Boss Salvage wrote:
Congrats on painting so many of the things! Especially all that infantry

 Meer_Cat wrote:
All this talk about the 'TIE Tank' reminds of a very early computer video game some kind soul sent us during Desert Shield called "A-10 Warthog". It was a flight simulator and had various missions programmed into it. Unfortunately, none us could actually play well enough to make the thing fly and do whatever it was supposed to do. But you could set the player mode to "indestructible plane, unlimited ammo" (essentially: Pre-Beginner level, so you could learn to play well enough to survive flak and dogfights and such) which allowed us to drive the plane over the ground, shooting up tanks. You could drive right through them and because you were indestructible, keep right on playing.

So now I have visions of an up-armored TIE Fighter with treads on the bottom of the vertical wings driving along, shooting up Leman Russ tanks.

Rock on, Kid- rock on!

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:


The four arms of unity: Strength through discipline. Strength through community. Strength through action. Strength through pride.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

I just realized the RT guys are 32, old enough to drive, vote, drink, join the army, marry a stripper, father a kid, find out she was sleeping with your best friend while you were on deployment, wonder if the kid is really yours want to divorce her but can't because it would break your son's heart and so endure a loveless sham with no escape.

that sounds awefully like real life expierience... hope not...

also... i have some already assembled ones with original weaponry if you ever should find the need to have...moooorrree...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
whenever i read cadians i secretly read canadians... i think someone should act upon it and make a canadian cadian themed army... really... it needs to be done...

 Max Moray wrote:
The exiled Arbites vet, who just returned to the city from the northern wastes is a great conversion.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
what head does the second ogryn wear?...people need to know...

Let me start by saying that, once assembled, both of the figures on the sprue are gorgeous. The Ogryn with two mechanical claws looks properly beefy and heavy, ready to tear apart a truck. The Ogryn with a gun arm and a wrench looks vicious and scary, you would not want him running towards you! The figures have power cables and servos making the bionics look more industrial than the usual ones. There's also four heads plus a fifth mechanical head to give them some distinction.

The problem is, those the only two you can make. The sprue in this kit literally has 3 arms for 2 bodies, plus a gun arm. Oh yes, you can leave off an arm and make a one-armed Ogryn too. But I can't really consider 'leave off an arm' to be an option, even if the instruction book does.

And even worse, it was not necessary. While there's a limited amount of space on a sprue, there are also a lot of unnecessary parts. The arm gun for example comes in several pieces, as does the mechanical head. Even the eye lens is a separate part! It's hard for me not to look at this and feel that some parts could have been simplified to make room for another arm so every Ogryn could have two arms at least. Or maybe another hand so they could hold something other than the same wrench.

This is an ongoing issue with GW kits. They are increasing being made for display rather than modelling and converting. They have fewer options and almost no cross-compatibility with other kits. For example the neither the heads nor the hands in this kit work with the fantasy Ogre kits, further limiting your options. And for a gang-building game like Necromunda this hurts our ability to make our own gangs and models.

So... if you only need 1 or 2 this is a fine kit but if you intend to make a whole gang you'll struggle to differentiate them with only 3 arms for every 2 figures.