The new chaos models are soooo tasty! Now that I have the Dark Vengeance sprues in hand, I can
confirm: the detailing on the models and the quality of the molding is
exemplary. GW continues to up its game and set new standards for the
industry. (And now they really need to, don't they? Given all of the
competition that's springing up.)
And I ardently love and enthusiastically endorse GW's evolving take on chaos. The Chosen models in particular
look every bit as twisted and scarred. grotesque and lethal as the
recent Possessed figures. In other words, they radiate Chaos and
corruption. I feel as though GW has found the aesthetic and achieved the
sculpting/molding capability to create creatures that truly deserve the
name of Chaos.
I initially resolved to buy Dark Vengeance anticipating the cultist models. Which are
pretty good -- some truly wicked, others a bit cartoonish.
When pictures of the Hellbrute started surfacing a week or two ago, I grew truly excited. And this model does not disappoint. In fact, it delights! The way
the design grafts "daemon engine" with "organic," and the way it crafts
horror as well as "bad ass" in the look and feel of the creature -- it
all feels the way I imagine chaos to be. This is what I have been trying
to achieve with the Harrowed. And GW, of course, executes on the vision far better
than I can.
But the gems in the kit, I feel now that I've opened it, are the Chosen.
Evil, evil things. No longer human or super-human. Ambassadors of pain.
Nightmares with guns. Fucking chaos.
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