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I'm a bit late to the party, but I managed to pick up a Solar Auxilia box

Does anybody know if the troops will be on 28mm or 25mm bases? I've already got a couple of FW squads and I'm hoping that I won't need to rebase them...

Review I saw says 25mm.

Awesome, thanks

Finally! Iron Hands get their first character!



https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/07/heresy-thursday-shadrak-meduson-takes-aim/

Stick mag boltgun? Also nice scope`!

Cracking model that. I still feel for Iron Hands players in not having much generic love but that's great.

Looks a bit like Michael Brandon from Dempsey and Makepeace.

SamusDrake wrote:
Looks a bit like Michael Brandon from Dempsey and Makepeace.

My first thought was Roger Moore. Nice model.

What does one need to do for a command squad? Honestly, just give me an upgrade kit so I can make a damn standard for a command squad. I'll even take it in resin.

But very nice model. I don't think he has enough grenades and that's my favorite pair of him lol

Command Squad is on the slate for Spring, which were only just entering.

So hopefully soon, as I definitely need one or two for my force.

Ooh, that is a gorgeous model, happy the naysmith has been done right.

Holy freakin crap....


An Iron Hands character, didn't have that on my end of world bingo card this year????

TBH, I don't vibe with it.
It's too fancy to be Meduson IMO and it's so... boring.
The cover of the Meduson book has his sword raised, advancing forward, screaming at his foes.
This is just, a dude walking slowly forward with a gun and a weird face.

If he was really concentrating, he'd have his tongue out a little.

 Gert wrote:

The cover of the Meduson book has his sword raised, advancing forward, screaming at his foes.
This is just, a dude walking slowly forward with a gun and a weird face.

He's an Iron Hand, not a World Eater, and the range has enough awkward sword waving already.

 His Master's Voice wrote:
He's an Iron Hand, not a World Eater, and the range has enough awkward sword waving already.

He's not just an Iron Hand, he's one of the Stormwalkers, the Original Xth Legion. His whole character is that he specifically apes the traditional Iron Hands ways of war because they didn't hold up against the Traitor Legions.

Only thing Im not a big fan of on the model is him aiming with his eye closed.

I don't find him gaudy; a necklace and a cape are the only non-standard legion iconography he has (shoulderpad + knee pad are pretty normal campaign / vet markings). Fits very well as an austere sculpt in that regard.

Very much not a fan of the aiming eye-squint though. I think that's really dumb.

I agree that the squint doesn't look great. I'm also not a fan of his combed-over hair. Regardless of the actual fluff for this dude, I'd want my Iron Hands to have some kind of bionics or other augmentation on their heads.

I didn't even mean to criticize the eye thing since my issue with the model is the cape, which really puts me off for some reason, but if they do the aiming thing, shouldn't the arm and boltgun line up with his eye? Doesn't look like it in the detail shots. That's kind of awkward.

Not a fan of helmetless marines, but I really like this one as he's quite calm and just doing his thing. Taking his time to aim up with his artist's eye and all that.

 Geifer wrote:
I didn't even mean to criticize the eye thing since my issue with the model is the cape, which really puts me off for some reason, but if they do the aiming thing, shouldn't the arm and boltgun line up with his eye? Doesn't look like it in the detail shots. That's kind of awkward.

Spoiler:

Yeah... I like the model and like the eye for being a decent sculpt of a different expression than usual, but it would have been nice if it aligned a little closer. I imagine it's because from most angles the head feels right as-is, but it is a little silly that the focal interaction doesn't line up.

Eh, just twist the hand 45 degrees and it will line up.

Then he'll have that cool gangsta pistol twist.

Wait, if GW redesigned Mk III, why he is still in old one? Shouldn't he wear the new, more armored variant?

 morganfreeman wrote:
Very much not a fan of the aiming eye-squint though. I think that's really dumb.

Ah yes, classic Dakka 'thing that guns do in RL is dumb/unrealistic'

Judging by the size of the 'scope', it's a red dot/reflex sigh. Which allows you for quick and accurate aiming even if it's really far away from your eyes (unlike normal scope where your eye needs to be precisely in the focal point up close) as long as your stereoscopic vision doesn't mess up dot position (which it will if it has any magnification). So yet, they work much better if you close one eye, especially for precise shots.

 Geifer wrote:
but if they do the aiming thing, shouldn't the arm and boltgun line up with his eye?

Reflex sights have a really wide angle of acquisition (and can in fact be set up off center if you like it) so it's far less problematic than in normal scopes, in fact that's how they are supposed to be used - for quick and dirty aiming up to medium range, without worrying about precise line ups and such, just putting the dot on the target and firing. Yes it would look better if they lined up but if he is in process of quick firing at multiple targets only pausing to line up it might well look like this.

I really like that folded up servo-arm. I want like 5 of that backpack.

Yeah the folded servo arm is a highlight for me too. Shame there isn't more like it.

 Snrub wrote:
Yeah the folded servo arm is a highlight for me too. Shame there isn't more like it.

Various legions got weapon upgrade kits and accessories. Iron Hands could use a kit with these backpacks, cyber familiars, and grav pistols and shredders.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Snrub wrote:
Yeah the folded servo arm is a highlight for me too. Shame there isn't more like it.

Various legions got weapon upgrade kits and accessories. Iron Hands could use a kit with these backpacks, cyber familiars, and grav pistols and shredders.

I think doing a Legion upgrade kit would be great - a couple of shoulder pads, a set of rhino/land raider doors, a couple of helmets and some weapon kits. So Iron Hands could get cyber familiars, grave weapons, etc. Dark Angels would get 5 plasma flamers and a couple of swords. Emperor's Children would get bits to make the Phonecian Guard and some spears. Night Lords could get a couple of chain glaives, eskaton fists, and headsmen axes. Alpha Legion could get a couple of their combi- bolters, some venom flasks, hydra blades/teeth, etc.

I guess these things are always subjective, but I'm pretty disappointed with him. I'm not sure whether its how far he is twisted at the waist or the leg pose, but something about it just looks off to me.

I don't mind the squinting so much, just expected him to look a bit more bionic-y or at last a bit more grizzled.

I also am not a fan of the folded up servo arm - I mean, I'm conceptually a fan of the idea that they work like that but just think on the tabletop it will look like he has a normal backpack which is a bit underwhelming I guess?

 Irbis wrote:

Ah yes, classic Dakka 'thing that guns do in RL is dumb/unrealistic'

Bzzt. Wrong.

Speaking for the US specifically (where I’ve been my whole life) service members are trained to fire with both eyes open even when using scopes / sights, as it maintains situational awareness and helps prevent momentary blinding via exposure to flash / sudden light intake when reopening your eye. And while I certainly don’t know training doctrines of militaries the world over, I’d be shocked if we were the only ones.

It’s important to remember that this is supposed to be a space marine; a post human super soldier who’s trained and practiced to an insane degree. He’s not going to follow the ‘best practices’ as laid out by you and your buds shooting bottles off a fence.