so. I got hold of the cadian shocktroop sprue...
sigh...
should have listened to my gut instinct before I did...
the dreaded scale issue is exactly as I feared. they tower over my filey and eoforwich guard by a good head and a half.
seriously GW, why truescale the marines with primaris and then make everything else bigger too?
I only bought these as I was assured that they are the same scale as the orignals too, ARGH! its annoying...
I shall try to keep the rant to a minimum but I will say this too; take a good, hard, long-old look at the models on the box. because thats what you're building. I honestly think its designed specifically to make conversion very
very tireslomely difficult.
headswaps aside.
thats one thing that will be easy and espescially with the anvil stuff as the heads and sockets share the ball/socket joint design...
I cant help but wonder if this is part of a gw plan to release resin upgrade headswaps like the HH marines kits or if its just so you can use the multitude of heads across the new cadian range on essentially any cadian mini.
the gear/nades etc... is indeed all modelled on as the sprue pics showed and the scale of the gubbins (bottles, pockets etc...) versus the minis is more akin to boltaction mini's truescale than gw's somewhat comicly scaled stuff of old.
some might be pleased with this but, again, I find myself dissapointed to see the character of imperial guard being lost, I'll admit its cartoonesque but its how evrything in 40k has been for years.
even the new DKOK didnt stray from this too far.
its essentially resulted in a bunch of models that are somewhat at odds with a lot of the other human-scaled minis in the 40k range.
seriously, go put a gs-cult guy next to the new cadians. He's very short, no..?
the kasrkins are even worse, being more like the palanite enforcer scale but thats another issue entirely and one I've more than bored you all with before now.
I used one thing from it. thats all:
The grenade launcher was just the thing to improve the one I had in my squad (formerly using the dkok one) I found I rather liked the chunkier look and decided to also add the old "spare drum" pocket from the old cadian sprue but only had an old painted one. worry ye not it'll look fine painted. (FYI this no longer exists on the the new sprue so go get them wile you can before the old sprue is likely gone forever... unless they keep them for generic/non cadian who knows?)
the backpack is from the atalan jackals and is just an excuse for a chunky backpack to match the overall big-ol-lump this model has become. It makes him stand out more from the rank and file, which is nice as the dkok breach loader he had before was a little too subtle for my liking...
Look, you know I'm an experianced modeller and in truth, I could make it work. but why would I bother spending all that money and time gs-ing the the livng daylights out of bad joins and repairing cut-off sections when I could simply buy stuff from anvil that's already the right design, more importantly the right scale and, of course its 100% poseable already, then just add the kit and nades and pockets where I want it anyway...
aside from raiding GW sprues for specific 40k bits (like the dkok lasguns/backpacks marine pockets/grenades) I'm thinking it's anvil or bust for me where guard are concerned now...
oh yeah, talking of anvil theres this too to show:
a wip character for the FDT...
for those interested, I think I shall be selling the remains of the sprue (minus its nade-launcher obviously). I know I could use more from it but I'm so dissapointed and ashamed to think I bought into the hype that everytime I peruse it to come up with something I just put the sprue away again five minutes later.
I'll wait till I get paint on stuff again before showing more methinks...
thanks again for all the support folks!
