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hi, i've been looking at so many assault marines with thunder hammers- but when i bought one, it didn't have one in. what's up with that?
and what plastic models in power armour have them? i'm so fed up of having to model them!

Death Company and Generic Space Puppeh boxes have them. Other than that, I don't think others exist.

There is the metal TH arm of the IH conversion set/squad box.

GW also still sells the metal bitz pack of 5 power armor TH arms and storm shields.

kk, thanks- i still wanna find out where those th arms are from- there's one on page 37 of the how to paint space marines book, one on the battle of cold steel ridge in the apocalypse rulebook (an assault marine sarge with a th killed a trygon), but i think they're the same model. where are they from?! think they're from the 4th ed. assault termies, but they're held in the left hand, not in the right.


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Arschbombe wrote:GW also still sells the metal bitz pack of 5 power armor TH arms and storm shields.

they don't sell the power armour th and ss, they sell the termie ones.

shrike wrote:kk, thanks- i still wanna find out where those th arms are from- there's one on page 37 of the how to paint space marines book, one on the battle of cold steel ridge in the apocalypse rulebook (an assault marine sarge with a th killed a trygon), but i think they're the same model. where are they from?! think they're from the 4th ed. assault termies, but they're held in the left hand, not in the right.


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Arschbombe wrote:GW also still sells the metal bitz pack of 5 power armor TH arms and storm shields.

they don't sell the power armour th and ss, they sell the termie ones.

Can't find the apoc pic, but the SM book at p37 clearly shows the metal PA arm with thunderhammer from the Iron Hands set.
Dunno if you get it seperately, but the bitz-pack is still available from GW.

They're these:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440277a&prodId=prod1400033

I've noticed that the new boxes don't show the Sarg with a TH.
I've got a set of these, they're very nicely sculpted :-) and they're definitely power armour, not terminator.

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Arschbombe wrote:GW also still sells the metal bitz pack of 5 power armor TH arms and storm shields.

they don't sell the power armour th and ss, they sell the termie ones.

You are 100% incorrect.

They only sell the power armored ones, not the terminator ones. Much to my disappointment when they arrived.

These are powered armor thunder hammers. Take a long look at that arm (I wish I had). I can assure you these are powered armor arms.

Chapterhouse also has some good ones

never mind, I was wrong!

Those are pretty cool for metal models.
Other than them, Space Wolves have them in a box set. Don't know about any others.

I forgot maxminis. I bought a blister of 10 hammers at GenCon earlier this month.

Those are nice! Love the variation...

They're resin. I've only made one mini with them, but they were very easy to work with. Very little flashing to remove.

oh, right, thanks. i'll probably buy those gw ones (after i get the rest of my army)

Arschbombe wrote:GW also still sells the metal bitz pack of 5 power armor TH arms and storm shields.

Again: nope. those are the metal TERMINATOR bits, for the older, SMALLER metal terminators.

With scale creep, they could be used for PA ones, but they are still a smidge too large for it.

Give GW five years and then they'll be the TH arms for grots (by then they'll have released54mm pre-paints because their sculptors have all gone blind from sculpting skulls onto codpieces).

chromedog wrote:

Arschbombe wrote:GW also still sells the metal bitz pack of 5 power armor TH arms and storm shields.

Again: nope. those are the metal TERMINATOR bits, for the older, SMALLER metal terminators.

With scale creep, they could be used for PA ones, but they are still a smidge too large for it.

Give GW five years and then they'll be the TH arms for grots (by then they'll have released54mm pre-paints because their sculptors have all gone blind from sculpting skulls onto codpieces).

Original poster,

Here is a picture of the Thunderhammers that I posted the link to, above. This is a command sergeant model I made for my Black Templars. Also in this picture is the Crux Terminatus (Terminator Honors) POWER ARMOR shoulder pad that comes with them. In the previous editions, you could give certain members of your POWERED ARMORED squads terminator honors. Like my 4th edition Black Templar Codex, for example. Also included is a 2nd or 3rd edition terminator with thunderhammer. Decide for yourself. I'm moving on from this conversation.

Just in case anyone else needed any more proof, here's one of my GW PA thunderhammers next to a GW PA chainsword

There's also very little scale creep in the SM line (excluding vehicles), that's why you can use 2nd ed metal heavy weapons with the new kits (which I have done in the past)

I have taken this on board, and bought the PA TH pack. nice hammer detail, but glueing was a problem. Next time, I'm using a hobby drill.