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StraightSilver wrote:
Anybody know where the helmet is from on the Ultramarines photoshop knock up?

It's from Remus Ventanus.

StraightSilver wrote:
Anybody know where the helmet is from on the Ultramarines photoshop knock up?

Alt head from Remus Ventanius

Looks good, but Ouch. £27.50 for half a model.

beast_gts wrote:

StraightSilver wrote:
Anybody know where the helmet is from on the Ultramarines photoshop knock up?

It's from Remus Ventanus.

MajorWesJanson wrote:

StraightSilver wrote:
Anybody know where the helmet is from on the Ultramarines photoshop knock up?

Alt head from Remus Ventanius

Awesome, thanks, I stupidly have that model and never realised it had 2 heads.....

Loving the amusing short stories for those models, heh. It also seems that a lot of the recent models for HH look a lot better with helmets on rather than off. :/

 Boringstuff wrote:
Loving the amusing short stories for those models, heh. It also seems that a lot of the recent models for HH look a lot better with helmets on rather than off. :/

I think that's just down to having cool fancy helmets while there hasn't been much innovation in the screaming faces department?

A well sculpted face beats a well sculpted helmet nine times out of ten for me.

i heard from a friend that there is a rumor of a new starter box or bundle box once the new armor kit drops. he said that it would have the new armor kit (Mk.III iirc), the plastic landraider proteus, and one of the new dreadnought they're releasing.

is there actually anything hinting at this or is he just sharing someone's pie in the sky wishlist?

Pretty sure we have strong rumors that we're looking at a new box consisting of MKIII, Deredo, and LR Protean around.. October? I thought I saw that agreed on somewhere, but I might be wrong.

 morganfreeman wrote:
Pretty sure we have strong rumors that we're looking at a new box consisting of MKIII, Deredo, and LR Protean around.. October? I thought I saw that agreed on somewhere, but I might be wrong.

I think Valrak also said this

The evidence is a piece of artwork they've shown at a preview show that contains those units (also including a Mk3 support squad with volkites).

Since GW does not usually just make art in that style outside book covers or box covers and it's not the cover of Siege of Cthonia, it's a reasonable assumption it's a box cover.

Man, I just cannot get over how much I dislike the incoming MkIII compared to the current version.

The helmets are off. The knees aren't right. The crotch plate being a bigger solid inflexible piece also irks me.

Or it could be the artist.

I have a lot of mixed feelings on the MK 3 since I've already built a lot of MK3 and even started painting a handful of them.

It is a nice nod to the Death Guard HH helmets. That head spike has been around forever.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
The evidence is a piece of artwork they've shown at a preview show that contains those units (also including a Mk3 support squad with volkites).

Since GW does not usually just make art in that style outside book covers or box covers and it's not the cover of Siege of Cthonia, it's a reasonable assumption it's a box cover.

so no hard data, but lots of reliable indications.

hopefully it'll be a bundle cheaper than the current age of darkness box. just 20 marines, the tank, and the dread. maybe a mini-rulebook. could be easily half the price of the AoD set, which has twice as many marines and the terminators, and a full rulebook. make it a bit easier for people to get into the game, and a quick boost for people who have bought the AoD set.

So all my current MK6 have Mk3 helms for my IV legion, BUT the image of the mk3 above look pretty damn good to me aswell.

Now any news/rumours on my god damn Ruinstorm Daemons would be fantastic...

All power armour is beautiful


Of course this could be half the box and we haven't seen the force on the right that's facing off against them. But if that's the case I'd not expect any additional new models (the art already covers everything that's on the roadmap for this year) but a "tax" of repeats.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
All power armour is beautiful


Of course this could be half the box and we haven't seen the force on the right that's facing off against them. But if that's the case I'd not expect any additional new models (the art already covers everything that's on the roadmap for this year) but a "tax" of repeats.

Maybee it is a smaller box like a start your legion?

30 Marines, Consul / command squad which got leaked via legiones or whatevs epic nowadays get's called, proteus and a sprue of special weapons and a deredo?

No matter how you slice it, that would make a good box

Not Online!!! wrote:

Maybee it is a smaller box like a start your legion?

30 Marines, Consul / command squad which got leaked via legiones or whatevs epic nowadays get's called, proteus and a sprue of special weapons and a deredo?

No matter how you slice it, that would make a good box

It would, a HH Combat Patrol if you will. But I doubt they will put a Mk6 command squad with Mk3 troops, and, as you say, we know that Command is mk6 from the Epic box.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

Maybee it is a smaller box like a start your legion?

30 Marines, Consul / command squad which got leaked via legiones or whatevs epic nowadays get's called, proteus and a sprue of special weapons and a deredo?

No matter how you slice it, that would make a good box

It would, a HH Combat Patrol if you will. But I doubt they will put a Mk6 command squad with Mk3 troops, and, as you say, we know that Command is mk6 from the Epic box.

Considering the poses are literally identical to MK VI it'd be easy for GW to just design one and make the other at the same time. So i don't think it's as unlikely.

 Moopy wrote:
Or it could be the artist.

I have a lot of mixed feelings on the MK 3 since I've already built a lot of MK3 and even started painting a handful of them.

It is a nice nod to the Death Guard HH helmets. That head spike has been around forever.

I'm tempted to say the new Mk.III takes design cues from the old metal Mk.III Marine GW used to sell. It's not an exact copy, mind, but you can see the helmet and shoulder designs going back in that direction. And as you say, the helmet spike is a classic Death Guard feature, so it's not entirely surprising to see it here.

I don't think it's artistic license, just GW going retro and incorporating some classic elements in their new designs instead of simply embiggening the plastic Mk.III.

I really like the updated Mark III. Doesn't sort of gel with my EC's Mark VI theme but maybe as a battered sort of veteran siege unit like some Betrayal art I dimly remember from Eidolon's company.

I don't dislike the MK III, beyond the boltgun scope being blocked for no other reason than a severe lack of gun knowledge.

I would like to see a resculpted plastic Mk2 that doesn't have knees that are just a ball of green stuff with the thigh and shin pressed into it

leopard wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:

leopard wrote:
also the whole point of resin spin cast stuff is the tooling to make it is very cheap, heck for gravity cast you can do it at home.

releases like this take more manpower to make but allows some seriously specialised models

Making me wistful for the days when the whole point of Forgeworld was to randomly release cool, fluffy stuff that looked awesome and had little to no game impact.

exactly, this is nothing you couldn't proxy but looks good and is easy to come up with silly narratives for aka "drive me closer I want to hit them with my sword" level of stuff

I was rewatching The World At War over the weekend. The clip showing the Japanese fighter pilot climbing into the Zero cockpit with his sword had me thinking of that meme.

 Snrub wrote:
The helmets are off. The knees aren't right. The crotch plate being a bigger solid inflexible piece also irks me.

Now that you have pointed these issues out, I can't unsee them. Especially the crotch plate. And the oversized skull above it.

 Moopy wrote:
Or it could be the artist.

I have a lot of mixed feelings on the MK 3 since I've already built a lot of MK3 and even started painting a handful of them.

It is a nice nod to the Death Guard HH helmets. That head spike has been around forever.

Is it art? It looks like painted miniatures run through photoshop filters. Thats most likely the production sculpt (or at least a 3d printed prototype of it).

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Moopy wrote:
Or it could be the artist.

I have a lot of mixed feelings on the MK 3 since I've already built a lot of MK3 and even started painting a handful of them.

It is a nice nod to the Death Guard HH helmets. That head spike has been around forever.

Is it art? It looks like painted miniatures run through photoshop filters. Thats most likely the production sculpt (or at least a 3d printed prototype of it).

Is that what they did with the Age Of Darkness box cover? Took pics of the minis and ran them through a filter?

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Moopy wrote:
Or it could be the artist.

I have a lot of mixed feelings on the MK 3 since I've already built a lot of MK3 and even started painting a handful of them.

It is a nice nod to the Death Guard HH helmets. That head spike has been around forever.

Is it art? It looks like painted miniatures run through photoshop filters. Thats most likely the production sculpt (or at least a 3d printed prototype of it).

Is that what they did with the Age Of Darkness box cover? Took pics of the minis and ran them through a filter?

They did that as far back as the original Imperial Armour books.

They must be getting better at it then, I genuinely can't tell any more

Not Online!!! wrote:
I don't dislike the MK III, beyond the boltgun scope being blocked for no other reason than a severe lack of gun knowledge.

What scope?