Well, It's Official...(Tau Related)

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**Maelstrom808**

-Loki- wrote:
AegisGrimm wrote:I'll bet anything that the Broadsides are going to either:

A: Plastic kit with the metal parts in Finecast.

B: A "conversion/upgrade kit" like the Space marine Bikes, where you'll just get the metal Broadside parts as Finecast.

I'll bet neither. It's not uncommon for 'special' units now to come as dual kits, and also have a huge amount of wasted bits. Look at things like the Tomb Kings snake riders or the Zombie Dragon and Imperial Griffon in fantasy, and recently in 40k we've been getting it as well with things like the Hive Tyrant kit, and way back to the Carnifex. 40k kits have still been a bit more on the economical side of wastage than fantasy, but still. I'd bet there will be a new Crisis plastic kit with Broadside railguns (and maybe even some new shoulder mounted Ion Cannons, since GW's motto lately is 'expand! expand! expand!' even if it's not needed. It's not as much of a waste as say, throwing away the wings, entire separate tail and separate legs and Swarmlord bits if you go with a standard Tyrant, not to mention the weapon options you don't use. I'd even go out on a limb and predict a 3 suit box like Thunderwolves, Stone Crushers and Killa Kanz. Model size is comparable.

It's really a lot cheaper in the long run doing it like that than doing finecast upgrade packs. The upgrade packs we're seeing for 40k are things they didn't have a chance to add to the plastic kits. Boneswords/lashwhips for warriors, bike upgrade kit, Necron heavy destroyer, etc are additions to plastic kits that haven't been redone in a couple of editions, and things like the Von Carstein shield pack is a purely cosmetic upgrade pack. GW are moving away from these, but it's been necessary here and there where they have included new options without retooling the units plastic mold. If new Crisis suits are done for Tau (and considering their importance to the army and much complained about current model, it's pretty likely), any and all varients will be on the sprue.

You would lose that bet: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/456261.page

501192103949-4 - Broadside Battlesuit Upgrade Pack 10 Piece Pack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $14.75 $17.75
501192103507-6 - Commander Shadowsun 1 Fig Box July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $40.00 $48.50
501192103509-0 - Crisis Battlesuit Commander Upgrade Pack 9 Piece Pack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $13.25 $16.00
501192103510-6 - Tau Empire Pathfinders 3 Fig Clampack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $19.75 $23.75
501192103511-3 - Tau EmpirYe Kroot Hounds 4 Fig Box July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $24.75 $29.75
501192103512-0 - Tau Empire Pathfinders with Rail Rifles 3 Fig Clampack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $19.75 $23.75
501192103513-7 - Tau Empire Vespid Stingwings 5 Fig Box July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $45.00 $55.00
501192103981-4 - Tau Empire Krootox 1 Fig Clampack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $24.75 $29.75
501192103583-0 - Tau Empire Shield Drone Upgrade Pack 8 Piece Set July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $13.25 $16.00
501192103515-1 - Tau Empire XV15 Stealth Armour 3 Fig Clampack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $19.75 $23.75
501192103516-8 - Aun'Va, Master of the Undying Spirit 3 Fig Box July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $40.00 $48.50
501192103517-5 - Tau Empire XV15 Shas'Ui 2 Fig Clampack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $19.75 $23.75
501192103707-0 Tau Ethereal 1 Fig Clampack July 14-Jul-12 21-Jul-12 - $16.00 $19.75

**juraigamer**

Would you look at all that tau finecast... I and I have 3 krootox on back order, damn you GW!

**DarthSpader**

what source is that list of finecast?

still.... good to see they are getting attention anyway. its been a while for them

**phoenixrisin**

FINALLY!!! kind of expensive though, but whatever. hopefully it will come with bits for at least two conversions

**Buttons**

phoenixrisin wrote:
Buttons wrote:
phoenixrisin wrote:they're usually going for more than retail on ebay

Not in my experience. In my experience they are usually quite a bit cheaper unless they are painted by "professional" painters.

are you arguing just to argue or what? all of the ones i see are either opened, or broken or painted by someone with lou gehrig's(sp) disease.

Maybe you just suck at finding any good deals. Looked through Ebay and just found 5 pretty well painted chimeras for under $25, and one unpainted and one partially painted chimera for under $15.

**phoenixrisin**

Buttons wrote:
phoenixrisin wrote:
Buttons wrote:
phoenixrisin wrote:they're usually going for more than retail on ebay

Not in my experience. In my experience they are usually quite a bit cheaper unless they are painted by "professional" painters.

are you arguing just to argue or what? all of the ones i see are either opened, or broken or painted by someone with lou gehrig's(sp) disease.

Maybe you just suck at finding any good deals. Looked through Ebay and just found 5 pretty well painted chimeras for under $25, and one unpainted and one partially painted chimera for under $15.

maybe you just suck at reading, because where in this thread did i ever say i wanted a chimera? not to mention those are in production in the usa right now.

you're basically saying, "derp, you should be able to find this out of print book for less than retail because i found twilight for $3 on ebay". i don't expect you to understand that analogy though.

**Janthkin**

And that'll do it.