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Snrub wrote: The axe praetor is fething huge. I honestly keep thinking he's a terminator he's that bulky. I haven't put mine together yet though, so I can't help you i'm afraid.
stahly - Great comparison photos. Thanks for that!
Crimson - From stahly's blog.
Spoiler:
Like I said... Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
Aaah! Vampire!
Is it just him or is the other Praetor in the box equally huge?
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Have been very tempted by the new box set as the miniatures look so nice. Picked up a sprue off eBay just to have a play with them and have to say I really didn't enjoy putting the first example together. I thought the peg on the side of the torso was meant to help position the arms correctly but there still seemed to be a lot of play in them and I had a real nightmare trying to line up the arms and then attach the hands.
Going to try and put together a couple more over the weekend just in case it was that particular model I was working on but it's certainly made me hold off pulling the trigger on the box set for now.
Can that image just be pinned in the first post cause the constant scale debate (it's not even a debate btw - it's clear there's a difference in scale - but there's no point arguing here whether it's good and bad) is tiresome and incredibly stupid.
The biggest indicator someone is a loser is them complaining about 3d printers or piracy.
StraightSilver wrote: I had no idea the Praetor was so massive. I have the models on sprue and it didn't look that big.
It seems pretty daft that he looks so out of scale tbh.
He's probably not a lot smaller than a Primarch....
I'm basically interested in knowing if the Praetors have the bulk of a Primaris marine, so that they (or their bits) could be used to build more ornate Primaris chracters.
StraightSilver wrote: I had no idea the Praetor was so massive. I have the models on sprue and it didn't look that big.
It seems pretty daft that he looks so out of scale tbh.
He's probably not a lot smaller than a Primarch....
The FW Primarchs aren't in a consistent scale themselves. The early ones are a lot smaller than the more recent ones, irrespective of the relative in-universe size. Gulliman, Aurellian etc, quite small. Angron also smaller than fluff would dictate. Horus, who should be large, is smaller than Lion / Khan etc. Vulcan, canonically the largest, again smaller than all of the recent crop.
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Yeah even that sword is an EC type sword imo. I got two AoD boxes and I'm going to use the Praetor sword for Lion and Dorn, and the mkvi upgrade sprue sword will used on lesser but still important guys (EC, Praetor etc).
Jeez, that dreadnaught ought to be worried, never mind the Primarch's! With his size a d that sword it looks like he could easily just cut the missile launcher off the top of it or stab it straight in the face.
I feel like if they are going to scale up the size of people, which I don't hate tbh, then they need to start upscaling the vehicles, as they were already a bit small scale wise. You'll struggle to convince me a Rhino could hold many of these guys, unless it has the ability to melt them all into goo and store them as an amorphous blob, then separate and reassemble them upon disembarking.
BigOscar wrote: Jeez, that dreadnaught ought to be worried, never mind the Primarch's! With his size a d that sword it looks like he could easily just cut the missile launcher off the top of it or stab it straight in the face.
I feel like if they are going to scale up the size of people, which I don't hate tbh, then they need to start upscaling the vehicles, as they were already a bit small scale wise. You'll struggle to convince me a Rhino could hold many of these guys, unless it has the ability to melt them all into goo and store them as an amorphous blob, then separate and reassemble them upon disembarking.
You can't. I'm building a 1/18 rc Rhino for my Joytoy Marines. I can't remember what they are, but I had to determine the scale, and the minis and vehicles are not the same scale.
"I get to play the side with the tank! You can have the dumb robot" - my 9yo son seeing the HH:AoD box.
BigOscar wrote: Jeez, that dreadnaught ought to be worried, never mind the Primarch's! With his size a d that sword it looks like he could easily just cut the missile launcher off the top of it or stab it straight in the face.
I feel like if they are going to scale up the size of people, which I don't hate tbh, then they need to start upscaling the vehicles, as they were already a bit small scale wise. You'll struggle to convince me a Rhino could hold many of these guys, unless it has the ability to melt them all into goo and store them as an amorphous blob, then separate and reassemble them upon disembarking.
BigOscar wrote: Jeez, that dreadnaught ought to be worried, never mind the Primarch's! With his size a d that sword it looks like he could easily just cut the missile launcher off the top of it or stab it straight in the face.
I feel like if they are going to scale up the size of people, which I don't hate tbh, then they need to start upscaling the vehicles, as they were already a bit small scale wise. You'll struggle to convince me a Rhino could hold many of these guys, unless it has the ability to melt them all into goo and store them as an amorphous blob, then separate and reassemble them upon disembarking.
You can't. I'm building a 1/18 rc Rhino for my Joytoy Marines. I can't remember what they are, but I had to determine the scale, and the minis and vehicles are not the same scale.
Yea rhino should be at land raider size at bare minimum.
StraightSilver wrote: I had no idea the Praetor was so massive. I have the models on sprue and it didn't look that big.
It seems pretty daft that he looks so out of scale tbh.
He's probably not a lot smaller than a Primarch....
The FW Primarchs aren't in a consistent scale themselves. The early ones are a lot smaller than the more recent ones, irrespective of the relative in-universe size. Gulliman, Aurellian etc, quite small. Angron also smaller than fluff would dictate. Horus, who should be large, is smaller than Lion / Khan etc. Vulcan, canonically the largest, again smaller than all of the recent crop.
You see this is actually a common misconception. The lion is the best primarch so it stands to reason he is also the biggest.
BigOscar wrote: Jeez, that dreadnaught ought to be worried, never mind the Primarch's! With his size a d that sword it looks like he could easily just cut the missile launcher off the top of it or stab it straight in the face.
I feel like if they are going to scale up the size of people, which I don't hate tbh, then they need to start upscaling the vehicles, as they were already a bit small scale wise. You'll struggle to convince me a Rhino could hold many of these guys, unless it has the ability to melt them all into goo and store them as an amorphous blob, then separate and reassemble them upon disembarking.
You can't. I'm building a 1/18 rc Rhino for my Joytoy Marines. I can't remember what they are, but I had to determine the scale, and the minis and vehicles are not the same scale.
Yea rhino should be at land raider size at bare minimum.
But at that point playbility starts suffer.
I don't really mind the vehicles being too small. It does help that they seem to all be too small across all ranges.
StraightSilver wrote: I had no idea the Praetor was so massive. I have the models on sprue and it didn't look that big.
It seems pretty daft that he looks so out of scale tbh.
He's probably not a lot smaller than a Primarch....
The FW Primarchs aren't in a consistent scale themselves. The early ones are a lot smaller than the more recent ones, irrespective of the relative in-universe size. Gulliman, Aurellian etc, quite small. Angron also smaller than fluff would dictate. Horus, who should be large, is smaller than Lion / Khan etc. Vulcan, canonically the largest, again smaller than all of the recent crop.
You see this is actually a common misconception. The lion is the best primarch so it stands to reason he is also the biggest.
And to think, some considered Gulliman a more worthy candidate for Warmaster than Johnson. Preposterous! You can see just by looking at them!
The vehicles are in the correct nominal scale, at least by the conversions/math I've done.
They just aren't designed to be real vehicles (don't have engines, pilots, etc) and also aren't designed to actually hold space marines. Although I haven't actually mathed out if space marine models are "correct" for the in-universe numbers given...
StraightSilver wrote: I had no idea the Praetor was so massive. I have the models on sprue and it didn't look that big.
It seems pretty daft that he looks so out of scale tbh.
He's probably not a lot smaller than a Primarch....
The FW Primarchs aren't in a consistent scale themselves. The early ones are a lot smaller than the more recent ones, irrespective of the relative in-universe size. Gulliman, Aurellian etc, quite small. Angron also smaller than fluff would dictate. Horus, who should be large, is smaller than Lion / Khan etc. Vulcan, canonically the largest, again smaller than all of the recent crop.
You see this is actually a common misconception. The lion is the best primarch so it stands to reason he is also the biggest.
And to think, some considered Gulliman a more worthy candidate for Warmaster than Johnson. Preposterous! You can see just by looking at them!
Eh this looks about the same difference as between Mk4 and Mk6 plastics, ie. completely undetectable from more than a foot away.
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maccrage wrote: Unfortunately I only recently got back into 40K, so I don't have any older Marines for comparison.
Is it perspective? Or is the commanders right army l o n g ?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Got my map in the mail today! Looking forward to getting this laminated so we can draw on it for our campaign games in store. It's a lot bigger than I expected it to be!
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Am I the only one noticing... that the new shoulder pad and head from Sons of Horus (even Imperial Fist one) are... actually no more available on Forgeworld website?
I've preordered mine about a week before the release... and hav'nt even receive mine yet. I tried contact FW three times... no answer at all from them... Anyone here having the same issue?
