No more FW Thunderhawks ? page 15 new resin model inbound

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**General Kroll**

MajorTom11 wrote:
LOL Octo-Mom is the bottom of your scale??? Interesting...

Yeah honestly I think in this case they maybe should have shot down the ubiquitous plastic rumors MUCH sooner... they even contributed to it by making such a fuss over the 'last resin thawk ever sold! (until like a month from now)' annouce when they knew the plastic rumors were already swirling.

This new resin t-hawk is now a defacto disappointment unfortunately. A lesson for GW hopefully to manage expectations on something like this if they have the fore-warning they did.

Agreed, they could have easily put this to bed on day one.

**Galas**

They don't only not shut down the plastic T-hawk rumours, they contribute to them with the "Plastic Thunderhawk" box in the joke video.

It was a funny joke, but then after they did all the fluss about the "last resin thunderhawk", well... that helped to give people expectatives.

**Don Savik**

So the whole video with the Plastic Thunderhawk box in the background wasn't actually a clever joke, but GW putting their balls onto our face.

K. Gotcha.

And honestly, I'm not surprised that Hastings got a rumor wrong. At the end of the day we're taking someone's word for it on the internet. Gotta temper expectations here people.

**Insectum7**

After reading some of the gak in the thread I'm kinda happy they trolled the rumormills with the "plastic thunderhawk box".

In any case I'm looking forward to seeing more pics of the new model. I think it's close but there appears to be some low-hanging fruit adjustments to improve it a bit. The adjustable top-wing-things still look too blocky to me.

**Galas**

Don Savik wrote:
So the whole video with the Plastic Thunderhawk box in the background wasn't actually a clever joke, but GW putting their balls onto our face.

Typical English humour!

**troa**

If I worked at GW, and I had seen the amount of "plastic thunder hawk!" talk over the years (and occasional rumors), I'd be very tempted to troll the internet too. Just as they do with sisters stuff.

Unless someone has the transcript, we don't know they said anything about resin. So really, they just left out "from the current mold" in the announcement. Assuming they actually left that out, again, without the transcript they very well could have clarified for all we know.

**Manchu**

considering this has turned out to be another FW resin release, it is probably better to discuss it in the FW N&R thread

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

Thuderhawk, Inbound

We’ve had a lot of questions over the last few weeks, since our venerable Thunderhawk gunship sold out online.

We can now announce that the Forge World studio are nearing completion on a brand new updated version.

Pre-production model – there may be some slight differences in the final model.

This new resin Thunderhawk keeps the iconic and uncompromising outline of the Thunderhawk we all know and love, but also takes on a few design cues from other recent kits, like the Stormbird and Heresy-era Space Marine Legion tanks.

For the moment, we don’t have anymore to show you, but you can rest assured this Lord of War will be touching down very soon.

In fact, we’re hoping to have it available first at Warhammer Fest this May (which you can get a ticket for here):