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Since we had a thread with the opposite question; what currently on sale models make your teeth itch?

Also added a poll to see what faction contains the most models you disliked once you've given it some thought (versions of the same base model do not count separately, for example the Tau Razor Shark and Sun Shark would count as 1 model, same with Chaos Maulerfiend and Forge Fiend etc)

Grey Knights omitted, don't want to kick someone lying down, also any faction with less than 5 separate unique kits

Models that make my teeth itch:

Militarum Tempestus Taurox
Chaos Maulerfiend / Forgefiend
Chaos Heldrake
Mechanicus Skorpius

---- the above are all for the same reason: looking like toys/ don't look like they properly belong in the universe, scale problems, shortcuts in mechanical design etc) ----

Contemptor Dreadnought with variants (counting as Space Marines I guess)
Primaris Centurions
Primaris Repulsor
Primaris Impulsor
4 out of 5 GW Space Marine flyers (bricks! how do they make them fly! The Nephilim is the only not completely visually offensive one though it's still not good)
Dark Eldar Hellions (A sole blemish on an otherwise perfect range)
GSC special mention: I dislike almost everything they have, but not enough for a single one to be mentioned. Even though I play both IG and Nids, I dislike GSC lineup. I guess they feel like they should be in the Mad Max franchise, not 40K. Where are the turned Adeptus Arbites? Storm Troopers? Anything military and not rando civvies from the dirt pit?
Tyranid Raveners (only the plastic 4th edition ones currently being sold, the metal ones before that are excellent)
Tyranid Lictor (new kit when?)
Tyranid Haruspex

Phew, when I started this I didn't expect Space Marines to get so much shade. I just kept remembering all kinds of repressed memories as I went.

Voted for Tyranids. Most of their units look like bad caricatures of Alien. Add to that the ridiculousness of many of them carrying hilarious bio-guns.

Slaanesh and Tzeentch-Daemons are also not my taste.

All the Primaris, Wulfen, Space Wolf flyers and the older sculpts like most Phoenix Lords are the only things I actively dislike. Less so the Phoenix Lords because they aren't bad so much as outdated.

Tzeentch and Nurgle demons for me, coupled with Chaos Spawn. I'll make an exception for the Lord of Change, which is rather nice.

Both Tyranid and IG infantry units need major overhauls.

Not a sculpt per se, but I really really dislike GW's (fairly) recent penchant for adding swirly gak to models that do not need it. The main offender being the Yncarne.

I despise a lot of the newer SM sculpts as a lot of them have gone beyond the point of ridiculousness. The SW flyer that literally looks like a dog's head, the Dreadnot, Centurions, Emo Shrike, the chibi flyer, Reivers. I particularly hate the last due to the attached rules. "Wooo look at me! I'm a spooky boi with a skull mask!" that somehow is more threatening than a myriad of other cosmic horrors, literal gods and eldritch abominations roaming the galaxy.

I hate the new Ork vehicles, not from a design standpoint but from a build one. If there should be anything that is not built from a standard production line it is an Ork vehicle. No two should look the same.

Not a fan of most of the slanesh models, some of them just scream that a basement dwelling virgin designed them.

Also many of the nid models are terrible and Bradley need an update.

SM flyers are horrible, also not a fan of the repulsor models. Not a fan of reivers both rules and model. All non helmeted space marine models. Not a fan of the land raiders, impulsors, and rhinos.

Not a model but I hate the new flying stems and some of the overly scenic bases.

 Grimtuff wrote:
Not a sculpt per se, but I really really dislike GW's (fairly) recent penchant for adding swirly gak to models that do not need it. The main offender being the Yncarne.

Good point, I'll add overly elaborate bases too (for the most part)

Main offender: their recent attempt at updating Drazhar. It's just a normal Incubi with a necklace perched on an idiotic base. Since I have the old one, I can convince myself it doesn't exist though.

As an entire range, I personally dislike the SW line. I feel like the monastic/knightly order feel of SM armour in general doesn't match well with the Viking/wolf aesthetic of SW, especially the more egregious examples of overdoing the wolf aspect of the SW line like Thunderwolf Cavalry, Murderfang and the Wulfen.

Specifically, I'm not a big fan of the main plastic IG range, especially when you compare it to 3rd party sculpts and DKOK. Give me my greatcoat regiment dammit! I also think the basic genestealer kit needs an update closer to the Genestealers from the most recent Space Hulk box set. A lot of the SM range I'm not crazy about, particularly the new Primaris vehicles (barring the FW one) and Centurions.

I voted DE.
But this is true only because I really really dislike the the original sculpts. To the point where there wasn't enough I'd spend $ on to make a force.
While the current line is improved, the originals still exist & so earn the faction my vote.

Voted for deathguard, though nurgle demons are mostly as bad to my eyes. The mephitic blightcrawler being a shining example of what I don't like.
Overly busy designs with horrible silhouettes coupled with the drab colour scheme makes for a sludgy mess on the tabletop. Up close they can look great but in a game I really don't like the way they look.

As an entire line I'd point at the Tau but for a single model my vote goes to Santa Claws on his sleigh.
Storm Rider is awful.

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
As an entire line I'd point at the Tau

What exactly don't you like about the Tau?

The Defiler. Worst model ever.

Every faction has some good sculpts I like so its hard to damn group an entire faction...

For me it was custodes. The lord with axe is a cool character but the troops look so ridiculous..

 John Prins wrote:
The Defiler. Worst model ever.

Defiler is certainly showing its age. It's gotta be what, 15-16yo at this point? Came out with the EoT codex and campaign in 2003 did it not.

Defiler and demon prince are the two scuplts i cant stand.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
As an entire line I'd point at the Tau

What exactly don't you like about the Tau?

Not entirely sure how to word it but the closest I can come would be that I see no comedy to them, I get a sadistic chuckle from other lines, I’ve never gotten amusement from the Tau.

 John Prins wrote:
The Defiler. Worst model ever.

Hmm. Certainly I remember when I first saw the Defiler that I thought it was poor. But I quickly got over it.

Nothing like the blood-curdling, vomit-gargled shriek of horror I let out when the Forgefiends were announced. This was before I learned to pretend certain models didn't exist, so I actually took a break from 40k for like a year just because of those models +Heldrake

I was convinced 40k was going to go to hell in a handbasket if those things were approved, so I kneejerk reacted and sold a bunch of stuff. But they got back on track with better models later.

Most daemon engines. It's not so much that I hate them it's just that I don't feel they fit in my night lords army and gw tries to force them down csm players throats with rules.

For an example see the godawful khorne lord of skulls getting a huge points drop while the hellforged super heavys from fw remained priced out of usefulness.

There are many sculps I am really not fond of. The already mentioned demon engines are good examples of sculpts that could have been done better, but I don't hate them.
These are my top 3:

Curren CSM mutilators kit: I always liked the fluff and the concept of the mutilators and the obliterators. Obliterators got a cool update in shadowspear, but mutilators are still stuck with their horrendous old sculpts....they really deserve an update.

Corpuscarii electropriests: I hate that kit, not only because it looks super goofy, but because the basic concept is again really cool and I just can't help to imagine what could have been if they did a better job. I mean look at their fingers....

The infamous Grey Knights dreadknight aka babycarrier: same as with the electropriests what infuriates me most is what could have been done here. I still to this day can not fathom how this sculpt was ever approved as the best one....it looks freaking ridiculous and is an utterly stupid and impractical design even for 40k standards and that's saying something

I voted Tau for the battlesuits but Space Marines are close second. Centurions, assault centurions, warsuit, inceptor... So many dumb af concept resulting is so many atrocious design not even worthy of being a toy. But at the same time 90% of the range is just such an accomplishment !

 ArcaneHorror wrote:
Both Tyranid and IG infantry units need major overhauls.

Actually I strongly disagree. We usually see lots of them being speed painted because they are so numerous but lovely painted IG infantry is in fact totally lovable and almost up to date.

Slaanesh demons, daemonettes especially have been awful pre and post Juan Diaz.

On the other hand, Juan Diaz daemonettes are the best demon models ever produced.

Khorne is passable. Nurgle has always been gross but also kinda lazy. Tzeentch is okay.

Other than that, Mary Sue Gold and Mary Sue Silver Marines are up there, and the flying lead sleds the Space Wolves have come to mind.

Honestly, there's very few sculpts I *don't* like, or at least are indifferent to. I don't think there's a sculpt out there that I'd say I *hate*. Can't really say I'm particularly attached to the Catachan range though.

However, on purely a case of "which faction's aesthetics appeal to me the least", I'd have to say Eldar/Dark Eldar. They're just not for me. They look fine, I guess, but they're not an aesthetic I'd want to collect an army of.

Many from the last few years.

Most primaris infantry, all of their vehicles.

Primarized special characters- Mepihston especially, was SO CLOSE to being great but the sculptor over did it with the flowy robes and boring plasma pistol pose.

New Deathguard- wayyyy too busy, and, as is the trend, TOO much character.

Visarch, Yvraine- too much "hey this would look cool" not enough thinking design choices over.
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Yncanre- swirly gak is so prominent it distracts from the being, said being looks too much like a demonette or something than an Eldar avatar

New Ork buggies- same problem as DG, too much character, too specific, too much of the imagining done for us

Logan Claus, Murderfang, flying longboat fine idea but poorly executed.

New Wulfen. Just... no.....

I have a hard time liking most non-infantry sculpts. id even argue my favorite overall sculpts for "consistency" would be in Daemons just because im not adverse to the daemon models, no matter the size. or maybe daemon related models work for me because consistency isn't technically a daemons thing.

But if i have to pick one thing i don't like consistently.. marine models. centurions ive gotten over, but the Dreadknight and invictor warsuit both sit on my near-recoil territory, especially with the conversions ive seen to make them look better on the mind. give me more Custodes FW dreadnoughts compared to either of those designs, please. when i hear "imperial" i wanna think "knights" not "exposed pilot WHY!"

Currently im favoring Tau, but even their battlesuits take time for me to like. after seeing a stormsurge with arms, i find the base one just... egh, and thats with their equipment having something off with them to me. ahh, this game, where lore or mechanics hold interest, but art throws me off and around.

I voted Imperial Guard, as the line needs a serious face-lift to its infantry. The vehicles are in a good spot, but people don't want Candia copy pasta regiment 3456797532, we want Armageddon, Tallarn, Catachan! The galaxy is a big place...

That Tau range - specifically, from the release of the Riptide onwards.

The initial range from 3rd ed was OK, bar some... odd design choices (plastic/metal hybrid Broadsides, anyone?).

They had some interesting background on favouring airpower over EVEN BIGGER BATTLESUITS, which was expanded on in Imperial Armour with the Tiger Shark with big railguns for hunting Knights/Titans. Efficient use of resources with units which can cover multiple theatres makes sense.

What do we get instead the next time they've revisted? The fething Riptide, and multiple EVEN BIGGAH BATTLESUITS since.

Get that anime garbage outta here, FFS...

I voted GSC even though I play Tyranids. Awesome fluff and gameplay, just not the biggest fan of the models.

I really don't like Genestealer Cults as an army. I don't have the nostalgia ties to them that others do and all I can see is slightly fethed up human models with Tyranid bits stuck to the side. The vehicles are nice but none of the infantry take my fancy.

Also really not a fan of AdMech. Too much spindly wierd bits going on, but I like the robots.

Also not a fan of Tau models. Like battlesuits a lot but the vehicles and auxiliaries are lackluster, but that's a lot to do with dating. I think the Kroot, Vespid, Hammerhead, Devilfish and Piranha models are from 3rd/4th ed are they not?