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TTerrible posted:How big is your backlog. I don't have one. I haven't built a gunpla in almost two years because I don't really have space right now
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Jan 27, 2017 02:33
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That's good to know. Break the cycle, friend-o.
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TTerrible posted:haha what the gently caress is that? New Tzeentch model: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Tzeentch-Arcanites-Magister It's slightly less ridiculous from a better angle but I love how they chose that for their glamor shot.
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Loincloth covers the inevitable square rear end. They're learning.
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TTerrible posted:Gundam is just the sacred cow that noone can ever criticise because ITS GOOD
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Avenging Dentist posted:New Tzeentch model: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Tzeentch-Arcanites-Magister
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Jan 27, 2017 02:35
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Well that explains why he's "only" $15.
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Jan 27, 2017 02:36
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Avenging Dentist posted:New Tzeentch model: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Tzeentch-Arcanites-Magister They pick the worst poses and angles for their photography. Even when GW does put out good models, they photograph them from the worst angle, or give them a paintjob that makes them impossible to parse visually
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Getting back to Firefight, as was mentioned you can basically build a decent Forge Fathers or Enforcers army already just from buying kits already released for Deadzone. You'll just be lacking the larger vehicles until they come to retail in April or this summer. You can probably also make a Veer-myn or Plague force, but Marauders and Asterians are going to be a bit trickier until their Warpath kits come out. The Asterians do have Warpath kits coming and they were included in the Kickstarter, but the Marauders do not and the suspicion is that they will get a Kickstarter of their own later this year along with the Rebels faction. There appear to be about 5 different tiers of quality in the figures. At the very top you have the new hard plastic kits. I think the goal is for every faction to have 1-2 core units in hard plastic. These are easily as good if not better than comparable kits GW currently produces. They've got options, ball joints, minimal mold lines, and basically no excess flash. I've worked with the hard plastic kits for the Forge Father Steel Warriors and Iron Guard, the Enforcer troops and Pathfinders, and the Asterian Marionettes and I have nothing negative to say about any of them beyond basic modeling complaints (getting two ball jointed arms to line up with a free gun can be a bit tricky). Below that you have the "good" restic figures. Basically these figures are alright. They might get bent in shipping, but dunking them in hot water causes them to reset to their original positions. They have flash and mold lines, but they aren't that bad and they clean up well enough. The issue with these is that you get exactly as many parts as you have models, so you don't get to pick and choose. Some examples of these are the Forge Father Brokkrs and the Asterian Cyphers. Then there are the good metal figures. These are your standard white metal and everyone should basically be familiar with them. There are also "bad restic" figures. These have a different formula and are lighter in color to the good restic. They are a bitch to work with but look to be getting phased out. The mold lines and flash are really tough to cut away and they don't fit together that greatly. The Forge Father Jotuun appears to be made out of this material. It's very flexible and almost rubbery. Perhaps equally as bad as the bad restic figures are the poorly designed metal figures. It might not be fair to call this a tier since it's really just bad sculpts made of the same material as the "good metal". At least with bad restic you can still hack it apart easily enough to get the result you want, but when a model is basically a solid chunk of metal there's not much you can do to fix it. The Asterian Kalyshi fall into this category. Photos: Hard plastic Marionettes with support drones and various options and poses  "Good restic" Cyphers  It's not a great photo, but you should be able to note that they have significantly less detail than the hard plastic Marionettes above. Combination hard plastic and good metal Hammerfist Dropteam Leader   Bad Metal Kalyshi   Unfortunately I spray painted my bad restic Jotuun so you can't see the material
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Jan 27, 2017 03:37
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I like the forge father's because the ones in power armor are adorable
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gently caress Whitey posted:I like the forge father's because the ones in power armor are adorable There's also a unit of them that arrive in battle by being fired out of cannons from space. Besides being awesome on its own account, I kind of feel like this was also a way to make the oft-complained about 40k marine drop pod armies look like a bunch of sissies. Which I approve of.
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gently caress Whitey posted:Attack on Titan is bad I like the animation but yeaaaaaaah
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Jan 27, 2017 18:50
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i ordered a skulldam kit
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Avenging Dentist posted:Oh god I'm tipping. I'm tipping oveerrrrrrrrrrr The face I make when I see how much a GW kit costs
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Jan 27, 2017 20:15
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Moola posted:i ordered a skulldam kit That was a good choice
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Sir Teabag posted:Has anyone read Attack on Titan? If they ever make a season two are there going to be giant robots in it? There are no robots I am sorry. gently caress Whitey posted:Attack on Titan is bad It gets worse. Guy Goodbody posted:The red one I posted retails for 25 dollars. the green one for 12. If you pay 200 dollars for a Gundam model, you get this Is this even from one of the cartoons/manga or are they just making random insane poo poo at this point?
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Jan 27, 2017 22:32
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It's a gundam space dreadknight.
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Jan 27, 2017 22:52
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cool knights of sidonia model
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Bombogenesis posted:Is this even from one of the cartoons/manga or are they just making random insane poo poo at this point? It's from one of the mini-series. Oh no, trap sprung.
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Jan 27, 2017 23:15
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:It's from one of the mini-series. You already have what I assume is a Jojo avatar, so that trap has long since past.
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Jan 27, 2017 23:52
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Bombogenesis posted:Is this even from one of the cartoons/manga or are they just making random insane poo poo at this point? That design is circa the blue and red Citadel miniature catalogs, it's over 20 years old.
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Jan 27, 2017 23:58
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Bombogenesis posted:There are no robots I am sorry. It's the Dendrobium from 0083. It's basically a giant rear end booster for a Gundam and in the Super Robot Wars games is practically a mainstay for easy mode in any installment it appears. Kit wise it and this newer one called the Neo Zeong are like prestige kits for nutso people. But only like 200 bucks ish as opposed to Forge World Titan prices. The Gunpla thread I linked a few pages back has a Zoids kit in a similar size. The box is so huge a small dog can comfortably make a fort out of it.  And Gundam is anime so yes it's got random and insane poo poo in it. Also some Gundam does better grimdark than 40k. Though a recent series has a plot point being there were a class of people who were basically used as food if you want some hosed up poo poo. Like there are real life caste system poo poo that ruins people's lives and chances for generations in Japan and India amongst others. They basically made an analog in the show but gave it a side order of cannibalism. 
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I went to a local import shoppe and asked the guy running it about ordering a gundarn and he was extremely weird shall not go back there again
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Jan 28, 2017 01:16
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Bombogenesis posted:Is this even from one of the cartoons/manga or are they just making random insane poo poo at this point? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZZqrg50rYs
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Moola posted:I went to a local import shoppe and asked the guy running it about ordering a gundarn and he was extremely weird He as probably trying to figure out which narcotic Gundam was a euphemism for
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Captain Rufus posted:And Gundam is anime so yes it's got random and insane poo poo in it. Also some Gundam does better grimdark than 40k. Though a recent series has a plot point being there were a class of people who were basically used as food if you want some hosed up poo poo. Like there are real life caste system poo poo that ruins people's lives and chances for generations in Japan and India amongst others. They basically made an analog in the show but gave it a side order of cannibalism. That was really cool. The story was that hundreds of years before the show began, things were so poo poo that there was actually an organized system of cannibalism. Some people were just OK to eat because there was so little food. In the show itself, the crisis is centuries in the past, nobody gets eaten anymore, but the descendants were still discriminated against. It was a direct allegory for the Burakumin in modern Japan. The discrimination was subtle too, not the typical over the top sci-fi "I don't like him because the left side of his face is black, he's not as good as us left siders!" bigotry metaphor
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Jan 28, 2017 02:04
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Armoured suit on hosed up bird/lion.
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Moola posted:I went to a local import shoppe and asked the guy running it about ordering a gundarn and he was extremely weird Just use amazon. Or fly to Japan. You can get gundams in 7-11s.
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Jan 28, 2017 03:13
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i used anazon because it was cheaper and he was weird
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Irate Tree posted:Armoured suit on hosed up bird/lion. Nice Choccobo.
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Captain Rufus posted:It's the Dendrobium from 0083. It's basically a giant rear end booster for a Gundam and in the Super Robot Wars games is practically a mainstay for easy mode in any installment it appears. Kit wise it and this newer one called the Neo Zeong are like prestige kits for nutso people. But only like 200 bucks ish as opposed to Forge World Titan prices. The Gunpla thread I linked a few pages back has a Zoids kit in a similar size. The box is so huge a small dog can comfortably make a fort out of it. Neo Zeong is three hundred plus shipping Ask me how I know
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Irate Tree posted:Armoured suit on hosed up bird/lion. I'm pretty sure that thing it's riding is actually designed by Tzeentch.
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Irate Tree posted:Armoured suit on hosed up bird/lion. The orb is basically a radar, right? Is this some kind of land-based magic animal jet fighter? Because that's what the radar orb makes me think of.
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Jan 28, 2017 05:19
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I can understand the impulse to give a Sigmar thing two tails, but it really looks Chaosy.
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someone explain to me why all the stormcast guns have those big stupid protrusions on the end. they clearly arent crossbows, theres nowhere for a string run. are they some kind of retention device if a bloodshitter tries to grab the barrel?
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Captain Rufus posted:It's the Dendrobium from 0083. It's basically a giant rear end booster for a Gundam and in the Super Robot Wars games is practically a mainstay for easy mode in any installment it appears. Kit wise it and this newer one called the Neo Zeong are like prestige kits for nutso people. 
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I kinda like the demigryph thing, but boy howdy is that an ugly sigmarine. Too bad it probably costs like 30 bucks for a single model. Guess I'm waiting on recasters.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I kinda like the demigryph thing, but boy howdy is that an ugly sigmarine. Too bad it probably costs like 30 bucks for a single model. Guess I'm waiting on recasters. The sigmarine riding the similarly sized dragon dog is $110 dollarydoos, so I expect the sigmarine on demigryph will also cost $110 dollarydoos, or maybe more, since the demigryph is a little bigger Also, I went to look and see if it was already on sale, and using the filters there are 8 different sigmarine units, and 11 different sigmarine heroes.
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I'm confused by that price point. The star drake which is much bigger costs 140 freedom bucks and the similarly sized dragon dogs cost 65 for two. Still grotesquely overpriced, nowhere near 110 for a single cavalry model.
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