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 Togusa wrote:

 The Phazer wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:
Unsurprising. It's always been a very popular unit. Maybe they'll make an alternative straight Whirlwind turret as well?

Possibly, though there was a rumour (via Valrak I think) the next two models were this and the laser destroyer, so maybe not imminently.

I hope so, the Laser Destroyer would look great in my Armored Company.

With apologies, he actually said the Typhon and I had a bit of a brain fart with "Heresy era vehicles that are a big gun with tracks." He also said Jetbikes are coming.

Still, I wouldn't be surprised if the Vindicator variants are next on the list after that, there is clearly a desire to get all the tanks done.

I wonder the FW molds are simply large and there's a desire to get the space back?

So is the Typhon on a Spartan Chassis?

 Togusa wrote:
So is the Typhon on a Spartan Chassis?

Yup. That and the Cerberus.

 The Phazer wrote:
Typhon

Resin vehicles were a real barrier to entry for HH the first time around.

I mean, have you every tried assembling a resin Spartan?!?

I can see why GW is putting out a lot of plastic tanks now, as they are probably one of the things that new *and* old HH players will be happy to purchase.

But yes, I'd love a lot more plastic infantry, especially of the Assault/Despoiler/Destroyer variety.

Will it almost all be MKVI though?

I hope not.

Plastic tanks also tend to stand the test of time really well, so getting these out now is an investment in the future because they know they'll be popular and won't need refreshing for decades. Look at stuff like the Mars Pattern Land Raider and the Falcon. They're really old kits but still look incredible. Infantry is important but can tend to look dated quicker.

 Alpharius wrote:
I mean, have you every tried assembling a resin Spartan?!?

I've built a resin Baneblade and Stormblade. Does that count?

Yeah, there's definitely a lot of reasons to translate the tanks from resin to plastic. The sooner FW can stop selling a lot of the variants the better, I'm sure.

They may even get a better profit margin on the plastic tanks than the resin ones, despite the resin kits being so much more expensive.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I mean, have you every tried assembling a resin Spartan?!?

I've built a resin Baneblade and Stormblade. Does that count?

I've done the Fellblade and the Spartan, and the agony of trying to get the tracks to match up on the Spartan (prior to the kit getting a revision) beats anything awkward on the Baneblade chassis. In fact, the only thing I remember about the Fellblade was I used some Blood and Skulls Industries tracks that are sharp as hell and cut myself on them. For the Spartan I actually binned the original tracks and bought an aftermarket WW2 tank track set (the sort where you glue each individual link together) because it was more straightforward.

drbored wrote:
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of reasons to translate the tanks from resin to plastic. The sooner FW can stop selling a lot of the variants the better, I'm sure.

They may even get a better profit margin on the plastic tanks than the resin ones, despite the resin kits being so much more expensive.

Let's all hope that this includes a Fellblade/Glaive kit...


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By the way, has anyone noticed that the Sicaran Venator is completely gone from the FW site? I can't find it, not even via search.

US or UK? It’s not in the UK catalogue if you filter heresy era tanks but it searches up OK

Eh

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
So is the Typhon on a Spartan Chassis?

Yup. That and the Cerberus.

This is why I haven't built my plastic Spartan yet- just need that super heavy upgrade sprue!

Just watching some reviews of Liber Imperium. It’s looking like the Solar Auxilia are missing their Carnodons? Unless I’m missing something

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Eh

This is weird, it wasn't coming up for me at all. Cleared my browser cache and not it's showing, which shouldn't be an issue.

I hope IW get a praetor model or two soon.

Iron Warriors, Space Wolves only have a terminator one (and it’s rubbish), Iron Hands have an Iron Father but no powered armour Praetor, World Eaters, Thousand Sons just have a terminator one, Salamanders and Raven Guard I think are left for Praetor models. Not too many to go really. Looking forward to seeing the World Eaters, Iron Warriors and Raven Guard in particular.

World eaters have no legion specific praetors.

 The Phazer wrote:
I wonder the FW molds are simply large and there's a desire to get the space back?

As I understand it, the large silicone moulds needed to cast large vehicles have a short lifespan, and they take up a lot of material, both silicone and resin, so production costs per kit are high and there are a lot of miscasts.

On,y if you’re stupid enough to do the whole thing as a block mould… but I can see that being exactly the problem.

Leaving out the Carnodon from Liber Imperium is really frustrating. It is the fourth product displayed when one selects ‘Solar Auxilia’ on the FW website; a current product that appears to have been relegated to a PDF at some point. I own three.

The absence of the Terrax and Macrocarid from the Mechanicum book was annoying; I own the latter and accept that it is no longer made. Still, at least the Arlatax is there, right? The battle automata that has never had a model.

Paying a fair wedge for both books only to discover they omit even current models is demoralising. Better queue up to buy the Rapiers and Aevos Jovan anyway, huh?

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
Dang, my Firstborn collection already has a Whirlwind (the old metal one on the plastic Mk Ic Rhino) so I don't have an excuse to buy a Scorpius, but I wish I did.

Seeing the 2 are different units buy one to play skorpius?


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drbored wrote:
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of reasons to translate the tanks from resin to plastic. The sooner FW can stop selling a lot of the variants the better, I'm sure.

They may even get a better profit margin on the plastic tanks than the resin ones, despite the resin kits being so much more expensive.

You can remove the "may". There's reason why after gw team took hold for 40k rules for FW stuff the resin unit rules just SUCK. GW wants to make sure every gamer who buys stuff for rules get plastic rather than resin as it's more profits.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Iron Warriors, Space Wolves only have a terminator one (and it’s rubbish), Iron Hands have an Iron Father but no powered armour Praetor, World Eaters, Thousand Sons just have a terminator one, Salamanders and Raven Guard I think are left for Praetor models. Not too many to go really. Looking forward to seeing the World Eaters, Iron Warriors and Raven Guard in particular.

Iron Warriors do not have a legion specific Praetor on the FW website currently.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
World eaters have no legion specific praetors.

Does Kharn not have Master of The Legion? I'd be shocked if he didn't.

queen_annes_revenge wrote:World eaters have no legion specific praetors.

Togusa wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Iron Warriors, Space Wolves only have a terminator one (and it’s rubbish), Iron Hands have an Iron Father but no powered armour Praetor, World Eaters, Thousand Sons just have a terminator one, Salamanders and Raven Guard I think are left for Praetor models. Not too many to go really. Looking forward to seeing the World Eaters, Iron Warriors and Raven Guard in particular.

Iron Warriors do not have a legion specific Praetor on the FW website currently.

That’s what I said?

 ImAGeek wrote:

queen_annes_revenge wrote:World eaters have no legion specific praetors.

Togusa wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Iron Warriors, Space Wolves only have a terminator one (and it’s rubbish), Iron Hands have an Iron Father but no powered armour Praetor, World Eaters, Thousand Sons just have a terminator one, Salamanders and Raven Guard I think are left for Praetor models. Not too many to go really. Looking forward to seeing the World Eaters, Iron Warriors and Raven Guard in particular.

Iron Warriors do not have a legion specific Praetor on the FW website currently.

That’s what I said?

Am I misunderstanding what you said. What I read (please correct me if I am wrong) is that Iron Warriors, Space Wolves only have a Terminator one (and its rubbish).

But Iron Warriors do not have any, especially not a terminator one. So it might be me mistaking what you wrote?

Yeah it’s not a very good sentence, it was more me typing as they came to my head, but they’re all the ones still to come with a couple of examples that have one flavour but not both.

I'd love to get a plastic Damocles Command Rhino, but realistically that's not really needed. I forget whether the old Rhino top hatches fit on the new Deimos kit, but if so, they could literally just keep selling the communications array pieces as as a cheap conversion kit (if not, making a new interface plate for the satellite dish wouldn't take their designers more than a cuppa's worth of time).

The 30k version of the Damocles never came with the interior details of the original anyway, and those details are of questionable ingame use, since you can't see them without leaving the top array loose, or by opening the rear ramp and adding lights to the kit.

Too bad GW won't make a Heresy version of the SM command tanks box, with a Damocles Deimos Rhino and an Armored Proteus LR Excelsior

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Too bad GW won't make a Heresy version of the SM command tanks box, with a Damocles Deimos Rhino and an Armored Proteus LR Excelsior

Why wouldn’t they?

Single upgrade sprue, keep it WHW and Citadels Exclusive and Bob’s your aunt’s live in lover.

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Assault marines finally comin'?