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aka_mythos wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Still doesn't mean there's anything else that'll fit in there

True... but it can't be too hard to convert. You cut the Elysians at the waist and use a any torso combined with gunner arms. Scale issues are mitigated by the fact that both the gunner and drivers legs are pretty much not visible while in the vehicle so the waist down is really just to help the rest fit into it.

Although y'know...it does make me wonder.

Will we see a Tallarn version at some point?

Sweet. But if I want to field it in my planned completly airborne Guard army I need some sort of flyer who can drop that thing off. Preferebly Mass Effect style.

kendoka wrote:Will order a few Tauros Venators (and upcoming variants).
They will look great as escorts for my unlooted Mad Max-inspired fuel transports:

Very nice. Do you have a thread for this beauty?

Anung, you're in luck--because they're making a Heavy Lifter Valkyrie just for that purpose

Nice! Now do I build that amry before or after my all-fw-crisis-suits army.

Now THAT is one good-looking model!

Padded seats and wheels? NOT GRIMDARK ENOUGH!!!

Lol. Seriously. I'm going to hold off until IA:8 comes out, but yeah. My Elysians are definitely getting some reinforcements.

Anung Un Rama wrote:Do you have a thread for this beauty?

Yes:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/272607.page#1230326

O.o me want one, but sadly I can not afford it any time soon. Someone hit me for ordering that Commissar and those Guardsmen

Just got a refund for $285 on Paypal for something I ordered last summer, never received - and totally forgot about.
Was it a sign from the Emperor - for me to order a few of these (for my IG forces fighting my Tyranids)?
Problem is, $285 is just the wrong amount. Too much to just order IG support vehicles - and too little to buy both Tauros Venators and a Warhound (on top of my wish list)...

Anshal wrote:O.o me want one, but sadly I can not afford it any time soon. Someone hit me for ordering that Commissar and those Guardsmen

*punch*

Looks good. It looks big enough to have two in the crew compartment, not sure why it hasn't.

I wonder if they'll do a shorter four wheel version.

Well the preview does state that this is the first of a slew of new Imperial toys. Plus the designer has shown interest in making more variants. I'd love to see a four-wheel recon/ATV and six/eight-wheel transport variants.

As far as I can recall:
We'll see the six-wheel transport variant 'soonish'. I don't think we'll see a four-wheel direct copy of this particular thing, but we might see a four-wheeled vehicle. Wouldn't put it past them.

It looks like it has 10 wheels.

I'll ask Simon Egan this Saturday at the Frenzy, he does Elysians so it's pretty certain I could ask him about it.

When they were previewing that thing I had a chat with Will Hayes, he expressed a desire to do a cut down 4 wheel version with a single weapon and a gunner half hanging off the back, but was not yet sanctioned.

Sculpters wishlist too!

Commander Endova wrote:Padded seats and wheels? NOT GRIMDARK ENOUGH!!!

I'm sure the wheels are made from rubberised skull fragments, and the seats are padded with the dreams of orphans.

Druidic wrote:When they were previewing that thing I had a chat with Will Hayes, he expressed a desire to do a cut down 4 wheel version with a single weapon and a gunner half hanging off the back, but was not yet sanctioned.

They could call it the Puma.

H.B.M.C. wrote:They could call it the Puma.

What, like the shoe company?

RvB, more likely.

Kanluwen wrote:

aka_mythos wrote:

Harms66 wrote:Now that just sweet, I wonder if the crews removable so that they can be replaced with another Imperial Guards regiment

Kanluwen wrote:Crew will probably be attached to the seats, and there's no real figures from other IG regiments that would work anyways.

Look a picture without the crew:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Imperial%20Guard/Elysians/tv9.jpg

Also, the description pretty much says they're separate.

Still doesn't mean there's anything else that'll fit in there

No problem, with time, a saw and Green Stuff, I will make my Guards fit.

FW first cast will always fit like a glove, unless it's a squad of infantry, they won't go together no matter what you try.

Beautiful, and I want three. Make a nice armoured sentinel stand in. Hopefully, this is a sign of even more awesome things to come.

BrookM wrote:FW first cast will always fit like a glove, unless it's a squad of infantry, they won't go together no matter what you try.

From what I can gather this is largely due to poor mold maintainance and storage. The first models are cast with the mold in near perfect condition, as time passes they wear out but don't get replaced. In between production the molds are tossed around and top and bottom halves of molds aren't always paired back up with their original mate. So the mold will still match up just not well. Meanwhile repeated casting and poor storing result in warping issues and damaged details. Much of the warping, I would guess comes from storing it without any rigid support inside the mold.

New for the Elysians is the Tauros Venator, a six-wheeled rapid strike and scout vehicle. Light, fast and heavily armed, these all terrain attack vehicles are used for rapid reconnaissance and savage lightning raids in support of the drop troop landings. Designed by Will Hayes, with Elysian crewmen by Simon Egan, this full resin model comes with the choice to mount either a twin-linked multi-laser or twin-linked lascannon as well as optional hunter-killer missiles. This is a great model and something genuinely new for the Imperial Guard and Elysian range, as you can see here.

The Tauros Venator is available now to pre-order for dispatch the week commencing the 25th of January.

Rules for the Tauros, as well as other new Imperial Guard vehicles for the Elysians (including a new Valkyrie variant) can be found in our forthcoming book Imperial Armour Volume 8, and we’ll have some experimental rules for you to download soon.

The blurb says six the picture shows ten

Nobody commented on the real good piece of news yet: free WW shipping from £150 instead of £250. Makes FW ordering much more tempting now

Hasdrubal wrote:Nobody commented on the real good piece of news yet: free WW shipping from £150 instead of £250. Makes FW ordering much more tempting now

I just setup an order for 166 pounds and hit check out an no free shipping?

H.B.M.C. wrote:They could call it the Puma.

Sorry, but no, it's got to be called the Warthog.

HAH! I can say with a good deal of surety that this was (at least in part) designed using CAD!!!

Might pick up one just for giggles, like the way it looks, depending on the rules this could bump my planned elysian army up a few notches in the world.

the_trooper wrote:

Hasdrubal wrote:Nobody commented on the real good piece of news yet: free WW shipping from £150 instead of £250. Makes FW ordering much more tempting now

I just setup an order for 166 pounds and hit check out an no free shipping?

Ah, it does calculate properly.

That looks really cool. I always thought it was a shame the IG didn't have a jeep/buggy type of vehicle.