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One oop FW piece that I want is the original Lightning fighter. I have 1 & always intended to get 2 more. But I never got around to it & so sometime before I returned to playing they stopped producing it, replacing it with a different pattern (that I like less).
I saw 1 on EBay a few months back but missed it.

 Overread wrote:
For both these we have to remember that there was a time when baneblades and knights weren't in 40K. When the most expensive models were dreadnoughts and predators and something like a landraider was FW only. .

Lol. And when was this?
Land Raiders have always been in 40k.
1st they appeared in RT, along with a plastic kit.
Then sometime in early 2e the kit went oop with a new kit supposedly in the works. But they were still in the Codex books. The kit though was MIA with assorted excuses/rumor supposedly given as to why.
There was no Forge World in these years.
1998 - WH40k v3 & Forge World come into being. But FW didn't produce any Land Raiders.
2000 - GW produces the basic plastic Land Raider kit (and art) still in use today.
Somewhere in the past 10 years Fw starts making LR variants.

A.T. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
I might be miss remembering then, but I was sure that the old Land Raider only appeared as a FW model, then again I likely appeared in the hobby long after the original RT plastic kit so might have assumed it was FW or some such

August 1988 was the plastic RTB5/RTB11

I've seen it said the original landraider in the rogue trader book was actually scratch built (or an early prototype)

Yeah, either way it's not the same as kit was.


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 Backspacehacker wrote:
After this long about this probably the dread drop pod

Then I guess it's a good thing they brought it back: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/The-Horus-Heresy?N=3947026521+889960702&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AUS_fw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_US_fw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1564278240000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1564278240000%5D