plastic sisters?

[taikishi]

Understood. Scarily, this conversation has caused me to spend a lot of time building forces based on the magic numbers of each Chaos god down to points costs. >.> Makes me really wish there were plastic Sisters to experiment on schemes with. :(

 

I am looking at grabbing some Basilean Sisters from Mantic Games, though, then chopping off their flails (replaced with chainswords and the like) and putting them on round bases to turn them into Repentia since I don't play at a GW store. Here is the link if you've not seen them before.

 

Thoughts?

[00branchow]

I concur with Furyou Miko. They're trying too hard to make the models attractive. If they were more like the artwork I've seen of the Sisters I'd think about collecting them (If I collected SoB.). The images I like are sexy in an armored, sensible fashion. The Sisters are proof you don't need a plunging neckline in your armor to be attractive.

[Jacinda]

Confidence is always sexy.

[*Furyou Miko]

Well, unless you're over-confident. Overconfidence just makes you irritating. >>

 

I like those Basilean Sisters in themselves, but I'm not sure they really fit with the Sisters aesthetic.

[taikishi]

I'm just trying to find something that works for now for Repentia, even if they aren't great mechanically at the moment. I'd rather not pay GW's prices, and even the Repentia auctions on eBay are more than I'm willing to spend at the moment.

[Eddie Orlock]

Oh, hhear that? I'm a -sama now! hehe

Don't worry, you're still Miko-kun to me.

Actually, I ended up going with black armour to tie them in with other Sisters forces, so they look more like this;

Whereas I painted nearly the same thing because black was easier than white and nearly all of my Imperially aligned forces display blue fabrics.

 

Have we pondered the idea of Nurgloid Sisters yet in this iteration? Perhaps an order who takes to the idea of trusting their safety and to endure their enemies to the divine a wee too far. They spend their off time venerating an earlier generation of sisters who survived where the balance of the crusading army failed, perhaps?

[BitsHammer]

Nurgle represents life as much as he does death and has been known to bring cures (though they tend to be ultimately worse than the initial disease) so I think Hospitallers would be the most likely to fall to his whims.

[taikishi]

He's also the God of preserverance and survival.

 

Of course, it's funny. I used the painter last night to plot out a Nurgloid Sister and the more I worked on it the more I thought she looked like she was in camo XD

[*Furyou Miko]

Traditional Nurgle colours are ceramic-white, tainted by puss and ooze.

That said, get your heresy out of my forum. We have a separate section for this evil.

(Or, more politely, please redirect talk of human chaos forces to the Lost and the Damned forum.)

[taikishi]

My apologies, Miko-sama! It was not my intent to spread Heresy but to contribute to the conversation at-hand, both on plastic Sisters and how the thread seemed to turn toward unbeknownst/unintentional worship of Chaos gods.

I do find it interesting that this, based on Google searches on Nurgle colors (because outside of greens I just was't sure) looked more like camo than anything Nurgloid, though.

Edit: Incidentally, if you find the Mantic Basileans to not fit the Sororitas aesthetic, what would you suggest for alernate Repentia?

[taikishi]

You know, it's a shame I can't find models that look like this with my weak Google-fu. I would absolutely love to convert something like that into Battle Sister units, provided I can find decent arms for weapon swaps. Would at least get me through until GW decides to do plastic Sisters, assuming they don't ultimately end up Squatted

Of course, if these ever come out I might have some hope.

[Dread]

While they are nice looking models, I agree they just don't really scream repentia but with some whittling and weapons changes and some putty work, you just may pull it off. I have been reading thru this and have kept my distance but I feel like the discussion has strayed away from the main topic. So back to the topic at hand. Most of the sisters players that are diehard and true, have had this come up for years. Back when the answer boyz on the phone line were still around, they would tell us that the plastics are on the way, be patient, it's worth the wait. So most of us here have waited with not much to look forward to yet but with the way GW is releasing models left and right, don't be surprised when they do pop out. I mean look at the DE, they just popped up, few new models and wham. GK before, no new models but a book and bundles. When the time is right and since they are getting close to having all the dex's re-worked, I believe they will arrive. Faith!

[Spacefrisian]

Just do like i did and get those fantasy High elves of Averlorn models. 100% GW if that is required for some tournaments who pay attention to that, only need those metal backpacks and some bolters.

 

Shouldnt be that hard to find some pictures of those on these boards.

[Ullr Direfang]

Taikishi, if you find those first ones every in actually model form I think every one would try to use them.

 

I keep thinking of things from the past, there have been a few armies I can think of, that have rarely been redone. Yet when they released them, people flocked to them because they did them justice. I kind of think this with sisters. I know it doesn't 100% look that way, but what if they are trying to make something fit in, or had something kind of ready to go, yet when 6th hit, it changed too much so they had to look at how to fit things in or they had to try to update stuff to fit in better. So in an attempt to make some noise and give some people a slight update they did the WD codex, then the ebook. Just look at BA, I would say GW released them in hardbacked first due to them being marines, and well marines sell plus they can always referance the new smurf book that comes out every year or two. Sisters would build a new fan base when released, but the investment would be more of a risk, so they want it good. Yet again, with FW stuff being let in now, perhaps they wanted to make it slightly more unique, so pushed it back again. I still think they should put something out. Hell if they started to make a plastice kit of just one ore two things, Canoness, or a sister squad box and sepharium, then they could show some moving forward, which would probably give people more hope.

 

Then again with how the release stuff now, they would probably just wait for the 3/4 week release kind of thing and go with that.

[march10k]

Oh, hhear that? I'm a -sama now! hehe

 

 

お祖母様でしょうか？または雪女様？  Lol...just kidding.

[foxlight713]

 

I keep thinking of things from the past, there have been a few armies I can think of, that have rarely been redone. Yet when they released them, people flocked to them because they did them justice. I kind of think this with sisters. I know it doesn't 100% look that way, but what if they are trying to make something fit in, or had something kind of ready to go, yet when 6th hit, it changed too much so they had to look at how to fit things in or they had to try to update stuff to fit in better. So in an attempt to make some noise and give some people a slight update they did the WD codex, then the ebook. Just look at BA, I would say GW released them in hardbacked first due to them being marines, and well marines sell plus they can always referance the new smurf book that comes out every year or two. Sisters would build a new fan base when released, but the investment would be more of a risk, so they want it good. Yet again, with FW stuff being let in now, perhaps they wanted to make it slightly more unique, so pushed it back again. I still think they should put something out. Hell if they started to make a plastice kit of just one ore two things, Canoness, or a sister squad box and sepharium, then they could show some moving forward, which would probably give people more hope.

 

Then again with how the release stuff now, they would probably just wait for the 3/4 week release kind of thing and go with that.

 

IRC in rumors that the dark eldar were pretty risky to be redone, but when they came out DE sold quite well and their 7th edition codex is now available for pre-order.

 

Though not too long ago ehh...one of the main GW studio people...said that they want to do SoB and would like to do it to a similar way to DE.  The release of Grey Knights was also a pretty good success IRC with really good plastic.  It's a shame it only took GK's a few years to go from metal to plastic where as the sisters are on...(1997) 20 years now with only (99% - Immolator is in plastic, exorcists is a 50/50 kit) metal models.  They also said that the motivation to do the sisters isn't all that high and if they are done they wan't to do SoB justice of a good release like DE, or what ever reason it was as too why they haven't gotten around to SoB yet.

 

The thing is with 2 re-releases ( I don't know about fantasy but I hope any re-boots WHF got were good ) that did quite well in 40k.  There should be plenty of evidence that the SoB re-boot will do sufficiently good and bring in to players for a SoB army or players adding a SoB army to their collection.

[taikishi]

By the way, in case anyone hasn't seen, the following models/units are now listed as "sold out" or pulled from the GW site

 

* Adepta Sororitas Command Squad

* Sister Superior with chain sword and bolter

* Seraphim 2

* Storm Bolter 1

* Meltagun 1

* Flamer 2

[WarriorFish]

It is likely nothing, but keep an eye on it anyway just in case :)

[BitsHammer]

Sold out isn't really an issue since all they need to do is run another batch, but if they're no longer listed then they're likely gone for good. Fastest way to get a response is to just email customer service and ask. If they're still in the system they should be able to tell you.

[Grotsmasha]

It seems GWOZ has different Sisters listed as Sold Out, also this looks different to the Out Of Stock items, these are greyed out with a HUGE SOLD OUT on them.

 

http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y464/Grotsmasha/IMAG0538_zpssbvv9cg0.jpghttp://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y464/Grotsmasha/IMAG0539_zps1myjfmxt.jpg

 

Cheers,

Jono

[WarriorFish]

The agents of chaos can be anywhere, be vigilant and keep your flamers or wallets to hand (depending on the outcome )!

Given what the rumour mill has said, nothing can be expected this year methinks but it's also entirely plausible that GW just runs out of a model and leaves it. Or needs time to start it up again, or whatever else they may do being such a fickle beast sometimes. All we can do is watch and wait - a couple of things we should be very good at by now

[BitsHammer]

Right now I'd be fine with them doing what they did with the DE: just translate the existing models to plastic with no real changes. Anything at this point to keep the range from being killed off.

[taikishi]

Of what I listed, only the Command Sqaud is showing the big gray "Sold Out" image. The others are no longer on the website at all, and their alternative models still have "Battle Sister with Flamer 2", "Battle Sister with Meltagun 2", etc. for their descriptions. I'm more concerned than hopeful on this matter, but only time will tell for certain.

[chaplain belisarius]

Waits patiently,hopefully..