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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Got my fingers crossed for a plastic Deredeo being shown off this week. Because I love me some Dreadnought.

Why would you say something so controversial? We've had dreadnoughts for months already.

Yeah but not that Dread.

Get that on into plastic and we don't need any more!

Well... other than the Galatus.

... and the Achillus...

... and the Osiron...

... and the Telemon.


But that's it. Probably.

Assassin

Confirmed to be resin, hailing from Clade Venenum

The custodes dreads can wait for now, gw can put out plastic kits for them along the next custodes dex, along with the callidus tank and jump troops.

For heresy, how about despoilers, special melee and breacher upgrade kits, spatha bikes and the vindicator?

So last weeks Assassin permanently tunes your telly to Infomercials, and this poisons your cuppa.

Is it wrong that I wanted more from the Venenum Assassin than "I've got an angry mask and lots of injectors!"?

It just seems so low effort.

"I want an Eversor Assassin!"
"We have Eversor Assassin at home!"

NGL I actually really like that model, the head especially.

Guess we're not getting legion releases for a bit while they tease stuff for the Liber Imperium book.

Why does this feel like we're not going to see upgrades for all the legions again?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is it wrong that I wanted more from the Venenum Assassin than "I've got an angry mask and lots of injectors!"?

Agreed. It's a good model in and of itself and matches up aesthetically well with the other assassins, but I really pictured the Verenum assassin as an undercover type.

You know, man in hi-vis. Unassuming lady on the street. That sort of thing.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Why does this feel like we're not going to see upgrades for all the legions again?

I'd be happy with some melee marines, because at least then a lot of other stuff can be converted in (perhaps with help from 3D printer going brrrrt).

The assassin looks a bit portly.

 Snrub wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is it wrong that I wanted more from the Venenum Assassin than "I've got an angry mask and lots of injectors!"?

Agreed. It's a good model in and of itself and matches up aesthetically well with the other assassins, but I really pictured the Verenum assassin as an undercover type.

You know, man in hi-vis. Unassuming lady on the street. That sort of thing.

Yeah, this!

 Lord Damocles wrote:
The assassin looks a bit portly.

Well, when you poison people you don't exactly have to do a lot of things that require great physical fitness, you know?

 Lord Damocles wrote:
The assassin looks a bit portly.

If that guy is what is considered 'portly' then I don't know what to think.

At most I'd say he's 'stocky' and only then because he's not the typical 30/40k assassin build of either very lithe or a ridiculously pronounced musculature.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
The assassin looks a bit portly.

Perfect build to work in a kitchen.

Nice mini!... but FW resin so auto pass.

 NAVARRO wrote:
Nice mini!... but FW resin so auto pass.

Most of the Horus Heresy is resin.

And most resin is garbage and overpriced

axotl wrote:
And most resin is garbage and overpriced

Okay, that's a nice opinion, but that doesn't change the fact that this game is largely built on resin character models, upgrade kits, and sets we don't have in plastic.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Got my fingers crossed for a plastic Deredeo being shown off this week. Because I love me some Dreadnought.

Disappointment. Another boring assassin.

I can understand complaints about the cost but can't get on board with comments about the quality of Forge World resins, especially more recent ones. The material they're using now is pretty durable and obviously detailed.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
The assassin looks a bit portly.

He took the summer off in Monaco

JimmyWolf87 wrote:
I can understand complaints about the cost but can't get on board with comments about the quality of Forge World resins, especially more recent ones. The material they're using now is pretty durable and obviously detailed.

The issue isn't the durability of the material, but their quality control in general. Every single model I ever buy from FW has some amount of mold slippage on it. I can usually fix it with some filing and green stuff, but that's something I've almost never had to do with resin models from other companies.

And don't get me started on how inconveniently placed and oversized some of the resin sprue attachments are.

I want the mask, arms and back pack from the model to use for other things.

I still like the Vanus Infocyte better. It's almost enough for me to risk the FW order.

Must be the paintjob but the two new assassins seem to look rather different when compared to the other four. I mean, I know each one is unique, but the original four had a more utilitarian look rather than the gothic/grimdark feel (not counting skull masks here). These two new ones feel like they’d fit better in an Inquisitor’s retinue rather than being the two missing Temples/Clades.

Just my humble opinion, still dig the models though!

 Malika2 wrote:
... jew assassins ...

That feels like something I'd expect to see in a Mel Brooks movie.

 Malika2 wrote:
Must be the paintjob but the two jew assassins seem to look rather different when compared to the other four. I mean, I know each one is unique, but the original four had a more utilitarian look rather than the gothic/grimdark feel (not counting skull masks here). These two new ones feel like they’d fit better in an Inquisitor’s retinue rather than being the two missing Temples/Clades.

Just my humble opinion, still dig the models though!

They're not as frontline, so it makes sense to me at least

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
... jew assassins ...

That feels like something I'd expect to see in a Mel Brooks movie.

Oops, bad typo! Mel Brooks? For some reason I can also imagine them in a Mel Gibson movie! (Too soon?)

 Malika2 wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Malika2 wrote:
... jew assassins ...

That feels like something I'd expect to see in a Mel Brooks movie.

Oops, bad typo! Mel Brooks? For some reason I can also imagine them in a Mel Gibson movie! (Too soon?)

Mel Brooks would make it fun and funny. Mel Gibson would make it sad and anti-semitic.