"We don't want primaris to replace firstborn marines! Please don't quit!" "No models no rules! Say goodbye to your core chapter specific firstborn!*cough*black templar crusader squads, any jump/terminator/bike chaplains/captains*cough*" Thanks geedumb
I got into 40k at the start of lockdown and I've only collected and played Firstborn Marines, mainly due to aesthetic and the fact they are the OG's as it were.
I like the primaris models, but definitely prefer the cruder look to firstborn squads, so using my friends 3d printer i got some older mark heads and some boltguns for my intercessor squads. I feel that the bolt rifle looks too advanced for 40k and prefer more simple and smaller boltguns
The FB Sanguinary Priest is a good scale. Like Rann, just barely not as big as Primaris. The robe might be covering some janky legs, but he looks fine next to an Intercessor. We all know that eventually Primaris will be the only (40k) marines, but I'm hoping they make one last upscale/revamp of a few FB units, even if they only last 2 more editions. Vanguard and Sternguard vets, Terminators, a few HQ choices.
I remember when the 2012/13 kits launched and one of the big selling points was interchangeability of parts between tactical, assault, devastator and van/sternguard veteran, which was a very cool concept at the time, and appears to be making a comeback with the Mk VI heresy marine kits.
Great vid! I fell out of 40k for a while and was shocked by the primaris when I returned becuase they made all my (now) first born look ridiculous. I was tempted to bin them but I found vids and websites using plasticard to extend their legs, so I was tempted to strip all the paint and make 'em a bit taller and have a mixed BT army.
Tried that even released my way of modification at Beasts of War if I remeber correctly, Kitbashed around 30 marines, they looked good, but had very skiny legs, thats why, I bought 3d printer and started printing legs, but then printed also scaled torso, at some point I've started to print whole marines in primaris scale.
Those techniques were part of the drive to create true scale marines for hobbyists. There was a niche market where some teams would scale up your armies. Primaris became the answer that GW developed to combat the true scale market, unfortunately there's been some losses of first born.
I don’t even dislike Primaris, they look clean, but the stylized firstborn are just way better imo. Sucks that stuff like terminators are going to look silly in a few years
I love the old heroic scale. In my opinion it is a massive part of the 40k aesthetic and now that it is gone with the introduction of primaris marines and the updating of older model lines modern GW minis just look like really high quality knockoffs.
Exhaustive and excellent analysis of the scale. If they right sized first born GW would make a ton of money IMO. They started it with the HH Mk VI and I suspect they may update the first born for 40k as well, even if it's just the leg proportion or giving them a waist rather than just haveing a chest on legs.
Great video! I wish you have added some CSM models for a more in depth comparison , after all, CSM are still 1st born marines. Also, at the time I watched your video, GW announced they're releasing a new Terminator kit, and Dante got a new sculp.
Fantastic video my man. You know I’m honestly surprised no third party company makes true scale first born legs. Just the legs to use with firstborn kits. I feel like they’d make a killing.
the problem is while firstborn have been around forever their range is a lot worse. we also know that firstborn will be gone at some point for primaris
I like both, honestly. I bought the 30k box with a friend, and the beakies in that kit are great. At the same time, I have a Primaris Deathwatch army that got me into the hobby. Both in value are great.
It's pretty easy to convert Primaris into Firstborn by trimming the flared kneepads. The legs might be a little different, but it makes them look pretty close to mark 7, especially if you start adding on older parts like mark 7 helmets and backpacks, and you can trim the gorget off to make the look even closer. It's not _perfect,_ but it's a lot easier than trying to make truescale firstborn or messing around with replacing primaris torsos.
Awesome video. Been pro first born for a good long while, but some kits were removed from the store as they're doing a "refresh", but it does seem that there's still a market for first born with Horus Heresy still being worked out and gaining steam. I've been working on a project of building a death watch army. Started off I just wanted a kill team, but then there's an army...I love the look of the deathwatch and it gives me an excuse to practice my free hand and expand chapters ( Been an ultramarines player since 2004). Startled that some box sets were getting removed, I suspect that the first borns will be moved to heresy eventually or out right discontinued as Heresy models become available. This was a great video because I didn't want to strip down my Ultramarines and change them and although I don't want to buy more marines, been thinking and playing with the idea of "true scale" and this video fits the bill. Gonna build a list and get cracking at the modeling and painting. If first born move on, i've still got some in my deathwatch and when they get retired, well, I'll be happy buying the new kits and playing with the Primaris options. Earned yourself a sub and man, what a great video on the subject. Keep up the great work.
I love this topic. I really enjoyed your video, and admire your dark vengeance conversions. Also, this video has an excellant thumbnail. Subscribing because of this video.
I've got a very mixed collection that I have been building for probably 20 or so years. Whilst collecting OOP NIB stuff is also fun, I have a lot of primaris as well as first born that I want to play with and have been focusing on getting a "scale friendly" collection that is proportionally good looking all around. For the first born, really the only choice originally was to buy multiple boxes of each heroes series and thankfully now with the HH marines being same scale I can at least now comfortably get a whole company of well scaled firstborns. That and half a first company of good scale termies, as the heroes series whilst being monopose, are quite easy to kitbash to give enough variation, especially when you can get your hands on 5 boxes... Also for terminators, I managed to get the limited edition captain, 2 different chaplains and the librarian that all use the heroes series scaling.
I started with first borns mainly but once i got my first primaris im never going back. They gust look more normally proportioned which to me is a large game immerser
Good video, great points. One note though, when you used the assault marine example and pointed out the size of the chain sword; isn’t that an eviserator not a regular chainsword? It’s supposed to be extra long, like the great sword of chainswords. This is not to say that I disagree with your point as a whole. I think you’re 100% correct about the size inflation of marine’s weapons during that period it’s just that example was a bit of a weird one haha.
You’re totally right! Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve never owned the kit or used the unit but I like the idea! Maybe I’ll try and do a conversion with a well scaled firstborn and the eviscerator ;)
Sigh, first off good vid i agree with most of it As it comes to true height of space marines, average first born marines are 7 feet inside armor and primaris are 8 feet in armor This was pretty common knowledge in old warhammer books and media they don't show it that much anymore anymore for reasons i guess keep the imagination of people alive. And if people want true scale, the land raiders, rhinos, Dreadnoughts all stayed the same throughout the decades and even for those we have official numbers, 3.7 meters tall 4 meters tall etc etc. So scale the models after those if you want true scale
I started Pre lockdown at the mid point of 8th With the Dark Imperium box Primaris shook me from how "dumb" Marines looked in the past since my FLGS had big Cardboard marines and I always thought they looked silly (Now I very much love first born esp after Horus heresy 2.0) but Scaling Was what did it in for me, they fixed that and bam. now its 2022 and I have almost 5 Armies. ez about 5k in Primaris and another 3k in Firstborne then smatterings of 500-1k in Sisters,Guard and Orks
That is, if you want to play Firstborn, then buy the DW now or wait for the update of all models of the Grey Knights. Or play Chaos Space Marines. Well, or yes, just buy a 3D printer.)
The issue with the scale is that the 7 ft average space marine is a retcon from after the first marines were released. The super giant primarchs do not match there original fluff either. Maybe everyone just keeps growing forever.
Great topic. I’ve been collecting & playing since 1995(epic scale since 93) and I like primaris but wish it was just another version of power armour, not a whole new species of marines. So Horus Heresy for the long term.
Currently getting back into 40k painting Lamenters (not making it easy on myself, I know) and after watching this I'm debating going all firstborn or mix in some primaris as the troops are better in combat
I love lamentors! Going to try painting a few myself. Paint whichever minis you like dude! One suggestion is you could try a blind box of one of the space marine heroes dropping next month for some well scaled firstborn goodness!
From a lore perspective if you want an army "up to date" following the game story, having Primaris in your army makes sense, Lamenters got very low in marines numbers on their penitent crusade, and just got their Primaris reinforcement
as of rn if you want first born your best bet is definitely going with the newer HH range, which has proper body proportions and truescale in comparison to primaris and guard
Something I noticed with the Space Marine Heroes Terminators is their armour is slightly thicker in places as well as the height increase, I really hope firstborn infantry get some love especially terminators. I've just gone with using Primaris bodies and arms with firstborn heads and weapons.
I'm thinking of starting an all tactical marine lamenters army, and my idea is to convert primaris marines into first born, I know that they'll be out of scale with normal tactical marines but compared with one another they'll be fine
i have a old space marine army ( about 2006 type models, i bought it on ebay and many were featured in the battle of macragge box like this medic guy ) and i hate them kinda. the new primars look so much better. not only cause they are taller then the others.
I started an army at the beginning of the pandemic and I have a nearly completely primaris army, and I dislike primaris. Becuase of this, my space marine army has stayed gray. I am thinking about selling it and starting firsborn army, but I'd need more better scaled models
firstborn and primaris are getting rolled together in 10th or 11th, you heard it here first. the explanation is going to be something like "doing the Rubikon en masse is not as effective hence the heigth difference and the Imperium cannot afford brand new primaris armor for everyone at once", but the stat lines will be the same for all marines. also, primaris look way better imho, i don't care for boomer opinions
I prefer firstborn because of the aesthetic, but they desperately need a rescaling and new units, but gw only chooses to roll out more primaris. I try to stick mainly to firstborn models in my collection.
I agree with you, First born capture the grim gothic aesthetics of 40k. The Primaris are way too standard sci fi. The fact that they are getting rid of all the First Born is ridiculous because now I am either buying HH or 3d printing instead of buying regular 40k models.
Podger, back in the days when I 1st started collecting Warhammer it was Warhammer fantasy. My 1st few boxes were chaos dwarves, high elves & dark elves but they were moulded with weapon & shields in hand with slots in the bases & cost £5 (what I called pocket money purchases). Then I saw the multi part chaos knights & halberdiers, that changed my thoughts on the hobby as I was a keen collector of TAMIYA 1:35 scale WW2 U.S & German kits. I've never stuck to 40k 1st born stuff I think some weapons are absurdly larger than what the space marine can carry but I have to confess...all my vehicles are 1st born friendly...no good for my primaris boys...😖👎
I got into 40K back in 6th, but honestly moved over to AOS. 40K scaling is wonky, the new IG are the size of Custodes. Also AOS 3rd is better than 9th and the models are better scale and nicer
Its why I cant justify buying first-born models, Many of them are goofy looking. We need Ezekial and Azraek,. I've fooled around converting Firtborn using Heresy Marines.
You keep using the word scale, but I think the (internal) scale is pretty good for 1998 marines. They suffer from an issue of posing where a lot of em are squatting down. You missed some marines- there was a paint set in 6th? 7th ed that had 3 pressfit tacticals with nice poses- a bit like the SM heroes range.
First of all, I reject this heretical idea that some Tech Priest can make better marines than Emperor of Mankind. 2. I love scale of primaris marines and I cannot look at my old Marines. 3. decided to print out old marines in primaris scale and when I'll have reprinted 1-1 collection that i currently have of my old marines, I'm going to pack my old marines into the box and never look at them again. 4. Because i have more than 300 marines it takes time, but don't worry I'm getting there. 5. most probably I woudln't even buy 3d printer if not because primaris release and my huge collection of out of scale marines
How about no, Horus heresy will always be a thing and thus new firstborn models that can be used in 40k. I know I’m waiting for more HH tactical squads to make my dream 40k space marine army. I think a lot of hate comes from people saying you can only have one or the other. I say just remove the key word primaris and just make space Marines space marines
If people mourns for first born be better to start collecting Horus Heresy space marine instead just like I'm doing right now and left Priimaris and Primaris lieutenant universe behind.
Well it was correct at the time of recording the video and I didn’t speculate about the future of the kits! But yes it’s a shame the old ones are gone but hopefully we’ll see some more non-primaris rescaled kits like the terminators in the future!
@@podger_minis Youre right, cant blame you there. In fact the "purge" was just dropped on all of us like a bomb and the kits sold out HOURS after the announcement was made. Yeah, ive been hearing alot about how "the writing was on the wall" and "it is to be expected soon" a million times, but No, I think many of us didnt think they would ACTUALLY axe so many old school kits and models just like that. There were models that couldve still sold and made GW money, plus they said they would PHASE them out. This was more like a mass execution. I got into the hobby just a few years ago, but I dont have the kind of money to just drop regularly on warhammer so I ended up missing out on the Dreadnoughts ("boxnaughts"). I had to buy a few used on Ebay. :\ GREAT video by the way. I loved how you showed ALL the different scales of minis through the years. This video will help me choose bits and minis for conversions and kitbashes. Nice work my dude.
It annoys me that the new Heroes blind boxes just reuse old sculpts that we already got in the old series one set and the Space Marine Adventures games, only with fewer characters in total - it's just lazy to not make something new when they could have just re-released the original set instead, at least we'd have another chance at the Captain.
i like the look of firstborn armor but hate their proportions, they look way too cartoony with their big hands and bubble heads compared to their bodies
In my opinion there is no scale problems with the legs of the Firstborn marines. I have around 120 Space marines most of the special characters, veterans and close to 40 terminators. I even own some of the older ones from the 1990s. I also own a huge Grey Knight army metal version. Got two boxes of plastic versions as well. Primaris marines are not that fun to work with and then the upscale with the lore is just super weird.
In our community, we never use the "f-word" to refer to the old "good" space marines. We call them "carlans". We also never use the word "lore" to refer to Warhammer knowledges. We say "background" or "back". And most importantly: no matter how good the old miniatures are (I myself collected a lot of bits from the old Mk6), Primaris are better. Just because Primaris is a true 40k, and any other SM can be anything, especially the Horse heresy, and I can't allow that. The HH is an abomination.
I have to argue with the statement that the primaris are bland yes the base primaris are bland but so too were first born tactical marines they were also bland, also with new upgrade sprues and new updated chapter specific kits with the black templar and blood angles/ dark angles rumoured to be coming soon that argument of being bland is becoming baseless.
MK10 Primaris armour just looks garbage. I have a few, and I really don't like the look of them. Yes the sculpts are bigger and more detailed, but the actual design looks goofy as hell in comparison. The proportions are awful.
man.... what you call dated and not the right scale is exactly the opposite for me really. I cannot disagree more with you. I think you guys are pushing GW to just lose it s Identity. Super sad.
Nah i orefer primaris lore stagnation is the most boring thing in any lore it doesnt helo anything and only reinforces the old stereotype that games workship is too scared to make any changes matter like cadia falling didnt do shit to the amount cadians or that we had entire editions where nothing really of any significance happens Just the conflict of the week war breeds inovation and war can only be fualed by inovation stagnation isnthe death of everything may aswell feed tames workshop to nurgle at the rate the compony was going for years with the setting We finaly have inovation changes that matter and effect the universe as a whole the return of volkite in the 41st melenia , new armors made since the heresy , new plasma weapons , new technology built from technology we ones had
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"We don't want primaris to replace firstborn marines! Please don't quit!"
"No models no rules! Say goodbye to your core chapter specific firstborn!*cough*black templar crusader squads, any jump/terminator/bike chaplains/captains*cough*"
Thanks geedumb
I got into 40k at the start of lockdown and I've only collected and played Firstborn Marines, mainly due to aesthetic and the fact they are the OG's as it were.
3D printer go BRRRRR!
I can scale 1st born to what ever I want.
Would love to see a 2024 update to this! With all the new HH plastic minis and such
Have done! Thanks for the idea
@@podger_minis Awesome! I’ll go watch it now!
I like the primaris models, but definitely prefer the cruder look to firstborn squads, so using my friends 3d printer i got some older mark heads and some boltguns for my intercessor squads. I feel that the bolt rifle looks too advanced for 40k and prefer more simple and smaller boltguns
The FB Sanguinary Priest is a good scale. Like Rann, just barely not as big as Primaris. The robe might be covering some janky legs, but he looks fine next to an Intercessor.
We all know that eventually Primaris will be the only (40k) marines, but I'm hoping they make one last upscale/revamp of a few FB units, even if they only last 2 more editions. Vanguard and Sternguard vets, Terminators, a few HQ choices.
I remember when the 2012/13 kits launched and one of the big selling points was interchangeability of parts between tactical, assault, devastator and van/sternguard veteran, which was a very cool concept at the time, and appears to be making a comeback with the Mk VI heresy marine kits.
Great vid!
I fell out of 40k for a while and was shocked by the primaris when I returned becuase they made all my (now) first born look ridiculous. I was tempted to bin them but I found vids and websites using plasticard to extend their legs, so I was tempted to strip all the paint and make 'em a bit taller and have a mixed BT army.
I also struggled with the scale difference - thankfully there are lots of fixes! Haven’t tried the plasticard route yet - need to give that a go!
Tried that even released my way of modification at Beasts of War if I remeber correctly, Kitbashed around 30 marines, they looked good, but had very skiny legs, thats why, I bought 3d printer and started printing legs, but then printed also scaled torso, at some point I've started to print whole marines in primaris scale.
Those techniques were part of the drive to create true scale marines for hobbyists. There was a niche market where some teams would scale up your armies. Primaris became the answer that GW developed to combat the true scale market, unfortunately there's been some losses of first born.
Production quality gone crazy! Podger about to blow up 🔥🔥. Also your brother paints like he has no fingers
Hahahaha living the dream
I don’t even dislike Primaris, they look clean, but the stylized firstborn are just way better imo. Sucks that stuff like terminators are going to look silly in a few years
They look good
I wanna start a blood angels army and it would feel wrong to have them primaris
I'm using HH plastics to make a firstborn army for 10th edition
I love the old heroic scale. In my opinion it is a massive part of the 40k aesthetic and now that it is gone with the introduction of primaris marines and the updating of older model lines modern GW minis just look like really high quality knockoffs.
If I can play Devil's Advocate (literally), the Heretic Marines are currently all firstborn.
Is it possible to clean the chaos-y bits off to make them cleaner?
Theoretically, but that would probably take way longer than it is worth
Uh acktchually the chainsword on the assault squad sergeant is a heavier two handed version so it's supposed to be out of proportion
10/10 love this content keep it coming
Exhaustive and excellent analysis of the scale. If they right sized first born GW would make a ton of money IMO. They started it with the HH Mk VI and I suspect they may update the first born for 40k as well, even if it's just the leg proportion or giving them a waist rather than just haveing a chest on legs.
Thanks!
Great video! I wish you have added some CSM models for a more in depth comparison , after all, CSM are still 1st born marines. Also, at the time I watched your video, GW announced they're releasing a new Terminator kit, and Dante got a new sculp.
Fantastic video my man.
You know I’m honestly surprised no third party company makes true scale first born legs. Just the legs to use with firstborn kits. I feel like they’d make a killing.
But... they do
the problem is while firstborn have been around forever their range is a lot worse. we also know that firstborn will be gone at some point for primaris
I like both, honestly. I bought the 30k box with a friend, and the beakies in that kit are great. At the same time, I have a Primaris Deathwatch army that got me into the hobby. Both in value are great.
It's pretty easy to convert Primaris into Firstborn by trimming the flared kneepads. The legs might be a little different, but it makes them look pretty close to mark 7, especially if you start adding on older parts like mark 7 helmets and backpacks, and you can trim the gorget off to make the look even closer. It's not _perfect,_ but it's a lot easier than trying to make truescale firstborn or messing around with replacing primaris torsos.
Awesome video. Been pro first born for a good long while, but some kits were removed from the store as they're doing a "refresh", but it does seem that there's still a market for first born with Horus Heresy still being worked out and gaining steam. I've been working on a project of building a death watch army. Started off I just wanted a kill team, but then there's an army...I love the look of the deathwatch and it gives me an excuse to practice my free hand and expand chapters ( Been an ultramarines player since 2004). Startled that some box sets were getting removed, I suspect that the first borns will be moved to heresy eventually or out right discontinued as Heresy models become available.
This was a great video because I didn't want to strip down my Ultramarines and change them and although I don't want to buy more marines, been thinking and playing with the idea of "true scale" and this video fits the bill. Gonna build a list and get cracking at the modeling and painting. If first born move on, i've still got some in my deathwatch and when they get retired, well, I'll be happy buying the new kits and playing with the Primaris options. Earned yourself a sub and man, what a great video on the subject. Keep up the great work.
thanks for such a lovely comment :D
I love this topic. I really enjoyed your video, and admire your dark vengeance conversions. Also, this video has an excellant thumbnail. Subscribing because of this video.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks :)
I've got a very mixed collection that I have been building for probably 20 or so years. Whilst collecting OOP NIB stuff is also fun, I have a lot of primaris as well as first born that I want to play with and have been focusing on getting a "scale friendly" collection that is proportionally good looking all around.
For the first born, really the only choice originally was to buy multiple boxes of each heroes series and thankfully now with the HH marines being same scale I can at least now comfortably get a whole company of well scaled firstborns. That and half a first company of good scale termies, as the heroes series whilst being monopose, are quite easy to kitbash to give enough variation, especially when you can get your hands on 5 boxes...
Also for terminators, I managed to get the limited edition captain, 2 different chaplains and the librarian that all use the heroes series scaling.
Still holding out for a 'Badab' marine kit...
I reckon in a year or two a 'scouring' or 'siege of terra' campaign will be available for horus heresy, and with it truescale mark 7 and 8 marines
I started with first borns mainly but once i got my first primaris im never going back. They gust look more normally proportioned which to me is a large game immerser
Good video, great points. One note though, when you used the assault marine example and pointed out the size of the chain sword; isn’t that an eviserator not a regular chainsword? It’s supposed to be extra long, like the great sword of chainswords. This is not to say that I disagree with your point as a whole. I think you’re 100% correct about the size inflation of marine’s weapons during that period it’s just that example was a bit of a weird one haha.
You’re totally right! Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve never owned the kit or used the unit but I like the idea! Maybe I’ll try and do a conversion with a well scaled firstborn and the eviscerator ;)
@@podger_minis That would look sweet, I wish you luck on that and hopefully you’ll show it off.
Primaris are nice sculpts, but they’re out of scale with everything else, including brand new Chaos Marines. Firstborn for life!
Sigh, first off good vid i agree with most of it
As it comes to true height of space marines, average first born marines are 7 feet inside armor and primaris are 8 feet in armor
This was pretty common knowledge in old warhammer books and media they don't show it that much anymore anymore for reasons i guess keep the imagination of people alive.
And if people want true scale, the land raiders, rhinos, Dreadnoughts all stayed the same throughout the decades and even for those we have official numbers, 3.7 meters tall 4 meters tall etc etc.
So scale the models after those if you want true scale
I started Pre lockdown at the mid point of 8th With the Dark Imperium box Primaris shook me from how "dumb" Marines looked in the past since my FLGS had big Cardboard marines and I always thought they looked silly (Now I very much love first born esp after Horus heresy 2.0) but Scaling Was what did it in for me, they fixed that and bam. now its 2022 and I have almost 5 Armies. ez about 5k in Primaris and another 3k in Firstborne then smatterings of 500-1k in Sisters,Guard and Orks
That is, if you want to play Firstborn, then buy the DW now or wait for the update of all models of the Grey Knights. Or play Chaos Space Marines. Well, or yes, just buy a 3D printer.)
The issue with the scale is that the 7 ft average space marine is a retcon from after the first marines were released. The super giant primarchs do not match there original fluff either. Maybe everyone just keeps growing forever.
Great topic. I’ve been collecting & playing since 1995(epic scale since 93) and I like primaris but wish it was just another version of power armour, not a whole new species of marines. So Horus Heresy for the long term.
Thank you so much for This VIDEO! LOVE THE FIRST BORNES. Don't like Primaris!
9:58 NOW in 2016! THE Kill TEAM CASSIUS!
Got the Dark Vengeance marines for very affordable price from pre owned groups...it's also more realistic to collect 1st born since they're everywhere
Currently getting back into 40k painting Lamenters (not making it easy on myself, I know) and after watching this I'm debating going all firstborn or mix in some primaris as the troops are better in combat
I love lamentors! Going to try painting a few myself. Paint whichever minis you like dude! One suggestion is you could try a blind box of one of the space marine heroes dropping next month for some well scaled firstborn goodness!
From a lore perspective if you want an army "up to date" following the game story, having Primaris in your army makes sense, Lamenters got very low in marines numbers on their penitent crusade, and just got their Primaris reinforcement
The rule of cool prevails! It shouldn't matter too much as Lamenters will have a 95% casualty rate anyway
This aged like milk.
as of rn if you want first born your best bet is definitely going with the newer HH range, which has proper body proportions and truescale in comparison to primaris and guard
I'm really sad I can't get the BA tactical kit anymore.
Preach brother. Maybe GW will come good with something close to this soon 🙏
@@podger_minis same. Im debating one what chapter to start as a firstborn project and it would have been BA but that kit is no more. Big sad.
I recommend recasters in this instance. No one can be mad since they’re OOP.
@@cadiastands8 fair point
Something I noticed with the Space Marine Heroes Terminators is their armour is slightly thicker in places as well as the height increase, I really hope firstborn infantry get some love especially terminators. I've just gone with using Primaris bodies and arms with firstborn heads and weapons.
Don't get your hopes up unless it's HH it's all going to be primaris all the way even rumours of primaris terminators in the near future.
I got over 200 space marines, probably over 250,
most of them are first born and started just a few years ago.
Pretty good summery, you stuck a lot of work into it. I apreciate it very much, subscribed to your channel immediately :) Keep up the work!
Thanks!
Thats a beautiful sanguinary guard kitbash
Thanks! I will make a video on these really soon… ;)
I'm thinking of starting an all tactical marine lamenters army, and my idea is to convert primaris marines into first born, I know that they'll be out of scale with normal tactical marines but compared with one another they'll be fine
i have a old space marine army ( about 2006 type models, i bought it on ebay and many were featured in the battle of macragge box like this medic guy ) and i hate them kinda. the new primars look so much better. not only cause they are taller then the others.
2024 solution for true scale mk7 = 3d printer goes brrr
The tabbards make the squatting a bit less noticable imo but agree with everything nonetheless
PLEASE RELEASE A MARK V SERIES GW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I see the difference but nah ill stay true to my old models. Too much history and love there for me. Great video though.
Great work. Your channel is awesome 🎉
Thanks so much 😊😊
I started an army at the beginning of the pandemic and I have a nearly completely primaris army, and I dislike primaris. Becuase of this, my space marine army has stayed gray. I am thinking about selling it and starting firsborn army, but I'd need more better scaled models
firstborn and primaris are getting rolled together in 10th or 11th, you heard it here first.
the explanation is going to be something like "doing the Rubikon en masse is not as effective hence the heigth difference and the Imperium cannot afford brand new primaris armor for everyone at once", but the stat lines will be the same for all marines.
also, primaris look way better imho, i don't care for boomer opinions
Are the tactical marines (except from the legs) from 2013 - 2014 compatible with the Space Marine Heroes, proportional wise?
Omg luv the meme dude👍👍
I prefer firstborn because of the aesthetic, but they desperately need a rescaling and new units, but gw only chooses to roll out more primaris. I try to stick mainly to firstborn models in my collection.
I agree with you, First born capture the grim gothic aesthetics of 40k. The Primaris are way too standard sci fi. The fact that they are getting rid of all the First Born is ridiculous because now I am either buying HH or 3d printing instead of buying regular 40k models.
If only they would give us mk7 in HH scale
They will likely do this if they do a campaign based on the scouring or the siege of terra
Podger, back in the days when I 1st started collecting Warhammer it was Warhammer fantasy. My 1st few boxes were chaos dwarves, high elves & dark elves but they were moulded with weapon & shields in hand with slots in the bases & cost £5 (what I called pocket money purchases). Then I saw the multi part chaos knights & halberdiers, that changed my thoughts on the hobby as I was a keen collector of TAMIYA 1:35 scale WW2 U.S & German kits. I've never stuck to 40k 1st born stuff
I think some weapons are absurdly larger than what the space marine can carry but I have to confess...all my vehicles are 1st born friendly...no good for my primaris boys...😖👎
I got into 40K back in 6th, but honestly moved over to AOS. 40K scaling is wonky, the new IG are the size of Custodes. Also AOS 3rd is better than 9th and the models are better scale and nicer
I’ve got a full 10 man of all lead beakies, they look like children next to Primaris marines.
Only space marines I actually have are from circa 2002. Blood Angles of course.
Its why I cant justify buying first-born models, Many of them are goofy looking. We need Ezekial and Azraek,. I've fooled around converting Firtborn using Heresy Marines.
The "first born" marine figures suffered from having those baby boy legs on bulky bodies and it looks weird once you notice it.
Where do the Space Hulk Terminators scale in?
prretty much the same as all the other space marine terminator kits except space marine heroes series 2 which are slightly bigger
You keep using the word scale, but I think the (internal) scale is pretty good for 1998 marines. They suffer from an issue of posing where a lot of em are squatting down.
You missed some marines- there was a paint set in 6th? 7th ed that had 3 pressfit tacticals with nice poses- a bit like the SM heroes range.
Fair enough! Fully agree the combination of the skinny legs and squat pose is the killer! Thanks I didn’t know that existed! Will have a look
First of all, I reject this heretical idea that some Tech Priest can make better marines than Emperor of Mankind.
2. I love scale of primaris marines and I cannot look at my old Marines.
3. decided to print out old marines in primaris scale and when I'll have reprinted 1-1 collection that i currently have of my old marines, I'm going to pack my old marines into the box and never look at them again.
4. Because i have more than 300 marines it takes time, but don't worry I'm getting there.
5. most probably I woudln't even buy 3d printer if not because primaris release and my huge collection of out of scale marines
i have 6 blood angel tactical squads and a 7th kit bashed into my 2 devistator an assult squads.
Primaris is the way forward my friend
How about no, Horus heresy will always be a thing and thus new firstborn models that can be used in 40k. I know I’m waiting for more HH tactical squads to make my dream 40k space marine army. I think a lot of hate comes from people saying you can only have one or the other. I say just remove the key word primaris and just make space Marines space marines
I don't really care for the competitive side of warhammer I collect for rule of cool and I like first born with my primaris cus they all look good
Yea you just put them in 3d printer and make them bit bigger
yes
One thing to also consider is that GW changed from using 28mm to 32mm scale. Much of the "First Born are so small" is due to that change.
If people mourns for first born be better to start collecting Horus Heresy space marine instead just like I'm doing right now and left Priimaris and Primaris lieutenant universe behind.
3:55 welp, this didnt age well, these right here would ALL be culled just a few months after this video.
Well it was correct at the time of recording the video and I didn’t speculate about the future of the kits! But yes it’s a shame the old ones are gone but hopefully we’ll see some more non-primaris rescaled kits like the terminators in the future!
@@podger_minis Youre right, cant blame you there. In fact the "purge" was just dropped on all of us like a bomb and the kits sold out HOURS after the announcement was made. Yeah, ive been hearing alot about how "the writing was on the wall" and "it is to be expected soon" a million times, but No, I think many of us didnt think they would ACTUALLY axe so many old school kits and models just like that. There were models that couldve still sold and made GW money, plus they said they would PHASE them out. This was more like a mass execution. I got into the hobby just a few years ago, but I dont have the kind of money to just drop regularly on warhammer so I ended up missing out on the Dreadnoughts ("boxnaughts"). I had to buy a few used on Ebay. :\
GREAT video by the way. I loved how you showed ALL the different scales of minis through the years. This video will help me choose bits and minis for conversions and kitbashes. Nice work my dude.
Firstborn always and forever. Miss me with the Tacticool corporate boardroom designs.
It annoys me that the new Heroes blind boxes just reuse old sculpts that we already got in the old series one set and the Space Marine Adventures games, only with fewer characters in total - it's just lazy to not make something new when they could have just re-released the original set instead, at least we'd have another chance at the Captain.
i like the look of firstborn armor but hate their proportions, they look way too cartoony with their big hands and bubble heads compared to their bodies
I love the old scale and old proportions. This is what made GW UNIQUE. Primaris and scaled up Space marines just lost it. GW soul is kind of gone...
In my opinion there is no scale problems with the legs of the Firstborn marines. I have around 120 Space marines most of the special characters, veterans and close to 40 terminators. I even own some of the older ones from the 1990s. I also own a huge Grey Knight army metal version. Got two boxes of plastic versions as well. Primaris marines are not that fun to work with and then the upscale with the lore is just super weird.
In our community, we never use the "f-word" to refer to the old "good" space marines. We call them "carlans".
We also never use the word "lore" to refer to Warhammer knowledges. We say "background" or "back".
And most importantly: no matter how good the old miniatures are (I myself collected a lot of bits from the old Mk6), Primaris are better. Just because Primaris is a true 40k, and any other SM can be anything, especially the Horse heresy, and I can't allow that. The HH is an abomination.
Carful you borderline on heresy civilian
So do I understand correctly that you think first born marines have skinny legs?
haahah very good
@@podger_minis 😁 I do like the vid though. 👍
But remember that leg day was not really popular back in the nineties... 😋
Obviously, HH
just play 30k
The Horse Heresy in an abomination and real cancer that kills the real Warhammer. I won't give money for that.
You are confusing scale with proportion.
I have to argue with the statement that the primaris are bland yes the base primaris are bland but so too were first born tactical marines they were also bland, also with new upgrade sprues and new updated chapter specific kits with the black templar and blood angles/ dark angles rumoured to be coming soon that argument of being bland is becoming baseless.
I fully agree and I say exactly this in my most recent video!
@@podger_minis good to know
MK10 Primaris armour just looks garbage. I have a few, and I really don't like the look of them. Yes the sculpts are bigger and more detailed, but the actual design looks goofy as hell in comparison. The proportions are awful.
man.... what you call dated and not the right scale is exactly the opposite for me really. I cannot disagree more with you. I think you guys are pushing GW to just lose it s Identity. Super sad.
man talks for 20 minutes about legs: the video
Nah i orefer primaris lore stagnation is the most boring thing in any lore it doesnt helo anything and only reinforces the old stereotype that games workship is too scared to make any changes matter like cadia falling didnt do shit to the amount cadians or that we had entire editions where nothing really of any significance happens Just the conflict of the week
war breeds inovation and war can only be fualed by inovation stagnation isnthe death of everything may aswell feed tames workshop to nurgle at the rate the compony was going for years with the setting
We finaly have inovation changes that matter and effect the universe as a whole the return of volkite in the 41st melenia , new armors made since the heresy , new plasma weapons , new technology built from technology we ones had
Primaris are awful. I own some (they are so cheap), however they are used by my first born as cannon fodder. I call them Guilliman's Ogryn.
No Primaris look silly next to firstborn.
I prefer the firstborn tbh I've recently picked up 3 pewter terminators 😅
Great video. Bolt Rifles and Heavy Bolt Pistols just look stupid.
Re-release all of 2nd Ed In metal n the 2ed plastic ba kit haha