had like twenty years to develop ground breaking plastic moulding technology to create those complex fabric/cloth portions. Surely the dark ages of the early 2000's were far to backwards to pull off such a sophisticated feat of engineering. We finally live in the future.

Those sleeves alone required 4th dimensional tesseract geometry.

The outside surface is also the inside.

Tastyfish wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 catharsix wrote:
It's a good thing they had like twenty years to develop ground breaking plastic moulding technology to create those complex fabric/cloth portions. Surely the dark ages of the early 2000's were far to backwards to pull off such a sophisticated feat of engineering. We finally live in the future.

We kinda always knew that was BS though. I mean they admitted in the original adepticon panel that they were not even considering doing sisters until they got the feedback from the community survey.

Did we? I think the solution was more a production one - they gave up trying to do what they wanted to do (flowing robes on an ork boy era kit), and just relied on now being able to do huge numbers of new sprues - and essentially the 'metal model' model of lots of unique models with limited or single poses, just in plastic.

I don't disagree that they might have had legitimate production issues at one point, i just know it wasn't actually the reason it took 20 years to do SoB.


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Fully painted hospitaller up on instagram

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
And the hits keep coming.

I love forward leaning poses! Very intimidating.

 catharsix wrote:
It's a good thing they had like twenty years to develop ground breaking plastic moulding technology to create those complex fabric/cloth portions. Surely the dark ages of the early 2000's were far to backwards to pull off such a sophisticated feat of engineering. We finally live in the future.

Each bit is filled with chocolate.

Well, looking at that model and comparing it to the "ork boy era" kits I know and love, I do understand if they didn't think it was possible to do in plastic back then.

Don't forget that those old kits were sculpted as 3-ups in green stuff. Nowadays they've got some great CAD softwares, and it has to be so much easier to design, split up and layout kits on the sprue now than it was 20 years ago.

These are going to be so fun to paint.

One I haven't seen outside of super blurry chinese leak pics.

Wow, that one sells the at right there.

I wonder if that's in the army pack or the full kit?

Either way...yeah. Wow.

The Codex won’t be a cut-down Codex with missing units. They’ve said it’s the Codex.

And no, it’s not an abridged codex – it’s the fully updated new edition of Codex: Adepta Sororitas, with special cover art exclusive to this set!

That from https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/07/battle-sister-bulletin-part-18-arco-flagellants/

Crossbow armored space nun is awesome!

 kestral wrote:
Crossbow armored space nun is awesome!

Agreed - I had a Sisters force back when the old metals were new, and have a soft spot for them. The quality of these make me tempted to at least put together a Kill Team or a squad or something.

ERJAK wrote:
One I haven't seen outside of super blurry chinese leak pics.

Spoiler:

Awesome! Love it! I hope they give the executor boltgun some worthwhile rules though, they often are useless…

ERJAK wrote:
One I haven't seen outside of super blurry chinese leak pics.

Awesome - I wish they would actually just get on with releasing them

ERJAK wrote:
Fully painted hospitaller up on instagram

Didn't find it on Gw Community's instagram so… linky link pretty please .

Yeah - that Instagram pic is the stuff - sold.

That's a cool looking Sister mini.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I wonder if that's in the army pack or the full kit?

Either way...yeah. Wow.

November's army box? No. We've seen that full set in the BSB #18.
They unpainted stormbolter model Kid_Kyoto posted is in there (though with a bare head, no helmet), but not crossbow sister.

So there's no second option for the Penitent engine pilot after all :(

 Casbyness wrote:
So there's no second option for the Penitent engine pilot after all :(

Not on this sprue, but there may be when the stand alone box comes out.

 Casbyness wrote:
So there's no second option for the Penitent engine pilot after all :(

Not in the army box, no. [Unless its hidden really well in the corner of the sprue]. At this point I don't think there are enough helmets for all the battle sisters, let alone other options.

But that doesn't mean there won't be a full kit penitent engine next year some time.

Theres a few Sisters shown in the Chinese images from awhile back that don't appear to be part of the upcoming box. That Sister Superior (?) among them. The Chinese images look [see forum posting rules] photos from the Codex, so between those and the recent Cherub photos it seems safe to assume that the Codex will show at least some of the upcoming models we haven't seen.

Looks like an okay sprue. Personally I'm planning on getting stuff once I get my savings back up a bit, I'm more excited trying to wait to see what else they have other than the same sisters units we've had for the past twenty years.

So gorgeous!!! I can't wait for this release!!!

ERJAK wrote:

 catharsix wrote:
It's a good thing they had like twenty years to develop ground breaking plastic moulding technology to create those complex fabric/cloth portions. Surely the dark ages of the early 2000's were far to backwards to pull off such a sophisticated feat of engineering. We finally live in the future.

We kinda always knew that was BS though. I mean they admitted in the original adepticon panel that they were not even considering doing sisters until they got the feedback from the community survey.

We knew it was BS when the Blood Angel terminators came out with the new Space Hulk.

 kestral wrote:
Crossbow armored space nun is awesome!

Surely you meant "Crossbolter".