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 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
A cape? Possibly the easiest possible thing to make with some green stuff? All this over a cape?

I would rather just gimp my army than feth around with green stuff, tbh. I pay the money I pay for these models because I HATE stuff like that. Anything more involved than just assembling the plastic can go feth itself.

Also, the reason you can't really do a superior as a canoness instead is A. Because it'd be another in a LONG line of terrible butcherings of a model people alway come up to you and say 'look at this cool conversion I did, think I could ebay it for 150$?' And B We lack the bits for the null rod, brazier, or inferno pistol. I.e. the 3 good options.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
A cape? Possibly the easiest possible thing to make with some green stuff? All this over a cape?

Regardless of how one feels about converting a basic Sister into a character, this statement is dubious at best. Sculpting a cape that has similar quality and style as the rest of a modern GW model is by no means the easiest thing you can do with green stuff and not something you should expect to be able to do without sufficient skill.

I mean, I'll be lucky to successfully convert a chainsword in to a power maul with green stuff while making it look good, let alone a full blown cape.

The easiest thing to add in green stuff, in my experience, is cigars. And even that ain't that easy.
I also did add military caps but those were quite hard and never up to the quality of commercial sculpts. But it did make my trollbloods looks like a proper, cool, unified subfaction so still a win .

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

alphaecho wrote:
When I think back to my first Canoness, the one with the combi-flamer, I'm sure only the raised icon in her other hand made her stand out from a Sister.

She had 1,5 times the mass of a sister superior, and iirc (not sure) she had the cool brasero on the backpack.

And? Plus my canoness was given a jump pack so the braziers were never a problem.

As the rest of my post says, I've always upscaled some of models to a higher Rank ever since the first release of the Sisters in 2nd Ed.

Not one opponent has complained about my using a Sister as a Superior OR a Superior as a Canoness/ Palatine (remember those good old days).

I even demoted a Superior once by doing a hand swap and giving her the metal Blood Angels Assault Marine standard to turm her into a Simulacrum bearer....


I tend to find that nowaday, seeing as we have so much choice, some gamers seem less willing to convert or kitbash.


No Rod of Office, use the cool skull topped staff from the Scions kit.
No inferno pistol, ask around for a Blood Angels bit.

No Canoness model that you like, use an upgrade paint job on a Superior.

alphaecho wrote:
And?

And more than "only the raised icon in her other hand" did "made her stand out from a Sister".
All I'm saying.
Gotta defend that awesome model which was imo much better than the 3rd ed replacement.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

alphaecho wrote:
And?

And more than "only the raised icon in her other hand" did "made her stand out from a Sister".
All I'm saying.
Gotta defend that awesome model which was imo much better than the 3rd ed replacement.

I love both.

Sometimes I felt guilty about using the Black Library Ephrael Stern model as a jump pack equipped Palatine. I suppose she'd look good as a Zephyrim Sister Superior now.

I just took that other sister model - the one based off the art, but not the Blanche one - did some minor conversion work to give her a power sword and bolter hanging around her shoulder, then gave her a paint job that makes the model stand out from amongst the rest of the models and draws the eye.

Didn't see the need for capes, flaming backpacks and OTT headgear. My girl gets in the trenches alongside her brethren and is a warrior. Left the dressing gown in the car.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I just took that other sister model - the one based off the art, but not the Blanche one

Amelia Novena.

Novena is definitely one I'm thinking of using as a base for a canoness mini to use until they release a real mini. Using a celestian helmet.

I've done a nice conversion using her to outfit her with a Power Sword and Bolter hanging off her shoulder. Given her neutral stance, its a pretty good base for simple conversion work and her ornate armour (relative to other battle sisters) suits repurposing her for other uses.

 Oppl wrote:
I've done a nice conversion using her to outfit her with a Power Sword and Bolter hanging off her shoulder. Given her neutral stance, its a pretty good base for simple conversion work and her ornate armour (relative to other battle sisters) suits repurposing her for other uses.

You can't just say that and not have an image or something.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I just took that other sister model - the one based off the art, but not the Blanche one

Amelia Novena.

Ah, the one that looks like Debbie Harry.

Looks like the only Adepta Sororitas previews this week are of the new Avenger Strike Fighters for Aeronautica Imperialis

We're now at March 15th as the earliest possible release date of the Canoness. Wonder when GW people organising conventions/tournaments will finally start noticing there are no SOB armies being played...

Well we knew already today would be nothing. Gw told more sisters(nothing on how much. Just 1 kit would fulfill statement) comes march. This means preorders will be on 7, 14, 21 or 28.3.

So unless they announce the preorders 2 weeks in time today was never on card. Next week preorders are february releases. Gw specifically said march.

One of next 4 sundays we hear of something but what and how many kits no-one outside gw knows


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On one side gw confirming march something comes was nice as at least we know month. Otoh this made this sunday boring for as i knew already nothing there for me.

tneva82 wrote:
Well we knew already today would be nothing. Gw told more sisters(nothing on how much. Just 1 kit would fulfill statement) comes march. This means preorders will be on 7, 14, 21 or 28.3.

So unless they announce the preorders 2 weeks in time today was never on card. Next week preorders are february releases. Gw specifically said march.

One of next 4 sundays we hear of something but what and how many kits no-one outside gw knows


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On one side gw confirming march something comes was nice as at least we know month. Otoh this made this sunday boring for as i knew already nothing there for me.

That's incorrect. Today is the 23rd Feb. Preorder previews shown this afternoon would have been for Saturday the 7th March. Sisters today would have been possible.

Oh please not this again. I'm getting dejavu's from orktober...

For GW it's the PREORDER day that dictates month. This week's preorders are in for 29.2. Note the .2. February. Preorders are in february, in GW's book that's february release.

In similar way preorders that come in 28.3 are march releases for GW despite stores getting them in april.

For you and me it's in store day that counts. For GW it's the preorder date.

I already went through this once with orks who got preorder for codex in last weekend of october with in store november and ork players furious at GW claiming codex release is in october when stores had them in november. But it was already known them and it's same now. It's PREORDER date that counts for GW. Sucks but that's it is.

Preorder for sisters is 7.3, 14.3, 21.3 or 28.3 with in store day 14.3, 21.3, 28.3 or 4.4. If it goes later than that GW was in error when they said "in march".

That's why I'm getting nasty feeling preorder day will be 28.3. Dejavu's from orktober getting strong.

If it was up to me GW saying "march" would mean it would be in stores in march. But alas it isn't and I have already been experiencing GW saying specific month and then have product come on preorder on last weekend and in store next month and it wasn't even that big of a surprise(though big dissapointment. I missed tournament with new codex thanks to that as codex was in stores on day of tournament with list deadline before...) then. It's weird system but nothing I can do. I doubt GW changes it just because I would send email to them

Azzy wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I just took that other sister model - the one based off the art, but not the Blanche one

Amelia Novena.

Ah, the one that looks like Debbie Harry.

I think I know who that is...isnt she the Canoness of the Glass Heart?

 Azzy wrote:

Ah, the one that looks like Debbie Harry.

Trick question! They're ALL Debbie Harry!

Racerguy180 wrote:

Azzy wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I just took that other sister model - the one based off the art, but not the Blanche one

Amelia Novena.

Ah, the one that looks like Debbie Harry.

I think I know who that is...isnt she the Canoness of the Glass Heart?

Is it just me or does “Order of the Glass Heart” actually sound like a good name for a custom order?

So I was sat looking at exorcist sprues and the images of the new immolators, they the same size and sprue volume pretty much. I'm now concerned we'll get what is essentially a £50 razorback.

It's one sprue from exorcist and one new sprue. So quite likely.

(oh and on other news seems GW did say in FB all kits in march so just the preorder date is still open. 7.3, 14.3, 21.3, 28.3. Or multiples of course is possible)

PA6 somewhere there(still wonder if sisters don't get their rules in PA6 along. Of course PA8 or PA9 is still option) as well. And something for AOS(seraphim).

Maybe PA6 on 7.3, seraphom 14.3 and sisters 21 and 28.

Everything remaining goes up next week:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/03/08/sunday-preview-sisters-of-battle-complete/

Finally!

Let's see prices. Hoping i can afford canoness 2 imagifier, terrain 3 boxes of jump packers. 10 zephyr and 5 seraphim with hand flamers to hopefully clear hole for zephyr to land to

That the canoness is monopose is... bothersome.

I need three canonesses for my army, possibly more. And it's disappointing that they released such a limiting miniature for it.

I suppose I'll use novena and a modified flag-bearer model from the battle sisters box, but then I'll be one short for one of my squads...

GW hasn't released a non-monopose character model in forever. At least the Cannoness has far more options than any character model I can think of that been released in over a decade.

Even with the same weapons, you have 4 heads, two chests, and 2 backpacks to keep them from being exact carbon copies of each other. Yes, the pose will be the same, but the models will be different.

 Melissia wrote:
That the canoness is monopose is... bothersome.

I need three canonesses for my army, possibly more. And it's disappointing that they released such a limiting miniature for it.

I suppose I'll use novena and a modified flag-bearer model from the battle sisters box, but then I'll be one short for one of my squads...

It's gw model. No surprises. At least it has variable heads and gear so sisters are way ahead rest.

 alextroy wrote:
GW hasn't released a non-monopose character model in forever

And?

That GW has disappointed in the past doesn't mean that they're any less disappointing now.

Also, that's not even true.

What non mono pose model has come last time? Marine commander wasn't mono pose but that kit is ancient.

If you keep hoping for non monopose you are just in dissapointing. Hell entire sister line so far has been monopose. Would have to have lived under the rock for decade to not know it's going to be monopose canoness.

Sisters are way ahead any other faction. We got head, weapon and chest optioks. Most are lucky if they have alternative pistol to go with