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I'll be stocking the accessory sprue in my store. I would expect it to be one of those direct items that many pro-active stores will carry, along with meltaguns, flamers, bike bases, etc. The tank accessory sprue goes for $15:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1290051&rootCatGameStyle=

I'm very curious about the Tamiya accessories. We don't have Hobby Lobby in the West, so if someone could post a link, that would be helpful.

As for a smaller box, I suppose it's honest, at least. I just wish the price was reduced as well (the Ork Trukk is $30).

Oh yeah - finished painting these. I like it even more now. I'm also gaining a better appreciation of the Russ design. I think maybe the Leman Russ doesn't photograph well. Yeah, that's it. It's not photogenic but has that "in person" beauty.

melon-fething witches did the heavy bolter upside down? The feth.. Oh wait.

The weapons are glued on upside down in the pictures from what appears to be the back of the box or an advert, not the picture on the front box cover. Link again or see below.

Pretty sure they already sell this accessory sprue online as well.

Yes, again, the accessory sprue is already available from the GW online store and has been for months.

Upside down weapon pics from GW as posted on Work In Progress. The Heavy Bolter and sponson weapons are upside down in these GW promotional photos:



If you go to Work In Progress, there's also a small pic from the back of the box showing the hull Heavy Flamer option and that also appears to be upside down.

Nice work, and with the paintjob they look smaller too IMHO, as long as you don't paint them some bright colour.

PENIS CANNON! BEWARE THE PENIS CANNON!

yeah,
"'I am the cock comander 'Drive me closer I want to hit them with my.....'"

"I am the master of the cock! Remember this Gakking face. Wherever you see cock, you'll see this gakking face! I make that gak work! No one rules the cock like me. Not this little Gakk, none of you little gaks out there. I am the Cock commander! When it comes down to business, this is what I do. I pinch it like this. Ooh, you little gak. Then I rub my nose..."

PAnic...

Osbad wrote:The whole LR concept is just laughably unfeasible. To me that's the end of it. The LR is a contender alongside Nagash as one of GW's worst looking models EVAR! The enormous, genital-shaped appendage on this version just multiplied that by x2.

Of course that's only my personal aesthetic values speaking.

If you got no love for the russ, dont fraggin buy it.

One thing that bothers me about that oversized cannon is that it looks like it should fire a large blast, not three smaller blasts. A three barreled blasma cannon set up would have looked a little better I think, and avoided the "14' phallus" issue.

I think I will try and scab some sentinel plasma cannons for my russes, and use the stock cannon for a knight titan of some sort.

Yeah a triple-barreled plasma cannon would have looked cool . . . probably cooler than this cannon . . . but that doesn't stop me liking the Executioner Cannon =]

Wow, I've had a total opinion reversal. Glad I kept my FW Executioner turrets. Can you show us pictures of the Punisher cannon?

Mat

Found this pic of a display Leman Russ, shows how easy the turret, hull mounted and sponson weapons can be switched out, also shows it in a nice camo paint job:

that oversized cannon is that it looks like it should fire a large blast, not three smaller blasts

Discussing realism or plausibility for 40K is generally a tar pit of superfluousness, but it is interesting to note in light of the above comment that the Plasma Blast gun, after which this new Russ Executioner design was clearly modeled, can do either. It can fire a single massive blast or two slightly less massive blasts.

However, for me, I'm not too sure what "it looks like it should fire" because I've never actually seen a working plasma cannon.

Redemption wrote:Found this pic of a display Leman Russ, shows how easy the turret, hull mounted and sponson weapons can be switched out, also shows it in a nice camo paint job:

The good news is the sponsons and front weapons will stay put without any effort (one of mine is stuck!). However, the turrets are not going to be interchangable without magnets. There's nothing to hold them there. Magnetizing the turrets is really, really easy.

I checked out a Plasma Russ today in my local FLGS and I take back what I said about the cannon (based upon the picture). It does look in proportion with the rest of the tank, it looks good. however the disparity of design quality between the turret and the hull is even more apparent in real life.

The proportions are good, we've had a few comments made about it, but after having some time with it on the battlefield or whatever the general consensus is good =]

I'm impressed with the new kit after having built two of the variants for a local GW store. I think the new weapon bits look just fine, in fact better than fine. It is quite expensive, but I have no complaints about the look or quality. Also, the new weapon bits will fit on an older Russ without too much trouble if you happen to have some sitting around. In my case, I've been saving my Apoc. bundle deal of Russ tanks for some of the newer parts. I will post a conversion article on adding new parts to older Russ models on BoLS and here once the kit is released on August 1.

The tank looks better irl. Especially the Executioner variant.

BrookM:

GW models usually do. Sometimes I wonder why they're so hard to photograph well.

George Spiggott:

How do you mean the "design disparity"? In your opinion is the turret better or worse quality than the hull? Because I kind of like the new turret, but it makes an already tall tank look kind of top heavy.

Nurglitch wrote:How do you mean the "design disparity"? In your opinion is the turret better or worse quality than the hull? Because I kind of like the new turret, but it makes an already tall tank look kind of top heavy.

The hull is less well designed/modern/realistic/whatever than the turret, it just looks wrong to my eyes the two parts do not have the same aesthetic, they jar, they don't appear to be part of the same tank. The new turret is longer and wider making the tank look less tall. I like the turret, the hull is showing its age, it's too boxy for the turret.

I do like the new tank commander head of the Russ though, has a nice crash helmet again.

George Spiggott:

I thought you meant that. Just checking though. From the bits on the sprue I figured it wouldn't be too hard to lower the tracks for a Tiger-style of tank with a big boxy hull. I'd leave off the sponsons to match my other attempts at Mars Alpha Pattern hulls, and cut just above the front sprocket wheel, and leave off the front gun mount for a recessed mount. At least I won't have to recentre the turrent mount.

Wehrkind wrote:One thing that bothers me about that oversized cannon is that it looks like it should fire a large blast, not three smaller blasts. A three barreled blasma cannon set up would have looked a little better I think, and avoided the "14' phallus" issue.

I don't know about you, but my 14' phallus shoots a series of smaller blasts rather than a single large one.

It wouldn't be too hard to mount three bits of plastic tubing in the Executioner's barrel, to give it three separate nozzles. Or we could just imagine it fires pulses like a Plasma Gun, just the size of Plasma Cannon blasts.

Yeah just don't put the end of the gun in, put the tubing in, then greenstuff round it to make the barrel look complete . . . would be worth looking into, might have to see how it works out.

One thing I do like is the fact that they've stuck with the old-style Heavy Flamers. Nice touch.

I think the important thing is what kind of hat the tank commander is wearing.

I have a stash of the cool hats, and I'm not letting go of them!

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

Wehrkind wrote:One thing that bothers me about that oversized cannon is that it looks like it should fire a large blast, not three smaller blasts. A three barreled blasma cannon set up would have looked a little better I think, and avoided the "14' phallus" issue.

I don't know about you, but my 14' phallus shoots a series of smaller blasts rather than a single large one.

Hyperbole alert!

BrookM wrote:I do like the new tank commander head of the Russ though, has a nice crash helmet again.

Agreed. Having finally seen it in person, I've reversed my opinion and plan to buy two.

Looks good painted red.. unpaintexd =meh

The large plasma cannon , does it have option to turn into seige tank?