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I'm thinking the the death company version with some simple conversion work might make a very good looking iron clad hmmmmmmmm.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Commander Endova wrote:Actually, I think that's a death mask right there. It looks more gold than flesh to me, not to mention the bright, glowing eyes. Anyway, a death mask would fit with BA aesthetics.

If it's a Deathmask, then ok. Just looks like flesh to me. And 'glowing eyes' isn't exactly unheard of when it comes to Librarians.

It looks more like gold to me also.

Maybe it's just that it's a really pale gold color that's throwing you off?

I am pretty damned impressed with that Dreadnought kit though. Kind of thrown off by the force weapon though. Is it meant to be a spring loaded harpoon of doom?

It's got a twin-linked grappling hook and a weapon called a 'Bloodfist', so would that be such a stretch?

Void whale hunting Dreadnought is a go!

abatha wrote:im not entirely sold on the chickenship, or the totally unprotected ammo feed.. i think somebody is getting a flank full of shrapnel when that gets shot up.



magna grapple looks awesome tho

HEY!! he stole the Sub-Woofer from my noise marines

Yup I'm getting both of those kits, just finished my libby dread conversion, so likely get the storm raven finished first.

The SR is definetly growing on me but 50+ squid? Jaysus.

$66 for an ugly model? they priced it more than the valk? ughh.. gw sure is making it difficult for me to want to pick one up, even if only for conversion. i'll have to see if all marines get to use it for my deciding factor now that the price tier is higher than i was expecting (LR or valk price). if i can use it with my counts as deathwing in addition to my normal BA, i might. if not, pass.

As others have said...SR is also growing on me. I looooove the Furioso Kit, pure awesome. The head on the libby looks like either a death mask or just a bust imo. The battle force is pretty lame, as expected. Who uses mostly tac marines in BA lists?

FM Ninja 048 wrote:

abatha wrote:im not entirely sold on the chickenship, or the totally unprotected ammo feed.. i think somebody is getting a flank full of shrapnel when that gets shot up.



magna grapple looks awesome tho

Very cool indeed - I actually like the look of the frag cannon, though!

I'll definitely be buying those "lightning claw"-style bits to add to my regular dreads for use as Dread CCWs - very cool, and hopefully cheaper than the FW dread claws.

Old mate above out-Bjorns Bjorn! 2 claws?...you could almost say he's "bjorn-again..."

Pade^.

As someone who was guardedly optimistic that the Stormraven would look better once we got some more views of it, I've still got mixed feelings. It's dimensions look okay, and it's less box-like than it first appeared. But the wings look too long, and the configuration gives it a very ungainly appearance from the front - like a duck that's just made a bad landing. And the turret still doesn't quite work. I will definitely get one, but I think it will need some surgery. I reckon I will shorten the wings and replace the turret.

The photo showing 3 of them is definitely photoshopped - they're all weathered exactly the same way.

I really like the Dread - the Librarian version looks great (it's obviously not a bare head - and even if it was it's easily fixed), and the Death Company version is even better.

Huh... kinda liking it (the stormraven)... good thing too, cause I see the Grey Knights book symbol on the 6th picture on their site for the vehicle

2nd sprue pic... that *is* the GK book symbol, right?

The Stormraven still looks too much like someone slapped a small fuselage on a dumpster. Glad that other people are enjoying it, though (I'll convert mine out of a scale model kit, if I ever decide to finish my Blood Angels).

That Dreadnaught is a thing of beauty, though.

ryanstartalker wrote:It seems the bits composition in the librarian dread box doesn't include any Grey Knights bits...

So if the previous rumors are remotely right... Will there be new dread bits just for GK?

maybe this dread knight thing will be replacing regular dreads for GK.

I'm actually less keen on the SR than I was in previous leaked pictures. The sprues are good, but it just looks gawd-awful to me. The weaponry and assault ramp looks good, but the turret on top and the rear-wing/tail/thing just looks horrible.
The dreadnought on the other hand looks freakin' awesome! Particularly the Libby version!

Ouze wrote:I'm reasonable sure that all 3 stormravens in that picture are actually the same model, composited together into a single image. I've seen them do that in WD a few times now, too, but unlike the WD cloning, at least this time they made the effort to photoshop the number on the side.

Yeah I noticed that too, as someone just said, they're all weathered in exactly the same way and everything. So GW either photoshops the same model or has a weathering STC...

H.B.M.C. wrote:It's got a twin-linked grappling hook and a weapon called a 'Bloodfist', so would that be such a stretch?

Chibi- hawk go!

*quickly heads over to battle road games to order an sr and 2 dreads .... And lots of plasticard for the sr too lol*

In all seriousness, it would have been cool if they could have released a new mephiston and corbulo too though....

Just Dave wrote:

Ouze wrote:I'm reasonable sure that all 3 stormravens in that picture are actually the same model, composited together into a single image. I've seen them do that in WD a few times now, too, but unlike the WD cloning, at least this time they made the effort to photoshop the number on the side.

Yeah I noticed that too, as someone just said, they're all weathered in exactly the same way and everything. So GW either photoshops the same model or has a weathering STC...

It likely is the same one, they've got a history of photographing a single display model and then using it as a "repeater" for photos where more than one is needed, but they've only got one painted example.

Less likely is they just repeated the weathering across three models, but...it's not actually that big of a stretch to weather things the same without needing a "weathering STC"

Planning on getting the SR and two Dreadnaught kits. Question is... Do you think it's possible to make all 3 versions of the Dreadnaught from two kits? I assume the Deathcompany would be just that. But I wonder if i could magnetise the torso to legs and arms to torso to swap out libby for furioso?

I really hope that the SR looks better in the flesh. Its so ungainly it makes the flying brick that is the T-Hawk look like it has sublime mastery of aeronautics...

Also, is it just me or is the quality of some of the 'eavy metal paint jobs becoming truly awful? If they want to sell new and shiny at least make an effort to make it look half-decent.

They've yet to show a picture of the SR that shows how the dreadnaught is going to be 'hung'...

FM Ninja 048 wrote:

abatha wrote:im not entirely sold on the chickenship, or the totally unprotected ammo feed.. i think somebody is getting a flank full of shrapnel when that gets shot up.



magna grapple looks awesome tho

HEY!! he stole the Sub-Woofer from my noise marines

Now someone must paint this in Scot/Dixie flag colours and build in a sound chip playing "Scotland the Brave"/Dixie-Song

Those look like the DC dreads from the codex. Wonder if they've been ready for that long and just waiting on the Chibi-hawk to get the green light.


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And is that a new Sicarius-type captain in the second pic? Or has he always been around?

They've yet to show a picture of the SR that shows how the dreadnaught is going to be 'hung'...

Dreadnoughts are already "hung", that's why the are called Dreadnoughts.

But seriously, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that. There aren't any pictures of 8 Terminators riding in a Land Raider Crusader or 10 Spaced Marines riding in a Rhino or 20 Ogryns riding in a Stormlord either. I believe a little imagination is required here.

Pyronick wrote:But I wonder if i could magnetise the torso to legs and arms to torso to swap out libby for furioso?

I've been thinking about the same thing... arms should be fine, just the front plate if you can switch them out or not

anyone else notice how the battleforce would be slightly worse value compared to the regular marine one if it were the same price, but its actually 8.50 more.

on your marks, get set.. . .. terrible

In the USA, the Blood Angels Battleforce saves $32.75 over buying what is in it separately at list price. The regular Marine Battleforce has a larger savings built into it, made even better by the price increase on the individual contents last June 1 while the bundle remains at $90.

Just looking at the sprues from this thread:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/336515.page

If you were able to find 2 pairs of legs and 2 paris of arms you could build three dreads from this kit. Correct?

If you were able to find 2 pairs of legs and 2 paris of arms you could build three dreads from this kit. Correct?

No, because several major essential components of the torso are only supplied once. Only the differing decorated fronts are redundant.

$44.50 for Dreads and $66 for the Storm Raven is actually less then I was expecting to be honest. Granted its because they are all plastic but when you consider the options / upgrades / shiney cool stuff you get in the Dread kit $44.50 seems like a steal. The Storm Raven might be a lil steep on second thought but I need to see how physically comanding it is first before I can make that judgement.