Horus Heresy Traitor Overseer Consul

[Lord Marshal]

Where there's a whip, there's a way.

 

Edited January 2 by Lord Marshal

[darkhorse0607]

Yep. Love that

 

Still wish it wasn't mkvi but it is what it is

[Ammonius]

Well that's fantastic.

[Redcomet]

That is very very cool

[StrangerOrders]

That head is going to get stolen for SO much stuff lol.

 

I can almost see the WB folks in the audience drooling.

 

The Whip looks interesting, especially with EC in the works its interesting to see how much GW is doing the coiled up look.

[crimsondave]

I will have one of those in midnight clad.

[No Foes Remain]

Please GW I don't want to wait 4 months for this only for it to be out of stock 2 seconds later....

[Robbienw]

Clearly a trendsetter in regards to the future look of chaos space marines!

[LSM]

Definitely picking one up for my EC.

[Khulu]

That helmet is awesome!

[Vassakov]

Oh I love that, and I've got some traitor Auxila/Militia to support my Word Bearers on the list of projects so this is basically perfect as far as I'm concerned.

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

I like it. It's a really good model.  An excellent transition between a traitor legionary and a chaos space marine. And has an incredible Cthonian touch.

Specially,I love the bare head option.

 

Anyway,even though it's a great miniature, snd as someone pointed in blusky, it's a bit weird have a traitor version and a loyalist one, each one with official miniature,when there are others consul like (and praetor like) options still without official miniature,since a lot of time.

 

Yes,yes I know it's a quiteunpopular opinion,  but it's my personal opinion. And I'm not the only one who thinks that. .

Edited January 2 by Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf

[apologist]

Like the other Overseer, a lovely model – my only slight regret is the continued distinction between rebels (traitors) and loyalists in terms of models. While I very much appreciate Legion-specific models as a way to showcase the particular aesthetics of different factions, I also really liked the 'moral greyness' of a civil war, where it was at least vaguely reasonable that a neutral party might choose to throw their lot in with either party because of politics. Having specifically loyalist and traitor models – particularly for a role like this – makes it all seem a bit more like the same ol' 'goodies* and baddies' set up we have in 40k.

 

It's also inconstent with the Legion Praetors, which took my preferred approach – while one is 'good-coded' and the other 'evil-coded', they're sold as the neutral 'Legion Praetor with [weapon]'. A niggle, more than anything else. They look nice and easy to convert, and I'm sure there's a salesy reason to have them labelled as such... just seems a shame to lose the opportunity for a bit of imagination and subtlety.

 

I would have preferred to have both models released with options for marking them as a loyalist or traitor (such as helmets or shoulder pads), which I think would have worked better in any case. Just ask yourself which of the two base bodies would look more fitting in (e.g.) an Emperor's Children force and which in an Iron Hands force?

 

On the plus side, I love the way the two look alongside the other, each exhorting their respective minions onwards – great design there. 

 

 

*'baddies and worse baddies'?

Edited January 2 by apologist

[Indy Techwisp]

Well they've pushed this article to the head of the page, so that's all we're getting for today...

[Xenith]

Hell yes. Awesome model. Though I agree with Apologist above, I prefer more of a blank canvas and let the modelling/painting show the allegiance. 

[Wormwoods]

22 minutes ago, apologist said:

I would have preferred to have both models released with options for marking them as a loyalist or traitor (such as helmets or shoulder pads), which I think would have worked better in any case. Just ask yourself which of the two base bodies would look more fitting in (e.g.) an Emperor's Children force and which in an Iron Hands force?

 

Fully agree. It seems like some of the kits they're putting out for HH are intended to represent chaps from LATE in the Heresy, where a lot of that ambiguity has been eroded by all the fun mutations and edgy affects the traitors start to indulge in. I don't hate that, though it does leave you with traitors who can get away with using loyalist bits and bodies, but loyalists who probably aren't going to get away with that in reverse. 

 

The Iron Warrior in clean, late-period plate is going to draw less attention than an Imperial Fist with a big, dumb demon hat on, and all the spikes. 

 

Anyway, for all that, I quite like the lad! Look forward to seeing it in 40K armies as a Dark Apostle or Master of Possession.

[Lay]

That helmet will look neat in green

[Naryn]

You can't fool me, GW! I know an Astral Claw when I see one!

[WrathOfTheLion]

Very nice model, will have to pick up one for my Sons of Horus and my Word Bearers.

 

I think the visuals they're going for with some of them is more mid-Heresy, whereas I think of late Heresy as being even more corrupted than this, basically CSM. Especially in the case of miniatures like this, that is perfectly fine, given they probably wouldn't have been using Overseers in the early Heresy (Istvaan, etc.).

[Corswain]

Nice.

 

And Heresy Thursday is still happening. Also nice. Let's hope it keeps going for a while.

I'm actually starting to crave some of the plastic tanks they've promised.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

3 hours ago, Lord Marshal said:

Where there's a whip, there's a way.

 

"LUNCH TIME IS OVER! GET BACK TO SPLITTING ROCKS, MOUTH BREATHERS!"

[Marshal Rohr]

Great model

[roryokane]

Really cool model - pretty much bang on what whoever it was who showed some art from the Rulebooks predicted. Feels like model ripe for conversion too, if you're heretically-inclined! :P

[lansalt]

Yeah, this one was first teased as a returning SoH character from Massacre in the Beta-Garmon campaign book:

 

 

[Marshal Loss]

Awesome sculpt. An automatic purchase for my heresy EC