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Pretty cool model. I suppose they will put him in a box with the really old chaos bikers.

If memory serves? Valrak’s rumour provider mentioned Huron and new Chaos Bikers?

I may be misremembering though, so please pinch of salt with this.

Doesn't really do anything for me, bit of an odd choice for the big Christmas reveal. Interested to see his rumoured retinue unit in the new year though as that sounds like a potential source of interesting bits

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
If memory serves? Valrak’s rumour provider mentioned Huron and new Chaos Bikers?

I may be misremembering though, so please pinch of salt with this.

Not meant to be bikes with this (though they often get mentioned as coming eventually), Command Squad and a "Hunter" squad with Huron, I believe

That's a proper Huron model, whether you like the head or not (easy switch). The metal one was, frankly, terrible and too small.

There might be two or three alternative heads anyway.

Probably unlikely, but if they are putting a renegade chapter front and centre I wonder if they might deal with the whole "the first action a chapter performs upon falling to Chaos is to trade in all their assault cannons for reaper autocannons" (and so on) issue.

twoseventwo wrote:
There might be two or three alternative heads anyway.

Probably unlikely, but if they are putting a renegade chapter front and centre I wonder if they might deal with the whole "the first action a chapter performs upon falling to Chaos is to trade in all their assault cannons for reaper autocannons" (and so on) issue.

Part of me wonders if he might get a detachment to allow some loyalist stuff.

It's an alright model, but not much more than that. Not really exciting to be honest

Alright if nobody else will say it I will

He has a nozzle guard in place of his wrist. Where the nozzle isn't.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Alright if nobody else will say it I will

He has a nozzle guard in place of his wrist. Where the nozzle isn't.

I spotted that, thought it was kinda funny and just shrugged it off as "GW stuff".

Isn't his hand built around a flamer?

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Isn't his hand built around a flamer?

Yes, but the heat shield is usually over the nozzle to protect the nozzle and dissipate heat as I understand it. Hurons at the base of the wrist is doing literally nothing.

Not a fan of the head, but otherwise Iove the mini.

I appreciate that it was marketing talk, but does a single special character resculpt really qualify as an "extra special" reveal these days?

If you wanted to make it "extra special", preview the additional elements you talk about showing up later.

Grotmas was definitely a letdown this year.

Sometimes they give us Primarch. This year we get mid Huron. Tragic (Sign of the times I suppose).

When shot in the face by a melta you are, look as good you will not!

Huron is a great character for chaos to get I think. Everything being Primarchs all the time is kind of dull. Huron is the most powerful chaos warlord after Abbaddon, and Abbaddon’s influence rivals Primarchs. Huron is a pretty big deal.

Not bad - and I’m usually fairly indifferent to WH40k Chaos models. There are some nice angles in the pose and I quite like the head.

Explains why there wasn't any Wallace & Gromit on TV this year - Ardman were too busy consulting on ya boy Huron's face.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Alright if nobody else will say it I will
He has a nozzle guard in place of his wrist. Where the nozzle isn't.

as if anybody cares how real weapons work or why certain "design" elements are there on weapons in the first place

and GW is doing "we don't know what it is but it looks cool so put it somewhere" for a very long time now, the only funny thing about this is how the 3D aftermarket copies that despite knowing better
so expect to have heat shield on the wrist on "no they are not copies but my very own design" models in future

 Dysartes wrote:
I appreciate that it was marketing talk, but does a single special character resculpt really qualify as an "extra special" reveal these days?

If you wanted to make it "extra special", preview the additional elements you talk about showing up later.

Grotmas was definitely a letdown this year.

Considering the crazy release schedule for GW in general 2025, and the amount of important named character they released for 40k I would say "something special" would be a pretty tall order. Would actually pretty nice to se some of the fringe players like Huron and possibly Yriel make up some more light hearted cut-scenes to the grand narrative.
Enjoy fun Huron rules untill summers 11th edition when he get nerfed into a regular chaos lord with flamer.

 kodos wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Alright if nobody else will say it I will
He has a nozzle guard in place of his wrist. Where the nozzle isn't.

as if anybody cares how real weapons work or why certain "design" elements are there on weapons in the first place

Translation: CONSOOM !

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 kodos wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Alright if nobody else will say it I will
He has a nozzle guard in place of his wrist. Where the nozzle isn't.

as if anybody cares how real weapons work or why certain "design" elements are there on weapons in the first place

Translation: CONSOOM !

Oh no, I was totally going to buy the mini but a heat shield as a component in a scientifically silly position means I won't now, to show I'm not a blind consumer and GW needs to start showing physics some respect.

yeah, we should totally not hold high standards for premium priced miniatures coming from the company saying they make the best fantasy minis in the world but accept beginner (or AI) level design mistakes as "unavoidable" because everything is possible in a fantasy world

not that good world building would mean to stay consistent within its own "reality" anyway

 kodos wrote:
yeah, we should totally not hold high standards for premium priced miniatures coming from the company saying they make the best fantasy minis in the world but accept beginner (or AI) level design mistakes as "unavoidable" because everything is possible in a fantasy world

not that good world building would mean to stay consistent within its own "reality" anyway

Come on, you're trying really hard to be offended here. Is it silly they painted a conponent of a bionic arm as a heat shield somewhere it wouldn't work logically? Yes. Does that mean anyone needs to start going all anti-cropo activisim over the accuracy of their sci-fi minis? Not at all.

If the realism of 40k minis is a deal breaker for you, how have you got this far? What about the mysterious pilot light on guillimans heavy bolter? Did you go protest outside GW at that blatant mishap? Do you get a picket board out each time someone uses a rhino the minis cant physically fit in?

 kodos wrote:
yeah, we should totally not hold high standards for premium priced miniatures coming from the company saying they make the best fantasy minis in the world but accept beginner (or AI) level design mistakes as "unavoidable" because everything is possible in a fantasy world

not that good world building would mean to stay consistent within its own "reality" anyway

Key word here is “fantasy”, none of the weapons in 40K make any sense. If that is what you want then 40K has never been for you. Ever.

Dudeface wrote:
What about the mysterious pilot light on guillimans heavy bolter?

You really want your bolt pilots to go in blind?

The swiss cheese power fist arm doesn't make sense, I will fill that in.

And I hope he comes with some other heads because while "head swaps are easy" 1) not if he has loads of hoses and gak sticking out 2) only if I have a suitable head in my bitz box 3) if I'm paying the best part of £30 for one model it isn't too much to ask to like the head that it comes with tbh

It's a pretty good model, I don't have a problem with the flamer fist or the head.

I like the way the face looks like it's stapled on.

Think of the flame guard in the arm more of a design element that is immediately recognisable as "this has a flame attack".

Dudeface wrote:

 kodos wrote:
yeah, we should totally not hold high standards for premium priced miniatures coming from the company saying they make the best fantasy minis in the world but accept beginner (or AI) level design mistakes as "unavoidable" because everything is possible in a fantasy world

not that good world building would mean to stay consistent within its own "reality" anyway

Come on, you're trying really hard to be offended here. Is it silly they painted a conponent of a bionic arm as a heat shield somewhere it wouldn't work logically? Yes. Does that mean anyone needs to start going all anti-cropo activisim over the accuracy of their sci-fi minis? Not at all.

I am not offended at all, just find it funny that some people feel the need to come around on defending obvious mistakes from GW for not real reason at all

and GW makes such silly mistakes for a long time now, like modelling the folding stock of machine pistols as part of the nozzle from heavy machine guns, simply because the designer don't know that the MP he used as template has the stock folding forward, or the pilot light or any other stupid design element they saw on a stock image of something and felt it was needed on their own design
same problem here, the designer has no clue what that part of the flamer is but wanted it to be there so modeled it on the wrist

and in a world were people complain about Alien models not being anatomically correct (as if this would be possible) if made by any other company but GW, not pointing out such obvious mistakes is silly