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 Rolsheen wrote:
Lelith looks like Ronda Rousey cosplaying as a Wych but shes not as bad as the last one

Beautiful

I have both a Sisters and a Dark Eldar army but nothing in the box leaps out at me as a 'must buy'. Good luck to those who want it, though!

Seems ironic that Lelith is the only DE Wych who didn't do drugs, yet she's apparently the one who ended up with tumours all over her body.

I guess one of the lesser-known ingredients of all DE drugs is an anti-carcinogen.

 Yodhrin wrote:
The Sillyname Bowpeople look fantastic, but my own personal bugbears might prevent me from getting any(if they're on 32mm bases they're probably around 35-36mm tall, and I still consider 32mm tall my maximum to fit in with my existing minis - if they're on the newer 28s though, sold).

Slaangors also look great, though I hope there are more than three of 'em.

Not 32mms anyway either 25 or 28, I think the archers are 28mm bases as the cauldron bearer looks like it's on a smaller base. The Exalted Seekers look bigger than the current ones

Palatine being confined to a useless combi-box would be worse if the model was more interesting; as it is it just reduces it from "might buy, but probably won't" to "no". So... thanks GW?

Lelith is simply worse than the previous version. Pose is even more generic "jumping around" and less interesting, hair is less detailed (so flat) and just too long, face a bit more boring too (rawr, angry). GW can do better...

...because those Slaanesh figures show it. Love the variation in styles in the archers, with different masks, straps, clothes and legwear, within the same coherent aesthetic. Not actually interested in collecting them personally, but I'm glad they exist.

The Slaanesh minis are almost enough to make me interested in buying GW minis again. First sculpts in the last several years that I've been really impressed with.

I'm not sure but what that Lelith model isn't really as bad as it is made to look. I think the viewing angle and the paintjob are not doing her any favors. I'd like to see the model from more angles and painted by other people before I pass judgement. I don't actually "have a dog in the fight" as I don't play/collect Drukhari but I still think that model might be better than we can actually tell.

The Slaanesh models are awesome! Love the archers a lot, love the Seekers (finally some movement on those models, not like the stiff Marauder and Daemonette from before), also love the Slaangor, would make some nice Slaanesh-theme Minotaurs or something!

Also I need the music playing during the video somehow, love it!

In every other industry, the promotional photographs make the models look better. Nobody ever says "Hey, I bet that McDonalds burger looks better in real life!"

Not that I'm saying it's necessarily wrong, mind you. GW definitely has previous for taking awful promo shots. It's just weird that the quality is so inconsistent.

Keep in mind that the Palantine is probably the easiest possible conversion for a Sisters player. Take plasma pistol from Canoness box. Take sheathed power sword from BSS box. Apply to any spare SoB model with a minimum of fuss. Add a fancy head for flavor - you've got 100 spare heads floating around on sprues.

I play sisters AND drukhari and this box doesn't do anything for me...new lilith isnt that bad, old one is better.

I remember very well when the 5th edition Dark Eldar released and this forum was complaining about that version of Lilith. How she looked like a man. Didn't wear shoes. Had a stupid dynamic pose. Her hair was too long. She was too muscular. Some of you are literally the same people.

Kinda makes sense, since a lot of the feedback here is "there was no reason to remake the model if they were just gonna do the same thing again, but even worse." People preferring the prior model doesn't mean they particularly like either one.

They manage to make a better Lelith sculpt decade ago without all the crazy tech and advance CAD. The crazy hairdo on the new sculpt isn't even that great, it'll break off and is a nightmare to move around.

The steed of slaanesh look cute though.

yknow i never really have problems withv things breaking off.
Do yall like, man handle your minis or throw your case around?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
yknow i never really have problems withv things breaking off.
Do yall like, man handle your minis or throw your case around?

I got those broken off before I even open the box.

Also you never dropped a models ever? or you always play on cushion foam floor, or you actually play your game on the floor.

I mean,, if a model drops on a floor, anything can break, not just flimsy parts. if we where constatnly worry about peices coming off, we might as well play with carboard cut outs.
Use a glue like Plastic weld and you aint gotta problem really.

 jake wrote:
I remember very well when the 5th edition Dark Eldar released and this forum was complaining about that version of Lilith. How she looked like a man. Didn't wear shoes. Had a stupid dynamic pose. Her hair was too long. She was too muscular. Some of you are literally the same people.

I mean, the new one has a worse pose in my opinion (would change the previous one's base personally, but the overall pose is better than leaping model number 49238) and her hair is even longer (now positively in the "will drag along the floor if standing still" category with Jain Zar), so I'm not sure why you would expect anyone who disliked those aspects before will like them now. (She also may be more muscular, but that's difficult to tell, and I don't particularly care about that aspect myself.) Not that I was among those disliking the previous one; had she been available in metal now (or recreated as such in plastic), she would have been my basis for a Necromunda Escher Death Maiden for sure.

goodness, I love the new slaanesh models.

much more than the heavy armored.guys who's design I actually.ended up souring on a little

Lelith (so much better than a Jain Zar) and Slaangors are my favourites.

Slaneesh release is oure win so far, bar maybe the forsaken look alike


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Slaneesh release is oure win so far, bar maybe the forsaken look alike

Each day we move further from Commorragh.

I just don't like the Lelith face. Which you are inevitably drawn too because there isn't much else on the model (beyond big hair, which doesn't bother me).

Not as disappointed as with Drazhar, but not inspired. Don't have much hope for the box unless the DE stuff is practically free. "Why does no one want to buy decade old sculpts at 85% RRP."

The Hedonites look amazing.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

yukishiro1 wrote:
Lelith looks absolutely terrible, they completely failed to produce any sense of a lithe acrobat, ending up with something closer to a hobbit (look at those feet!) after she had a big Christmas meal.

I've seen some reaching in my time, but that takes the biscuit.

I think Lelith had most of the biscuits. Those thighs

Billicus wrote:

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 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

yukishiro1 wrote:
Lelith looks absolutely terrible, they completely failed to produce any sense of a lithe acrobat, ending up with something closer to a hobbit (look at those feet!) after she had a big Christmas meal.

I've seen some reaching in my time, but that takes the biscuit.

I think Lelith had most of the biscuits. Those thighs

All the better to crush man’s skull like sparrow’s egg.

 AduroT wrote:

Billicus wrote:

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 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

yukishiro1 wrote:
Lelith looks absolutely terrible, they completely failed to produce any sense of a lithe acrobat, ending up with something closer to a hobbit (look at those feet!) after she had a big Christmas meal.

I've seen some reaching in my time, but that takes the biscuit.

I think Lelith had most of the biscuits. Those thighs

All the better to crush man’s skull like sparrow’s egg.

Can think of worse deaths than with my head between a woman's thighs

Doesn't look that bad to me. Thighs have armour on, and the feet look fine.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Doesn't look that bad to me. Thighs have armour on, and the feet look fine.

But in lore, isn't she supposed to have very little armor? Even by wych cult standards? I seem to recall that being a point somewhere along the line.

 BaronIveagh wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Doesn't look that bad to me. Thighs have armour on, and the feet look fine.

But in lore, isn't she supposed to have very little armor? Even by wych cult standards? I seem to recall that being a point somewhere along the line.

When she's fighting in the arena sure. Might be them deciding to differentiate her 'at war' from her in the arena or something. Who knows or really cares?

Hell, for all we know it might be tied to some lore event where she gets wounded and scarred and is now wearing armor to hide it.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Who knows or really cares?

Yeah. Who cares if models look like the descriptions of the characters they're depicting. Nerds.

 Jidmah wrote:

 Strg Alt wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:
The new Lilith is really kind of a let-down compared to the one from 5th, especially the face.

I own the two previous Hesperax models. It was unnecessary to release a third version of her as this new incarnation is too similar to the second one.

Well, it was necessary if they want to burry finecast for good.

The 2nd model was available in metal too and that is the version which resides in my collection.



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Hmm, the Hedonites are not good enough. I expected a Slaanesh cult which looked more like the cannibals from Tulsa Doom's sect in Conan the Barbarian. GW's Hedonites lack an impressing physique which is normally characteristic to Chaos units and they have too much bling & scarfs on them. Pass.

By the way, is it just me, or did GW kinda miss the golden opportunity to pair Lelith with the one Sororitas character with actual Wych gladiatorial arena combat experience?