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Hm, appears to have gone back to sold out. At this point, I'm putting money on FW just being a janky website.

Partial Great Success is…partial.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/02/heresy-thursday-spice-up-your-legions-with-chainsaw-wielding-despoiler-squads/





Resin.

But

And don’t worry, more plastic infantry is in production – the Age of Darkness isn’t just about tanks! Watch this space for more information and sign up for the newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest news from the Horus Heresy.

We finally got our Despoiler squads!

But not in the way we expected...

Resin. And the arms are generic, meant to fit various armour marks... which is weird. I think (hope) this is some kind of stop-gap product.

This weeks preview: close combat weapons/bolt pistols upgrade set, and more important, the article at least confirms that more infantry is being produced:

And don’t worry, more plastic infantry is in production – the Age of Darkness isn’t just about tanks! Watch this space for more information and sign up for the newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest news from the Horus Heresy.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/02/heresy-thursday-spice-up-your-legions-with-chainsaw-wielding-despoiler-squads

Hopefully, that will arrive soon and encompass the much-awaited proper assault infantry.

Lol.

This resin upgrade kit will be released by Forge World soon.

And don’t worry, more plastic infantry is in production – the Age of Darkness isn’t just about tanks!

Another armour mark in plastic? Perhaps they'll do MkV assault marines?

Triple snap!

 xttz wrote:

This resin upgrade kit will be released by Forge World soon.

And don’t worry, more plastic infantry is in production – the Age of Darkness isn’t just about tanks!

Another armour mark in plastic? Perhaps they'll do MkV assault marines?

Thallax or we riot.

Resin? Better stay with tanks GW.

Little worried that getting these in resin does not bode well for plastic CC units in the near future.

 Nevelon wrote:
Little worried that getting these in resin does not bode well for plastic CC units in the near future.

Not MkVI anyway. Might yet see MkV Despoilers and jump.

I remain convinced that rumours we're not getting any significant infantry before late summer remain correct, but this is something to make the complaints go away a bit in the meantime - it is a very easy product to quickly spin up compared to plastic tooling in a get you by fashion.

Better than nothing, but I have enough painting backlog that I'll just wait for plastics.

Finally... wait, what?
resin upgrades? Feth you, GW.


That 'plastic in production' promise better be ironclad and soon.

Are we sure it's Resin?

Based on FW prices I assumed they were the dried tears of unicorns.

 The Phazer wrote:
I remain convinced that rumours we're not getting any significant infantry before late summer remain correct, but this is something to make the complaints go away a bit in the meantime - it is a very easy product to quickly spin up compared to plastic tooling in a get you by fashion.

Better than nothing, but I have enough painting backlog that I'll just wait for plastics.

Agreed - it's most probably not even 'designed', but a recombination of existing assets or b-listed stuff that didn't make the cut in other sets, and a very generic stop-gap solution.

I'd wager a guess that they're gearing up for a larger release in the 2nd half to 4th quarter of the year, whatever that may be, because early 10th edition time will mean that 'mainstream' marines will need some time in the spotlight that 'classic' marines might detract from.

I want to believe this is just a stop gap solution until the real plastic Despoiler Marines are coming.
I would expect resin models to have a shorter turnaround than plastics but would that be possible in these timeframes?
Could they make resin moulds for this in a few months after they saw the outcry for melee marines if they already had the cad files for future plastic releases until the plastic version is finished?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Are we sure it's Resin?

Based on FW prices I assumed they were the dried tears of unicorns.

From the article

"Now you can get that close combat feel with the forthcoming Despoiler Squad upgrade set from Forge World. This resin pack comes with five arms with chainswords and five with bolt pistols for your MKVI plastic Space Marines. Aspiring commanders can use it to build brutal Despoiler squads to scythe through enemy lines."

Seems pretty clear to me, Kid.

 Matrindur wrote:
I want to believe this is just a stop gap solution until the real plastic Despoiler Marines are coming.
I would expect resin models to have a shorter turnaround than plastics but would that be possible in these timeframes?
Could they make resin moulds for this in a few months after they saw the outcry for melee marines if they already had the cad files for future plastic releases until the plastic version is finished?

Resin moulds for stuff like that are ridiculously simple to make, it's literally a process you can do in a garage. If they already had CAD files or physical masters for that stuff, making resin moulds and starting to pour them would be a matter of days, or weeks at most. It's not like these are the first chainswords / bolt pistols they've ever designed, it would be an absolutely trivial task for them to roll that upgrade pack out. To the point that getting management approval etc. probably took longer than the actual production process.

I'll just grab the popcorn...

They are gonna be like 25$ for 5.
I'm gonna have to find other ways to get them made. Maybe just repose the arms they come with

Whoever makes these decisions should be forced to drink a gallon of resin and pinned to the front of GW HQ as an example to other employees.

Y'all notice that the melee weapons aren't limited to just the left hands like usual?

Nope gw.
Not gonna sell a part of a liver for not even getting a full squad equipped, and especially not as i am getting shafted anyways by GW due to FW delivery in my country being artificially inflated.

So it's not even enough for a 10 man squad and resin too. They're somehow able to pump out endless plastic accesories sprues for necromunda but plastic assault/breachers is just somehow beyond reach. A boon to 3d printers I guess, no one is happy about having to buy 4 packs for a 20 man squad.

This is very…underwhelming. It suggests to me that when the plastic assault infantry do arrive, they won’t be Mk VI. But I certainly won’t be buying resin close combat weapons in the meantime.

 Crablezworth wrote:
So it's not even enough for a 10 man squad and resin too. They're somehow able to pump out endless plastic accesories sprues for necromunda but plastic assault/breachers is just somehow beyond reach. A boon to 3d printers I guess, no one is happy about having to buy 4 packs for a 20 man squad.

Never mind Necromunda.

Look at the plakky Assault and Heavy Weapons for Heresy.

They can release mark 2 marines and then spend 18 weeks previewing FW upgrade heads

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

The Eviscerator looks nice, and I'm a fan of these Sky Hunter style chainswords, but these are all identical arm poses and only offer a right hand=sword, left hand=pistol config. Might still buy a single pack, but will probably just grab the Eviscerator separately from a bitz seller.

At least the article confirms more plastic infantry is forthcoming. I'm thinking the plastic kit will come with Jump Packs, which will come with separate torsos, these resin arms exist just so you can also build CC models without jump packs.

Oh wait, I forgot that resin pieces can actually be reposed to a degree by heating them and bending them while heated! Maybe I'll buy a single kit after all.. although this doesn't mean that making most of these arms identical wouldn't make the product look "low effort" / lazy..

 tauist wrote:
Noooooooooooooooooooooo

The Eviscerator looks nice, and I'm a fan of these Sky Hunter style chainswords, but these are all identical arm poses and only offer a right hand=sword, left hand=pistol config. Might still buy a single pack, but will probably just grab the Eviscerator separately from a bitz seller.

At least the article confirms more plastic infantry is forthcoming. I'm thinking the plastic kit will come with Jump Packs, which will come with separate torsos, these resin arms exist just so you can also build CC models without jump packs.

Oh wait, I forgot that resin pieces can actually be reposed to a degree by heating them and bending them while heated! Maybe I'll buy a single kit after all.. although this doesn't mean that making most of these arms identical wouldn't make the product look "low effort" / lazy..

Don't forget these are 5 sets of arms, for a squad that has 10 models.

So whatever they cost, double it.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 tauist wrote:
Noooooooooooooooooooooo

The Eviscerator looks nice, and I'm a fan of these Sky Hunter style chainswords, but these are all identical arm poses and only offer a right hand=sword, left hand=pistol config. Might still buy a single pack, but will probably just grab the Eviscerator separately from a bitz seller.

At least the article confirms more plastic infantry is forthcoming. I'm thinking the plastic kit will come with Jump Packs, which will come with separate torsos, these resin arms exist just so you can also build CC models without jump packs.

Oh wait, I forgot that resin pieces can actually be reposed to a degree by heating them and bending them while heated! Maybe I'll buy a single kit after all.. although this doesn't mean that making most of these arms identical wouldn't make the product look "low effort" / lazy..

Don't forget these are 5 sets of arms, for a squad that has 10 models.

So whatever they cost, double it.

6 sets of arms

For every 5 packs you buy, that's 30 marines! A much better deal than 5 packs for 25 marines. Why, yes, 5 would need a heavy chainsword, surely that's not a problem