Ahh this takes me back nostalgically. Beautiful to see a scale friendly interpretation. The original minis are adoringly chubby and stylized, with the pistol being bigger than the head. And it is the smallest and weakest pistol there is. It made me walk over to my tiny custom imperials and look at the dust they collected. They are living in a box, living in a cardbord box. Snapped some cheap pics. Had a lot of fun many years ago in creating the poses, swapping heads, coming up with a paint scheme and making tiny green stuff stuff like beards and goggles etc.
Look at those hyper realistic eyes on the left guy! Well at least it was good training
GubernatorFan wrote:I know nothing about the source material, but the set looks very cool. Interesting mixture of what is real/familiar and what is fantasy.
It's an over the top grimdark (I think the word 'grimdark' might even have been created for Wahammer40k) universe with years and years of extensive lore and beautiful art design.
This guy is an Imperial officer of the biggest army in the universe, with several billions of soldiers from millions of worlds.
They are basically religiously Fanatic medieval xenophobic Roman Empire Space Nazi Communist Starship trooper crusaders. Which makes them the good guys, as everyone else is much much worse as there are numberless hordes of unstopple corrupting Lovecraftian Space demons from a twisted hellish chaos dimension,
Rapidly multiplying British hooligan fungus Orks who have it in their DNA to wage war (waagh) all the time for war's sake and have the knowledge to create crazy brutal scrappy war machines from nothing. That 'Green stuff' putty is named after them probably,
There are the Aliens from 'Alien' but in gigantic hive minded world eating swarms that also infiltrate and infect giant mega cities,
We have Ancient silent undead powerful self repairing soulless Robot armies that look like evil Terminators from twisted ancient egypt, with the goal to rid the galaxy of all life.
And extremly racist/speciesist Space alien Elves. But they are the good guys of their race, as they have dark evil twisted counterparts who are the most sadistic monstrous things there are.
Oh and the Tau, advanced blue communist samurai aliens in high tech battle suits. They are kinda nice compared to the rest.
Planets blow up all the time, Space Ships look like giant gothic cathedrals that could put star destroyers in their hangar bay. They laugh at Star destroyers as they are equipped with missiles that can blow up planets etc, which is a common war tactic.
Their walkers are walking cathedrals that would squish ATATs between their toes.
So this figure is basically a regular guy with a cheap laser and a chainsaw who has to fight endless demon monster alien hordes until he dies.
Tjolnir wrote:ditto, never was into warhammer and while the design of their characters and armor is awesome (hey, power armor
) i never saw the appeal of painting stiff miniatures. though those guys sure know how to paint their stuff.
the figure above looks really good, however i wager in this price range army building is out of the question, or reaaally harmful to ones wallet.
Imagine, some transhuman power armored Space Marine would be much larger than this guy, a m35 body would be too small, the biggest world box body would be too small, you would need that giant Wu Song body maybe. There are quit a few great 1/6 custom power armors somewhere on the internet.
csyeung wrote:Is it me or is it weird seeing warhammer this big! haha. One of my first gigs was inking some stuff for Games Workshop. Admittedly, I never really got into the table top gaming. I think you need several dedicated friends for it to be fun. I liked the rts games like warcraft and starcraft more as it did all the calculations for me haha.
Nice, any way you could share what you did for them? Always loved the crazy inks and illustrations.
And I agree, while I painted some minis, never really got into that playing, only that one friend who brought me into the hobby but we lost interest some day.
