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Fafner (or Fafnir)

a Dragon from the Niebelungenlied / Völsunga-Saga who got slain by Siegfried / Sigurdr. The Story is associated with the (Norse and Western) Germanic Folklore and Mythology.

Otherwise the name can be associated with german folklore - some Imperial Fists in the past had german Names.

Siegfried sounds more like an Imperial Fist than Fafnir does.

beast_gts wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
How long are they gonna drag these two guys on?

What is this, the fourth post about them?

I'd expect a similar post about Dominion Zephon, then another when you can actually order them at least...

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Fafnir always sounds Space Wolfy to me.

Probably because it's a name from the Norse mythology.

That and his love of attacking are the reason there's a fan-theory that he's actually a Space Wolf recruit sent to the wrong legion.

Fans should try reading the books. Rann is a native of Inwit.

Yes, well sadly most people get their info from Reddit, the 40k Wiki, or 4chan so there's no hope there.

You mean the wiki that says Fafnir Rann was born on Inwit, like lexicanum and 1d4chan both also say?

Wow really? Makes a change from the first two being utter garbage.
Lex is good though. Love a good bit of Lex.

Apparently it comes from one of the IF Discords - and IIRC while baby Fafnir was found on Inwit it doesn't actually say he was born there (which is people grasping at straws).

He's not from Dorn's tribe, and he's not a Terran recruit which is why he's not a 'typical' Fist.

Black Library Celebration 2022 – Meet Dominion Zephon, the Bringer of Sorrow

Rules PDF

No undercuts on those bonding studs is cool. It'll be interesting to see the sprue.

JSG wrote:
No undercuts on those bonding studs is cool. It'll be interesting to see the sprue.

Either a resin pre-production piece or there could be a split down the middle of the shoulder pad.

Tempted by Zephon, but if I do get him, my first job will be slice off that bloody awful tactical rock.

Not really. You can have any undercuts you want in resin, a lack of them wouldn't indicate a resin part.

Black Library Celebration 2022 – Horus Heresy Heroes With Stunning Paint Jobs

Some different paint jobs and angles:

Looks like the pauldron is a split down the middle. I guess that'll go for the new MK VI too.

That is one emo Imperial Fist! That much mascara would make a Nightlord blush.

"via a source on Faeit 212
The release of HH was delayed to Summer 2022.

GW have still some issues with their printings from oversea which hurts
their release schedules. They started to build up capacities to print
in-house again but this will need some time.

Their releases lie already 11 months behind their plannings from before
covid."

Dang, nearly a full year's worth of delays. It's kind of hard to imagine.

drbored wrote:


Dang, nearly a full year's worth of delays. It's kind of hard to imagine.

What is that in Primaris Lieutenant releases?

 Soundtheory wrote:

drbored wrote:


Dang, nearly a full year's worth of delays. It's kind of hard to imagine.

What is that in Primaris Lieutenant releases?

At least 5, since we get something space marine related every other month.

Fafnir is pretty awesome and for some reason I really have been itching to paint some Epic scale Imperial Fists recently. I think I need to get that mini.

Is he Primaris sized or CSM size or what, has anyone done scale comparisons? I'm really bad at eyeballing such things from photos (or even my 3d slicer program so I make stuff the wrong size, but with physical minis I'm great at it weirdly), but he looks better proportioned and wqy bigger than the Mk III plastics, right.

I'd imagine somewhere between mk iii/iv and space marine heroes.

That's a weird in between where you'd still have to saw and expand legs to get rid of stumpy legs, right? GW should just make all (C)SM with Primaris size and proportions.

CSM are supposed to be 7 foot tall. Not 8 like primaris

 Binabik15 wrote:
That's a weird in between where you'd still have to saw and expand legs to get rid of stumpy legs, right? GW should just make all (C)SM with Primaris size and proportions.

They're probably CSM size.

 Binabik15 wrote:
Is he Primaris sized or CSM size or what, has anyone done scale comparisons? I'm really bad at eyeballing such things from photos (or even my 3d slicer program so I make stuff the wrong size, but with physical minis I'm great at it weirdly), but he looks better proportioned and wqy bigger than the Mk III plastics, right.

According to someone in a HH painting group on FB group who got their hands on the models early for that warcom article, they're CSM size

drbored wrote:
"via a source on Faeit 212
The release of HH was delayed to Summer 2022.

GW have still some issues with their printings from oversea which hurts
their release schedules. They started to build up capacities to print
in-house again but this will need some time.

Their releases lie already 11 months behind their plannings from before
covid."

This is somewhat believable. Though we never really had a hard date on when the set was supposed to come out, regardless of covid and shipping woes.

 Coolyo294 wrote:

 Binabik15 wrote:
Is he Primaris sized or CSM size or what, has anyone done scale comparisons? I'm really bad at eyeballing such things from photos (or even my 3d slicer program so I make stuff the wrong size, but with physical minis I'm great at it weirdly), but he looks better proportioned and wqy bigger than the Mk III plastics, right.

According to someone in a HH painting group on FB group who got their hands on the models early for that warcom article, they're CSM size

Based on this rough comparison I threw together, looks like he's the "newscale" size they're using for non-Primaris Marines. Which I'm delighted with; I think the Primaris are kinda goofily oversized and could use a Lieutenant for my newscale Firstborn Crimson Fists project.




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Now I just hope they hurry up and get those MkVI marines released too. Shame we're probably stuck with the old MkIII/IV guys for the foreseeable.

 jojo_monkey_boy wrote:

drbored wrote:
"via a source on Faeit 212
The release of HH was delayed to Summer 2022.

GW have still some issues with their printings from oversea which hurts
their release schedules. They started to build up capacities to print
in-house again but this will need some time.

Their releases lie already 11 months behind their plannings from before
covid."

This is somewhat believable. Though we never really had a hard date on when the set was supposed to come out, regardless of covid and shipping woes.

The last credible date that people were slinging about was last November, but that came and went and here we are.

If it is summer, they could've at least hinted it. Like they did with Sigmar books. Showed like 4 or 6 six of them?

 CragHack wrote:
If it is summer, they could've at least hinted it. Like they did with Sigmar books. Showed like 4 or 6 six of them?

GW has been playing their reveals very tight to the chest, only things that are about a month and a half out at longest. Last thing they want to do is tease something and have it not come out for 6+ months and have people asking 'where x or y?' for that entire time.

Also, when people are expecting something further out, they tend to hold onto their money for that release. As long as things are vague and we don't have any concrete dates, customers are more likely to buy whatever the shiny new release is in that moment, rather than wait for something they're not sure about.

An Edition launch is a bit bigger than Battletome or Codex roadmaps though. The leak was now clearly something waaaaay early on in the cycle and if the product simply isn't ready there's nothing to be done. No point in hyping if the product isn't sellable.

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