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Chapterhouse wrote:Power Claw Arms with open or closed fist options (scaled for Terminator or Power Armor (easy to cut resin to add on Power Armor Shoulder Pad)

Why would anyone buy these over the real GW Lightning Claws? The design is almost exactly the same, except that the blades look horrible in this version.

Fetterkey wrote:
Why would anyone buy these over the real GW Lightning Claws? The design is almost exactly the same, except that the blades look horrible in this version.

What GW lightning claws?

I need your razorback kits. I need all of them. What are you pricing them at?

Opinions. I actually very much prefer the aesthetic of these Chapterhouse lightning claws. It looks more wicked-Wolverine-ish than GW's Loyalist punch-daggers or Chaos dainty Power-Fingers.

Love all the stuff Chapterhouse puts out. Any chance there are some new Eldar toys in the works?

Arschbombe wrote:

Fetterkey wrote:
Why would anyone buy these over the real GW Lightning Claws? The design is almost exactly the same, except that the blades look horrible in this version.

What GW lightning claws?

The ones that come in the Assault Terminator box, the Commander box, and on multiple metal models?

I'd just like to say that I think I will be buying alot of the new items on Tuesday.

The Lighting claws will also be up Tuesday?

So these lightning claws are like, you literally took a GW power fist and recast it, and put 2 horrible looking claws on top?

Fetterkey wrote:

Arschbombe wrote:

Fetterkey wrote:
Why would anyone buy these over the real GW Lightning Claws? The design is almost exactly the same, except that the blades look horrible in this version.

What GW lightning claws?

The ones that come in the Assault Terminator box, the Commander box, and on multiple metal models?

Right. They're very few and not very convenient to get the right mix for power armor. Aesthetics aside, the chapterhouse kit makes it very easy to get the right number of claws you need without jumping through hoops of purchasing multiple boxed sets or single pose metal models.

ph34r wrote:So these lightning claws are like, you literally took a GW power fist and recast it, and put 2 horrible looking claws on top?

I don't think the claws themselves are that bad. The term 'energy field railroad spikes' comes to mind though, but I kind of like it. There's a particular theme there that it appeals to.

I gotta agree with you on the power fist bit though. I'm usually very antipathetic toward IP related drama, but I feel guilty looking at those.

Fetterkey wrote:

Chapterhouse wrote:Power Claw Arms with open or closed fist options (scaled for Terminator or Power Armor (easy to cut resin to add on Power Armor Shoulder Pad)

Why would anyone buy these over the real GW Lightning Claws? The design is almost exactly the same, except that the blades look horrible in this version.

If you were talking about the old LCs with the longer blades then I would agree, but I absolutely hate the newer gw sculpt. So in comparison to the current gw model I think these look great. Not a bit that I need though.

ph34r wrote:So these lightning claws are like, you literally took a GW power fist and recast it, and put 2 horrible looking claws on top?

The upper arms are a close call, but the fist itself has several fairly obvious design differences to the GW version. The forward edge of the back of the hand being the most obvious.

Arschbombe wrote:Right. They're very few and not very convenient to get the right mix for power armor.

Given that these appear to be scaled for terminators, and the comment from CH suggests that you have to trim down the shoulder to make them fit power armour, I'm really not seeing much difference from using the Terminator version there. In fact, depending on the resin CH are using, the terminator version would potentially be more convenient since they're plastic.

I think it's a niche that doesn't really need filling, but it's an interesting alternative. I think that they look plenty close enough to fit in w/o looking so similar as to be problematic.

In the right army, I could see really liking them, I just don't really like lightning claws to begin with...

I like the integrated claw style much more than the punch daggers that GW has gone back to recently, I could see myself getting the CH ones if two claws didn't seem kind of a low number.

Also the twin-claw design is technically X-23 style, not Wolverine style

insaniak wrote:
Given that these appear to be scaled for terminators, and the comment from CH suggests that you have to trim down the shoulder to make them fit power armour, I'm really not seeing much difference from using the Terminator version there. In fact, depending on the resin CH are using, the terminator version would potentially be more convenient since they're plastic.

Except for the $50 buy in to get them. I expect 5 pairs from Chapterhouse to be cheaper and more readily available than the GW ones are on the bits sites.

Those powerclaws remind me of Gurren Lagann's wrist drills. I kind of like that aesthetic. Some people will prefer the more fingerlike claw design of the gw ones, but the upper wrist look has a certain raw brutality to it.

No idea if it's the picture, but they almost look 3d printed to me....probably my old eyes + picture.

I don't understand why you can't make the Mark 16 armour without the artist's permission.

You don't have GW's permission to do conversions kits for their game, and here you are.

Just even make your own 'Alternate Future' armour.

Arschbombe wrote:

insaniak wrote:
Given that these appear to be scaled for terminators, and the comment from CH suggests that you have to trim down the shoulder to make them fit power armour, I'm really not seeing much difference from using the Terminator version there. In fact, depending on the resin CH are using, the terminator version would potentially be more convenient since they're plastic.

Except for the $50 buy in to get them. I expect 5 pairs from Chapterhouse to be cheaper and more readily available than the GW ones are on the bits sites.

You can actually get blisters of the old metal lightning claws for substantially less than $50. Either way, I kind of like the quasi-wolverine Chapterhouse version as it harkens back to those older metal ones instead of the current style powerfist holding a metal bar with claws plastic lightning claws. In the end, it's simply an alternative design which is never a bad thing to have.

Definitely not sold on this so far... would have to see it painted to be sure , but to me it looks a little off.

Yeah, it needs to be primed and maybe washed to show the detail. The bad photoshop crimping along the bit's edges doesn't help.

Word Bearer helmets...j


I'm not a big fan of the claws--but isn't a right handed PF pretty tough to find?

AgeOfEgos wrote:I'm not a big fan of the claws--but isn't a right handed PF pretty tough to find?

Not any more, no. There are quite a few kits that include them.

Personally I like these over the current GW lightning claws. I only wish these were available a couple of years ago when I was building my lightning claw chaos terminators.

insaniak wrote:

AgeOfEgos wrote:I'm not a big fan of the claws--but isn't a right handed PF pretty tough to find?

Not any more, no. There are quite a few kits that include them.

Ahh, ok--must be one of those 'back in the day, our speeders looked like stair elevators and we liked it!" moments.

If they had made something close to the Chaos Lord LC kit--I would have snatched those up pretty quickly.

insaniak wrote:

AgeOfEgos wrote:I'm not a big fan of the claws--but isn't a right handed PF pretty tough to find?

Not any more, no. There are quite a few kits that include them.

I am only aware of the SW right lightning claw for PA. Where are the others?

templarboy wrote:I am only aware of the SW right lightning claw for PA. Where are the others?

Power-armour lightning claws are still a little more scarce. He was asking about power fists.

I have to say I actually like those Razorback/Stormraven/Lightning Claws. I'll be honest, the aesthetic you guys follow does very little for me for your nid stuff, but these are well done.

insaniak wrote:

templarboy wrote:I am only aware of the SW right lightning claw for PA. Where are the others?

Power-armour lightning claws are still a little more scarce. He was asking about power fists.

What are the kits that have right handed power fists? I am only aware of the assault marines and the FW character conversion kit

insaniak wrote:

templarboy wrote:I am only aware of the SW right lightning claw for PA. Where are the others?

Power-armour lightning claws are still a little more scarce. He was asking about power fists.

Thanks. I am apparently stupid and fail at reading!