Sculpts you love but most other people seem to hate?

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**necrontyrOG**

AnomanderRake wrote:
necrontyrOG wrote:
The Taurox. Just love that little truck tootling around and trying his best.

I didn't like it until I saw one converted with wheels. And then I saw one where someone had bought one third-party wheel set and put wheels on just the front of two Tauroxes to make a halftrack and thought to myself "That is exactly what that model has always wanted."

That's exactly what I did to mine. I have three half-tracks and one full 6-wheeled truck.

**Fajita Fan**

Okay one second. I want you guys to see my Thunderwolves and tell me what you think.

**Quasistellar**

I really love all the gravis models and suppressors as well. I think a big problem for suppressors is in the press shots, the Sarge is posed like he's wailing on a guitar, but when you lose him properly, he's kinda flying with the gun held sideways and it looks pretty cool. Mine are half painted so maybe I'll put up a photo to show what I mean. The dark imperium inceptors have a similar posing issue, but I only have the multipart kits which are awesome.

**Dakka Wolf**

Space Wolves.
Love Bjorn, Murderfang and the Ven with sword and shield.
Love the Wulfen but hate the fragile legs and codex paint scheme - they look like monkeys, making their faces the same colour as their hair works wonders.
Love Thunderwolf Cavalry but hate transporting them.
Love the Space Wolves basic infantry but only really use them as upgrade sprues and Characters. Less trinkets on rank and file makes the ones loaded down with trophies look more interesting.

**ccs**

Probably the original plastic Tyranid Warrior. (the one with the open ribcage) People hated it way back when & I can't imagine it's gained any popularity....

**Gir Spirit Bane**

I love the metal Avatar of Khaine. It's been getting a load of flak but I do love the timelessness of the sculpt!

**LoftyS**

Warp Spiders.

It was the first unit in 40K I ever liked. My first exposure to 40K in 2nd edition was as a Magic player who always had an hour to wait to get picked up after club hours, and the 40K people were always still playing games so I spent a lot of time trying to watch and understand it.

Sadly, most people played Orks, Space Marines or IG and so 40K seemed really boring.

One day an Eldar player showed up. There were many things I liked, Falcons, Vypers and Jetbikes were all cool but the standout were the Warp Spiders.

I was like "WHAT ARE THOOOOOOSE" and then I was hooked. Bought a bunch of Eldar pretty soon after that.

Massively fell out of love with Eldar the day Tau arrived, but I still love Warp Spiders. Not enough to break my Finecrap boycott though.

The lack of plastic Warp Spiders is the only thing stopping me from getting back into Eldar. Sold all my old models though, so I'm kind of happy I don't need to rebuy everything again.

**Strg Alt**

2nd 40K:

Blood Angel Cpt. in artificer armour & armed with bolter

A lot of people don't like this model because it hasn't a dynamic pose and more importantly he doesn't wield any kind of power weapon which makes him a points sink since 3rd 40K.

Diaz Daemonettes

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**Sgt_Smudge**

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On topic, another sculpt I love - nearly all of the new terrain kits, Sector Mechanicus is exceptionally cool looking, and I only wish I had more of it!

**Sentionaut**

the_scotsman wrote:
New repentia. Old sculpts were lazy as heck Leg Avenue halloween costume jokes, new sculpts have some really excellent two handed weapon melee poses.

One of the things that has frustrated me with 40k since the release of AOS was the AOS models have some really excellent posing in their melee units and so many 40k melee units have to pose around having a sword and a pistol, which is a fighting style that has basically never been a thing (I know there are lots of miniatures of pirates and napoleonic officers and things with swords and pistols, but in reality those pistols were essentially one shot, so it would really be a guy with a sword who had the option to pull his pistol out for a second).

Most improved sculpt from old to new sisters range, hands down IMO. Honestly, the only one that needed improving from a concept standpoint and didn't just need to be a plastic resculpt.

+1 for this.
The new new technology even allowed them to have all the twisted, gruesome details from a lot of the art - spikes throug the skin, purity seals coming out of their mouths, brands, etc. Absolute win in my book.

**cygnnus**

High Elf Skycutter. I just love that model.

Valete,

JohnS

nataliereed1984 wrote:
Since we've got the thread about sucky models we hate, and a couple threads about awesome models we love, how about a thread for models that you like but other people tend to dislike?

For me, I'd say:

1) Castellan robots! I love their big chonk atomic deco 1950s kill-bot aesthetic! I don't really understand the hate they get, either. Especially from people who like stuff like the Domitar and Thanatar automata, or UR-025.

2) Tyranid raveners! I like how they're less humanoid than most smaller tyranids, and also I really really dislike how the nids' projectile weapons are usually shaped like guns when they could be represented in dozens of much cooler ways (hives, orifices, spore-pods, fungal-like growths, etc) and the raveners avoid that.

3) Space marine flyers! Of COURSE the space marines' planes would look like big fists and bricks on rockets with guns attached. Of COURSE. That's 100% the space mariney way to go about it. They're the big, beefy, unsubtle, punchy hammer of the Imperium.

4) Lord of Skulls! This guy, to me, is the perfect epitome of everything joyously, wonderfully stupid and over the top and metal and hilarious about 40k, I absolutely love it.

**nataliereed1984**

Sgt_Smudge wrote:
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On topic, another sculpt I love - nearly all of the new terrain kits, Sector Mechanicus is exceptionally cool looking, and I only wish I had more of it!

I really really REALLY love the modular nature of it, allowing you to build it in a ludicrously huge number of ways. As soon as I finished the stuff from the new Kill Team box, I IMMEDIATELY wanted a second box to start building it in "off-label" ways.

**Sgt_Smudge**

nataliereed1984 wrote:
Sgt_Smudge wrote:
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On topic, another sculpt I love - nearly all of the new terrain kits, Sector Mechanicus is exceptionally cool looking, and I only wish I had more of it!

I really really REALLY love the modular nature of it, allowing you to build it in a ludicrously huge number of ways. As soon as I finished the stuff from the new Kill Team box, I IMMEDIATELY wanted a second box to start building it in "off-label" ways.

Honestly, if someone said to me "I will give you infinite money to spend on any product line from GW", I'd just pick Sector Mechanicus stuff. Who needs all the units in the world when you can have all the terrain?

**Waaaghpower**

Old School Penitent Engines.
In my opinion, plastic versus pewter aside, it's a far better model than the new kit. (Obviously the new plastic kit is much easier to assemble, more stable, easier to transport and paint, and has better detail that comes with modern sculpting and printing tools, but I still prefer the old one for the design and style.)

I also have an argument as to why, and it's due to narrative considerations when sculpting the model. The old school Penitent Engine is, quite evidently, built from the same frame as a scout sentinel. The legs are almost identical, and many of the other parts look like they were put together from preexisting tools and crafted into a warmachine.
The new kit, on the other hand... doesn't. It's standardized across the board, but it doesn't look like anything else in the human range. Given the nature of human tech in 40k, this implies that either there was some tech heresy going on as someone built an entirely new template and distributed it, or that when STCs were designed, they decided to include a template for building a torture-kill-bot mech that deliberately exposes the pilot to danger.

**generalchaos34**

necrontyrOG wrote:
The Taurox. Just love that little truck tootling around and trying his best.

I 100% agree, that silly thing brings a smile to this girls heart. Also I own 8 of them because I hate myself.....

**Aestas**

This first plastic Lizardmen range... In my heart of hearts they will always be leagues above the later iterations.

**nataliereed1984**

Aestas wrote:
This first plastic Lizardmen range... In my heart of hearts they will always be leagues above the later iterations.

OH MY GOD YES.

I miss the original skinks SOOOOOO much! They were so adorable!!! The only modern ones that have the same feeling for me is the star-priest guy with the feathers and the big staff, and the little guy chilling next to the Slaan.

It also seems like somewhere along the way the lore started dictating that lizardmen were universally blue/teal in colouration??? That is TERRIBLE. I used to love painting my lizardmen units in different colours to represent different spawnings.

**Aestas**

nataliereed1984 wrote:
Aestas wrote:
This first plastic Lizardmen range... In my heart of hearts they will always be leagues above the later iterations.

OH MY GOD YES.

I miss the original skinks SOOOOOO much! They were so adorable!!! The only modern ones that have the same feeling for me is the star-priest guy with the feathers and the big staff, and the little guy chilling next to the Slaan.

It also seems like somewhere along the way the lore started dictating that lizardmen were universally blue/teal in colouration??? That is TERRIBLE. I used to love painting my lizardmen units in different colours to represent different spawnings.

I know, right?... I kept playing with my beloved mono-pose Saurus, kroxigors and skinks for a looong time. I did get the new Slaan tho, that one got way better.

**CREEEEEEEEED**

The old sculpts and the early computer assisted sculpts. I feel they had so much more character than the modern sculpts, which are undeniable technological marvels, but I don't feel they have that same feeling behind them.
E.g. the old metal sculpts. Especially the inquisition storm troopers and kasakrins verses the modern militarum tepestus.

**LoftyS**

CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
The old sculpts and the early computer assisted sculpts. I feel they had so much more character than the modern sculpts, which are undeniable technological marvels, but I don't feel they have that same feeling behind them.
E.g. the old metal sculpts. Especially the inquisition storm troopers and kasakrins verses the modern militarum tepestus.

Hey that's cheating, Kasrkin/ Storm Troopers are preferred over Scions by the majority of IG players aesthetics-wise, that's not something "other people seem to hate" now issit

**CREEEEEEEEED**

LoftyS wrote:
Hey that's cheating, Kasrkin/ Storm Troopers are preferred over Scions by the majority of IG players aesthetics-wise, that's not something "other people seem to hate" now issit

True, that was just an example I thought everyone would recognise though, I mean generally I prefer the older sculpts. E.g. whilst I really like the modern GK models I have some metals that I prefer.

**Brutus_Apex**

I love Santa Grimnar and the Lord of Skulls.

**nataliereed1984**

Brutus_Apex wrote:
I love Santa Grimnar and the Lord of Skulls.

I was hoping someone would say Santa Grimnar!

I'm not a fan of Space Wolves, so I'm not that keen on him myself, but IMO he definitely seems like one of the more fun things in the range.

And IIRC, Odin / Woden actually did have a flying sled in Norse/Germanic myth!

**Fajita Fan**

I have that model still in a box because I just wanted the Grimnar model and the two thunderwolves.

**Grimgold**

I love the Monolith, it hasn't been good on the table since third, but I've run one in a lot of lists because it's such an iconic piece of kit.

**TangoTwoBravo**

For some reason I really like the Scions' design while many seem to hate them. Perhaps the berets remind me of the 2nd Ed Stormtroopers?

**Brutus_Apex**

And IIRC, Odin / Woden actually did have a flying sled in Norse/Germanic myth!

And thats exactly why he's cool

**BrianDavion**

Brutus_Apex wrote:
And IIRC, Odin / Woden actually did have a flying sled in Norse/Germanic myth!

And thats exactly why he's cool

yup, sadly most people see it and go "urrr santa" not understanding it's more a case of santa and Logan both borrowing from the same Pagan imagry

**AnomanderRake**

BrianDavion wrote:
Brutus_Apex wrote:
And IIRC, Odin / Woden actually did have a flying sled in Norse/Germanic myth!

And thats exactly why he's cool

yup, sadly most people see it and go "urrr santa" not understanding it's more a case of santa and Logan both borrowing from the same Pagan imagry

Are you saying that everything ancient Norse pagans came up with was cool and none of it could possibly have looked ludicrous? Goat chariot? Clouds made of giant brains?

**Dakka Wolf**

Thor not Odin which means it would be better off with Arjac than Grimnar.
Grimnar's sleigh doesn't fly and actually makes him a lot easier to kill but the most irritating thing to me is that Terminator bases don't fit in the stinking thing - you need Grimnar magnetised to his base and the hole you just drilled in the Stormrider and Grimnar's foot or two bases or two Grimnars.