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Has anyone posted pictures of the Open Day miniatures exclusive to the event? I'm still boggled at the decision to make a space marine special character an event only model.

 The_Chaplain wrote:
I'm still boggled at the decision to make a space marine special character an event only model.

I thought they said it was a variant of Kraatos, with the normal one still to be released?

There appear to be some other Mechanicum things in those pictures (like of the one with a lot of things we've already seen, but to the far left).

Anyone get any better pics of those?

beast_gts wrote:

 The_Chaplain wrote:
I'm still boggled at the decision to make a space marine special character an event only model.

I thought they said it was a variant of Kraatos, with the normal one still to be released?

I never saw that statement from FW; but certainly good news.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
There appear to be some other Mechanicum things in those pictures (like of the one with a lot of things we've already seen, but to the far left).

Anyone get any better pics of those?

Try https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_9M1THmoFe5UXV5X3E4Z0JEaVU&usp=sharing (not mine)

Ah-hah! Found it:



Thralls and a slightly different type of Thrall?

The open hatch on the Lancer Knight could mean that it has a fully detailed interior. Really curious to see if that's the case, and if so, how it looks.

Not sure about the shield, though. :/

There's a lot of stuff in those pics.

If I hadn't already gotten Puppets War equivalents then the Las-Plas and Assault Cannon Razorback turrets would be great news. Just a few years too late really, guys.

Mechanicum Thanatar looks pretty awesome and that Tyranid beastie looks like it will be huge!

Cool, new knights.
I wonder if they can be fielded in Wh40k?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Cool, new knights.
I wonder if they can be fielded in Wh40k?

Well, since the Lancer comes from the same source as the Errant and Paladin (Epic), I don't see any reason for it to be Heresy-only.

The Lancer shield makes sense given the Mechanicum tank that just came out.

This stuff is looking awesome. The Nid-whateveritis is suitably gribbly, and the Nidosaurus Rex looks to be massive. The Ad Mech stuff is really taking off as well, I love the idea of energy shields over armour, very cool.

I'll tell ya what though. I'd much prefer it if FW didn't tell us about any of this stuff, and that we only found out about any of it on the day of pre-orders. I mean, now we have two problems:

1. None of us will want to buy it by the time it finally comes out. Go impulse or go home, really.
2. Every third-party miniature maker under the sun is going to have a Lancer and a Gigantic Robot out before FW has their's out.









Waits...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'll tell ya what though. I'd much prefer it if FW didn't tell us about any of this stuff, and that we only found out about any of it on the day of pre-orders. I mean, now we have two problems:

1. None of us will want to buy it by the time it finally comes out. Go impulse or go home, really.

Unlikely.

However.. would it hurt if people could already buy the Lancer today?

Nobody is stopping you from buying .. say .. the new Militarum Tempestus in .. say .. 6 months or so, once a suitable period between "reveal" and "I-am-mentally-ready-to-buy-now" has passed for you, no?

The impulse buyers are an additional bonus with no downsides. The "I-need-to-think-about-this-X-months"-buyers are served equally well by either variant.

Shocked that the Knight is a full resin kit and NOT and upgrade/add-on to the recently released plastic kit.

Weird decision there...

So while looking over the pictures from the open. I noticed that there are shields with knight house names on them. I bet they fit with in the shield frame of the lancer. I will have some lancers in my household. :-D

Ah neverending... Just saw the painted knight lancers

 Alpharius wrote:
Shocked that the Knight is a full resin kit and NOT and upgrade/add-on to the recently released plastic kit.

Looks like they do use some plastic parts for internals, like the Space Marine Super-Heavies (upper-arms, shoulders & back I think looking at the photos).

SO it isn't a 'full resin' kit then?

Either way, that makes more sense!

H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
Tyranid stuff is looking great!

Yeah. My immediate thought was "I don't know what that is, but I want one!".

This was also my reaction.

 Snrub wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
Tyranid stuff is looking great!

Yeah. My immediate thought was "I don't know what that is, but I want one!".

This was also my reaction.

Only one

If the Tyranid book is the same quality as IA12, I will be quite excited.

The Lancer does look taller than the Paladin from these images. Hope so as they always were in Epic. In that they had a standard cannon arm rather than the shield along with the shock lance, but it does fit the imagery so will give that a pass. The shield itself is a bit out there tho... curious to see how people will model & paint it. Could look great in the right hands.

With this news that the Lancer is very much its own kit tho, hopefully we'll see Crusaders & Castellans follow up in due course, and be at the stockier, more solid looking end of the scale.

 Alpharius wrote:
SO it isn't a 'full resin' kit then?

Either way, that makes more sense!

I just repeat what I find

One thing I haven't been able to find is anything Raven Guard

Some of those pics had a painted one:






Anyone know what Chapter the Mechanicum are fighting there?

Comparing that knight to the plastic one I have on the sprues here, Id say that it is reusing most of the plastic outer armour panels for the legs and shoulders, , but the legs structures themselves are entirely different, and the big carapace not only has the door for the pilot and it looks like an interior, but is a different profile to the plastic one too.

My only concern here would be how much it will have to cost to justify the price of the plastic one, I'm guessing somewhere around £120, possibly more.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Some of those pics had a painted one:

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Anyone know what Chapter the Mechanicum are fighting there?

Thanks for that. Hmmm. I kinda think the shield needs filled out with, for lack of a better term 'energy gak'... tho it'd take a standard of modelling & painting better than mine to do it. Ah well.

I was thinking the same thing.
Perhaps a sheet of see-through plastic or painted plasti-card.

As to who's getting fought...
I see purple tanks...so Emperor's children maybe? Did Word Bearers have red and gold marines?
I am not too familiar with Heresy-era marine colors.

*Fingers crossed* For a Kutlakh model to make an appearance...

 Tennants Lager wrote:

Thanks for that. Hmmm. I kinda think the shield needs filled out with, for lack of a better term 'energy gak'... tho it'd take a standard of modelling & painting better than mine to do it. Ah well.

My suggestion for that would either look for bargain bin (about 4-7$) gundam kits with energy shields, buy a couple of them and cut & cobble them together if you want "thick" energy. Otherwise, use something like Acetate paper (thin, transparent plastic sheet) and dye it with a Tamiya clear color like red, blue, orange or green.

Hope that helps.

I want that Tyranid !

 Sasori wrote:
*Fingers crossed* For a Kutlakh model to make an appearance...

I'd rather have a titan.

I mean, the only SHV crons get are a couple of glorified monoliths (one of which is a not-Aeonic Orb, and neither of which are the megalith nor the abattoir) and a big gun.