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The new Archaon model is terrible!
« on: November 29, 2015, 09:52:35 AM »


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What the hell is that thing? Seriously? This Dragon looks like it's in the process of tripping on a banana heel. Is nothing sacred for GW? Nothing?
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Re: New Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2015, 10:53:52 AM »
All of the models for age of shitmar have been terrible, so not sure what you were expecting.
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Re: New Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2015, 11:10:42 AM »
All of the models for age of shitmar have been terrible, so not sure what you were expecting.

This one is just... I don't know. I'm not even a Chaos fan, but the old Archaon always looked cool and intimidating to me, like a real northern king who commands respect. This one is just riddicolous. Almost as bad as the Stormcast Sailor Moon.
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2015, 11:42:43 AM »
It is tacky. But as tacky is the sign of the times, many will like it.
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2015, 12:17:56 PM »
I can't even make out anything.

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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2015, 12:19:34 PM »
I can't even make out anything.

OH GOD WHAT WILL THEY DO TO VALTEN?!

Maybe he'll ride the Ghal-Maraz like some fugged up version of AoS Baba Yaga?

Anyway here's a trailer for this... abomination.

https://youtu.be/cKBVsSZxPeY
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2015, 12:29:54 PM »
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2015, 12:31:35 PM »
This was, of course, already discussed elsewhere:
http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php/topic,50871.msg966991.html#msg966991

Missed that one. Aw, shucks...

Besides this model's so shitty that another thread was totally warranted. :-P
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2015, 02:22:00 PM »
I don't get the figure.  As an example ... what is it trying to be with its three heads? Oh, right, probably has a fourth, too.  And then there is the idea of the ring in one of those head's nose, talk about a total turnoff, it doesn't fit what a Chaos creature would do, and certainly not a Khorne creature.  Plus, look at the size of that model, I can only imagine the cost! :icon_eek:
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2015, 02:24:55 PM »
Merely 130,00 Euro...
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2015, 02:31:12 PM »
Hmmm ... bit too much as expected. :icon_lol:

If I want a leader for a Khorne army, then I'll purchase a different figure, and for less than that.
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2015, 04:59:00 PM »
Droghar, the mount of Archaon ate pices of the 3 chaos gods champions send to slay archaon turning it in this monster... or so says the new wd
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2015, 05:10:37 PM »
Uh boy.  Makes me wonder how long before this stuff goes the way of SoC.  Not that it will.

Then I got to imagining the effort to paint this thing, eek!  Yet then I was reminded of how supposably only 20% of GW clients are gamers anyway (at least according to who was spewing it), and if it's a real statistic, then began to wonder when that statistic was actually taken.  Maybe at a time when the number of gamers had already reduced to the point where GW was deciding to blow up the Olde World and go with ... whatever the new world is called.

Who got me started on this crud again? :icon_lol:
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2015, 07:46:54 PM »
its $200!!
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2015, 07:49:45 PM »
165 USD, or 280 AUD.
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2015, 10:35:58 PM »
It might have been a 'meh' issue when warhammer fantasy was around but since it was eviscerated these crappy models have become more offensive. The suits that run gw now don't realise that the reason I have painted over two hundred stirland empire models isn't that buying gw models makes me wet, it's that the immersive background is compelling and my collection of blokes who drink their ale hot, wear shoes infrequently and throw pigs at strangers are far more interesting than sigmarines clad in sigmarite sent by sigmar to have massive calves and tiny heads

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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2015, 11:17:52 PM »
I think the part I like the least about Archaon himself is those weird edgy oversized horns. I also liked it better when his sword didn't have a gaping seethrough mouth and the mount is just terrible.

The old Archaon had a really commanding aspect to it and I liked how it looked like one of the classic Napoleon paintings.


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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2015, 11:25:57 PM »
Not bad only £25 per head or £25 per leg. Not a model for me.

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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2015, 11:32:10 PM »
It might have been a 'meh' issue when warhammer fantasy was around but since it was eviscerated these crappy models have become more offensive. The suits that run gw now don't realise that the reason I have painted over two hundred stirland empire models isn't that buying gw models makes me wet, it's that the immersive background is compelling and my collection of blokes who drink their ale hot, wear shoes infrequently and throw pigs at strangers are far more interesting than sigmarines clad in sigmarite sent by sigmar to have massive calves and tiny heads
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #19 on: November 30, 2015, 02:46:30 AM »
Anyone know how big this model is compared to the Nagash model?  It says he is mounted on a 160mm round base!
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2015, 09:16:11 AM »
It is said to be 33cm high.
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #21 on: November 30, 2015, 10:36:46 AM »
Have they made any new models apart from the space marines yet?

I hope this shit is epically failing.
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #22 on: November 30, 2015, 10:40:08 AM »
They made a bunch of huge Khorne warriors.

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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #23 on: November 30, 2015, 12:00:19 PM »
I still can't believe they blew up Warhammer Fantasy for that.
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Re: The new Archaon model is terrible!
« Reply #24 on: November 30, 2015, 12:11:22 PM »
the only chance they had for me personally was releasing models so good I couldn't say no, for the "new" factions. (ala the AdMech models for 40k). But they've only released space marines.

You can't simply sell the great new hammerers and long beards and call them "duarger" or whatever shitass name they thought up for them.

Didn't the just push the Seraphon stuff recently? Yet they're not Seraphon models, they're lizardmen models.
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