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 General Kroll wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:

General Kroll wrote:Until they post pictures of the sprues, I’m calling fake.

Do you think they faked a box as well? With a painted miniature on it that was clearly different from the one they were painting, e.g. the one on the box hat a drilled-out gun barrel, the one they were painting had not? And sent another of these fakes to a third party to fake some corroborating evidence?

Definitely possible. For starters since when did GW start drilling gun barrels on the box art?

The rear shots look properly suspect. There’s barely any definition to the detail on the jump pack. Idk something about this smells off to me. I guess we’ll soon find out though. GW usually respond within a day to this kind of leak if it’s indeed real.

I think the swift removal of these images from several social media sites speaks for itself, but as you said, we'll probably know for sure in a couple of days at the latest.

Re drilled barrels - sometimes the barrels are drilled, sometimes they're not, sometimes the barrels are moulded with holes in them.

I actually feel a little sorry for GW for once. So close yet so far from the reveal.

Thing is, GW very often does not use the production models for promo-pics, so the painted GW model and the final model from the box will be different in details

Dudeface wrote:
I actually feel a little sorry for GW for once. So close yet so far from the reveal.

The last week alone had that random additional teaser reveal for 40k, the Warhound with the Epic-style base they removed after the fact, now the Dante leak, and as they say

Makes me less nervous about the BA range refresh.

Tsagualsa wrote:
...the Warhound with the Epic-style base they removed after the fact

Wait, what? Where can I find this?

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
...the Warhound with the Epic-style base they removed after the fact

Wait, what? Where can I find this?

It's on spikey gaks after a quick Google, basically the warhound from the conversion beamer preview was on a seemingly pre-cast detailed oval base which is not the base it would be on for titanicus. It was quickly reposted but with the base cropped out. The tinfoil hat moment is that it's a base for Epic.

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
...the Warhound with the Epic-style base they removed after the fact

Wait, what? Where can I find this?

Here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/11730/716640.page#11503783

The base they showed originally is the old-style Epic base, i.e. much thinner than a conventional base. Also, the Warhound looks like it was only temporally affixed to it.

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
...the Warhound with the Epic-style base they removed after the fact

Wait, what? Where can I find this?

It's posted in the last page of the Titanicus thread

Scale on base wasn't good though so very bad base if legit. Looked more 40k base than epic

Not saying it has to be fake though. Gw is able to miss sculpts after all nd epic scaled base isn't easy. But i ain't rushing to buy those.

 xttz wrote:

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
...the Warhound with the Epic-style base they removed after the fact

Wait, what? Where can I find this?

It's posted in the last page of the Titanicus thread

Just to add to this: they edited the article and replaced the photos with new ones that instead have a soft fade-out and hide the bases:



In itself, that need not mean anything, but with the continued and thickening hints at Epic being in the works...

Tinfoil hat time, it's a new base for Titanicus 2.0!

Some better get looking through the rumour engine pics to verify if any of them are this Dante, it would bring more legitimacy to this being the actual model

 endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Some better get looking through the rumour engine pics to verify if any of them are this Dante, it would bring more legitimacy to this being the actual model

I know 40k fans make some high effort fakes, but to print a full colour box with fake artwork different to the mini they painted?

Dudeface wrote:

 endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Some better get looking through the rumour engine pics to verify if any of them are this Dante, it would bring more legitimacy to this being the actual model

I know 40k fans make some high effort fakes, but to print a full colour box with fake artwork different to the mini they painted?

And GW has made this exact same error before, with some HH praetors.

 zend wrote:
Not a single Mk X armor piece in sight. Delicious.

Makes you want to go out on a limb and say it isn't Primaris Dante, just a refreshed model for good ole Commander Dante.

I can imagine the conversation now as Guilliman rolls up on Baal.

Guilliman: Commander Dante, I name you Lord Regent of Imperium Nihilus.
Commander Dante: Thank you, My Lord Guilliman.
Guilliman: Would you like to cross the Rubicon Primaris like many of the other Chapter Masters?
Commander Dante: Tell of the process of crossing the Rubicon, My Lord.
Guilliman: After careful preparations with the Apothecary, you die for a short time...
Commander Dante: Just stop right there. I am a freakin' 15 hundred year old Space Marine. When I give up the ghost, I am not coming back! Take you Rubicon Primaris and...
Mephiston: NO THANK YOU. Commander Dante means to say no thank you, My Lord Guilliman.
Guilliman: Yes. Yes. That I what I heard. Carry on, Lord Regent.
Commander Dante (muttering): Yeah. You carry on your Indomitis fleet out of the Baal system. Die and come back my prognoid gland...

Can't say I'm a fan.

It does seem that 1100+ years in the gym will make you HUGE.

His new jump pack looks like it might be the same as the one in the Space marine 2 trailer

 alextroy wrote:
Makes you want to go out on a limb and say it isn't Primaris Dante, just a refreshed model for good ole Commander Dante.

Eh, he has Primaris proportions and he's using Primaris gear.

Tsagualsa wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
He posted a video of it in a Blood Angels Facebook group as well.

You should probably save that if you can, apparently Reddit is already exterminating the pictures. In other news, at least one other person claims to also have received a Dante instead of a Cpt. Messinus they ordered, and a third one now claims to have obtained the Lion in the same way

Forget Dante, he's old news now (It's been half an hour, get over it). You're telling us there's a Lion out in the wild?

 zend wrote:
Not a single Mk X armor piece in sight. Delicious.

You need glasses then because every single piece of the armor is Mk X. Just look at chest or knees, these are the most obvious but every panel has distinctive X shape underneath gilding, that's why the model doesn't look like gak unlike the old one

Wasn’t something leaked a few years back because a dumpster diver found broken/rejected sprues? I thought it was Mortarion but it wasn’t.

 zend wrote:
Wasn’t something leaked a few years back because a dumpster diver found broken/rejected sprues? I thought it was Mortarion but it wasn’t.

A few years back an ebay store got a part used sprue of Slaanesh Fiends before they'd been announced or anything. It was spotted at random in a job lot of sprue, likely a GW staffer had just offloaded a bunch of stuff without realising that there was unreleased stuff in the bundle and it wound its way to an ebay store. GW went and made a funny video at the time about it once the news went live and everyone went nuts over plastic fiends of Slaanesh

 Irbis wrote:

 zend wrote:
Not a single Mk X armor piece in sight. Delicious.

You need glasses then because every single piece of the armor is Mk X. Just look at chest or knees, these are the most obvious but every panel has distinctive X shape underneath gilding, that's why the model doesn't look like gak unlike the old one

I thought MK X was the stupid gak that Shrike and the “heavy” wannabe terminator units wear. Primaris are dog water is my point, and this model doesn’t look like one besides the knee fringe and the new jump pack. Everything else looks exactly like his old armor, just proportionally correct.

Quick!

Everyone order Guilliman from GW right now. Maybe one of us will get The Lion by mistake.

 zend wrote:
Wasn’t something leaked a few years back because a dumpster diver found broken/rejected sprues? I thought it was Mortarion but it wasn’t.

Magnus' box was found in the GW skip.

If they do not get a handle on the scale creep, I'm tapping out.

I never signed up for a game that I'm going to be playing with Joytoy scale figures on the tabletop. My wallet, and Game rooms can't handle it.

 Grot 6 wrote:
If they do not get a handle on the scale creep, I'm tapping out.

I never signed up for a game that I'm going to be playing with Joytoy scale figures on the tabletop. My wallet, and Game rooms can't handle it.

I don't think there is any scale creep there. Besides did you prefer your guardsmen, Marines, eldar, orks an horse sized gaunts all being the same size as minis?

I keep seeing here and on Facebook people claiming that multiple kits were sent out to multiple people.

I’ve only seen the original pictures posted though. Can’t find any sign of other here, on B&C or on FB.

Anyone able to point me in the right direction?