Forge World News and Rumour Thread : p212 Knight Porphyrion

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**em_en_oh_pee**

zedmeister wrote:
Here's hoping for an Acastus Knight Castellan. Seems like a Quake Cannon would fit nicely on in place on one of the arms...

Don't give them more ideas! Most people's wallets can't handle one of these, let alone two!

**aka_mythos**

Chances are FW already knows what they're doing with this chassis and with so much effort already in its development I doubt this will be the only variant.

zedmeister wrote:
Here's hoping for an Acastus Knight Castellan. Seems like a Quake Cannon would fit nicely on in place on one of the arms...

That's what I'm hoping to see. If you're gonna go practically full Titan size I hope to see full Titan weapons. I wonder what a Mechanicum version of this chassis will end up with?

**kronk**

BrookM wrote:
And I just got my shipping confirmation, though it says Standard Shipping. I thought orders over 250 quid got bumped to express shipping automatically?

250 is just the target for free shipping. I hit that mark all of the time. I have never gotten express shipping for 250.

**beast_gts**

kronk wrote:
BrookM wrote:
And I just got my shipping confirmation, though it says Standard Shipping. I thought orders over 250 quid got bumped to express shipping automatically?
250 is just the target for free shipping. I hit that mark all of the time. I have never gotten express shipping for 250.

The store has a bad habit of selecting Standard shipping for orders over £250, but you can change it to Express at checkout for no extra cost.

**kronk**

beast_gts wrote:
kronk wrote:
BrookM wrote:
And I just got my shipping confirmation, though it says Standard Shipping. I thought orders over 250 quid got bumped to express shipping automatically?
250 is just the target for free shipping. I hit that mark all of the time. I have never gotten express shipping for 250.

The store has a bad habit of selecting Standard shipping for orders over £250, but you can change it to Express at checkout for no extra cost.

Good to know!

**BrookM**

It has arrived. The top carapace probably weighs more than a fully assembled plastic Knight, this thing is brutal!

Minor downside though.. kit came with two left smoke stacks, so that's something I'll be sorting out post-Christmas via email.

After that discovery I decided to do a parts rundown and use the checklist found in the instruction manual itself, with everything accounted for.

Now then, time to bust out the old toothbrush and start cleaning all of it.

**Verviedi**

Does anyone have any idea which 30k Mechanicum units will be usable in 40k with Fires Of Cyraxus (from leaked images, posters, promotions, ect)? I'm trying to set up my forgeworld list for post-christmas.

**BrookM**

Ordinatus for sure, but other than that, I can't remember what was shown at the open day.

**the_scotsman**

Thanatar, Thallax shown in images. Other than that, we got nothin'.

**Verviedi**

Thank you.

**Lord Fishface**

Has nobody else posted this? It doesn't, frankly, look very good.

I think it's the skirt that's the problem.

**BrookM**

I think it's an apron, but it may be due to the colours used more than anything.

**Reese**

A while back, but not a color or painted one I believe.

Nice to see that these models are expanding into stores now though! Hope it continues. Now just those t-shirts...

**MajorWesJanson**

The apron and torso/shoulder join are off, making the proportions all wonky. Looks like a Squat.

**sockwithaticket**

Take away the apron and it'd be at least an 81% improvement.

**plastictrees**

I like the apron. 30k marines always seemed a bit more human than 40k marines in the fluff and this works for me in that context.

**Elbows**

I bet that model could look 10x better with a much sharper paint scheme and paint job. Not a brilliant miniature, but I think the haphazard paintwork is really not helping.

**H.B.M.C.**

It's some form of medical smock. I think it looks fine.

It says Warhammer stores, so, not just the Reichstag but actual any GW store worldwide?

**ThirstySpaceMan**

aka_mythos wrote:
cuda1179 wrote:
BrookM wrote:
You mean Contemptors and the like?

:

No, bigger than a Contemptor Dreadnought, But still smaller than a Paladin. Something about 4.5 inches tall, only two weapons.
I always thought they should adapt this light knights into a modern design

I think a Contemptor would generally be too small for a "Knight"... Dreadknight sized I think would be reasonably smallest size Knight.

That said in the original RT era fluff for Dreadnoughts there were variants that could be conventionally piloted like a sentinel and more advanced versions that could be controlled by Mind-linked interface, similar to what's described for Knights... in addition to the version of the fiction for Dreadnoughts we're used to seeing today. So there is certainly some wiggle room to have Knight households guards using some sub-Knight walkers.

That walker became admech. Thunder chickens the iron strider barista . Though I agree some smaller knights would be nice.

**BrookM**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
It's some form of medical smock. I think it looks fine.

It says Warhammer stores, so, not just the Reichstag but actual any GW store worldwide?

As with the others, they will no doubt be available in limited quantities sadly on the day itself.

**Matt.Kingsley**

The last 2 took a few days to sell out in the local store here.
Indeed I believe the store ended up shipping back copies of the Ugly Ultramarine so they weren't clogging the limited shelf space a week after they went up because no one was buying them.

The Tribune eventual sold out though... 2 days after the '1 day event'.

**BrookM**

Around here stores got less than ten models and were sold on a first come, first serve basis.

**Matt.Kingsley**

Less than 10?

Wow, my local store got 100 of each... which is an absurd number since I don't think it even has that many individual regulars, let alone ones interested in 30K (The Tribune only sold out because people were allowed to buy multiples and it was generic... the Manager even ended up buying 3 for himself iirc).

GW really sucks when it comes to evaluating demand...

**Cephalobeard**

https://twitter.com/LaurieGoulding/status/812265406228557824

**godardc**

What is this ? I didn't understand what was written.
A new box ?

**em_en_oh_pee**

godardc wrote:
What is this ? I didn't understand what was written.
A new box ?

Looks like they were playing this:

**Alpharius**

Which is, of course, the Final Battle of the Horus Heresy - so, it looks as if FW and BL are FINALLY getting around to wrapping things up for the HH.

Well, eventually.

In a year or two, I guess?

**ImAGeek**

Alpharius wrote:
Which is, of course, the Final Battle of the Horus Heresy - so, it looks as if FW and BL are FINALLY getting around to wrapping things up for the HH.

Well, eventually.

In a year or two, I guess?

Well at the last BL event (or afterwards on B&C) ADB said he thinks people will be surprised with how few books are left, and at the event they said:
'Also, we will know early next year how many books in total they are doing!

They said they know exactly what are the remaining books, and there are only 3 more that need to be done before we reach Terra.'
(From BattleBunnies).

So yeah a year or two left.

**MeanGreenStompa**

BrookM wrote:
I think it's an apron, but it may be due to the colours used more than anything.

According to a person who may well know, it's a portable operating table and associated equipment. The belt, the sockets in the operating blanket are all designed to plug into an astartes and place them on life support/save them etc.

**BrookM**

So, a bit of old fluff when Apothecaries used to give transfusions while under fire then.