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I'd have prefered malcadors man...

Not Online!!! wrote:
I'd have prefered malcadors man...

Yeah good point, the plastic 30k line so far has been pretty light on tanks, this would probably be the only one

TBH the Malcador is probably the only FW tank I'd want to see in plastic. The track alignment problems on the resin kit are awful, it's almost impossible to build one correctly since if the resin pieces shrink even slightly more or less than intended as they cure the plastic track links won't fit. Love the design but building one of them was more than enough.

Obviously I have no way to judge the veracity of this and it’s about as unverified as rumours can get but a rumour’s a rumour; this is from B&C in the thread about this Baneblade there:

I believe it is, in fact, a new plastic kit. My reasoning is that I have been assured by someone I trust that I should not buy any more Malcadors because the plastic kit is coming late this year/early next year. It stands to reason there could be a whole swathe of Solar Auxilia plastic tanks, or maybe a drip feed...

Plastic Malcador I can believe, it's still comparable to the Spartan line in size and the existing resin kit is one of the notoriously badly designed FW plastic/resin hybrid kits. It's not as bad as the Storm Eagle and its near-100% scrap rate but it uses a plastic track sprue that GW doesn't use for anything else anymore, adding to the reasons to phase it out.

Plastic SA Baneblade I'm a bit more skeptical about. I just don't see it adding much over the existing Baneblade kit, and remaking a tank that size would be a pretty big leap of faith for GW given the lack of any sales numbers on a new SA line. I think it would be much more likely to be a center hull and sponson upgrade kit like the Stormhammer, letting GW give the option to the few purists who really want it without having to worry about all the people who just throw a new coat of paint on the existing guard version.

 ThePaintingOwl wrote:
Plastic Malcador I can believe, it's still comparable to the Spartan line in size and the existing resin kit is one of the notoriously badly designed FW plastic/resin hybrid kits. It's not as bad as the Storm Eagle and its near-100% scrap rate but it uses a plastic track sprue that GW doesn't use for anything else anymore, adding to the reasons to phase it out.

I've heard other people mention that they've had trouble building the Malcador, it's strange to me because I've built multiple Malcadors and haven't had a problem.

As much as I love the tank I can think of plenty of other kits that I'd rather have in plastic, but maybe that's just me.

Malcador would be neat. It's fine but I can be a pain to build, especially if you don't do the tracks perfectly.

Well besides Malcador (that will swarm the table) I really hope for Carnodon battle tanks as "light" tank option. And we may see as Carnodon is based on Aurox transport.

If you can go for full autocannon loadout then better.

I'd adore plastic sabres!

Sabre squadron, two to a box, would go great, I think.

But yeah, assuming the mystery army from the roadmap is in fact plastic Solar Auxilia as widely speculated, Carnodons and Aurox would be the thing to have.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Sabre squadron, two to a box, would go great, I think.

But yeah, assuming the mystery army from the roadmap is in fact plastic Solar Auxilia as widely speculated, Carnodons and Aurox would be the thing to have.

Infantry, rapiers, malcadors and aurox.

Malcador could also do double duty for the transport variant.

I love the Sabre but it's one small & dense chunk of resin!

The Aurox and Carnodon have the Sabre and Arquitor problem of being pretty new kits, so are unlikely to get a plastic release ahead of other stuff like the Malcador.

Then again they made the AT Dire Wolf plastic after like a year.

Plastic Malcador and Dracosans would be ace, I have them in resin and while the Dracosan was something of an improvement over the stock Malcador, not the most pleasant of build experiences.

Is the vanilla Malcador with battle cannon and Demolisher cannon still a thing in 30k? Or has it been banished to the realms of epic 30k?

As it is, we still are waiting on plastic breachers and ASSAULT MARINES.

But hey, Solar Aux getting moved to plastic would be huge. Not only would it be a really cool way to have a new kind of astra militarum model to convert/use, some of those tanks that the solar aux have are super cool and would be great in plastic.

drbored wrote:
As it is, we still are waiting on plastic breachers and ASSAULT MARINES.

But hey, Solar Aux getting moved to plastic would be huge. Not only would it be a really cool way to have a new kind of astra militarum model to convert/use, some of those tanks that the solar aux have are super cool and would be great in plastic.

Plus they’d probably get an assault oriented kit or two, so maybe marines could punch some chain swords.

Looks like everyone is wishlisting only for tanks so I guess GW was right in not developing Marine infantry...

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
I've heard other people mention that they've had trouble building the Malcador, it's strange to me because I've built multiple Malcadors and haven't had a problem.

I think it's one of those random luck things. Like a lot of the other resin/plastic hybrid kits it's a design where it goes together fine if all of the parts are cast perfectly but if you get uneven shrinking during the curing process you no longer have the precise alignment required to make it fit. The plastic track segments no longer line up perfectly to curve around the wheels and meet up at the end of the resin track sections. And it really doesn't take much, if that plastic track segment lands 1mm too short instead of right on the tangent line along the wheel the next plastic track segment is pushed outward instead of being able to follow along the curve of the wheel. And so you end up having to hack apart the resin pieces, carefully put just enough gap between plastic segments to make it curve without showing too much of a visible gap, etc.

If you compare the Malcador to better-designed kits like the Stormhammer you see a lot more tolerance for fit issues. Joints are hidden better, you have overlapping parts fitting into slots instead of needing precise edge to edge alignment, etc.

Ya I have a malcador that I haven't finished building because the tracks just wont line up and i haven't found a good solution, so if we are getting a plastic kit that would be great.

the baneblade just doesn't seem different enough to justify a new kit so i'm pretty skeptical on that one.
the kit I really want but likely wont get is a plastic macharus

Not Online!!! wrote:
I'd have prefered malcadors man...

I'm more of a Macharius man, myself.

If only a world existed where we could have both...

Speaking of Malchador. Have we heard any rumours of rules for the blackshields or malchador's lads, the pre-greyknights/inquisitional stuff. Fun to play for seige of terra style skirmishes.

cody.d. wrote:
Speaking of Malchador. Have we heard any rumours of rules for the blackshields or malchador's lads, the pre-greyknights/inquisitional stuff. Fun to play for seige of terra style skirmishes.

We have not. I suspect GW will approach HH2.0 like 1.0 with annual campaign books, meaning that stuff is probably a few years down the line.

It's funny - so much is said about the supposed lack of support for HH, but speaking as someone with a job and other commitments, I welcome the less frenetic release schedule. I can't build and paint stuff at anything like the rate that GW pushes it out - I still haven't finished the SoH army I started when Age of Darkness was released. And with a rapid release schedule comes rapid changes to the rules and units, often resulting in stuff you've built (or are still building) becoming obsolete. While it would have course have made a lot more sense to have included some more basic HH units (like assault troops) in the first few months, I don't think it's terrible to have a game that gives you time to breathe.

I'm still hoping for Custodes being ported to plastic instead of Solar Auxila, but there would be a second chance when the 10th Ed Custodes Codex comes out next year I suppose.

 endlesswaltz123 wrote:

Andykp wrote:
I bet that is the epic baneblade model.

Doubt it, the barrels being fully drilled out on all weapons is the first major difference over these:



The lights are also different

You ain’t wrong, I hope they don’t replace the old baneblade with this one, I dislike the overly decorative look.

 Breotan wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
I'd have prefered malcadors man...

I'm more of a Macharius man, myself.

I mean, absolutely, everything but something we already got in plastic that works just fine doesn't need to become plastic.


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Looks like everyone is wishlisting only for tanks so I guess GW was right in not developing Marine infantry...

Well marines have marine infantry as their core, as their identity.

That is less the case with Solar Auxilia, which is a combined army. Also you require like 3 infantry kits to fill the whole roster: Infantry, command and elites. There done. The tanks otoh Aurox 35 pts transport resin chunks for the price absurd, etc.


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 Arbitrator wrote:
The Aurox and Carnodon have the Sabre and Arquitor problem of being pretty new kits, so are unlikely to get a plastic release ahead of other stuff like the Malcador.

Then again they made the AT Dire Wolf plastic after like a year.

i honestly think the aurox will enter plastic quite early , because it doesn't sell in resin. Which is understandable, it's a 35 pts model with a 100 $ pricetag that is in essence a worse rhino.

Otoh, maybee they skipp it and just throw out the malcador and the dracosan, the bigger transport.

Andykp wrote:
You ain’t wrong, I hope they don’t replace the old baneblade with this one, I dislike the overly decorative look.

That look is 90% paint. If you paint the SA kits in subdued 40k guard style schemes instead of bright colors and gold trim everywhere they don't look decorative at all. The actual sculpted trim is no more than the average 40k tank. For example:

It's hard to put into words just how much better they look with a more "realistic" paintjob.

It does look much better than with gold trim, less like a French dukes sideboard but I still prefer the look of the classic tank kits.