Stormraven Hands On and Furioso Dreadnought plastic sprue

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**MinMax**

shrike wrote:
Necros wrote:It would be a great looking model if it wasn't so fugly.

That makes no sense. "It would look good if it didn't look so bad"

Swing, and a miss! ...Right over 'is head.

**warboss**

so... it looks like the hurricane bolters fit over the doors on the front.. rulewise, i don't see it in the BA codex but it sure looks like adding the hurricane bolters *should* disallow you to exit from the two side front doors. anyone see any other place to put them?

**Valhallan42nd**

Warboss, unless the SR is immobilized, the doors are just decorative.

**Ouze**

augustus5 wrote:Up for advance order Wednesday? That's exciting. I might put an order in for three for the future GK release.

I'll be looking forward to seeing it, as I'm curious how it will be priced. It's an ugly bird, but at heart I love birds, and especially the ugly ones... so maybe. I think it could be made better with some tweaking, perhaps.

All I see right now up for order is some Ultramarines stuff. Good for them - GWS has ignored the marines in general and Ultramarines in specific for far too long, glad to see them finally getting some love.

**FM Ninja 048**

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440160a&rootCatGameStyle=wh40k

Up for pre order, looks even more chibby by the picture they put up, doesn't show the back end though.

**Fireball**

The scriptor bot is awesome and will be added to my Red Hunters Space Marines for sure ...

**shrike**

GW wrote:Remember the terrified look on your opponents' face when you first fought them with your Blood Angels? Well be prepared to see it again because nothing inspires terror quite like this vehicle - it's a flying red fist of death that's going to punch their army until it begs for mercy. There is something extremely satisfying when you transport your most devastating unit (and potentially a Dreadnought) across the table and right into the face of the enemy army. And after you unleash the troops? Well, you can just blast chunks out their tanks and monsters with Bloodstrike Missiles until there's nothing left to blow up.

or

GW wrote:Remember the terrified look on your opponents' face when you first fought them with another SM army? Well be prepared to see it again because nothing inspires terror quite like this thing- it's a flying red brick of death that's going to flick their army until it shoots it down. There is something extremely satisfying when you transport your most cheesy unit (and potentially a Dreadnought) across the table and right into the fist of the enemy army. And after your disembarked troops die? Well, you can just ping chunks out their armour and monsters with Bloodstrike Missiles until there's no more bloodstrike missiles.

That'd be my version.

**Burgwatzk**

A new flying unit, and quite fittingly for SM players its a shortbus. A squat, ugly little shortbus. I guess they used up all their good designs on DE and decided that SM players wouldn't care as long as they were nice and cheesy and had articles about killing a million billion people per day with space marine powers.

**Kilkrazy**

timff8 wrote:I was, and still am on the fence about buying the SR kit and biting the bullet of fielding a flying out-house, or taking the time to convert my own. I'm thinking something alot like this, with a few modifications of my own to make it look a bit more like a SM craft:
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/05/40k-hobby-horn-pattern-storm-raven.html#

I really find the "OMG check out how Space Marines this thing is" look of the official kit is just silly. It is built in an incredibly in-aerodynamic way, i.e. the under surface area will create more drag than the over surface area, and the whole mess of pockets and corners on the cabin are just ugly. They really look to me like the designer was trying really hard to make it look like a land raider, but the remembered that it had to fly, so tried to fix it at the last minute.

Actually a Land Raider is more aerodynamic than the Storm Raven.

**warboss**

Kilkrazy wrote:
timff8 wrote:I was, and still am on the fence about buying the SR kit and biting the bullet of fielding a flying out-house, or taking the time to convert my own. I'm thinking something alot like this, with a few modifications of my own to make it look a bit more like a SM craft:
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/05/40k-hobby-horn-pattern-storm-raven.html#

I really find the "OMG check out how Space Marines this thing is" look of the official kit is just silly. It is built in an incredibly in-aerodynamic way, i.e. the under surface area will create more drag than the over surface area, and the whole mess of pockets and corners on the cabin are just ugly. They really look to me like the designer was trying really hard to make it look like a land raider, but the remembered that it had to fly, so tried to fix it at the last minute.

Actually a Land Raider is more aerodynamic than the Storm Raven.

while i agree that the storm raven is an ugly bird, i'm not sure about that last part. here's the uncredited (sorry, i didn't save the html address) pic i found yesterday comparing the two.

**Alpharius**

Burgwatzk wrote:A new flying unit, and quite fittingly for SM players its a shortbus. A squat, ugly little shortbus. I guess they used up all their good designs on DE and decided that SM players wouldn't care as long as they were nice and cheesy and had articles about killing a million billion people per day with space marine powers.

Be VERY careful when making those types of comments.

In fact, don't make them at all.

**shrike**

MinMax wrote:
shrike wrote:
Necros wrote:It would be a great looking model if it wasn't so fugly.

That makes no sense. "It would look good if it didn't look so bad"

Swing, and a miss! ...Right over 'is head.

Sorry, it's just difficult to detect sarcasm over forums.