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my guess are marines of some kind

Power do-dads are clear, but what up with those blocks at the edges?

Some sorta power shield type dealie. Not really like the bladeguard shields or the assault terminator shields.

The kite shape makes me suddenly worried that it's Phalanx Warders. If Fists get the first plastic Legion unit we riot.

I've have guessed votan again, as it kind of feels like a heavier Van Sar STC design.

Underside of a Votann power board.

 The Power Cosmic wrote:
Underside of a Votann power board.

I could see that. My first read on the blocks around the edges were some sort of pad. Could be for when you need to ground the hoverboard.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Spoiler:

It’s a tech shield.

Could be Secutarii Hoplites?

Maybe, but I can count on one hand how many times I saw them at AdeptiCon HH events since the resin kits released. Seems like a silly unlikely place to start for HH Adeptus Mechanicum, but maybe they're baller in the new edition.

Maybe it's a shield for a new Custode or Sister of Silence?

On one hand 40K crusaders use shields not TOO different from that. And the most common pose for crusader minis is their shields stuck in the ground with their hands on the top which would permit the rumour engine shot showing the middle back of a shield without an arm in it.

On the other hand, if it's the backside of a shield the part where there should be a handhold doesn't seem to have a handhold. So maybe some kind of defensive terrain piece?

I doubt the shield is anything to do with Black Templars, they already have a plentiful supply of modern models and probably the most desired shield unit for them would be assault terminators, who likely would get the traditional crux terminatus shield shape.

However, Kaldor Draigo has the most kite shield shaped shield out of the marine models likely to get updated and in a not too distant codex.

Hmmm



Ribs?

That's a fork stabbing something meaty. Mawtribes perhaps?

Look to flat/blunt to be some sort of claw weapon.

If it is a ribcage, it’s for something big.

Gideon, I thought the same thing. Could a plastic butcher finally be on the horizon?

Wolverine stabbing Play-Doh.


Hoping it's a plastic Butcher though.

Pitchfork (which means the blobby part might be GW's first official sculpt of dung)

 Insularum wrote:
I doubt the shield is anything to do with Black Templars, they already have a plentiful supply of modern models and probably the most desired shield unit for them would be assault terminators, who likely would get the traditional crux terminatus shield shape.

Actually old FW shields for BT assault terminators were kinda kite shaped, so it depends on how nostalgic the designer feels:

lost_lilliputian wrote:
Wolverine stabbing Play-Doh.

Snikt, bub, he's the best at what he does! Mutant warband for Necromunda confirmed.

i think it's ribs; moreover, i think this is some kind of basing bit. tactical bone

could be for a butcher. would make for a fun model

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
i think it's ribs; moreover, i think this is some kind of basing bit. tactical bone

could be for a butcher. would make for a fun model

I think you might be right. They recently released skulls/dead bodies and other basing materials for 40k, why not AoS/ToW?

The bottommost of the three spikey bits seemed to have carved a rut in the blobby bit, so I'd say it's more claw than rib.

To me the "tines" look too uniform and squared-off to be ribs.

It also looks like the tip of the bottom tine has cut a groove into the "muck" part of the teaser. It almost looks like the top tine has too (although that one would be an interrupted groove).

Whatever it is, these are my favourite kinds of Rumour Engine pics, compared to the ones that are clearly, like, a weapon, device, tech nozzle, smoke curl, etc. and you're just left to wonder what it's attached to.

Could it be gimmicky metal claws on the feet of a raven guard kind of guy?
Imagine them slightly bend to give a push-jump effect for the wearer.
Shrike have some claws attached on his boots, but not at all similar.

I think the legs on the creepy stilt guy from the Unmade is more what Im thinking of.

Raven Guard biker doing the “lean over and damage my weapon for style points” bit…

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Raven Guard biker doing the “lean over and damage my weapon for style points” bit…

Oh, the X-Men Origins: Wolverine bike turn?

 The Power Cosmic wrote:

lost_lilliputian wrote:
Wolverine stabbing Play-Doh.

Snikt, bub, he's the best at what he does! Mutant warband for Necromunda confirmed.

Underworlds already got him.




My guess is that they are metal, and some sort of dark mechanicus take on a flayed one.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 The Power Cosmic wrote:

lost_lilliputian wrote:
Wolverine stabbing Play-Doh.

Snikt, bub, he's the best at what he does! Mutant warband for Necromunda confirmed.

Underworlds already got him.

Hey, if marvel can have multiple wolverines, GW can too!

10th of June

Squishy looking stuff seems to relate to last weeks?

Metal work makes me think more AoS than 40K.