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 Kanluwen wrote:
It's great that we can have these discussions without me even having to be involved.

Some might call it "poisoning the well", but I call it pre-empting you because I know you Kan and that's exactly what you would have said as an excuse.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yeah, Fire Warriors are stupidly priced. $50 for a squad of 10 is ridiculous. Same with the $75 for 3 Crisis Suits. It's why I'm not buying either of those kits individually, just going for the Start Collecting set whenever I want one or the other unit.

Nice to hear you say.

I was at my GW last night talking about the new Primarch model. This is the manager I mentioned before that said |something big is landing this year" and "biggest kit ever by GW" anyways, he said, about the Primarch "He'll need something appropriate in granduer to deliver him into battle!" What the #$%^&* is up with his obtuse hints?


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krazynadechukr wrote:
I was at my GW last night talking about the new Primarch model. This is the manager I mentioned before that said "...something big is landing this year..." and ".....biggest kit ever by GW......" anyways, he said, about the Primarch "He'll need something appropriate in granduer to deliver him into battle!" What the #$%^&* is up with his obtuse hints?

 zedmeister wrote:
Well...

More fuel for the fire and Forgeworld refusing to talk about said image!

A while ago on the bbc film review show when Cillian Murphy was asked if he was going to be in the third batman movie, he said that he was not allowed to talk about it, which of course proved that he would be in the movie.
This tidbit has convinced me.

 zedmeister wrote:
Well...

More fuel for the fire and Forgeworld refusing to talk about said image!

*taps nose*

 zedmeister wrote:
Well...

More fuel for the fire and Forgeworld refusing to talk about said image!

Well that's interesting. Doubt they would not talk about it at all if it was a new resin version in either 40k or (new)epic scale. Hopefully it sells well enough for GW to do other massive kits. While I'm personally meh on the Thunderhawk, a Warhound titan has the advantage of being a giant robot

I have to admit I am on the fence with selling my FW Thunderhawk, its a heavy model that takes up a lot of space on the table and has been used for 1 game in 6 years. Sure it looks awesome but that much £££ and time sat on a flying base on a game table leaves me nervous.

Daston wrote:
I have to admit I am on the fence with selling my FW Thunderhawk, its a heavy model that takes up a lot of space on the table and has been used for 1 game in 6 years. Sure it looks awesome but that much £££ and time sat on a flying base on a game table leaves me nervous.

I think one of the big appeals of a plastic thunderhawk is that it'd be significantly lighter so it would be more stable on a well designed flying base and if they design it well you could have it held together with magnets so you could pull it apart and store/transport it easier.

I've always thought extremely large models like the Thunderhawk were more meant as display pieces than actual gaming pieces. They are too large and heavy to really be practical in a game, which is also why I think GW is never going to make one in plastic.
I do not see what is so special about the Thunderhawk in the FW book. Thunderhawks have been featured in FW books for years. Likely this is just a new variant of the FW kit.

Still, I secretly hope that we will get a plastic thunderhawk that is relatively affordable. I want one sooo badly :(

I'm really hoping that if this is a new TH, then it's a separate variant entirely, rather than an older mark - sort of a Ryza pattern to the current Mars pattern. The reason being is that if it is an older mark, then you've got the possibilities of 'new' chapters running around with Great Crusade Era relics, which is unfeasible from a fluff perspective. But if it's a separate variant made on a different Forgeworld or from a different STC, then it makes more sense because then it's not tied to a specific time-frame - it could have been manufactured at any point between M30 and M40.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
I've always thought extremely large models like the Thunderhawk were more meant as display pieces than actual gaming pieces. They are too large and heavy to really be practical in a game, which is also why I think GW is never going to make one in plastic.
I do not see what is so special about the Thunderhawk in the FW book. Thunderhawks have been featured in FW books for years. Likely this is just a new variant of the FW kit.

Still, I secretly hope that we will get a plastic thunderhawk that is relatively affordable. I want one sooo badly :(

There was a WD article a year, maybe two, where GW said they had always planned on getting 40k games to become like epic games. Huge walkers, hundreds of foot sloggers, screaming aircraft... I'll try to find the article if I can.


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 Warpig1815 wrote:
I'm really hoping that if this is a new TH, then it's a separate variant entirely, rather than an older mark - sort of a Ryza pattern to the current Mars pattern. The reason being is that if it is an older mark, then you've got the possibilities of 'new' chapters running around with Great Crusade Era relics, which is unfeasible from a fluff perspective. But if it's a separate variant made on a different Forgeworld or from a different STC, then it makes more sense because then it's not tied to a specific time-frame - it could have been manufactured at any point between M30 and M40.

Like I said a page back, most likely if it happens we could look forward to - "....a more detailed, and lighter, model, maybe options for multiple TH builds &/or a 30k or 40k option..."


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My money is on it happening, plastic TH with options (I'll magnetize the bejesus outta it), not limited, and between $275-399... for 2500pt+ games or bigger & 500ish points +/- 200 pts....

I can't see a dual Thunderhawk/Storm Bird, but I can easily see a Thunderhawk kit with some weapon options- Cannon or turbolaser could basically reuse those elements from the Shadowsword. Heavy Bolter sponsons could see some variety added. Missile or bomb pylons to add under the wings. Things like that.

Probably different cannon options and wing mounted weapons, landing gears and from the looks of it may have sponson options instead of just the bolters

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
I can't see a dual Thunderhawk/Storm Bird, but I can easily see a Thunderhawk kit with some weapon options- Cannon or turbolaser could basically reuse those elements from the Shadowsword. Heavy Bolter sponsons could see some variety added. Missile or bomb pylons to add under the wings. Things like that.

Agreed... however I could see FW rework the Stormbird to use portions of a Thunderhawk kit, in the same way they've done with the Kytan and Fellblade.

I think it's important to compare the size of the Thunderhawk and Stormbird. While elements such as engines and the forward fuselage and cockpit are similar enough for cross compatibility the rest is a whole 'nother league:


It's worth noting the forward fuselage of the Stormbird was a modified Thunderhawk transporters forward fuselage.