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Deimos Pattern Rhino is back in stock as well.

beast_gts wrote:
Deimos Pattern Rhino is back in stock as well.

Nice, I hope they have fixed the issues with the side panels warping, I could not figure out how to keep them straight !

 Rayvon wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
Deimos Pattern Rhino is back in stock as well.

Nice, I hope they have fixed the issues with the side panels warping, I could not figure out how to keep them straight !

Glue 2 bits of sprue to the back of the doors?

So, why are they putting the hands on the bolters?

 kronk wrote:
So, why are they putting the hands on the bolters?

To make it compatible with Betrayal at Calth.

But why did they do that with Calth?

Easier to cast/easier to assemble maybe?

 kronk wrote:
But why did they do that with Calth?

Because they did it with the newer 40k Marine kits. No idea why they started doing that with them... :-)

OK, then. Weird.

MKIII back in stock, then!

All GW left-hand customers should sue GW for being discriminated against.

And they did it with Cadians long before they did it with Marines.

That head on the mark 4 looks like a transitional design, a forerunner to the mk 7.

The shoulder pad rims look a little thicker than before, too.

We've seen that Mk IV head before, but in various legion upgrade packs and some vehicle crew.

 Yaraton wrote:
All GW left-hand customers should sue GW for being discriminated against.

All GW gave us was the Left Handed LoTD guy...

shade1313 wrote:
We've seen that Mk IV head before, but in various legion upgrade packs and some vehicle crew.

That head is nothing new, folks. It was in the "legion" mk.IV sets, IIRC.

I would have preferred it to be a proper Sarum pattern helmet.

commander dante wrote:

 Yaraton wrote:
All GW left-hand customers should sue GW for being discriminated against.

All GW gave us was the Left Handed LoTD guy...

The Despoiler / Assault squads used to come with a left trigger hand that you could put a bolter on. Not sure if they still do.

If you're a cynic and a misanthrope like myself they started moulding the hand to the gun on marines because there were and still are an awful lot of 3rd party weapons out there that are Space Marine compatible, but designed to fit old arms where the right hand was still attached. Thus, they've made it that little bit more difficult for people to switch them. To actually remove a bolter from a hand without damaging either component is actually quite tricky, I've found. If you're happy to trash the weapon then it's substantially easier, but still more effort than is necessary.

 Yaraton wrote:
All GW left-hand customers should sue GW for being discriminated against.

The Emperor's first decree was to disallow left handed mutants into the Astartes. Deemed too genetically divergent from 'normal' humanity, lefthanded humans were all condemned to servitortude with the Emperor's second decree. In fact to this day, the most defining feature to seperate a servitor from a citizen is the use of the lefthand.

Crystal-Maze wrote:
Did the codpieces of the MKV heresy armour have studs before? I can't remember them having studs.

I guess it's like the Mk.VI shouldpads, where they needed extra armor for protection.

Which is wierd, because SMs don't reproduce sexually. They basically sacrifice their humanity in the process a la this guy:

Preserving the ability to "reproduce sexually" isn't the primary intent behind a codpiece.

[OT: IDW is bringing ROM back, and I am really looking forward to that!]

Slow news day indeed!

OT: Even if they can't make baby space marines, it is not cannon that Henry and the Twins are removed during the making of a space marine. It would still hurt like a fether to get shot there.

On Topic: Still waiting for fething Dorn! I'd really like to have him for AdeptiCon, FW!

 kronk wrote:
OT: Even if they can't make baby space marines, it is not cannon that Henry and the Twins are removed during the making of a space marine. It would still hurt like a fether to get shot there.

On Topic: Still waiting for fething Dorn! I'd really like to have him for AdeptiCon, FW!

It would make sense for 'the twins' to remain anyway, considering the effects of testosterone in normal humans. Unless Space Marines have another source of the stuff due to their extra organs.

One or more of their organs does indeed do just that.

Yup. They're basically roid raging all the time, due to the extra organs that hypermasculinize their bodies for always fighting all the time. I'm assuming any actual SM would have tiny shrunken nuts due to what amounts to prolonged heavy steroid use.

According to one novel (the Emperor's Gift) the main character is commented on having nice "equipment" by an inquisitor. The character being a Grey Knight however, is somewhat oblivious to this all.

Back on topic, where are my Solar Auxilia medicae orderlies and the Lord Marshall himself damn it?!

 BrookM wrote:
One or more of their organs does indeed do just that.

Are the hormones produced by the Biscopea actually stated somewhere? Just it is very possible that it works synergistically with the natural physiology of the initiate, rather than totally over-riding it.

As fascinating as this all is - or isn't - please take it over to the 40K Background Forum, please!

Are the new, handless marines cheaper than the older kits? I seem to recall the old kits costing more...

Then again, I could be confusing the price with that of the despoilers.

You know, looking at the armour side by side like this, it struck me how ridiculously thin MKIV leg armor looks.

I don't like it. It looks too thin.

 Ashiraya wrote:
You know, looking at the armour side by side like this, it struck me how ridiculously thin MKIV leg armor looks.

I don't like it. It looks too thin.

I think it's just the photography. When comparing actual models of Mk4 vs other GW and FW marks, they look quite good.