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Straken makes me want to start a Traitor IG army.

i like but don't love any of the three. they're better than what i would be able to kit bash. as for straken, finally we get a model in 40k with a BIONIC NIPPLE! dietrich, if you do a traitor IG army, make sure you paint straken up in slaneesh colors.

The executioner is only ok IMHO. The punisher looks exactly like it does in the codex and exactly what I would expect. For the executioner however i'll stick with:

The only thing I like is the Punisher turret actually. I agree the Executioner turret is too long, but it appears that the tail end of it is a seperate piece and may not have to be used. Also, I don't care for the Straken model. Mostly its the bare chested thing.

I like Straken...but it just makes me want to see the sculpts for the other new special characters even more.

Punisher is pretty much exactly what I expected. So I'm neither upset nor ecstatic about it.

Alpharius wrote:I wonder what the cost of the 'combined' Russ box will be though...

The new Leman Russ Demolisher kit is £30/US$49.50, so following GW's trends the new Leman Russ kit should be 5 to 10 quatloos less depending where you live. Or if GW follows one of their other trends (bug gak pricing) then they might foist it on us for the same price as the Demolisher. But I doubt it.

In all fairness the hellhound/banewolf/devil dog turrets all ended up being EXACTLY as they were pictured in the codex so this should come as no surprise.

Ballots are in and it might be the same price as a Valkyrie / Land Raider / someone's mom on the corner of the street.

BrookM wrote:Ballots are in and it might be the same price as a Valkyrie / Land Raider / someone's mom on the corner of the street.

Not my mother, she charges at least two Valkyries/LRs/BWs!

Pricey.

Of course by that I mean the tank, and not your mom!

(cue rimshot!)

It looks like they remodeled the hull slightly as well.

The Punisher looks adowable, like a duplo My First Gau-8. The executioner looks a bit bland, but I suppose that is the fault of the paintjob.

Those are awesome sauce!

I like all of it. The elongated turret goes a long way towards making the Russ look less stupid.

While Straken does indeed look really cool, I don't get why we get one.
Besides the already mentioned awkward gun pose, there's not much wrong with the old model.
Shouldn't they be focusing on the special characters which don't have a model yet? Like that Bastione guy. afaik there's already a model for that Ogryn bodyguard, but he'll probably looks aweful next to the new Ogryns.

The tanks are okay, but the FW plasma gun looks much better.

Straken is great. Very nice improvement on the old model.

The Executioner is decent, but I do prefer the original and the 8-foot long hull HB detracts from the model.

Punnisher is all sorts of lame. But that's fine. Punishers are lame anyway.

All said I probably won't get any of it because:

1. I don't collect Catachans (he is a very nice model though...)
2. I don't want any more Russes. If they release the turret as a separate sprue (like they're about to do with the Redeemer/Crusader sponson sprue) then sure, but no, I don't need more than the 30 Russes I have now.
3. I can convert my own Punisher turret. Thanks to my Vanquisher turrets I have about 5 spare Russ turrets, so converting one using the Vulcan parts from my Shadowsword kits shouldn't be that hard.

LunaHound wrote:finally a bioinc arm thats holding a melee weapon lol.

There's also one in the new Cadian Command Squad set, Luna-chan.

Looks like more IG yummy goodness to me!! Oh wait, I just decided to move back to West Palm Beach where almost no one games..... Oh well.

Straken actually looks cool.

Wow, I made a conversion that is seemingly better than a gw model.

That's a first.

The Grundel wrote:The executioner is only ok IMHO. The punisher looks exactly like it does in the codex and exactly what I would expect. For the executioner however i'll stick with:

Is the Forgeworld seperate turret a whole turret or parts to add to a plastic turret. I want to know if I can buy the turret from forgeworld and just swap out as I wish.

sexy all round

Orlanth wrote:

The Grundel wrote:The executioner is only ok IMHO. The punisher looks exactly like it does in the codex and exactly what I would expect. For the executioner however i'll stick with:

Is the Forgeworld seperate turret a whole turret or parts to add to a plastic turret. I want to know if I can buy the turret from forgeworld and just swap out as I wish.

The FW turret is a complete kit, no extra plastic parts needed.

BrookM wrote:Ballots are in and it might be the same price as a Valkyrie / Land Raider .

Is it really 39€ for a demo/exec/punisher? cheaper than the old demolisher.

1hadhq wrote:

BrookM wrote:Ballots are in and it might be the same price as a Valkyrie / Land Raider .

Is it really 39€ for a demo/exec/punisher? cheaper than the old demolisher.

€50,-- love, around here the Valkyrie and LR are €50

BrookM wrote:

1hadhq wrote:

BrookM wrote:Ballots are in and it might be the same price as a Valkyrie / Land Raider .

Is it really 39€ for a demo/exec/punisher? cheaper than the old demolisher.

€50,-- love, around here the Valkyrie and LR are €50

So i may not click on the GW site ( 40k preorders) and preorder it at 39€, therfore less than the old 50€ metal demolisher? NO?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1491453&prodId=prod50019a

Forgot: new hellhound also 39€.

Holy gak, that's amazing.

How about the rumor they've left the accessory sprue out of the kits? Wouldn't make it a deal, would it?

aka_mythos wrote:How about the rumor they've left the accessory sprue out of the kits? Wouldn't make it a deal, would it?

Sounds like a complete kit from its description....so ...deal

Im willing to bet Straken will be Direct only like the advisors. GW is getting sneaky.

As for the new demolisher/executioner/punisher I like the models but Im waiting to see the price tag, which upon just checking the GW site is the same as the current Demolisher kit and cheaper then the steam tank still somehow......