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Fancy detail to mark it as artificer armour

 Gert wrote:
Problem is a lot of Consuls are basically just Dudes.
Librarians, Forge Lords, Heralds, and Chaplains all have something stand out about them and most of the others are pretty standard character guy.

A military chaplain might wear some special head covering, vestments, or religious symbol about their person as a mark of faith, but an infantryman, transport driver, quartermaster, combat engineer, and medic will all for the most part look the same and wear most of the same kit.

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?
Weird.

Its the cooling vest built into his power armor so he doesn't overheat in his battlemech.

Closest thing that Iron Warriors have got to a praetor so far...

Fayric wrote:

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?

Weird.

They could be speakers, because there is also a place to plug in your chunky headphones at the center of the shoulderpad

chaos0xomega wrote:

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?
Weird.

Its the cooling vest built into his power armor so he doesn't overheat in his battlemech.

Now I'm even more confused....

Flex panels for the armor when he hulks out on phosphex

I'd say it was artificial muscle fiber but then why is it on the shoulder pad

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?

Weird.

An in-built xylophone for conveying battlefield instructions in a code that no-one can break. Proto noise marine, this one.

 RedSarge wrote:

Fayric wrote:

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?

Weird.

They could be speakers, because there is also a place to plug in your chunky headphones at the center of the shoulderpad

chaos0xomega wrote:

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?
Weird.

Its the cooling vest built into his power armor so he doesn't overheat in his battlemech.

Now I'm even more confused....

Battletech referance.

the gaps are just exposed structure beneath the ceramite, its the same stuff you see in the joints, likely to keep the weight of the armour down, you see the Raven guard mor deythan seem to have a reinforced version of this armour type.

Oh I see it now. He's dialing up a fragrance on his Etch-A-Sniff.

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:
Oh I see it now. He's dialing up a fragrance on his Etch-A-Sniff.

'Emperor's Finest"

New Valrak rumours -

Next army to get moved to plastic is Mechancum. Includes -

* Plastic Knight Styrix
* Plastic Triaros Armoured Conveyor

Also getting models (doesn't say plastic or resin) are -

* Shadrak Meduson.
* Warsmith Dantioch

Makes sense, though the Styrix would be an odd choice. There was an old rumour bouncing around about plastic Thallax at one point...

BrianDavion wrote:

 RedSarge wrote:

Fayric wrote:

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?

Weird.

They could be speakers, because there is also a place to plug in your chunky headphones at the center of the shoulderpad

chaos0xomega wrote:

 RedSarge wrote:
What are those cutout sections on his pauldrons and armor, with the corrugated rubber supposed to be?
Weird.

Its the cooling vest built into his power armor so he doesn't overheat in his battlemech.

Now I'm even more confused....

Battletech referance.

Oh I get the Neuro-80's helm and suit reference freebirth!
I'm still confused as to what they were thinking? To that regard... it's his hidden Stillsuit. He's actually a Fremen under there. [*appendix: nose tube, desert power..et'al]

Formosa wrote:the gaps are just exposed structure beneath the ceramite, its the same stuff you see in the joints, likely to keep the weight of the armour down, you see the Raven guard mor deythan seem to have a reinforced version of this armour type.

Isn't Ceramite made from layers? The top layer being ceramic like, hence the classic ceramic impact knockout/chipping 'crater' from Bolt rounds, impacts ect.
Thus there would not be any flexible rubber underneath, say a Pauldron? I always imagined the flexible rubber components on Marine Power Armor to be made of steel rings, incased in rubber. Making an extremely rigid 'hose' that requires immense strength to flex.

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:Oh I see it now. He's dialing up a fragrance on his Etch-A-Sniff.

Pure Smurfs.... acetone!

Oh man, a plastic Triaros would be fantastic.

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Oh man, a plastic Triaros would be fantastic.

And some of the sprues could be reused for the Krios.

Honestly I'd assume that they will do the same as they did for marines - the priority will be getting rid of the resin tanks, as those are probably the range with the higher level of returns due to warping for FW, and the harder kits to build, even if there are players who would prefer to focus on core infantry.

 The Phazer wrote:
New Valrak rumours -

Next army to get moved to plastic is Mechancum. Includes -

* Plastic Knight Styrix
* Plastic Triaros Armoured Conveyor

OOoooooo!!!!!

Plastic Knight Styrix? Praying to the Omnissiah for a combined Magaera/Styrix weapon sprue here.

Since modern HH plastic designs love to double dip, I'd take this to also mean we are going to get Mechanicum for LI sooner rather than later..

Bring it!

It seems too soon for us to be getting reliable mechanicum rumors when SA aren't even out yet - unless those are rumors about forthcoming LI releases. Unless GW intends to pick up the pace of HH releases dramatically, it seems unlikely that we would get two major plastic HH releases in the same year.

Yea agreed. Like Solar hit LI before it hit HH, I imagine Mechanicum will go the same way.

I'd hope we get another wave of astartes kits to fill in some of the current gaps before a second new army. Bikes, landspeeders, javelins, rapiers, xiphons, breachers, recons. Maybe destroyers and felblade chassis.

Storm Eagle/Fire Raptor would be very nice. I’ve always shied away from buying one from hearing horror stories of assembling the large plastic/resin hybrid kit. Surely breachers could be an upgrade kit, which would allow them to make another troop plastic without using too many sculpting resources.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/02/15/heresy-thursday-endryd-haar-punches-the-heads-off-world-eaters-in-the-battle-for-beta-garmon/

Wow even his molecular bonding studs look second hand.

I really like that. It carries the motion of a big guy who is about to mess things up without being a total lunatic very well.

Gorgeous model. And that Pistol is Kin-Tech if ever I done see it!

He looks…big?

Maybe it’s the paint job but something seems a bit off with him. He’s got a third party model feel to him

I think it’s because of how big he looks. Like one of those 3d printed true scale models

I can see that being a popular base model for conversion. Pose, detail, size. All of it lends well to customisation.


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 GaroRobe wrote:
He looks…big?

Maybe it’s the paint job but something seems a bit off with him. He’s got a third party model feel to him

I think it’s because of how big he looks. Like one of those 3d printed true scale models

Background says he was a giant even before becoming a Marine

It's lucky that enough random nameless Marines are just as big as he is so that he was able to scrounge up a full suit of Mk5 in his exact size from battlefield debris.