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CT GAMER wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:How they justify a 56 dollar thunderfire is beyond me.

They have to cover the cost of paying all the laborers needed to dump the massive amounts of bad casts into the garbage...

/rimshot +1

Finecast would be awesome if it wasn't so overpriced.

See what I did there?

MajorWesJanson wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Im getting telion and a Thunderfire cannon.
And i wonder what the bike squad upgrade pack is.

Bike squad upgrade hopefully is the Sarge, Plasma gunner, and Melta gunner rider bitz. I've been wanting to get them, but not really to pay $40 or $45 for the kit when I have plenty of bikes already. This, the White Scars one, and the Iron Hands bits will let me get what I want and not have to get the rest of the kit, saving me about $100.

Yeah, I'm assuming it's those same formerly-metal bits that have been around since 2nd edition. I don't know why you'd need them these days when you have plastic meltaguns, plasma guns, and power weapons.

I'm happy about those Legion of the Damned.

Brother SRM wrote:

MajorWesJanson wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Im getting telion and a Thunderfire cannon.
And i wonder what the bike squad upgrade pack is.

Bike squad upgrade hopefully is the Sarge, Plasma gunner, and Melta gunner rider bitz. I've been wanting to get them, but not really to pay $40 or $45 for the kit when I have plenty of bikes already. This, the White Scars one, and the Iron Hands bits will let me get what I want and not have to get the rest of the kit, saving me about $100.

Yeah, I'm assuming it's those same formerly-metal bits that have been around since 2nd edition. I don't know why you'd need them these days when you have plastic meltaguns, plasma guns, and power weapons.

because having the rider cradle the weapon on his side looks much cooler than him holding a two-handed special weapon out in one hand?

SlaveToDorkness wrote:
because having the rider cradle the weapon on his side looks much cooler than him holding a two-handed special weapon out in one hand?

It's not exactly hard to convert them doing that in plastic:

As nice as the look for your CF is, I don't see it at all the same. nor do I see that sitting in the bike as well. However your models look very nice.

Thanks for the kind words! I don't see it being that hard to cut plastic to the shape for those poses, or ones similar to them. Granted, I also don't like that those single-piece torsos are so old, and paying high prices for them doesn't sit well with me. The sergeant in particular is also very small for a Space Marine.

Brother SRM wrote:

MajorWesJanson wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Im getting telion and a Thunderfire cannon.
And i wonder what the bike squad upgrade pack is.

Bike squad upgrade hopefully is the Sarge, Plasma gunner, and Melta gunner rider bitz. I've been wanting to get them, but not really to pay $40 or $45 for the kit when I have plenty of bikes already. This, the White Scars one, and the Iron Hands bits will let me get what I want and not have to get the rest of the kit, saving me about $100.

Yeah, I'm assuming it's those same formerly-metal bits that have been around since 2nd edition. I don't know why you'd need them these days when you have plastic meltaguns, plasma guns, and power weapons.

Slave to Darkness is half right. They do look cool. The other reason is that all my plastic plasma guns and melta are already in use, so it would be just as expensive to buy more online, when these are already complete.

The only good thing about this is that the more finecast models GW produce, the better they'll get at it. (Hopefully)

Anyone old enough to remember the first plastic models, were they perfect from the beginning?

chobarba wrote: you should look into some of these websites for the UK as that will chop the price down ALOT!

ALOT

Looks like I have about $200 worth of metal models to buy before this happens.

SgtSixkilla wrote:The only good thing about this is that the more finecast models GW produce, the better they'll get at it. (Hopefully)

Anyone old enough to remember the first plastic models, were they perfect from the beginning?

chobarba wrote: you should look into some of these websites for the UK as that will chop the price down ALOT!

ALOT

LOL! I liked that Alot!

SgtSixkilla wrote:The only good thing about this is that the more finecast models GW produce, the better they'll get at it. (Hopefully)

Anyone old enough to remember the first plastic models, were they perfect from the beginning?

chobarba wrote: you should look into some of these websites for the UK as that will chop the price down ALOT!

ALOT

As much as i liked that, the only thing that let it down was that apostrophes have thier own key without using shift. The ALOT thing definately made up for it though.

They (GW) have removed them from the website. Confirmed. I was too late to get them! Really pissed I missed out on the Terminator Chaplain. Its the best model in the range if you ask me. The new one had better not have holes and a bent Crozius!

Got my Legion of the Damned in the nick of time, thanks to SickSix.

Are they doing the troops/heavysupport/fast attack symbols in finecast, too? Since painting Fast Attack symbols is going to be weaksauce later on. :(

Crazyterran wrote:Are they doing the troops/heavysupport/fast attack symbols in finecast, too? Since painting Fast Attack symbols is going to be weaksauce later on. :(

The shoulder pads still say "ships in 24 hours" for the most part. I think they're just switching over things you'd find in stores.

Here is a link to the Space Marine Finecast wave, just came out... http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=2500122-gws

I really like the Tyrannic war vets, but I hope they aren't eaten up by the finecast bugs >.>

Holy moley... $94 for a Thunderfire. Gah!

I smell an incoming debate about what the heck Plastic-Resin really is, just like all those other times

Its plastic!
Its not plastic!
Its resin!
Definition of resin is blah blah blah
Thats not the type of resin we're talking about!

That does happen a lot on forums, but there is no debate where knowledge is involved. Plastics are polymers. The "regular" GW kits are made from polystyrene like most mass-market model cars, planes, trucks, ships, etc. by Revell, Tamiya and others. Polystyrene is one kind of plastic. The "resins" used for many other kits are often made using polyurethane which is another kind of polymer (i.e., plastic). For example, the old Armorcast GW licensed models were made from urethane. Urethane is most likely the major component of current Forge World and many other companies' products as well.

So, the box of Bikes is gone. Soooooo
3 Sm bikes
The upgrade will get you.....10 bucks.
Thats 55 bucks. and around 5 or so dollers for tax? 60 bucks.
You could buy a landraider for that much.
Or spend 45 more to get the revenwing battalion
Well im glad i got most of my bikes.

I like the pictures, but I laughed at the captain in terminator armor. "paper banner not included" lol. Such an average model compared to some of the other new stuff.

The only good news about this is now my FLGS will now carry them. 20% off GW's price ftw.

$94 Thunderfire cannon

WOW at first I thought

Ledabot wrote:I like the pictures, but I laughed at the captain in terminator armor. "paper banner not included" lol. Such an average model compared to some of the other new stuff.

That guy was awesome when he first came out - and while he isn't quite up to the levels of some of the more recent models, he's still pretty good, though maybe a touch small.

Glad to see I was right about the Bike Upgrade kit

I'm really glad I bought my Kantor before they cut off his balls

LunaHound wrote:$94 Thunderfire cannon

WOW at first I thought

I reckon you could make a cheap thunderfire cannon by converting one from the psilencer gatling cannon from a bitz store and some cheap small treads.

I'm happy to see both the iron hands and the Thunderfire cannon become finecast

Where is everyone seeing $94 for the Thunderfire? I'm seeing $56...maybe it was an error they corrected?
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=&prodId=prod1600062a