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I posted this in the SV-262 thread, but figured I'll put it here too just in case. 

Gold touch up for SV-262hs 

This comes very late, but coincidentally while painting something else with Citadel Paint - Retributor Armor, it came to my mind that it looked just like the gold used on Keith's SV-262. I had one that had a lot of the gold that was scuffed off and tried applying some to it. It is nearly identical.

I repainted that whole area outlined in the black box on both sides of where it separates and I think most people would have a hard time distinguishing it from the rest of the gold on the 262.

Just a tip if there's anyone else that had the gold scuff off or peeled off with the protective plastic right out of the box and wanted to do some touch ups.

On 4/2/2024 at 3:04 AM, Scyla said:

I don’t know, I would have preferred the new Terminator and Deathwing Knights GW released recently than those old sculpts.

Pretty sure they're coming eventually. I do want those inner circle ones with the new helmets. 

In other news, they announced a few days ago the 10th edition Leviathan box set terminators including UM 1st Captain Agemman, the librarian terminator, and some terminators including the sgt with the teleport homer. The helmet sculpts have been fixed so they're not so small looking and more detail have been added to the legs. They are also a little bigger than the Deathwing termies.

Yeah, I mean it's based on the same source material so there's bound to be a lot of similarities, However, they don't look to be using the same gimmicks like the twist down of the intake turbine sections to allow the arms to slide forward or the fact that it looks like these allow the pilots to exit out of the front hatch.  Kind of looks like it has a mid-thigh swivel also which the Sentinel versions don't have. 

Wow, these markups are brutal. They're skipping the scalpers by doing it themselves.

Well, I was close. Looking forward to seeing a finished and painted prototype. 

That POSE+ Alpha looks really good. Even better than the Sentinel version I think. It looks pretty big too. What is that? something like 1/24 scale? Probably not that big, but certainly larger than 1/48.

12 hours ago, jenius said:

It's possible my Alto is not the same level of whiteness as it was when new but my Luca and Maruyama are a similar hue. I think the revival version might be a little more pure white and the matte finish may also catch the light better making it look even brighter when being photographed. 

That's good to know. Thanks! I was debating whether if I should get one of these reissues or not, but was worried about the color not matching Luca or Maruyama's.

28 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Yeah, there's something similar going on with Joytoy's new Horus Lupercal sculpt.

Joytoy's Horus Lupercal isn't based on the main Horus Lupercal miniature from the tabletop game.  It's based on the "Horus Ascended" design from the 2022 cinematic trailer, a slightly modified version of the more overtly evil-looking Horus Lupercal design that's been used by the novel series since 2011 but wasn't represented in the tabletop game until just last year when Horus got a second miniature to represent him as the Chosen of Chaos Undivided during the Siege of Terra based on the trailer design.

It's a great update to the design, so I'm glad they went with it over the actual Horus Lupercal miniature.

It definitely makes me curious to see what they'll do with the Emperor's fabulous ****ing Hawk-Boy Sanguinius and Magnus the Red.

Yeah, it's definitely based on that Horus Ascended mini rather than the "Horus the Warmaster" mini, but the face sculpt on the figure is amazing and much improved over the ascended mini. I'm rather glad they went with the newer ascended mini and improved upon it in the transition to a larger figure.

38 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

There's a lot of cross-pollination there between the miniatures and the art that's been done for the game books and novels, which is why I was curious.

Thus far, they seem to be putting quite a lot of love and attention to detail into all of the figures they're making.  It's really nice to see them putting so much effort into delivering a faithful representation of the designs the Heresy artists came up with.

There is truth to this regarding cross pollination with the art. For example, the face of Guilliman. The miniature's face looks like this:

But the figure's face looks like this:

Which is more in line with illustrations and the 10th edition trailer

If it were simply a scaled up version of the mini, it wouldn't look like that. So it seems there is at least some leeway for interpretation as the miniature simply scaled up would not look very good and they had to use other art references to make the figure look good. Same with the Lion. The mini's face wasn't as bad, but you can clearly see that they used illustrations like from the book cover for The Lion: Son of the Forest as their reference for the figure's face sculpt.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Yeah, that's pretty much expected. Games Workshop doesn't often let licensees come up with original takes on their lore. Relic were, I think, one of the very few to actually be given permission to do that... and from that we got the bloody magpies.

Though have they clarified if they're only referencing the miniatures or are they also using the official art from the rule books and the novels?

Unclear, but to my knowledge, they've so far only based them on the minis. For any JT Warhammer figure I pick, I can find a specific corresponding mini for.

They were fairly reticent on details or specifics of their contract with GW, but that's to be expected.

24 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The thing about that, is that Magnus having at least three different canonical appearances is from the Horus Heresy before he became a daemon primarch.

Both the tabletop game and the novels describe Magnus having an inconstant physical appearance because of his incredible psychic power. It's a bit of an in joke on the part of the writers referencing his inconsistent depiction in old material.

So they wrote him as one of those beings like the emperor who has a subjective physical appearance. Different people see different things when they look at him even if they're all looking at the same time. He also has a degree of conscious and unconscious control of his appearance so sometimes even the same person will see different things moment to moment as his mood changes. The one thing he can't change following his bargain with Tzeentch pre-Heresy is that he's only got one eye and cycles through all the different descriptions of his face from older media: having one huge eye in the center of his head like a classic Cyclops, having once had two eyes with one covered by a scar, or having one normal eye and then just smooth skin over where the other should have been like an eye had never been there. It only got worse once he became a daemon primarch. (It's also why in TTS when the emperor jokes about Magnus being shorter than his brothers, he counters by saying that that's entirely his choice... he uses his powers to make himself taller or shorter at will a bunch of times in the novels.)

In honor of that in joke, they gave his newer miniatures multiple heads reflecting all three major variations. I'm wondering if they'll reflect that same decision in the Joytoy figure.

If the miniature came with variant heads, then the JoyToy version would likely include them as well, just as the Lion figure came with the old man Lion head, the hooded head, the hooded helmet head, and the full winged helmet along with the two Watchers. So far, they appear to be faithful to what the miniatures have included as options/accessories.

In a recent Q&A with JoyToy, they basically stated that they can't come up with stuff on their own and all the stuff they release will be based on GW's official original designs (i.e. their miniatures).

2 hours ago, Bolt said:

That looks really cool , nice job 👍🏼 

 

Lol. That sounds about right for me when i started collecting 40k miniatures  It's taken me some time and some discipline to whittle down my collection to something that is only slightly out of control..  

With this product line, I'm all about Commander Shadow Sun of the Tau. But I would really prefer Commander Farsight. 

Thanks!

I wouldn't mind seeing some of their larger battlesuits like the Broadside with the giant shoulder mounted heavy rail guns.

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Magnus the Red will be where we see exactly how committed Joytoy is to the bit.

If they're really committed to their craft, he'll come with three exchangeable heads: one with a single central eye like a classical cyclops and two normal faces that have either a big scar over a missing eye or no scar but only one eye.  All three are treated as equally valid appearances for him in the books and the tabletop game, thanks to YMMV psyker nonsense.

I have a feeling they'll be doing the HH version of Magnus rather than the 40k daemon primarch version so it will likely be based off of this:

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

If they're really really committed to the bit... Ferrus Manus will have a detachable head.

Would be funny if the head was a surprise accessory for the Horus figure.

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I can tell TTS has ruined me, because Dorn just doesn't feel right without the mutton chops now.

If only GW would allow them to make Kitten. 

Good comparison. Thanks for the video. Would you say that your original one had yellowed a bit or more that the reissue came just super bright white (like whiter than the original release)?

Wasn't a fan of Dorn's hair or the fact that he never came with a helmet. I ordered a 3rd party helmet which arrived today. Detailed it up a bit and I think it looks pretty good.

Without:

With:

3 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

Okay, but where is my sexy vampire man?

Sanguinius, Magnus, and Russ are supposedly coming sometime this year, so you may get your wish.

Horus price and release

Video for Horus

Video for Abaddon

3 minutes ago, Mommar said:

Joytoy never makes you wait too long, but they do make you question how much you can afford.

That's for sure. They pump out these things non-stop and it never seems to be 1 at a time. it's like "here's a whole bunch of things! Pre-order them now!"

I never planned on getting much, mostly just the primarchs, but that was a mistake. The primarchs were just the gateway drug.

Soon, I ended up buying a redemptor dreadnought, Morvenn Vahl, Kaldor Draigo, Voldus, Garran Crowe, Lazarus, a sister of battle just for scale, a techmarine, a Custodes shield captain, some aggressors, inceptors, and a couple other primaris captains... with Allarus terminators and a Deathwing terminator on the way. All within the past month...

To make it worse, I can't help stop myself from weathering and touching up the paint jobs. Like the flat gold on Dorn and Roboute's armor just makes it look so toy-like despite them doing a great job on the Custodes or stuff like fixing Roboute's pale pasty face.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The Mark II, Mark III, and Mark IV armors used by most of the Horus Heresy miniatures are the same armor used during the Great Crusade.

The only real difference would be the paintjob and unit markings in most cases... the exception being the XVI Legion Sons of Horus, who changed paintjob AND heraldry after the Triumph at Ullanor.  Swap out the green for white and the Eye of Terra for the Moon Wolf and you're there.

The only miniatures that aren't pre-Heresy appropriate are those using Mark V and Mark VI armor, the ones with the big studs embedded in the pauldrons and greaves (Mark V) and the iconic "beakie" (Mark VI).  Mark V was a catch-all for post-Istvaan improvements that literaly just bolted extra layers of armor to the plates, while Mark VI was developed before the Heresy but first put into use during it by the Raven Guard who helped develop it.

Yeah, I know that the armors are the same and it's basically just a different paint job. I'm just saying that Joytoy hasn't really put out anything that GW hasn't officially put something out for themselves, so I wouldn't get my hopes up for Luna Wolves figures from Joytoy even though that would be nice if that happened. I like the Luna Wolves color scheme more than the Sons of Horus one.

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Well, Joytoy didn't make me wait long at all did they? 😁

Fantastic rendition of Heresy-era Horus Lupercal.  I wonder if they'll do a pre-Heresy version in Luna Wolves colors too?  It'll sure as hell open my wallet if they do.

 

That would be great, but I don't think GW has ever came out with minis for the pre-Ullanor time and Joytoy only seems to make stuff that has been out officially as miniatures.

As expected, Mr Heresy himself and Abaddon were announced. He's absolutely huge in primarch sized terminator armor and that face sculpt and paint work is probably one of their best yet. Not so impressed with Abaddon. I prefer his current 40k version. 

Got a re-issue from Amazon as well.

I probably should have expected this given the track record of their releases since 2020, but the QC is kinda lacking compared to the VF-19 Adv and the original YF-19 full set release.

Just to list a few things:

• The bottom panel of the gullet likes to keep popping out.
• The head "cap" fits extremely loosely on the head, with basically no friction, and turning the figure upside down in battroid mode is enough for it to fall right off.
• The head unit itself has a wobbly neck joint that won't stay extended.
• The back half of the canopy wiggles around very loosely

On a positive note, the wings on the metal hinges are tighter than on the two 19 Advance and the YF-19 releases that I have.

Those had very floppy loose wings and this one doesn't. So one thing was improved at least. 

2 hours ago, Lolicon said:

All this talk of YF-30 yellowing made me concerned for the spare YF-30 I had in storage so I pulled her out of her box to make sure she was okay.

Does she appear yellow at all or is the color imbalance between the painted parts and the plastic just the usual poor Bandai color matching? My other YF-30 is has been modified so I can't use her as a point of reference.

Hard to tell from the photos. Could be my eyes playing tricks on me or the lighting, but the wings and the fuselage don't look the same white as say the lower thighs and knees or the missile pod attachment arm, for example. I'd say it's white enough still in any case. 

I'm surprised that Amazon.com hasn't had the YF-21 up for pre-order yet when all these other shops have already had them up for days now.

I was all ready to do the preorder last night

...but the power to my house went out an hour before the preorders would start. 

What timing... ☹️