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And let’s be honest. When the current plastic Power Armour sets kicked off the slightly rescaled MkVI? People were wondering/outright asking when the Terminator kits would follow suit.

 Snrub wrote:
Fine for ornamental armour, but not for actual combat.

Were those ever described as anything but decorative?

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Why redesign Cataphractii, considering that we already have plastic Cataphractii that could just be "scaled up"?

Edit: fixed drunken misspelling.

This one.

Spoiler:

Because there's a lot of money to be made by replacing the termites with upsized ones.

Nooo.... GW isn't motivated by money, but by the love for the models and the.... yeah... I can't even make this BS sound reasonable.

People will buy the new models. Bigger is better in the land of Space Marines.

I didn't mean to trigger another burst of posts about GW's mercantile tendencies - or whether we would buy new Cataphractii models (I would). I was referring to the fact that as soon as the new Mk VI armour appeared, people started saying the Cataphractii models were too small. But to me they look the right size.

of course, as soon as GW updates one kit and increase the size, the question for everyone is when the other kits follow because people want their models to fit each other

a reason why factions that have model lines that our out of scale or consists of kits from different design generations don't sell that well

With bigger and slightly more bulky terminators, there is still the awkward fact that super elite resin terminators will be the tiny guys .

I admit I have been looking forward to bigger terminators, and will most likely buy new ones.

 Fayric wrote:
With bigger and slightly more bulky terminators, there is still the awkward fact that super elite resin terminators will be the tiny guys .

I admit I have been looking forward to bigger terminators, and will most likely buy new ones.

No. They are legacy and then gone.
Pay attention.

Well, I paid an exorbitant sum of money for all the SMH terminator models, only to leave em unbuilt an in the bitz box after the new Indomi Terminators were released. The only thing that survived were the custom bases the SMH models came with. To care (too much) is to lose money, every. single. time.

Gotta play Iron Warriors and truly accept the "anything you can get your hands on" mentality.

New Mk6? Good. Resin Mk4? Goood. Black Reach Marines you can carve apart and stick gubbins on? Gooooood.

All serve in the ranks of the IVth.