Why such fetish with plastic?

Beyond that, its a joke of a kit, providing only one signature weapon when a whole squad can be equipped with it and providing enough parts to have only 3 out of 8 members with something extra to diversify them as sculpts from standard chaos marines.

Why would anyone pick this up is beyond me.

And they only come in 8 models because GW will not redesign the chaos marines sprue if they can avoid it for the next decade.

The unit sizes are bit odd. The Thousand Son and Plague Marine boxes, are 9 and 7 respectivly which are the sacred numbers of Tzeentch and Nurgle. Slannesh’s sacred number is 6 so a box of 8 has just been randomly plucked out the air it seems. Khornes number is 8 so having 12 in a box is another odd choice. With the Khorne Berserker box if I remember right they were released after the initial 10 Space Marine multipart plastic box and priced the same. As the Berserkers didn’t come with a heavy weapon, special weapon, or champion option… Read more »

Oh gods, not wanting to make a post that ended up rediculously long even longer but… I agree that when the Chaos Marine sprue was redesigned they should have set it out so you had a basic parts sprue (legs, torsos etc…) then one of 4 options sprues depending on the set. So the Standard Marines would have a sprue with basic helmets, heavy weapons, special weapons and so on, Noise Marines would have styled helmets and sonic weapons, Berzerkers would have helmets and Chainaxes, Thousand Sons would have helmets, tabards and some sorcerer parts. Even Nurgle could be worked… Read more »

These models are nice but i prefer the old noise marines, the ones where the sonic weapons are in the shape of guitars! and i prefer the mad heads one i think had a huge grin with a demonic type tougne stick out of its mouth!

In a way GW fixed this set by selling sonic blaster bitz online. The reson why you don’t see them on the table is because they are way over priced for what the do.

To start I am on the opposing camp, that of metal miniatures, so my opinion might not be liked much. I firmly believe the “plastic mania” is something GW carefully cultivated over the years to make the production of plastics not only acceptable from the community, but also demanded, separating them from their opposition who, in their minds at least, could not follow them. So what is the advantage of plastic, for starters its cheap, moulds are on the expensive side, but will virtually last forever in contrast of the RTV moulds for metal miniatures that need replacement every so… Read more »

There is way too much metal in GW. Eldar are the worst for it. All the elite, hq choices and some of the troops are metal. The only plastic in my army are dire avengers and tanks.

I have no problem with metal, as long as they are not too big. The hive Tyrant was a nightmare to assemble.
I prefer plastic for conversion work. It is a lot easier to cut and shape.
But trying to get plastic and metal hybrids to go together is a pain.

Noise Marines clearly listen to & play Rammstein… After all, they are metal.

those noise marines are fairly old models (hence the metal guns) but you can buy sets of the guns on the web-site so you can make units of them easily enough (assuming someone hasn’t already posted about them)

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1400035

You get 5 sonic blasters and one blastmaster.

I do really like the noise marines, all 4 of them… this box set seriosly suck! you get parts for making 4 noise marines and rest of em are regular CSM, its seriosly broken… according to the codex, each noise marine may be equipped with a sonic blaster, but when you look into the box… Nope, one marine may be equipped with the sonic blaster, and there is like 3 noise marine head options, rest of them are regular CSM… seriosly GW make a new full plastic 10 man kit for the different marines… tabletop, the noise marines are awsome… Read more »

Of course they scream and make sounds during battle the name Noise marines must come from somewhere

In my opinion one of the worst cult troops kits. Why? Because you only get 2 of the Noise Weapons. It’s easier just to get the Sonic weapons upgrade bitz or convert them yourself. Though that Sword and Backpack are nice.