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The assault sprue upgrade and the deimos stuff makes sense but mkv and ii are highly unlikely unlikely as they want to push mkvi since it's still new.

I could see Mk II or V, but not yet, I dont think they would announce it soon. Assault marines and upgrade boxes I can see, and Vindicator with extra weapon option would make sense. They may want to make some consuls in plastic before more Praetors though. Or other characters like a Techmarine or Apothecary conclave kit.

Yeah, Consuls & support characters make near-term sense

I don't particularly want to see close combat marine variants handled with an upgrade sprue for MkVI. The MkVI poses in the tactical set are too passively posed for a CC variant.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
I don't particularly want to see close combat marine variants handled with an upgrade sprue for MkVI. The MkVI poses in the tactical set are too passively posed for a CC variant.

Yeah, and there’s only 5 poses already.

I don't see where this "rumor" mentiones the body sprue from the Tactical Squad for Assault Marines. Sounds to me new Assault Marines Spure + Command Sprue from the Tactical Squad.

Mk6 Assault Marines with Bolt Pistol and Chainsword options - 5 man sprue will accomplished by the expansion sprue from the Tactical Squad Set.

Mk5/6 Expansion Set for Destroyer Squads - can be combined with tactical or assault squad sprue for Breacher with or without Jump packs

"Breacher" seems to be a misstype or copy paste error and means Destroyer.

Death guard upgrades

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/08/25/heresy-thursday-down-and-dirty-death-guard-upgrade-kits/

 zedmeister wrote:
Death guard upgrades

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/08/25/heresy-thursday-down-and-dirty-death-guard-upgrade-kits/

Unironically some of the best bits GW has produced in years.

Well, if anyone wanted a bunch of Death Guard style Mark II/III helmets then these are right at home.

The wide variation between home run and utter shambles continues on the upgrades, love these.

Yeah, those look really clean and amazing. It makes me wonder what happened with some of the others.

I think all of the upgrade heads have been great, apart from the PAW Patrol heads.

My Sons of Horus heads arrived today and they’re beautiful.

I hope that MKVI Assault squad rumour is true. Don't mind if rhe same upgrade sprue as with the tacs is onboard, as long as we get 5 new poses.

After that, I only wish for a Proteus Land Speeder and some plastic Dreadclaws. Well, Caestus Assault Ram can be re-released in plastic as well I suppose

Too bad that those Helmets are FW Resin.

They fit with those the 40k Plague Marines wear.

Really nice.

Hopefully, everybody has calmed down a little after the excitement of the Space Wolves helmets

No one can doubt that those folks at GW have humor....

I guess the sculptor for the helmets must've been a big Death Guard fan, and not really big on Space Wolves

The sculptor just remembered that if it isn't broken, you don't have to fix it.

 blood reaper wrote:
The sculptor just remembered that if it isn't broken, you don't have to fix it.

Spoiler:

Especially if it's from Jes Goodwin.

I really like these yeah. The order they’re revealing them in is baffling, though.

These look ace! Should I ever do another Legion then DG are a worthy contender.

mod edit - PLEASE stop quoting entire posts just to reply with a single sentence.

 blood reaper wrote:
The sculptor just remembered that if it isn't broken, you don't have to fix it.

Shame the most recent Plague Marine kit didn't take a hint

Far be it from me to defend the new plastic plague marines, but there are options for these style helmets. Just not in large enough quantities :(



(And yes, this is a Space Marine Hero, not a standard PM. But the kit still has the option)

I don't understand why so many of the Legion-specific MkVI helmets don't look like MkVI.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
I don't understand why so many of the Legion-specific MkVI helmets don't look like MkVI.

Very few Legions are really strongly associated with Mk VI

 Lord Damocles wrote:
I don't understand why so many of the Legion-specific MkVI helmets don't look like MkVI.

At the risk of sounding churlish, I’m not sure they’re meant to, so much as Look Recognisably Legion.

MkVI has such a distinctive helmet, it’s hard to tie to a Legion and keep that Womble aesthetic. I’d rather what we’re getting (not so much Space Woofs), than Womble Helmets With A Legion Icon somewhere.

Those Death Guard helmets look amazing. They also serve the role of having a true scale, somewhat-Mark III-looking Death Guard army without having to buy the actual Mark III kits (which are now officially out of stock).

 Lord Damocles wrote:
I don't understand why so many of the Legion-specific MkVI helmets don't look like MkVI.

But it does? This is literally Mk VI helmet with 'hounskull' part replaced with flat respirator grill like in several other legion upgrades (funnily enough, defeating whole point as the missing bit is full of sensors and filtration elements not to mention angled armor deflecting hits away from face making it better than other SM helmets, but that's what you get when inept legion designers care more about looks than functionality). Yes it's inspired by Mk III look but if you look closer, it's Mk VI still and the resemblance is largely superficial.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
I don't particularly want to see close combat marine variants handled with an upgrade sprue for MkVI. The MkVI poses in the tactical set are too passively posed for a CC variant.

Yup, look at all these dynamic and totally not passive poses of previous Forge World CC units

 ImAGeek wrote:
Yeah, and there’s only 5 poses already.

As opposed to resin that often had 2-3 poses in 5 men squads?

I mean, yeah the FW models are static. But I don't know if that means GW will only release a melee upgrade sprue without having some alternative poses.

It is weird that these FW heads flip flop on whether the MK6 upgrade has the little sensor at the top (like these and the IW have)