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Oh wait I'd made a mistake - the Neuros are on two different base sizes! Yeah the regular are on 25mm and its the leader on a 28mm

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Size comparison for Zoanthrope and Neurotyrant.

Well, that's disappointing. I thought this thing was on a 50mm base or so, around double the size of a Zope.

I did think it was bigger too, that said its still a good size and honestly the plastic Zoanthrope is already bigger/chunkier than its earlier versions.

Plus I think it fits the role well considering that basically they are taking the old Zoanthrope concept and splitting it down into separate components for the tabletop. Plus it leaves a nice bit of room for a huge character psycher bug in the future!

Plus it means you can take more than one and it won't be a nightmare to transport. Big is nice but Tyranids are already one of the trickier forces to transport with all the big monsters we have.

Sheeesh got the box delivered this morning and is packed with nice bugs! Look even better IRL.

Thinking in some kind of battle foam inserts just to have both forces safe for transport and storage inside the box.

Only just got the dispatch email for mine 😭 looks like I’ll be tucking into it midweek.

 Stormonu wrote:

Well, that's disappointing. I thought this thing was on a 50mm base or so, around double the size of a Zope.

It is on 50mm base.

Managed to jag the Nid half of the box for a reasonable price. No interest in 10th, but some of these sculpts were too good to pass up. I'm looking forward to painting them up in Behemoth colours. Which so far is not something I've seen of in any of the previews.

My Leviathan box arrived well packaged from Goblin Gaming today.

Looks like a great product, except I'm gonna struggle to play a starter game with anyone new as there's no rules for the models in it other than some weapon listings in the building guide.
Trying to learn from a huge downloadable pdf on a tiny phone screen isn't particularly newbie friendly imo.
Wish they'd put a few dataslate cards in for the included models.

Screenshots from pdf makes for more reasonably game aid than pdf

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Got my boxed set. No bag with it so bit of a job getting it home in the heat.

Well, GW sent half my LGS' allotment to France, for some bizarre reason, so I get to wait until next week to pick it up.

Speaking of the box, though, Doc - roughly what are the physical measurements for the box? Want to make sure I've got a suitable bag with me when I can go and get it.

 Dysartes wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Got my boxed set. No bag with it so bit of a job getting it home in the heat.

Well, GW sent half my LGS' allotment to France, for some bizarre reason, so I get to wait until next week to pick it up.

Speaking of the box, though, Doc - roughly what are the physical measurements for the box? Want to make sure I've got a suitable bag with me when I can go and get it.

Amazon says 44x30x11 cm, weight 4 kilogramm.

I've been browsing Ebay hoping that people would start offloading models for resonable prices now that the box is out, but no such luck. At least you can start snagging individual bits now.

I think we should all do our part and message every possible seller on Ebay and tell them to use their box codes to vote Tryanids.

I….I can’t find my clippers 😭😭

Neurogaunts got to be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. They already look great on pictures but they are so small and cuddly!

Im wondering when they update the Genestealers if they are going to change the bases sizes I have a chunk of spacehulk stealers to base.

 NAVARRO wrote:
Neurogaunts got to be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. They already look great on pictures but they are so small and cuddly!

Im wondering when they update the Genestealers if they are going to change the bases sizes I have a chunk of spacehulk stealers to base.

Talking about Purestrain Stealers*, any chance of getting a side-by-side with one of the new Termies ?

*either the current "standard" or the Deathwatch Overkill ones

Has there been any update on what the neurogaunt unit leader actually does?

Stuff Goblins have returned my clippers.

Winged Prime, Neurotyrant and Screamer Killer assembled.

Really nice kits, though a mild gap on the Screamer Killer’s chest.

Zachectomy wrote:
Has there been any update on what the neurogaunt unit leader actually does?

I guess that until codex hits it will be just another Neuro.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Stuff Goblins have returned my clippers.

Winged Prime, Neurotyrant and Screamer Killer assembled.

Really nice kits, though a mild gap on the Screamer Killer’s chest.

I find with GW's pushfit what I do is clip a chunk off the end of each peg. If you use glue in the peg/slot assembly I can get stuck part way and lock in/fuse/fill up. So I take a good chunk off the peg. As I'm using glue around the edges anyway the pegs aren't really needed all that much. I find it helps ensure a good smooth flush fit.

Pretty sure it’s my fault, something not quite lined up internally. If you didn’t know it’s there, you wouldn’t know. So I can live with it.
Big Stuffs and Neurogaunts built today.

Neurogaunts are adorable. Proper tiny, like a brood of five year old football hooligans.

Tomorrow I’ll finish the rest. Quite looking forward to the 20 Termagants, as they look easy to put together.

The biggest pain is never putting the models together, it's scraping mold lines from every tiny fricking piece. Here's hoping Leviathan isn't as bad as all the other kits I've had recently. Not had time to look at the sprues, other than check the contents.

Barely a mould line on my set.


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And now having built them? Barbgaunts have really grown on me. Hopefully they’ll prove as useful as they seem on the board. Because messing with enemy movement is always a laugh.

 NAVARRO wrote:
Im wondering when they update the Genestealers if they are going to change the bases sizes I have a chunk of spacehulk stealers to base.

The updated ones that came with Deathwatch: Overkill were on 32s. The 'current' ones might only still be on 25s because they're slottas.

beast_gts wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
Im wondering when they update the Genestealers if they are going to change the bases sizes I have a chunk of spacehulk stealers to base.

The updated ones that came with Deathwatch: Overkill were on 32s. The 'current' ones might only still be on 25s because they're slottas.

Per GW’s website, the current stealers come with 25s.

I will eat my hat if they stay on that size if they get a new kit. Not only do they massively overhang the small bases without any of the scale creep we could expect, but GW has in general been upping base sizes across the board.

I used 32 extender rings on most of my stealers (left one squad on the small ones in case I ever get called out to use “official” bases) and they look so much better.

So right now a few building thoughts on the Tyranids:

1) Psychophage - chunky and goes together easily. Kind of wish they'd overlapped more of the armour as there's some join lines down past the smoke stacks that are a bit of a pain. Rest are pretty straight forward.

It's going to be a nightmare to paint the mouth

2) Neurotyrant - I'm trying to see if I can sub-assemble or not. It's not built for sub assembly which is honestly a missed element considering how many parts of its under-cover criss cross and there are those tiny arms in there blocking access and all. But its not easy to build it in parts unless you accept seam lines and such.

Surprised as GW have been pretty smart with sub assemblies on some models. Might just have to bite it and have some very dark recesses under the hood where getting a brush is near impossible once assembled.

3) Screamer Killer - so far just easy all round; join areas easy to access and all. I'd recommend building the core body, leg and then letting the glue dry to clean over the join lines and then assemble it all up along with its huge scything talons.

Screamer Killer is definitely a nice kit to build. And it looks bloody impressive once assembled, easily the size of a Knight Armiger.

In fact, without knocking the Carnifex Kits of old? It feels like a properly scaled Carnifex. This is helped by its more upright pose of course.

Just got my Termagants to go. I need more plakky glue though, and I just hope Chaos Cards have some in stock.

Though I need to be breaking out my Cricut tomorrow to get my team’s custom mugs done, so Termagants are feeling like a Monday job now.

Honestly the current Carnifex kit is still good. If it got updated I'd really only want to see GW enhance the details over the model and clean up the mould lines and seams and such by giving it a fresh mould and such.

Basically all it needs is a touch-up; its still a great kit all round

 Overread wrote:
If it got updated...

It would lose most of its options, and be a shell of a unit even more than it already is in 10th.

Did we learn nothing from the Orks?

 Overread wrote:
Honestly the current Carnifex kit is still good. If it got updated I'd really only want to see GW enhance the details over the model and clean up the mould lines and seams and such by giving it a fresh mould and such.

Basically all it needs is a touch-up; its still a great kit all round

Nostalgia speaking. It looks ok and serviceable, but it needs a refresh nonetheless, like the terma and the Prime got.

Carnifex were given bio-weapons during a time where Tyranids didn't have dedicated gun-bugs like the Tyrannofex, Exocrine, Hive Guards, flyers... i personally wish they just update the model without biocannons and leave it as a pure melee monster, as it should be.

My hope is that they adopt the more upright pose and bigger frame of the Screamer Killer, and make it a MPK with OOE

I wonder if spare arms from other nid big gribblies would fit the screamer killer, for those who want updated Carnifexes? Might be interesting to see dakka-fexes in the upright pose.