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tneva82 wrote:
Today's project. 2 more got metals but plates require paint purchases

You already have your lancers AND begun painting them?

This is outrageous!

What's so outrageous?-) Go buy them, get home, assemble and paint them Ready for weathering now with all painted and transfers in place! So weathering + basing left.

Then there's 6 more to build and paint...2 are assembled and painted as far as I could before I ran out of paints(new colour scheme for these so missing colours), 2 more were sent by GW on saturday and 2 more and in my order from wayland along with the 2 titan discount boxes.

Will be 2 full banners.

Wow! You’ve got a real process going there.

tneva82 wrote:
What's so outrageous?-) Go buy them, get home, assemble and paint them Ready for weathering now with all painted and transfers in place! So weathering + basing left.

Then there's 6 more to build and paint...2 are assembled and painted as far as I could before I ran out of paints(new colour scheme for these so missing colours), 2 more were sent by GW on saturday and 2 more and in my order from wayland along with the 2 titan discount boxes.

Will be 2 full banners.

LOL. Mine came in the post this morning and I'm already starting to put them together. Magnets for the Warhounds came with them, but I broke two of them by mucking about - making them jump up as if by will of the Force!

Your Knight banner is going to look awesome when finished...

Did anyone else magnetise their Lancer arms? They said on twitch last week that they "may" release resin weapon upgrades for other cerastus variants, which I'm taking to mean those upgrades are already done.

I'm going to use some 1/16" magnets when I get mine and scratchbuild the sword and Gatling gun variant. Scratchbuilding is fun.

 xttz wrote:
Did anyone else magnetise their Lancer arms? They said on twitch last week that they "may" release resin weapon upgrades for other cerastus variants, which I'm taking to mean those upgrades are already done.

You know that's bloody good point. I was thinking not bothering like knights but indeed with lancers the variants seems to be heading for resin upgrades.

Well I have 4 more coming and some lancers are always going to be needed if for nothing else than the +1 to save. And the simple fact is they are the most flexible and all around. Castigator is hyper super duper specialized so IMO should rather be free weapons and the acheron while not as bad as castigator is still bit more specialized so I think it's not big deal that 2 knights per banner is fixed as lancer.

Good catch. Think I'll magnetize the remaining 2 knights per banner

 xttz wrote:
Did anyone else magnetise their Lancer arms? They said on twitch last week that they "may" release resin weapon upgrades for other cerastus variants, which I'm taking to mean those upgrades are already done.

It is tempting and could be done from parts 14 & 16( Torso sides. ). Whether its worth doing would depend on the price of an upgrade sprue...it may be better to buy the variants and be done with it.

Must say, the head options for the Cerastus are really good. Can't wait to paint them.

If they come up with resin upgrades there won't be variant knight as such. All variants would come with lancer parts. Nor would there be way to save monev either.

tneva82 wrote:
If they come up with resin upgrades there won't be variant knight as such. All variants would come with lancer parts. Nor would there be way to save monev either.

The single-sprue format used so far seems to suggest that the Knights are too small a unit to have upgrades. But an upgrade sprue is certainly a possibility.

Still on the discussion of Knights, I wonder if they will do a value pack for them too? Why, they could call it "Adeptus Titanicus: Knight Banner"!

If they don't make upgrade sprue that would mean extra plastic mold for acheron and castigator. Unlikely. Those likely come in upgrade sprue.

Wonder if same has stormspear rocket for questor knights. Odd there has been no word of that

tneva82 wrote:
If they don't make upgrade sprue that would mean extra plastic mold for acheron and castigator. Unlikely. Those likely come in upgrade sprue.

Wonder if same has stormspear rocket for questor knights. Odd there has been no word of that

I've been giving this one a lot of thought tonight as there is a lot of merit in what you say. And yet there is a dilema; if we glue these chaps together and they do go with upgrade-only...then we have to purchase more knights ontop of the upgrade sprue. But if they dont, and its just variants...then we are wasting our magnets.

I think if they intended to go down that path, wouldn't they just have the bodys on one sprue and weapons'n'heads on a second? They've done that for the Titans so I fail to see why they couldn't do it here for a far smaller and cheaper product.

Whichever path they take with the Cerastus( personally, I hope its both ), the weapon options do exist on the terminals so all should be revealled soon.

I'll make a stormspear model to 3d print if y'all want.

I think I saw a stormspear model floating around somewhere on the web.

SamusDrake wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
If they don't make upgrade sprue that would mean extra plastic mold for acheron and castigator. Unlikely. Those likely come in upgrade sprue.

Wonder if same has stormspear rocket for questor knights. Odd there has been no word of that

I've been giving this one a lot of thought tonight as there is a lot of merit in what you say. And yet there is a dilema; if we glue these chaps together and they do go with upgrade-only...then we have to purchase more knights ontop of the upgrade sprue. But if they dont, and its just variants...then we are wasting our magnets.

I think if they intended to go down that path, wouldn't they just have the bodys on one sprue and weapons'n'heads on a second? They've done that for the Titans so I fail to see why they couldn't do it here for a far smaller and cheaper product.

Whichever path they take with the Cerastus( personally, I hope its both ), the weapon options do exist on the terminals so all should be revealled soon.

Others got full plastic sprue with variant heads and armour plates. We are looking at resin parts though. Likely 4 pieces per upgrade sprue. Enough to change 1 box into variants.

And for why? Money. You talk about doubling expensive plastic mould count. Reducing sprue count is very good profit wise.

tneva82 wrote:


Others got full plastic sprue with variant heads and armour plates. We are looking at resin parts though. Likely 4 pieces per upgrade sprue. Enough to change 1 box into variants.

And for why? Money. You talk about doubling expensive plastic mould count. Reducing sprue count is very good profit wise.

I've sent an email to GW basically asking them "to magnetize or not to magnetize?". The designers were forthcoming about the Titans being magnetized so I don't see why they can't be upfront about the Knights too.

If they tell me anything significant then I'll share it in the news & rumours thread.

If you're worried about it, then magnetise; it's more work, but if there are no other weapon parts produced, then you can still use them anyway. Personally, I'm not going to bother. I'll pick up a couple of Lancers soon, and if parts to make Acherons and Castigators appear later, I'll make some of those too.

Knights are just cheap enough that you can go without magnets if you want; esp as you're not expected to field legions of them at once and the weapon variety is fairly tight as it is anyway. Of course in time this could change; but I figure that GW will release more knight body variations to account for different roles and weapon focuses rather than only a couple and then give them weapon upgrades for every possibility.

The reply from GW was at least light-hearted, but basically they cannot provide any details at this time as the design team is "behind closed doors" blablabla...

As part of the feed back( to their reply ) I've positioned it where I feel I cannot assemble my knights which are practically useless until GW announces something - how long do we have to wait until we can use the goods we have purchased? Clearly I'm milking it just to get a response out of them, but hey - if it works?

The obvious solution is to just assemble and field the body parts for now. Afterall, its not an issue we must take to the UN or Nato, is it?

Just putting some Lancers together and I'd forgotten how fiddly Knights are. Why are they in so many damn parts?

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Just putting some Lancers together and I'd forgotten how fiddly Knights are. Why are they in so many damn parts?

How do you find the feet? Mine have come very close to being broken...

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Just putting some Lancers together and I'd forgotten how fiddly Knights are. Why are they in so many damn parts?

extreme detail on a small scale requires many small parts. personly i love it, assembly is my fav part of the hobby. (and it aint a miniature if you dont use tweezers to hold the parts cuz your fingers are too big )
but im supprised how big these knights are compared to the questors as i started work on a "allied" unit of them. (basicly my exuse to paint them in a completely different colour to keep things fresh)

I found lancers easiest at model to assemble so far.

tneva82 wrote:
I found lancers easiest at model to assemble so far.

Speaking of which, have you got some beauty shots of your two bad-lads? Would love to see them!

I'l' get some when they are ready. As i'm spending long weekend at parent's home(thursday was independence day and got friday off as well) will be to next week.

Transfers in place, need to finish weathering and bases. Malinax ones waiting for mortis tranfer sheet that has transfers to them as well

SamusDrake wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Just putting some Lancers together and I'd forgotten how fiddly Knights are. Why are they in so many damn parts?

How do you find the feet? Mine have come very close to being broken...

They do seem fairly fragile but they went on with no problems. Lovely models once they are built. But stuff like having the carapace/shoulder pads and one of the head options in three parts seemed excessive.


Could be worse though. At least its not Reaver legs

GoatboyBeta wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Just putting some Lancers together and I'd forgotten how fiddly Knights are. Why are they in so many damn parts?

How do you find the feet? Mine have come very close to being broken...

They do seem fairly fragile but they went on with no problems. Lovely models once they are built. But stuff like having the carapace/shoulder pads and one of the head options in three parts seemed excessive.


Could be worse though. At least its not Reaver legs

OMG, the Reaver might be next on my shopping list. Not looking forward to assembling the chap at all...

Just don't do too steep angle with posing and you are fine

Yeah its a deceiving build. The feet and toes have ball sockets so there is a lot of potential for posing. But the rest of the leg assembly(especially the lower leg armour) is quite restrictive and limits the feet and overall posing.

Reaver legs wouldn’t be half as annoying if they weren’t made of like 19 parts each side.