The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[westwaller]

I dunno, the MkIV style helmets in the Calth box and on the Primaris marines have become my favourite.

I like the MkIV Helmets on the Calth marines (and the studded legs) but I feel that the primaris marines helmets are a bit too similar and a bit more, meh!

I'm hoping Mk V Marines come out for HH.

[Elbows]

Apparently MkIX was "Deathwatch" armour and is represented in their box?  I've never seen much use of proper MkVIII "Errant" armour, really.  Personally the entire MkVI is just my favourite.  The capless shins/legs, the grooved boot tips, the simple chest plate w/ cabling (which is perfectly useful from the MkIV set), studded, non-adorned shoulder pads.  Everything about that mark is my favourite.  I even kit-bashed a bunch of MkIVs to cheat and look like MkVI's because I was lazy.

[nic-e]

Chaos will get this one. Or else it will be a prototype which failed to reach the Astartes' standards and which will be plugged by the Ad Mech. Although the upgrade hypothesis is a good one too.

I've missed this sort of speculation...

Or perhaps it was rolled out during the cursed founding and as such is considered bad luck?

[Andrew May]

I'm just waiting for someone to make the big marines bigger. Someone will. It's inevitable.

Yeah, I can see it a mile off. They'll be lengthening the torso and arms maybe the thighs too.

I already saw a guy on Instagram make the new dwarves (whatever they're called) more "realistic" by lengthening the legs  Tbf it looked pretty decent painted up but why bother .

[beefcake]

Yeah, I can see it a mile off. They'll be lengthening the torso and arms maybe the thighs too.

I already saw a guy on Instagram make the new dwarves (whatever they're called) more "realistic" by lengthening the legs  Tbf it looked pretty decent painted up but why bother .

Really? They're pretty big as it is already.

[Andrew May]

Really? They're pretty big as it is already.

[Andrew May]

Also it occurred to me that after Mk "X" armour, naturally you'll get MK "XL" "XXL" etc. 

[horridperson]

@Andrew May

Is the image you posted the dwarf body?  Looks awesome with that marauder head.  I think it would fit in very well with the old RT figures from the late 80s as, "normal" but that'[s scale creep for you.  Apart from the somewhat blocky build the rough looking void suit and mohawk really sell it as a classic homage.  Without even bringing squats and space dwarves into the story he'd make a great stand in with older figures or a fine high gravity human in any entourage. 

[Andrew Rae]

I already saw a guy on Instagram make the new dwarves (whatever they're called) more "realistic" by lengthening the legs  Tbf it looked pretty decent painted up but why bother .

Yeah, they had a bit of a twitter spat with the GW studio manager (or some such position) about that. Someone else on Instagram described it, in all seriousness, as a 'true scale' dwarf.

[Andrew May]

@Andrew May

Is the image you posted the dwarf body?  Looks awesome with that marauder head.  I think it would fit in very well with the old RT figures from the late 80s as, "normal" but that'[s scale creep for you.  Apart from the somewhat blocky build the rough looking void suit and mohawk really sell it as a classic homage.  Without even bringing squats and space dwarves into the story he'd make a great stand in with older figures or a fine high gravity human in any entourage. 

If you google "between the bolter and me" you'll find it.

[Andrew May]

Yeah, they had a bit of a twitter spat with the GW studio manager (or some such position) about that. Someone else on Instagram described it, in all seriousness, as a 'true scale' dwarf.

"Worlds tallest dwarf"

[beefcake]

Yeah, they had a bit of a twitter spat with the GW studio manager (or some such position) about that. Someone else on Instagram described it, in all seriousness, as a 'true scale' dwarf.

So were they taking the piss or do they think "truescale" just means bigger, or fitting 32mm or something like that?

[Andrew Rae]

So were they taking the piss or do they think "truescale" just means bigger, or fitting 32mm or something like that?

Ah wait, I'm mixing things up. The 'true scale' dwarf comment was a joke I think. I'm mixing it up with an entirely serious comment left on their blog about using 1/35 tanks for making 'true scale' Leman Russes.

[Mason]

So were they taking the piss or do they think "truescale" just means bigger, or fitting 32mm or something like that?

Surely 'truescale' would make the buggers eight foot tall and not 32/36/whatever mm.....

[Daeothar]

Oh, they're slowly getting there, one millimeter at a time.

Before the year 30,000 AD, those guys will be 8ft tall!  


+++EDIT+++ Dang! I just did the math, and it sort of works out too!

Let's say (for simplicity's sake) that 30 years ago, space marines were 25mm, and now they're 28mm. That's roughly 1mm per decade, yes? So for them to 'grow' from 25mm to 8 ft (2.64m), it will take 26,150 years.

According to the old fluff, the Emperor was born/created approximately 12,500 BC. So if 40K's calendar starts with his birth, then we're looking at 38,650 AI (Anno Imperator). And taking some rounding errors into account, we're very near 40K's 'current' time.

And if, for some reason, we're to take the 40K calendar as a continuation of ours, then it'll be 28,167 AD, which is very close to the time that the Emperor started on his secret Primarch project.

I'll go geek out further on my own now...