Pre-Order Burly Bullgryns & More For The Astra Militarum
April 15, 2014 by brennon
Games Workshop put up a whole bunch of pre-orders for the new Astra Militarum over the weekend. Admittedly this might have passed a few people by since it was Salute on Saturday but here they are!
We'll start things off with the Officio Prefectus Commissar which I think is a pretty awesome model. I'm not entirely sold on the stance since it looks like he's dancing but it's a great step in the right direction. I like the curved sword and I hadn't even noticed the cool bionic arm. A superb job on the painting too.
Supplementing those pitifully weak looking humans are a new host of Ogryns that are going to be charging out onto the tabletop and beating everything to a pulp. Lead by Nork Deddog (the chap at the top) we have the regular Ogryns and the armoured Bullgryns making perfect bodyguards for the likes of the Commissars.
Once again I quite like these new additions to the Astra Militarum and while a few folk have problems with their faces I think they work well. Admittedly I won't be starting a big Astra Militarum army but I am a fan of the models.
Have you ordered any?
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What a meh’ release this is. Them Bullgryns are toss. They look so stupid. The ogryns are a bit better but their dull as dishwater poses are a real wasted opportunity to animate and put some character and life into them. Nork looks ridiculous as well. Best of the bunch is the Commissar. If you plan to over charge for miniatures at least make them good. Not as GW basher but the majority of these are shite.
Personally, I think the Ogryns are alright. GW seems to be going through a period of painting stuff similar to how they used to in 2nd edition with bright colors, and unfortunately, it doesn’t really work for me this time. Maybe a more grimdark paint job would put them in a better light. I don’t really get the hate for the Bullgryns beyond maybe a few heads looking a bit silly. As a boxed set, I think you get a tonne of stuff here; the ability to make 2 different units that look pretty different to one another, in addition… Read more »
Commissar is pretty badass, nice level of detail as well. £12.50 is a rip off but with a 25% discount it’s more acceptable, despite having only a single option (an alternative bolt-pistol I believe.). Ogryns are poor, but still think it’s dependent on the faces. Suspect a lot will be going for the “Bane” masks as opposed to the horror movie heads which don’t sit well with my fond memories of other Ogryn models. Nork looks like the most “Ogryn” model there, non-Hills Have Eyes with a bit of character … and that’s not exactly a good model either. It… Read more »
As far as ogryns go, I like people’s kitbashed ogre bull versions – had a very modest go myself, which mostly revolved around fashioning a ripper gun from an autocannon and sanding/greenstuffing the pointy shoes away. (Although on reflection, I miss the pointy shoes as they remind me of Sergeant Slaughter’s turn towards Iraq in WWF during the Gulf War….oh sweet propaganda!)
Im inclined to think that the paintjobs are really not helping the GW models recently.
Of course the technical quality of the painting is great on the Taurox and the Ogryns but are they BORING or what!!!
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The painting style of GW is awful in my opinion. In the last few days some painters and modellers that I do admire have started to post pictures of their Tempestus Scions online and they look fabulous. The technical quality of GW’s plastic is the best it has ever been, but they are doing a terrible job of selling their own minis.
I’m looking forward to seeing what people make of these. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of Ogryns, but I do like the look of the bullgryns with the masks and shields.
Im on the fence with the Ogryns. They look bland and dull but I do think that with a better paint job they could be much more interesting looking. Too many large areas of flat colour at the moment.
I’m with you on this, I was never a fan of the whole Ogryn thing (Always wanted to proxy them with something else – kind of exo suit type thing)
However I do quite like the Bullgryns though!
Even at the height of my 40k fandom, I never liked the Ogryn models. And GW is continuing that tradition with the latest batch of them. I don’t believe it is just the paint job (although it doesn’t help) but the models as well. They just don’t have anything interesting going on for them. Even the character is very “meh”. The ones with the shields look kinda cool, at least the ones with the masks do. Stiff poses, but at least there is more going on than just flat surfaces. The Commissar is ok but I feel is a step… Read more »
One word for GW these days cartoony ….yes I do realize its not a real word….
Cartoony exists as a word in my world! 😀
Whats everyone talking about the paint scheme being bright. The only bright color is his weapons possible energy source and the scarf around his waist and thats white. The Ogryn are pretty much the Cadian color scheme that they used for years now. The only real bright color is the Bullgryn hazard stripping being yellow and who paints hazard not yellow! Some of you just need to give it a break and stop hating over little things. We all get it you HATE everything GW but some us us are getting tired of the same old knit picking over nothing… Read more »
Thumbs up. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the paint scheme at all, they’re not exactly taste the rainbow – but when GW *did* paint everything super bright their models were still awesome… so it really isn’t the paint scheme lol
People are smart enough to see through paint schemes. The same excuse was thrown about over Mantic’s Marauder orks but that didn’t fly either.
Looks like any which way you go, you’ll be left with piles of conversion parts…
I may be in the minority but I really like both Ogryn/Bullgryn sets but dislike the commissar. To me the Officio Prefectus Commissar looks a little too ‘piratey’ and not as aggressive as I’d personally like. Considering commissars have the ability to force a unit to pass a moral test by executing a routing sergeant, I don’t really get that impression from him. I agree the Ogryn heads are poor, but the lore states that they are meant to be as dumb as a bag of rocks and it seems there has been no subtlety spared with illustrating this. Bullgryns… Read more »
I like them, characterful release that is chock full of potential. Kinda agree that GW’s paintschemes of late don’t help sell their models but the models themselves are absolutely fine imo.
Far from being ‘shite’!
I look at the shields and think ‘designed by a four year old with crayons’. They are utter pants, especially compared to the versions carried by the Deadzone Enforcers. The Commissar is just more of the same we have had for many years.
Yeah, something has been off about most GW minis lately to me. Technical skill wise, but most releases when I look at them bring to mind, ‘that looks crap’ to ‘not bad, but there is something missing’. I can’t quite place the something missing on those minis.
The commisar is pretty bad. It has horrible proportions, the hat and particularly the swprd being way too big. The pose is also quite bland. Foot on rock has been done to death.
The ogryns are not my taste. They look too silly, and not fearsome enough.
The bullgryns are an interestijg concept, but the mitten grenade launcher is weird.
Im planning on using the commissar to make a col.iron hands for my DKK and think I use a mix of the bullgryns armoured bodies (without the tank tracks) with the ripper guns’
also im sure GW didn’t design these as theres no where near as many skulls on them
The sculpts are a bit ‘meh’.
Ok if you like that sort of thing I suppose .
But the price is over double what I would be prepared to pay, even if the sculpts appealed to me.
The bare ogryn heads remind me of that one dude from “the goonies” you probably know what I mean…