Why the hell doesn’t GW sell tatical heads either in bulk or in a pack? This would fix the issue of people hating on Primaris if they just gave us the option to use the older Mark heads.
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Why the hell doesnt GW sell tatical heads either in bulk or in a pack?
Chapterhouse.
That's not what that means.
Simple lack of executive will.
You're lucky they even give you separate heads at all still. Well, usually.
would this be enough to remove the kneeguards? can you get a good "angle of attack"? how hard is it to follow the kneepads curvature?
Black person just use a fresh x-acto blade
Black person i have bad experience with cuting into plastik
so no unexpected difficulties, thank you for your post
this calls for a webm with a timer in the background to prove your point, but nontheless thank you
>Black person i have bad experience with cuting into plastik
I literally just cut myself 0.7 of an inch into the head of my thumb. God that was moronic of me.
The knee guards aren't particularly thick plastic, and after clipping anything you'd just use a file/sandpaper to smooth it back into shape.
Intercessor kits have their shin guards as separate peices, it’s a brain dead 60 second operation to cut and file them down. Assault intercessors have the shin plates built in, you have to be a dad but more careful. I’d say 120 seconds.
Always said this. My least favorite thing about Primaris is that they lack the iconic Space Marine look.
I’d buy them.
The reason they got rid of these is because the look like Darth Vader. Too close to someone else's trademark. Why would they bring them back.
They literally just released a new veteran kit with one of these
Better without the knee guards whatever they call em and without the modern rail system on the bolter
Shocking how just getting rid of the moronic knee guards makes the design 10x better
games workshop have forgotten that simplicity is key, models are too cluttered now, i would get rid of the raised chest pecs too.
>GW have forgot simplicity is key
Lol. It’s amazing to me how many of people’s gripes just aren’t based in reality at all. Just say you don’t like the knees, no need to make stuff up to justify what is only an opinion
Remember how the world works these days, anon. You can't just have an opinion anymore. You need to be objectively correct while everyone else is wrong or you're not hecking based.
What the frick have you been smoking? It's always been like this. Especially on Ganker.
Drill your holes
ever tried to ramove the kneeguars? is it possible to do it smoothly?
I’m surprised to find people in this thread feel strongly about them, I like them
those are probably the ONLY good upgrades that primaris brought with them
I don't know, it depends on the model.
Where's the head from?
Looks like a Stormcast Sequitors kit, or one of those other ones. A lot of Stormcast kits have decent heads.
What the frick is the point of the knee gaurd? It looks out of place and it serves no purpose.
To look cool.
The kneeguard is by far the most egregious problem with Primaris marines. You can swap the heads but most of the sculpts make cutting off the knee guards impossible.
Wouldn't a dremel work?
Makes them look like age of sigmar shite and serve no purpose, there is such a thing as detail being overdone to the point it looks cluttered, especially with such a small scale.
They made one, as a throwback. As much as you hate it, I think a part of you know it's true within the framework of reimagining core elements of the IP to make it all legally distinct, a la 'Astra Militarum'. I just can't see them removing something so fundamentally recognisable to 40K unless there was an ulterior motive.
>They made one, as a throwback.
They're also being used for the new Dark Angels veterans. GW also rereleased the Space Marine Heroes blindboxes last year. There's new JoyToy figures coming this year, including jump pack marines with MkVII heads.
Frick, GW *still* sell the old(er) Tactical Marines kit. They're very obviously not concerned that, after almost 35 years, Lucasfilm are going to suddenly go, "hey! You can't do space helmets with angry mouths!"
Why do the still this helmet for the Dark Angels but no other marines can get this helmet? This is fricking dumb.
No sane person would buy a tactical kit at $60 for just bits.
>Why do the still this helmet for the Dark Angels but no other marines can get this helmet?
It's in the generic Sternguard kit
You get 1 helmet and it’s a veteran helmet not normal one.
Yeah, just like you'd get the occasional beaky in manlet kits.
You at least got 2-3 and 7-10 helmets. Not just 1.
I figure the idea was to try and keep Primaris products clearly visually distinct from old Marine products to encourage sales of the new kits, and now that they're fully established they can start diversifying the look of kits beyond the stock template
>They're also being used for the new Dark Angels veterans.
Even in that kit it still just the 1.
Mk7 helmet is just a token gesture, just like beakies have been.
It's nothing but tokenism and GW adding them into the kits to give a small wink and a nod for the old 40k.
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You're the only dumb moron who keeps saying this. No they don't. They never have, not for twenty years they hadn't. Just because you think it doesn't mean you're right. They wanted to make something more updated and liked an older design they had, so updated it rather than ruining something that has been ICONIC and INFLUENTIAL.
You simple-minded fool.
Its this.
The mouse was ascendant but has fallen.
They had that helmet for like 30 years. I doubt now they suddenly were like "Wait...looks like Vader, we need to ditch this.
Times change.
Its preemptive ip protection for their Astartes Helmutium Protectincatior Maximus MK XII™. Same as all the other rebranding they've done since chapterhouse.
>all these reasons as to why it was changed
>bruh chapterhouse
>bruh star wars
>bruh it must be because they hate it
The real reason why GW gave mk10 a new helmet is just because.
They wanted to make new marines and a armor for the new era of 40k, so they made an armor that just combined aspects of all the previous ones.
It's the reason why it has the mk4 helmet, it's still recognizable to the franchise if you aren't a sub 60 IQ brainlet.
>It's the reason why it has the mk4 helmet, it's still recognizable to the franchise
Yeah, I always just assumed that the helmets specifically were a response to the popularity of the HH novels and the strong sales of Betrayal at Calth
If this was the issue, they'd have been cease and desist'd a loooong time ago, brother
The amount of people who are autistically hung up about tactical helmets are too small of a market for them to care about, and then the vast majority of that already small subsection likely have dozens of spare marine heads in their house or have moved on to Horus Heresy for classic marines. For the incredibly small remaining group of people who want those helmets and don't have them for some reason, you have ebay and 3d printing to get you covered. So for the 6 people who are insistent on GW releasing a special box of tactical heads just for them, 5 of them who are here and 1 is likely screaming into the void in a local shop's Facebook page, why the frick would GW cater to them?
"That looka quite Vader-like"
Disney
they want you to buy the full kits silly
up until 20 years ago GW did sell individual sprues if people wanted to buy the models that way. I am guessing it lost them money and complicated they online and mail in orders a lot.
Take me back lads. I have so much left to order.
This this this this. You would think GW hates all these bit resellers they would just make it so you could buy bits on their website.
Why would GW hate bits re-sellers, these are literally paying customers. It’s 3d printing they hate.
It will be easy easy easy money for them. No idea why they haven’t sold them yet. The only way is to buy the new Sternguard which has 2 or spend $60 oft a tactical box.
If they sold beakies separately then everyone would use them.
I should have a lot of them in my bitz box, suppose there would be a lot of people with a bunch of spare heads.
>Why the hell doesn’t GW sell tatical heads either in bulk or in a pack?
More profitable to just keep letting whales pay for entire boxes to get a few bits.
The knee-fins, backpacks, and comically large bolters also look completely moronic. Some head swaps does not fix the core Primaris design.
The backpacks are the exact same.
no, they aren't. they're larger and more bulbous. also, in the tactical marine box you get a bunch of small variation in the backpacks like some have skulls and some have other icons instead. The primaris ones are all the same identical dome circle bit.
What kit is that mark 8 from?
The Deathwatch squad, who are all kitted out in full Mark 8
are they true scale? never tried the kit
truescale is a meme for morons who can't get over their phobia of fun, chunky heroic scale models.
Roughly nu-scale, yeah. Taller than a Tac Squad marine, shorter than an Intercessor. Around the same scale as those Marine Heroes figs
So they are still making new older helmets...WHY CANT THEY SELL GENERIC ONES ALONE?
>So they are still making new older helmets...WHY CANT THEY SELL GENERIC ONES ALONE?
That beak helmet is in the RG upgrade set. And it is specifically in the RG set because RG are known for the beak helmets.
GW will never sell mk7s on their own.
At best you'll just get the 1 token helmet in couple of kits, like GW did with beakies for decades.
GW is moving away from mk7 because it is a new era, they don't care. It is purely a corporate decision.
> GW is moving away from mk7 because it is a new era, they don't care. It is purely a corporate decision.
Source?
Because if they did you'd just make a thread saying "Why does GW overcharge so much for a pack of heads? This is bullshit." and the cycle would continue anew. The market for older helmets is low because there are decades of older helmets out there. Just go to ebay like everyone else this is not rocket science.
How much would they charge for 10 bits of a helmet? I would probably guess they would overcharge and go US$30.
>Why the hell doesn’t GW sell tatical heads either in bulk or in a pack? This would fix the issue of people hating on Primaris if they just gave us the option to use the older Mark heads.
You need to understand businesses don't make smart decisions on purpose. A suit decided that primaris are the new thing and fashymarines are le ghey, so they will never sell them because they are trying to appeal to a 'new audience' of suburban moms buying superheroes in armour for their teenage sons.
GW is not smart, if they were then Kill Team would not be so expensive and you wouldn't constantly look at the price tag of ten legionaries/marines/buttfricker space dwarfs and wonder why it costs 42 pounds sterling or whatever the frick they charge now for plastic soldiers.
Then paint is expensive too.
Of course people on /tg/ will offer all sorts of moronic alternatives, like playing a game that's only 80% as expensive as 40k or buying paints that are only 80% as expensive as citadel- which are both, still, too much for plastic army men.
GW isn't trying to make a sale, they are trying to force this down your thoat. This is why the project will not be changed until some autistic fa/tg/uy gets into GW and brings back the 'classic' 90s-2010s era heads in the 2030s. By which time the primaris heads will have been around long enough this will provoke counter-autism from the primaris enjoyers, much like how age of smegmar attracted an audience of transgender people over the past 9 years.
They could just honestly update the tactical marine box to primaris/mk6 heresy marine scale now, the tactical box is 10 years old now so due for an update, people would probably buy it too.
7 > 1 > 3 > rest
People like Primaris?
I like Primaris. I think piggyface is the worst of the helmets.
There are a few beaky helmets in Primaris kits, actually. I recently opened a kit that had *1* in it (can't remember which kit it was). Beakies are best helmets, certainly.
A few kits have some more unique Primaris helmets, but there isn't the same level of diversity as there was with ol' Stunty Marines.
>There are a few beaky helmets in Primaris kits, actually. I recently opened a kit that had *1* in it (can't remember which kit it was).
I remember the Raven Guard upgrade came with a couple of MkX beakies (i.e. beak faceplate, but with the MkX cowled earmuffs), not sure I recall seeing it in any subsequent kits though
Holy shit the faces look awful.
Yeah it's Raven Guard.
looks like a downy emo kid from a white trash neighborhood... isnt that Raven guard?
They look like Ozzy Osbourne.
Mark X is garbage for reasons well beyond the helmet. Even outside of that, you have the stupid primaris weapons. Yuck
Because they don't think they would get the desired return on investment for the capital they spend on the injection mould or the time it would occupy on production lines.
This is the reason for pretty much everything they do or don't manufacture, that's the business.