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It doesn't seem a big deal to me. They might have no great desire at the moment but they are obviously feeling their way.

So we get a fleshed out titan game, then a mass tank battle game; then an air superiority game... at that point in the distant future they'll realise the bulk of the models for an 8mm Epic are there and there's an appetite for it. They will obviously keep getting questioned about it.

The above is the most logical way of drip feeding us 8mm stuff in a cost effective way that is still playable upon release.

More photos of the 40k 30th anniversary exhibition

https://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.de/2017/01/new-years-open-day-2017-boards-and-40k.html











Have these ever been in a 40k publication? I thought they were made for other systems




The RT re-print is reported to be of very good quality (imo it should for 35 GBP)

The guy in the front of the second last picture is Chainsaw Warrior, not a 40k mini. The Robots I have never seen before.

Looks like a nice RT display, might be worth a tripped to see the new WHW set up.

Is that weathering or dust on those vehicles?

Joyboozer wrote:
Is that weathering or dust on those vehicles?

Dust. Those things will have been sat in storage for close to 3 decades at this point.

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
Is that weathering or dust on those vehicles?

Dust. Those things will have been sat in storage for close to 3 decades at this point.

Is it hard to get rid of if they didn't bother to take it? Or intentionally left?

Ah if only one could still order those stuff.

Tony Cotterell (you can see his head in a couple of the pictures) brought a lot of bits from his own personal collection. When he opened some of the boxes he really wasn't sure what he was going to find in them. I suspect they have been sat in a dark cupboard for a long time.

I can confirm that the Rogue Trader print is really good quality. Having had to share one with friends when I was younger I snapped up this new reprint. I'm hoping they do 2nd and 3rd editions at some point as mine are fairly tatty now.

I still have that orginal Forgeworld Baneblade myself. I have a round topped predator too, I think its a blood angels version with different weapons though.

 Looky Likey wrote:
I'm hoping they do 2nd and 3rd editions at some point as mine are fairly tatty now.

30 year aniversity of 2nd ed Also codexes please! Would love to get good quality replacements for couple that are falling and I still miss couple. Not that they are too expensive on ebay but hey if one could get brand new hopefully high quality...What's not to like? (well apart from price)

NoggintheNog wrote:
I still have that orginal Forgeworld Baneblade myself. I have a round topped predator too, I think its a blood angels version with different weapons though.

I believe that Baneblade in he photo is the scratch build one that was featured in WD.

I still have the pages with the templates on.

It has always been a "One day I'll..." project for me. Then I bought the plastic one.

2nd Ed. book with a pack of Sustained Fire dice would be quite popular I think Maybe even a template set with the funky Thudd Gun blast marker that had to be split-pinned together, or the card terrain that came in the box and was actually enough to cover a decent amount of space...

 Nostromodamus wrote:
2nd Ed. book with a pack of Sustained Fire dice would be quite popular I think

I think set of templates would be more popular. Those are harder to custom make while sustained fire is easier to simulate. 1-2=1, 3-4=2, 5=3, 6=jam(albeit with side effect of 6 being bad result...)

tneva82 wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
2nd Ed. book with a pack of Sustained Fire dice would be quite popular I think

I think set of templates would be more popular. Those are harder to custom make while sustained fire is easier to simulate. 1-2=1, 3-4=2, 5=3, 6=jam(albeit with side effect of 6 being bad result...)

Not quite the same feeling as seeing three of those jam symbols when firing your assault cannon though

 Nostromodamus wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
2nd Ed. book with a pack of Sustained Fire dice would be quite popular I think

I think set of templates would be more popular. Those are harder to custom make while sustained fire is easier to simulate. 1-2=1, 3-4=2, 5=3, 6=jam(albeit with side effect of 6 being bad result...)

Not quite the same feeling as seeing three of those jam symbols when firing your assault cannon though

Just use a die with a evil symbol on the 6

Don’t forget to keep your sustained fire dice out of normal circulation. Nothing quite like using them in a RPG session. Friend of mine made it through most of the night wondering why he was sucking so bad.

Didn't realise there was so much hate for the idea of re-releasing Sustained Fire dice in the hypothetical scenario of a 2nd Ed. reprint.

Maybe I was the only one that liked them and everyone else would rather convert D6 results. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing...

Hopefully Adeptus Titanicus won't re-use the hit location dice from Titan Legions, people will lose their minds.

What is that greenish Rhino pattern tank with the large barrel coming out off-center from the hull?

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
What is that greenish Rhino pattern tank with the large barrel coming out off-center from the hull?

Scratch build version of a vindicator.

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Didn't realise there was so much hate for the idea of re-releasing Sustained Fire dice in the hypothetical scenario of a 2nd Ed. reprint.

Maybe I was the only one that liked them and everyone else would rather convert D6 results. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing...

Hopefully Adeptus Titanicus won't re-use the hit location dice from Titan Legions, people will lose their minds.

No hate but on priority they would be on my bottom part. Dice you can simulate with current stuff. Templates less so so from purely practical sense templates are the ones I would prefer to buy.

This comes from someone who still plays 2nd ed. If I lose my templates it's going to be harder to replace those than sustained fire dice.

As long as templates ALSO come sustained fire is all fine and dandy. It's the idea of book coming with dice but no templates that's "this is not good". If GW would release the marker set(for reasonable price) I would buy couple just in case!

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
What is that greenish Rhino pattern tank with the large barrel coming out off-center from the hull?

Vindicator.

 Theophony wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
What is that greenish Rhino pattern tank with the large barrel coming out off-center from the hull?

Scratch build version of a vindicator.

That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure. Looks pretty awesome.

It's a Sabre tank destroyer.

Loopstah wrote:
It's a Sabre tank destroyer.

Ah, that makes a bit more sense. Throwing that into google brings the exact tank in the photo up.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
What is that greenish Rhino pattern tank with the large barrel coming out off-center from the hull?

Scratch build version of a vindicator.

That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure. Looks pretty awesome.

Remember, RT was a time where “Hey, I built this cool thing, lets cob together some rules for it” was both normal and expected. It was a wild and free time.

tneva82 wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
I'm hoping they do 2nd and 3rd editions at some point as mine are fairly tatty now.

30 year aniversity of 2nd ed Also codexes please! Would love to get good quality replacements for couple that are falling and I still miss couple. Not that they are too expensive on ebay but hey if one could get brand new hopefully high quality...What's not to like? (well apart from price)

I'd actually pay out for one of GW's ultra expensive limited editions they do with the modern codexes if they did 2nd or 3rd edition will all of the trimmings.

I was told that the new Custodies tanks were modeled on the old shampoo bottle tank from Rogue Trader. As the Javelin Attack Speeder (I think) was also modelled on the same early STC then the Javelin should become available to Custodies?

Yep, almost everything in that picture is 50% scratch build. First and second editions were far more hobby-based than later editions of the game. I've said it before, but at that time, GW was run by a bunch of gaming geeks (and was suitably bankrupt most of the time). It was a very, very different atmosphere to current big-time gaming company stuff.

Loopstah wrote:
It's a Sabre tank destroyer.

Huh. Didn't even know that was a thing. Now I kinda want Forge World to do one for 30k, because... BECAUSE.

What's up with the land raider that has a rhino hull strapped to the front? It sure doesn't match my RT land raider!

Also, is it just me or do those robots look like they are modded battletech minis?

em_en_oh_pee wrote:

Loopstah wrote:
It's a Sabre tank destroyer.

Huh. Didn't even know that was a thing. Now I kinda want Forge World to do one for 30k, because... BECAUSE.

It already is. If you have Book I: Betrayal, read the entry for the Cerberus - they refer to it as a Sabre by mistake! Though the laser destroyer vindicator could be called the sabre tank hunter

Stormonu wrote:What's up with the land raider that has a rhino hull strapped to the front? It sure doesn't match my RT land raider!

Also, is it just me or do those robots look like they are modded battletech minis?

That's the original Spartan conversion!

Nice work on BB Star players,

 zedmeister wrote:

em_en_oh_pee wrote:

Loopstah wrote:
It's a Sabre tank destroyer.

Huh. Didn't even know that was a thing. Now I kinda want Forge World to do one for 30k, because... BECAUSE.

It already is. If you have Book I: Betrayal, read the entry for the Cerberus - they refer to it as a Sabre by mistake! Though the laser destroyer vindicator could be called the sabre tank hunter

Stormonu wrote:What's up with the land raider that has a rhino hull strapped to the front? It sure doesn't match my RT land raider!

Also, is it just me or do those robots look like they are modded battletech minis?

That's the original Spartan conversion!

Oh do they?! I am going to dig up Book 1 just to see that. That is too cool.

And the Laser Vindi is very close. Wish they had called that the Sabre now that I know what that is!

EDIT:
Found this gem! Neat to see so many iterations and flavors over its long history.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Sabre_Tank_Hunter