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**Overread**

Honestly if you hate the swish you can easily clip those parts, add a tower or rock for it to be jumping off to maintain height and pose and do that.

AoS is far more showy and grand with its magic and fantastical elements. Heck didn't we recently have a huge argument thread on if Old World was Low or High magic? Based mostly on the fact that the lore was always quite high magic, but the tabletop side often appeared more muted (even if you had rat men and such running around they were still carrying regular spears and the like).

**Cronch**

The only downside to the swish is practicality, it takes longer to paint the lil' dangly bits and they are pretty much impossible to fit into a normal sized foam box so you gotta magnetize them and carry in their own container.
Celestant Prime has many issues, looking like he's Voltron with all the square animal bits being the main one, the swirls are really the best part of it imo.

**Coenus Scaldingus**

Overread wrote:
Honestly if you hate the swish you can easily clip those parts, add a tower or rock for it to be jumping off to maintain height and pose and do that.

Of course, you're still paying for the extra "swish" anyway. In €, the Lumineth Stonemage is a tenner (almost 50%) more expensive than the Cathallar precisely because of its elaborate base.

And this will be quite something being a larger figure anyway.
Though the fact that it connects with ribbons to the tornado thingy should indeed make it relatively straightforward to, if desired, remove the whole contraptions, and as you say it's not a bad pose for a running/leaping model in terms of the position of the legs.

**Kanluwen**

We're not quite sure on the size yet for the Spirit. It might be Avatar of Ynnead sized rather than Spirit of the Mountain sized.

It's possibly the 80mm base rather than 100 or higher. If it's the 80? It's large but not ridiculously large.

Though I am for sure hoping that the streamers can be clipped from the wind bits or get 'clipped in'. Having it leaping off a large tree would be a delight.

**Sasori**

Kanluwen wrote:
We're not quite sure on the size yet for the Spirit. It might be Avatar of Ynnead sized rather than Spirit of the Mountain sized.

It's possibly the 80mm base rather than 100 or higher. If it's the 80? It's large but not ridiculously large.

Though I am for sure hoping that the streamers can be clipped from the wind bits or get 'clipped in'. Having it leaping off a large tree would be a delight.

If I were to take a guess, I would guess it's closer to Ynnead than the Spirit of the Mountain.

**NinthMusketeer**

Tiberius501 wrote:
NinthMusketeer wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
I burst out laughing when that fox-alope thing appeared. Man. Talk about over-design. And more of GW's patented "swirly bull gak", which now has an official name: Hurakan™
You kidding mate? Celestant Prime is still around. Hurricane Hurakan doesn't even have any random bling flying around in his!

Over design? I just see a fox bro in armour with a bow doing a swish pose. Over design would surely add an obnoxious amount of random detail that doesn’t make sense and make it too busy. But this model doesn’t look busy to me or over worked. Just looks like a cool bro with a bow.
Yeah it has a swirl under it to show it’s kicking up magic wind, being a spirit of wind, but it’s pretty tasteful to me, as Ninth said, it doesn’t have random junk swirling around in the magic wind or anything like that.

Feel free to hate the model though, just don’t agree with it being over-designed.

I am only disagreeing with Hurakan being named official swirly gak mascot when CPrime is clearly the stronger contender.

**Voss**

Cronch wrote:
The only downside to the swish is practicality, it takes longer to paint the lil' dangly bits and they are pretty much impossible to fit into a normal sized foam box so you gotta magnetize them and carry in their own container.
Celestant Prime has many issues, looking like he's Voltron with all the square animal bits being the main one, the swirls are really the best part of it imo.

Wel, also that it's super ugly and overpriced for the ugliness. The play-doh base decorations are a laundry list of negatives. Even worse than tactical rocks and 'dynamic' poses.