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Gimgamgoo wrote:The biggest pain is never putting the models together, it's scraping mold lines from every tiny fricking piece.

Yeah, and if you are like me then no matter what people say, and how new the kit is, there are always mold lines visible on every single part, and need to vanish before I can glue them

Siegfriedfr wrote:

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.

I expect exactly this happening to it. Venom/Strangler combined with Claws/Talons as the only weapon options.

Currently also building the leviathan tyranids. Have to agree with the mould lines, barely any work there. Regarding gaps, I also clip of all the pegs and glue them together. Most of the times it fits nice ore the line is, where its not noticable.

Screamerkiller very nice, huge and impressive.

The neurotyrant is way smaller then I thought.

I still struggle with the look of the winged tyranid prime, I guess because the wings are the middle limbs. I tried if I could switch them with the arms without too much effort but that didnt look good.

VR leapers are nice.

I did not like the barbgaunts from the picturey and that did not change irl. I dont care much for their look :/

Termagaunts are very nice. I remember how annoying it was, building my 30 oldgaunts, with the split heads and also really struggled with the weapons and arms to align properly. Way easier with the ETB and its not like they have much variability in posing any other way.

Got 10 more termagaunts and the neurogaunts left



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I also descided to sell the leviathan book. Its a biiig book. Way to heavy to carry to games and I am over the collecting side of books. Glad I got the cards tho, they are nice

 Nevelon wrote:

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.

Yeah I dont see myself risking basing them atm. They can even turn out in 28mm bases in the end. Spacehulk Stealers also have display like terrain as part of the models so they would really look better on 32mm... potentially 40mm.
Is there like a cheap and easy way to extend bases from 25mm to 28mm? Thinking on my gaunts.

Here's some new art from the Leviathan book that I assume will turn out to be a Norn Emissary. The head and claws are very similar to the Custodes pic we saw a while ago.

 xttz wrote:
Here's some new art from the Leviathan book that I assume will turn out to be a Norn Emissary. The head and claws are very similar to the Custodes pic we saw a while ago.

Spoiler:

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That might be so, on the right side there's a weird socketed appendage that looks more like a tentacle than an arm in an arm-slot.

But this thing also matches the description of 'the Harbinger' from that book blurb, especially the horned crest. Now if that 'Harbinger' is it's own thing or just a nickname for an exisiting creatur, or indeed the Norn whatever, remains to be seen, but there have been persistent rumours about some 'Apex Swarmlord' or 'Hive Tyrant on Steroids' which might be this. It looks similar to the Hive Tyrant in general layout, but seems to have much wider shoulders/pauldrons.

 NAVARRO wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

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.

Yeah I dont see myself risking basing them atm. They can even turn out in 28mm bases in the end. Spacehulk Stealers also have display like terrain as part of the models so they would really look better on 32mm... potentially 40mm.
Is there like a cheap and easy way to extend bases from 25mm to 28mm? Thinking on my gaunts.

I have a 3D printer and made my own extenders. I know there were some for sale to take 25 to 32. I’ve not looked to see if anyone is making 25 to 28 adapters. Honestly, unless you are playing tournaments the difference between the two is minimal. I’m going to put my new gaunts on the new bases, but am not going to worry about all the old guys.

 xttz wrote:
Here's some new art from the Leviathan book that I assume will turn out to be a Norn Emissary. The head and claws are very similar to the Custodes pic we saw a while ago.

Spoiler:

The guardsman in that picture “Oh gosh, is that the time? Sorry Mr Hive Mind but I really must go, I have an appointment with not dying…..”

I don't know that one looks like just a depiction of a hive tyrant. Head jaw is different but its got the shoulder guards, 4 scything talons and horn crest.






It's interesting to see in the Tyranid photos in the book how many models are not on show.

Hormagaunts
warriors
bio and pyrovores
carnifex
I don't think I saw a ravener either

 Overread wrote:
It's interesting to see in the Tyranid photos in the book how many models are not on show.

Hormagaunts
warriors
bio and pyrovores
carnifex
I don't think I saw a ravener either

The Lictor is suspiciously absent from your list and I'm not sure I like it...

 Geifer wrote:

 Overread wrote:
It's interesting to see in the Tyranid photos in the book how many models are not on show.

Hormagaunts
warriors
bio and pyrovores
carnifex
I don't think I saw a ravener either

The Lictor is suspiciously absent from your list and I'm not sure I like it...

Naw I left that off as we've already seen a new Deathleaper model.

 Overread wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

 Overread wrote:
It's interesting to see in the Tyranid photos in the book how many models are not on show.

Hormagaunts
warriors
bio and pyrovores
carnifex
I don't think I saw a ravener either

The Lictor is suspiciously absent from your list and I'm not sure I like it...

Naw I left that off as we've already seen a new Deathleaper model.

What about Genestealers?

True we don't see those either!

 Overread wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

 Overread wrote:
It's interesting to see in the Tyranid photos in the book how many models are not on show.

Hormagaunts
warriors
bio and pyrovores
carnifex
I don't think I saw a ravener either

The Lictor is suspiciously absent from your list and I'm not sure I like it...

Naw I left that off as we've already seen a new Deathleaper model.

Don't scare me like that! Because I'm totally able to believe that GW would do plastic Von Ryans and Deathleaper but keep the Finecast Lictor around.

 Geifer wrote:

 Overread wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

 Overread wrote:
It's interesting to see in the Tyranid photos in the book how many models are not on show.

Hormagaunts
warriors
bio and pyrovores
carnifex
I don't think I saw a ravener either

The Lictor is suspiciously absent from your list and I'm not sure I like it...

Naw I left that off as we've already seen a new Deathleaper model.

Don't scare me like that! Because I'm totally able to believe that GW would do plastic Von Ryans and Deathleaper but keep the Finecast Lictor around.

I've been through this enough to believe that GW would remove the lictor entirely and just have Von Ryans and the Deathleaper
Or leave us with finecast lictor and biovore and pyrovore and then put them on range rotation

And now that we have three options, we have ourselves a nice little D3 table and can determine the outcome just like GW would do. Go us!

Honestly the most confusing part is that GW is willing to release a whole set of stat cards without any of the new models in them. Which kind of almost gives me a worry that the next codex is 6 months away

Eh, it's GW's usual "current models" approach, where "current" includes even unreleased model just as long as they have been officially revealed to the public.

Card pictures aren't an adequate place to reveal stuff for a number of reasons, but it sure would also moot that campaign thing they have going at the moment. Can't make an event out of those "early" reveals for one faction if we already had partial images of the models on the cards a month earlier.

Lictor and Genestealers will come for sure! If you look at Leviathan box set art with the terminator and nid face merging it's a clear hint at Spacehulk OOP box set crowd. They are just too similar. I bet they intended to have stealers in the box but since its too elite its better to have hordes in the Leviathan instead.

They are coming!

 xttz wrote:
Here's some new art from the Leviathan book that I assume will turn out to be a Norn Emissary. The head and claws are very similar to the Custodes pic we saw a while ago.

Spoiler:

Looks like a HT to me so maybe a new kit for it is incoming? I am more interested in the flying ones on the left. Are they some new creatures?

I thought that's just vague background shape, with the foremost one inspired by the Parasite.

 Geifer wrote:
I thought that's just vague background shape, with the foremost one inspired by the Parasite.

Hmm, you may be right. The head is similar to Parasite's.

The more I look at my model of it?

The more I love the Screamer Killer. What a glow up. The original is sadly a model I’ve never owned, but blimey. But this erm….wait……25 and then a few years in the making remake is just about perfect.

Is huge! It looks proper fighty! And for once in my sad life, I’m genuinely hyped to……*shock* paint something!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The more I look at my model of it?

The more I love the Screamer Killer. What a glow up. The original is sadly a model I’ve never owned, but blimey. But this erm….wait……25 and then a few years in the making remake is just about perfect.

Is huge! It looks proper fighty! And for once in my sad life, I’m genuinely hyped to……*shock* paint something!

The new screamer killer is what broke me in the end. I was determined not to start another army, but the more I looked at him the more he looked back and in the end I couldn’t resist. Always loved the old model too, it was like nothing else when it came out, and even most of the other early Nid models looked slightly more greebley than it, can’t wait to get stuck into it.

So Harbinger from the 4chan rumours is a fake creature, being simply a Norn Emissarys' name in the Leviathan novel.

What I'm most interested on seeing from the new codex models is how many others have callbacks to the 2e/Epic era. There's a lot of potential to update units originally from that period and reference their original concept art; lictors, biovores, gargoyles, warriors, perhaps even the dominatrix.

Another 4chan rumour may be true though as in the novel there are creatures that resemble ones from 4chan text - ''Ravener/Ingester dual-kit. Comes with a variant like a mini-mawloc, no guns smaller arms but huge jaws.'' Athough there is also a possibility that whoever wrote it had an early acccess to a novel and made it all up using knowledge from it.

 xttz wrote:
What I'm most interested on seeing from the new codex models is how many others have callbacks to the 2e/Epic era. There's a lot of potential to update units originally from that period and reference their original concept art; lictors, biovores, gargoyles, warriors, perhaps even the dominatrix.

They can leave these horrors in the distant past thank you!

They were crap even when they first came out.

And yes, this is one of the few times I’ve been definitive about relative values on Dakka.

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
They were crap even when they first came out.

And yes, this is one of the few times I’ve been definitive about relative values on Dakka.

You’ve probably earned a badge.

Their plastic brethren managed to look even worse:

Oh yeah 90's models were usually pretty goofy.

But I'm talking about the original Tyranid concept art and how much better that stuff can now translate into models using modern casting technology.

Consider how well they updated the screamer-killer:


Now what about this lot?