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tneva82 wrote:
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

The tau commander is the last true multi part hq I think, before that, maybe the mega armoured big mek or the admech tech priest dominos? Although hes still fairly static.

I like how the text empasizes the extra bits and different heads... as if this makes up for monopose everything.

The zephyrim look much cooler than stock seraphim. All blinged out.

And the new and improved base sizes... between 25 and 32. 28.5 is the new 25. I would be interested in plastic rings to slide around existing 25s. Will require a slit however in order to uodate already based models..

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

It's a character model with multiple options. It is something of a rarity these days.

Lots of things to buy and give to my building and painting team

Most excited about the sanctum. Didn't know it had a balcony, which is awesome. Hope the angled walls and floors show up in other boxes down the line.

The Sanctum is very cool. I kinda want two...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The Sanctum is very cool. I kinda want two...

Only two? Given your kit-bashing of terrain, I'd've thought half-a-dozen or more...

 Dysartes wrote:
Only two? Given your kit-bashing of terrain, I'd've thought half-a-dozen or more...

Strange as I may sound, I've not invested in any of the new Sector Imperialis stuff. I have the newer Manufactorum stuff that came with all the Derelict Factorums I got, but that's it. Still not 100% on whether to get any because I have so much CoD stuff already, and more ruined buildings is dull.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Only two? Given your kit-bashing of terrain, I'd've thought half-a-dozen or more...

Strange as I may sound, I've not invested in any of the new Sector Imperialis stuff. I have the newer Manufactorum stuff that came with all the Derelict Factorums I got, but that's it. Still not 100% on whether to get any because I have so much CoD stuff already, and more ruined buildings is dull.

But think of the potential in... diagonal walls!!!

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Most excited about the sanctum. Didn't know it had a balcony, which is awesome. Hope the angled walls and floors show up in other boxes down the line.

Yeah, the balcony is a nice touch. Gives the otherwise plain walls something interesting so the focus isn't entirely on the statue.

 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...

I don't think I'm the most demanding of customers. I will agree that the foot on masonry pose is limiting but with the different chest, head, backpack mount and weapons, I don't see that the kit does not have enough variety. Add in spares from other kits, use subtly different paint schemes and, for me, there wouldn't be any issues.


Maybe it's because my first Sisters army had just one Canoness model available in metal with zero options.

Maybe it's because I haven't built a list that requires three or more Canonesses.

Maybe a Canoness should be the new Primaris Lieutenant when drawing on GW design and manufacturing resources.

Dudeface wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
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

The tau commander is the last true multi part hq I think, before that, maybe the mega armoured big mek or the admech tech priest dominos? Although hes still fairly static.

TPD is completely monopose. He has one alternate head and 1 alternate gun but otherwise is identical to canoness in terms of one body.

Canoness has more poseability than TPD.

Here's how you make a differently posed canoness, in my 1-part tutorial series:

Step 1: Take extra heads, weapons and bits from your first canoness kit.

Step 2: Put them on the body of any sisters of battle model you like the pose of.

You now have a canoness posed however you like.

At least all the bits are in-scale and fairly generic for the canoness as opposed to some other factions like orks or tyranids where the characters are completely differently scaled to the other models.

Half my GSC characters are custom, and all our character sculpts are totally 100% monopose.

I'm trying very hard not to look at my wallet which is CLEARLY already on fire..I only need 2 canonesses, an imagifier, 2 immolators, and 6 BOXES OF ZEPHYSERIPHIM.

I can pretty much convert the canonesses at least. The rest is uh...ouch

 Dysartes wrote:
But think of the potential in... diagonal walls!!!

I know... I know... the design is elegant and the ability to do walls at 45 degrees and inside corners without giving yourself an aneurysm is quite an attractive feature.

And this big statues. Saw a nice table that used one each of those nice new statues and two of the older Marine statues to make a cool looking courtyard. I just happened to have two of those older Marine statues...

A tiny corner of my mind is conceptualising an Imperial cathedral with an octagonal spire and main doors from the old chapel kit with the giant eagle and someone needs to stop me before I accidentally order a half dozen shrine kits…

Oh, I didn't even see the sector imperialis stuff. My nephew might love the statue and etc. Terrain is one of the things he geeks out the most about. (I prefer Ork terrain myself, but he enjoys industrial and city terrain in general)

 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...

The Repentia Superior from the box set also makes a good Canoness. Her robes are more elaborate than the battle Sisters, and you can easily amputate her whip hands and replace them with Canoness weapons.

It's disappointing that they specifically state that the statue is supposed to represent Celestine.

Of all the saints and heroes, and all the shrines on all the worlds, having the special character show up everywhere just makes the universe feel so much smaller.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
It's disappointing that they specifically state that the statue is supposed to represent Celestine.

Of all the saints and heroes, and all the shrines on all the worlds, having the special character show up everywhere just makes the universe feel so much smaller.

Yeah, but making the entire universe into the story of a couple dozen space marines who constantly keep bumping into each other already did that.

so, whatever. Celestine tm is the only Living Saint tm why do you ask? we can't make a model depicting any other living saint, some artist on the internet might make a buck by designing a model of her.

Nobody has leaked prices? Usually they get leakea on monday

tneva82 wrote:
Nobody has leaked prices? Usually they get leakea on monday

I saw some prices over on BOLS. (prices in USDs)

55$ for seriphium
75$ for immolator
35$ for cannoness and imaginfier
60$ for the rhino
and 35 bucks for the battle sanctum.

35 bucks seems pretty cheap for the terrain. the Rhino is...kinda pricy. I'd need a look at the sprue before I made a final judgement, if it included eneugh bits to bling out two seperate rhinos it might not be too bad, buy one SOB rhino and one marine rhino for every 2 rhinos you need. but if it's just eneugh to kit one rhino out? proably too much of a price jump

BrianDavion wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Nobody has leaked prices? Usually they get leakea on monday

I saw some prices over on BOLS. (prices in USDs)

55$ for seriphium
75$ for immolator
35$ for cannoness and imaginfier
60$ for the rhino
and 35 bucks for the battle sanctum.

35 bucks seems pretty cheap for the terrain. the Rhino is...kinda pricy. I'd need a look at the sprue before I made a final judgement, if it included eneugh bits to bling out two seperate rhinos it might not be too bad, buy one SOB rhino and one marine rhino for every 2 rhinos you need. but if it's just eneugh to kit one rhino out? proably too much of a price jump

These are the prices in GBP from Valrak on B&C, so one of the prices is wrong for the terrain...

So imagifier tad cheaper than I expected, canoness about what I expected, seraphim what I dreaded and terrain went from get one right now to "sometime in future".

Think I'll settle for 2 imagifiers, canoness and 3 boxes of seraphim

Yep. That's pretty expensive alright.

So glad I don't need an army at this point. The odd box here and there to get my Sisters fix is viable*, but boy does it take a heap of money to pick up a full army these days...



*Of course I haven't done a damn thing with my Sisters yet since I was waiting for the Repentia - thanks for the delay, GW!

Terrain is particular oddity. Dollar price shown would be way too cheap but pound price makes it like double price to others. 35 as pounds would be about what i expected

Also pound price match basic sisters right? Dollar doesn't. And immolator would be tad cheaper than exorcists which surprises me

immolator is a dedicated transport while the exorcists is a heavy support, so gw expect people to but more immolators, so they earn it back much faster

So which rose on that Zephyrim sprue is bloody rose, #7 or #8?

tneva82 wrote:
Terrain is particular oddity. Dollar price shown would be way too cheap but pound price makes it like double price to others. 35 as pounds would be about what i expected

Also pound price match basic sisters right? Dollar doesn't. And immolator would be tad cheaper than exorcists which surprises me

I don't think the shrine's price is an oddity at all. Much like the Tectonic Fragdrill it ties in with the matching general terrain (Mechanicus and Imperialis respectively) and that is... exotically priced. It wouldn't be like GW to sell faction terrain that basically uses the same features but for a significantly lower price.

Incidentally the Imperialis statues are also tied to the more expensive kits, which is another strike against the shrine.

terry wrote:
immolator is a dedicated transport while the exorcists is a heavy support, so gw expect people to but more immolators, so they earn it back much faster

That price tag is so horrendously prohibitive for its profile that I'll just end up making proxies.

The rhino is oddly not that bad since you likely have enough bits to bling up 2 for the price of 1 upgrade sprue.

Terrain price is indeed about double of other terrain kits. Hard pass until summer earliest for me then