FW: Blood Angels

[Wolfshade]

As we all know the mighty 9th legion are the best and now with FW love

Torsos

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99550101473_BloodAngelsMkIVTorsos01.jpg
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Blood-Angels-Legion-Torsos-Upgrade-Set

Heads
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99550101472_BloodAngelsMkIVHeads01.jpg
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Blood-Angels-Legion-Heads-Upgrade-Set

Mk 2 pads
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99550101469_BloodAngelsMkIIShoulderPads.jpg
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Blood-Angels-Legion-MkII-Shoulder-Pads

Mk3 pads
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99550101470_BloodAngelsMkIIIShoulderPads.jpg
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Blood-Angels-Legion-MkIII-Shoulder-Pads

Mk4 pads

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99550101471_BloodAngelsMkIVShoulderPads01.jpg
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Blood-Angels-Legion-MkIV-Shoulder-Pads

[Mr Mystery]

But....but....thats not my Ordinatus Minoris...

Nice stuff. Except the bare head.

[Wolfshade]

I feel somewhat underwhelmed by it all. Given the quality that FW can do and that the BAngels are master artisans it all feels a bit plain and I totes agree with the barehead comment

[Kirsten]

I think they look great personally

[Filthy Casual]

I like the bare head, has a cold arrogance about it. Its all considerably more ornate that all but the III, Legion, who are ostentatious, they have to avoid that in the Horus Heresy.

[energongoodie]

Lovely stuff

[spagunk]

I like the mk3 shoulders (would look great for a sternguard squad) but overall this seems a bit underwhelming. Just not the aesthetic I though FW would go for on them.

[Psychosplodge]

I agree I'm underwhelmed, the bare head is particularly poor tbh. Still gonna hit me right in the wallet...

[Erik Setzer]

I like them. Not that over-the-top, relatively simple with some basic ideas in the iconography. The head will probably look better painted.

These are just basic guys, not elite units. I like the idea of them not being oversculpted.

[spagunk]

Well it make sense that they aren't over the top. However the detailing is just too subtle. Except for the angel winged shoulderpads, you'd hardly tell they were blood angels. Eggplant warriors? Kumquat angels?

[Filthy Casual]

During the Great Crusade, Power Armour suits were mass produced at an enormous scale, unlike in the 41st millennium when most suits are treasured relics of the chapter, thousands of years old, with the collective gilting and embellishments of perhaps 100s of owners.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

A functional release that fills an important niche with the BA legion, but nothing that personally excites me.

[Defenestratus]

I agree I'm underwhelmed, the bare head is particularly poor tbh. Still gonna hit me right in the wallet...

wait...

you're underwhelmed and you're STILL going to buy them?

No wonder GW can raise prices with impunity!

Personally, as a BA player and no particular fan of the SM aesthetic, especially the HH era look - I think these things are stinking piles of excrement. I expect better from FW. Of course as a BA player I'm used to disappointment when it comes to the non-core services from GW. There hasn't been a single decent Black Library BA novel ever.

[Brakkart]

Is it just me or does the un-helmeted head look more than a little bit like Peter Capaldi? I just can't un-see it.

[Kirsten]

I don't understand what people want, these are standard conversion kits for blood angels, not bling suits for elite units. they were never going to be more ornate than this, and it would be really weird if they were.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I think they are quite ornate for line troopers.

[Asymmetrical Xeno]

Yeah, I got to agree with the above 2 comments, their unique units, primarch, contempter ect will most probably be more ornate and stylised whenever that stuff gets done.

[Psychosplodge]

wait...

you're underwhelmed and you're STILL going to buy them?

No wonder GW can raise prices with impunity!

Personally, as a BA player and no particular fan of the SM aesthetic, especially the HH era look - I think these things are stinking piles of excrement. I expect better from FW. Of course as a BA player I'm used to disappointment when it comes to the non-core services from GW. There hasn't been a single decent Black Library BA novel ever.

I've got a big pile of mk3 boarding marines, I'll buy the shoulder pads (i'm happy with those) And a single set of helmets for some variety, probably shave the filigree off and leave the blood drops on - it's what I did to the tacticals. I'm disappointed in the torsos as I was hoping for more legion symbol(like the bottom left one) and less filigree. I won't be getting them, but they've what's disappointed me the most. But yeah I didn't explain myself properly, underwhelmed was just my initial reaction - some of which was obviously down to what I'd been hoping for.

You not a fan of Eisenhorn then?

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I don't understand what people want, these are standard conversion kits for blood angels, not bling suits for elite units. they were never going to be more ornate than this, and it would be really weird if they were.

They're the opposite. They're too ornate. I wanted symbols not filigree.

[RGilbert26]

If I was doing BA I'd just use the plastic BA Tactical Squad box for standard troops.

[Dalleron]

wait...

you're underwhelmed and you're STILL going to buy them?

No wonder GW can raise prices with impunity!

Personally, as a BA player and no particular fan of the SM aesthetic, especially the HH era look - I think these things are stinking piles of excrement. I expect better from FW. Of course as a BA player I'm used to disappointment when it comes to the non-core services from GW. There hasn't been a single decent Black Library BA novel ever.

This is why the forum needs a like button. Anyhoo, unless you're a BA player, these appear meh.

[Defenestratus]

This is why the forum needs a like button. Anyhoo, unless you're a BA player, these appear meh.

I am a BA player and I don't think they look nice.

I should moderate my tone a bit - I don't like these things but only because they just looked phoned in. They took a generic set of HH era power armor Mk WhateverMcPants and just copy and pasted the BA emblems on it.

Doesn't really look inspired to me. The BA tac box at least had some torso that were really nice - like the one with the embedded chalice on the chest. Helmets with a unique, distinct feel to them amongst the 40k marine line - I just don't see that with these BA kits.

[Kirsten]

Doesn't really look inspired to me. The BA tac box at least had some torso that were really nice - like the one with the embedded chalice on the chest. Helmets with a unique, distinct feel to them amongst the 40k marine line - I just don't see that with these BA kits.

but then that is the point, this is 30k not 40k. 40k plastic sets have the advantage of being able to draw from loads of marks of armour and thousands of years of variation. Of course heresy armour looks like a slight variation of mkIV, that is the point.

[Mr Mystery]

There is that.

At that point in time, a Marine's armour was a matter of mass production. It wasn't until later they became revered Relics of the Chapter/Legion, so a more utilitarian approach suits.

As others have said - it's the Legion elites and uniques that need the ponci game up.

[spagunk]

They didn't seem to have a problem making nice "Generic" armors for Ultramarines

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Ultramarines-MKIV-Praetorian-Heads-Torsos
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Ultramarines-Invictarii-Heads-Torsos

[Patrick Boyle]

They didn't seem to have a problem making nice "Generic" armors for Ultramarines

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Ultramarines-MKIV-Praetorian-Heads-Torsos
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Ultramarines-Invictarii-Heads-Torsos

Invictarii and Praetorians aren't rank and file 'generic' legionnaires like the Blood Angel kits though. And that said there's not a whole lot different between the detail of the BA stuff and the Ultramarine Praetorian kits anyway.

[Erik Setzer]

At that point in time, a Marine's armour was a matter of mass production. It wasn't until later they became revered Relics of the Chapter/Legion, so a more utilitarian approach suits.

Pretty much around the same time Marines went from being the guys leading the crusade against humanity's enemy and being kind of "front-line soldiers" (albeit extremely good ones) to being practically gods in everyone's eyes.

I really like that in the 30K universe, the Imperium doesn't seem as messed up with revering everything. In 40K I feel like people even pray to the Holy Imperial Porcelain Throne (the toilet).

[Defenestratus]

There is that.

At that point in time, a Marine's armour was a matter of mass production. It wasn't until later they became revered Relics of the Chapter/Legion, so a more utilitarian approach suits.

As others have said - it's the Legion elites and uniques that need the ponci game up.

Just because its mass produced doesn't mean it has to look bad.

Steve Jobs would fire designers and engineers for taking the point of view you have here :P

[spagunk]

Invictarii and Praetorians aren't rank and file 'generic' legionnaires like the Blood Angel kits though. And that said there's not a whole lot different between the detail of the BA stuff and the Ultramarine Praetorian kits anyway.

I wasn't referring to the fluff. If you, as an ultramarine player, want to deck out your 30k marines, you log into Forgeworld and pick up UM themed torsos. They are nicely sculpted, have legion icons actually ON the chest pieces. You go to do the same for BA and you get what? An eggplant wrapped in filigree on two torsos and a weird skull thing? BA and Iron Warriors(more so than the rest) were pretty shafted in the embellishment department this time around.

[Psychosplodge]

Just because its mass produced doesn't mean it has to look bad.

Steve Jobs would fire designers and engineers for taking the point of view you have here :P

That's because apple is about form over function.

[Defenestratus]

That's because apple is about form over function.

And what do you consider nipple-armor? :P

[Psychosplodge]

They openly revere the "Emperor's Angels" by the 41M I don't think there's any question of it :D

[Wolfshade]

And what do you consider nipple-armor? :P

It is a little know fact that the apex of the chest plate is an inherent design flaw and is a massive weakness. The (bat)nipple is an unapproved modification to attempt to re-enforce that point, in the same way that the heresey shoulder pads have the blobs on.

[Haighus]

It is a little know fact that the apex of the chest plate is an inherent design flaw and is a massive weakness. The (bat)nipple is an unapproved modification to attempt to re-enforce that point, in the same way that the heresey shoulder pads have the blobs on.
A pair of reinforcing monomolecular studs? I like it :D

[Kirsten]

now you are being silly. they are clearly analogue vox controls.

[Wolfshade]

now you are being silly. they are clearly analogue vox controls.

Comments like that get you sent to alaska

[Psychosplodge]

now you are being silly. they are clearly analogue vox controls.

No the left one is the on/off/speed setting for the groinal attachment.