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As long as it doesn't cost more than the current Hellhound and Demolisher boxed sets I'm game.

You are all wrong. New Catachan models. I'm putting money on it.

Necros wrote:I'm betting the "new" kit will just be the old cannon sprues with the new Hellhound chimera chassis, thats what it looks like to me.

That's a safe bet. It brings manufacturing cost down immediately, and simplifies construction to boot. Then GW can update the upper deck at their leisure.

As far as IG stuff is concerned I think alternate regiments are the least likely at this time.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Necros wrote:I'm betting the "new" kit will just be the old cannon sprues with the new Hellhound chimera chassis, thats what it looks like to me.

That's a safe bet. It brings manufacturing cost down immediately, and simplifies construction to boot. Then GW can update the upper deck at their leisure.

It will use the hellhound/chimera that have been update, but I think they're going to recut the sprues for the cannon and all the other parts. With their current technology they can better maximize the use of space on the sprues. While it may take time to cut a new tool the advantages of taking two smaller sprues and replacing them with a single larger sprue easily outweigh the cost. It allows the addition of some new bits possibly a second primary weapon option... maybe some crew members.

Might be worth mentioning that Hormagaunts/Termagaunts disappeared from the GW site a few months ago and now they are released anew.

I cant see the mega-armour with twin-linked shoota anywhere on the GW site; might be a hint new mega armour (possibly plastic) will be released in March?

The other mega armours are still present, so we can safely assume that there won't be a plastic boxed set any time soon.

Heres hoping for crew and shells in the basilisk/medsa/? kit, but i highly doubt it.

Funnily enough, I actually assembled a full crew of 4 or 5 Cadians to crew an open-topped artillery piece.

Too bad all of my armor is closed top.

In the mean time, we wait for an artillery project worthy of crewing!

Well there are these
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/hacmed.htm

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/hacshc.htm
They are quite worthy of a crew

Not quite what I have in mind, but thanks for the suggestions. They're just a bit too conventional for my tastes.

Well, plus they already have crew figures...

im not big fan of metal models so i hope all models they come out with are plastic kits

SM: should get librarian + dread kit

IG: Armour tanks n stuff is wot every IG player would appreciate

Orks: ah this is where my interest lies ..... Orks deff need a plastic kit for Deff dreadz + kanz cuz those things are bloody old and expensive as any thing!!!!
hell most common skratch built ork model is Kanz+Deffs.

deff koptas and boss kit i really don't think are needed ATM like the way ork players would kill for Dreads/Kanz + buggies/Trakks (every ork player i know got the black reach box or at least got bits from it and we have 2 other WB models k not with powerklaw but that didn't stop any one till now to give them one)

If they do make WB kit then i hope we get option that it can be made into WB or Big MEK or Mad Dok

Trakks/buggies i would even consider not that important either cuz you can make one very easily from the truck sprue .... so then again were left with dreads/kanz

One more thing ill consider really important model would be Looted wagon/Tank weve never seen a model for that and neither for wazdaka those 2 are models that i think every ork player has at least thought of once "wot would they look like if GW made em?"

so here is hoping for kanz/dread plastic kit which we all want for sure

Has anyone else noted that that Hive Tyrant is bigger than the regular one and looks plastic?

New Orc buggies and trakks would be great, the old one's are part of the reason my orc army has not seen the light of day for years, they look crap next to the newer stuff.
Bring it on

So... will the IG stuff be out before Adepticon?

aka_mythos wrote:As far as IG stuff is concerned I think alternate regiments are the least likely at this time.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Necros wrote:I'm betting the "new" kit will just be the old cannon sprues with the new Hellhound chimera chassis, thats what it looks like to me.

That's a safe bet. It brings manufacturing cost down immediately, and simplifies construction to boot. Then GW can update the upper deck at their leisure.

It will use the hellhound/chimera that have been update, but I think they're going to recut the sprues for the cannon and all the other parts. With their current technology they can better maximize the use of space on the sprues. While it may take time to cut a new tool the advantages of taking two smaller sprues and replacing them with a single larger sprue easily outweigh the cost. It allows the addition of some new bits possibly a second primary weapon option... maybe some crew members.

GW still might not do it. One thing that struck me is how barren the termagant and hormagaunt sprues are. Zero extra parts, zero scenic bits, lots of empty space. Compared to, say, the greatswords, the difference is staggering.