The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[pixelgeek]

These are really large images at eye level though. They probably look just fine on the tabletop, and in fact might not be properly noticeable if they were sculpted at the "correct" size.

If it is like any of the previous minis then I suspect that the photo is indicative of how it looks 'in the plastic'.

The Nurgle figures don't have any of the same sort of menace that their new Chaos Marines do. They have done a soft, rounded look to them all with exaggerated external elements (like the enormous flies) that really don't make the figures look menacing. Same thing with the Gellerpox models and the new Nurgle daemon characters.

The range has a 'melted icecream' look to it.

[AWu]

I guess this is natural for Nurgle. He is Father Nurgle and quite friendly and funny fellow :>
A least in the old fluff i know...  I lost co tact with modern GW long ago.

[tin shed gamer]

I must admit I much prefered An Imperium run by  the nepotism of civil servants with a zombie emperor whos day job was air traffic control and ate his descendants on his lunch breaks.Whilst tech support hit things and pretended they knew what they were doing.

I wonder why they dropped such a universe 

[FramFramson]

I must admit I much prefered An Imperium run by  the nepotism of civil servants with a zombie emperor whos day job was air traffic control and ate his descendants on his lunch breaks.Whilst tech support hit things and pretended they knew what they were doing.

I wonder why they dropped such a universe 

Excessive realism is boring in Fantasyland. 

[FramFramson]

If it is like any of the previous minis then I suspect that the photo is indicative of how it looks 'in the plastic'.

The Nurgle figures don't have any of the same sort of menace that their new Chaos Marines do. They have done a soft, rounded look to them all with exaggerated external elements (like the enormous flies) that really don't make the figures look menacing. Same thing with the Gellerpox models and the new Nurgle daemon characters.

The range has a 'melted icecream' look to it.

The flies look terrible and no amount of painting will save them. That, I can agree with.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Honey, that's not honey. It's Nurgle juice

Not impressed with stuff dripping from the left eye, though that might be badly painted - how do you paint a 3d droplet to make it look flat?

[Daeothar]

The flies look terrible and no amount of painting will save them. That, I can agree with.

Yes; the flies are really bugging me too...

As for the rest; carefully shave off the most annoying droplets (especially the one coming out of the barrel), and remove the entire vapour thingy coming out of that staff plus the ridiculous fly in front of the left leg and they're welcome alternate poses in any Death Guard army I suppose.

Probably prohibitively expensive though...

[meninobesta]

first think it came to mind was this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Boy
 

the painting doesn't help what it seems to be a nurgle space marine as good as the recent batch is
it looks like he has a fried egg on his breastplate and with that yellow liquid his gun appears to be a golden-shower-blaster 

anyway, a regular mini which was tainted by a poorly chosen colour scheme..

[Civil Fimir]

I'm not into 40k and generally don't like figures GW makes these days, but personally I think that insect going through evolving process is the best part in that figure. I’m assuming it’s meant to give artsy impression of movement and that’s just one fly we see, which I think is very cool idea.

[FionaWhite]

The only impression Nurgle stuff ever gives me is "why would I want any of that?". 

Tzeentch is where it's at.

[beefcake]

Why does he have a set of blue bagpipes protruding from his head and backpack?

Nurgle noise marine

[AWu]

Forget the honey vomit gents
Behold..
Chibi marines

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I must admit I much prefered An Imperium run by  the nepotism of civil servants with a zombie emperor whos day job was air traffic control and ate his descendants on his lunch breaks.Whilst tech support hit things and pretended they knew what they were doing.

I wonder why they dropped such a universe 

The IT departmen were suing them for libel...

[Lost Egg]

Chibi 40k...I...I just don't know what to say...

[Belligerentparrot]

Chibi 40k...I...I just don't know what to say...

Better than some of GW's mid/late 90s output, I'd say