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Cool, I hate it.

 xttz wrote:
Out of nowhere:

I'm wondering if the original 30K one is new enough to have been a 3D sculpt, and they 'just' resized it.

The Custodes have other flyers (Orion Assault Dropship, and some of their grav things can fly in the fluff) - I wonder if any of them will show up...

Well, they've used Legio Custodes here so I reckon some sort of Heresy expansion:

So, Chaos is next then?

 Skinnereal wrote:
So, Chaos is next then?

I'm sure they can find a few more Imperial factions to do first.

Well they phoned that paintjob in.

Divisio Aeronautica seems an interesting hint as to what might be coming

beast_gts wrote:

 xttz wrote:
Out of nowhere:

I'm wondering if the original 30K one is new enough to have been a 3D sculpt, and they 'just' resized it.

Doesn't work that way. You can do it if you're 3d printing but in terms of production casting it creates issues. GW sculptors have said on multiple occasions that they have to resculpt everything for each scale.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Doesn't work that way. You can do it if you're 3d printing but in terms of production casting it creates issues. GW sculptors have said on multiple occasions that they have to resculpt everything for each scale.

GW sculptors might say that, I don't really believe them I'm sure some stuff does need to be remade from scratch, but you'll struggle to convince me that you can't edit a 32mm scale aircraft down to 8mm scale far quicker than it would be to make it from scratch. Even if you just import it and set it to a reference body to sketch over it's going to be much quicker than making something from nothing. But I'd be surprised if they can't scale it down and resize panel lines, delete overly fine detail, maybe resketch some detail that they want to keep but won't work in its original state.

Also a lot of the aircraft would be well suited would be well suited to CAD (vs facet body sculpting) and a well made CAD model wouldn't take long to rescale... though I have no idea if GW have that capacity.

In my professional life I've had to take very complex 3D models and simplify them down in order to do computer simulations that use spatial discretisation and so can't cope with the complexity. It might feel like I'm remaking everything from scratch but in reality that initial overly complex makes it way quicker than drawing something up from scratch (for example creating a 3D model from drawings).

Look like resin.

I supposed they're saving cooler stuff like Chaos for a bigger relase, with more budget allocated to it

chaos0xomega wrote:

Doesn't work that way. You can do it if you're 3d printing but in terms of production casting it creates issues. GW sculptors have said on multiple occasions that they have to resculpt everything for each scale.

That's not quite what they said. They have to review the full model and make various adjustments; as some pieces of detail don't carry over clearly when shrunk to 1/4 size, plus resin and plastic molds require slightly different ways to divide up components for casting. However a 28mm-scale CAD model is certainly a lot quicker to translate to a smaller scale than handing Chris Drew some calipers and the resin model!

With the Ares gunship being a 2019 model I have no doubt it was originally CAD designed and therefore fairly quickly adapted into Aeronautica.

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
I supposed they're saving cooler stuff like Chaos for a bigger relase, with more budget allocated to it

Not even Necron deserve plastic, future of the game is still uncertain but one thing is that with custodes the plastic stuff will remain for store for a while so hoard some before they're gone.

That is actually very cute. I'd have a full size one for my Custodes if it weren't $517! But you never know maybe one day we'll get it in plastic along with a plastic Thunderhawk.

Looks pretty cool. Has a 1960s - 70s scifi pulp vibe to it. Like one of the Cold War era whacky aeroplanes that never quite made it beyond the testing phase.

I find the fact they are doing custodes for aeronautica absolutely bizarre. Are there not countless other factions that are more likely to have active aircraft?

Well, if titanicus is anything to judge by then it ought to be released in 3-4 months.

Otherwise its a nice looking ship even if Custodes are not my cup of tea. A bit "flash gordon" if you will.

 Olthannon wrote:
Looks pretty cool. Has a 1960s - 70s scifi pulp vibe to it. Like one of the Cold War era whacky aeroplanes that never quite made it beyond the testing phase.

I find the fact they are doing custodes for aeronautica absolutely bizarre. Are there not countless other factions that are more likely to have active aircraft?

Otoh it's 1 ship so quick faction. Fw is atm "bit" busy due to hh2 so not surpring smaller games have slower period. Chaos probably need more than 1 kit

ok, where f did this come from............

Wont help the game mutch either as a single ship is FW release, resin never gets store shelf space.......

tneva82 wrote:

 Olthannon wrote:
Looks pretty cool. Has a 1960s - 70s scifi pulp vibe to it. Like one of the Cold War era whacky aeroplanes that never quite made it beyond the testing phase.

I find the fact they are doing custodes for aeronautica absolutely bizarre. Are there not countless other factions that are more likely to have active aircraft?

Otoh it's 1 ship so quick faction. Fw is atm "bit" busy due to hh2 so not surpring smaller games have slower period. Chaos probably need more than 1 kit

AdCustodes also have the Orion dropship though, so I don't think they are going to stop at the Ares.

 xttz wrote:
Out of nowhere:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/05/30/the-adeptus-custodes-join-the-aeronautica-imperialis-air-war-in-a-flash-of-gold-and-crimson/

Does it come with Serpentor, or is he sold separately?

That's actually a pretty cool gunship, it's definitely resin and will be expensive though. Plus side is you wouldn't need many of them since they cost more pts.

Marine or Imperial aircraft tend to get a lot of flak (heh!) for being things that shouldn't fly. Some have a fuselage, but no wings. Some have wings, but no fuselage. And some are... well... y'know.

The Custodes flyer though... I... I just don't know what it's meant to be. I had to re-check the first picture at one point as I wasn't sure which end was the front. There's futuristic flyer, and then there's whatever that thing is meant to be. Such a weird design.

How odd…

Stormonu wrote:

 xttz wrote:
Out of nowhere:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/05/30/the-adeptus-custodes-join-the-aeronautica-imperialis-air-war-in-a-flash-of-gold-and-crimson/

Does it come with Serpentor, or is he sold separately?

I had to do a double take, but yes he looks like he's ready to burn some non-cobra asa...

That's a lovely model.

But yeah, gotta agree that it's a bit out of the blue. Wonder where they're going with that.

Fill in 40k factions in AI?

 schoon wrote:
That's a lovely model.
But yeah, gotta agree that it's a bit out of the blue. Wonder where they're going with that.

Do you think a recent visit to WHW and GW HQ by a famous fan might have prompted a release in his stated favourite faction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7wp4Rzoafw
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/henry-cavill-is-spending-his-quarantine-time-painting-warhammer-miniatures/

Henry Cavill doesn't play AI and also had enough money to afford the FW ares gunship.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Marine or Imperial aircraft tend to get a lot of flak (heh!) for being things that shouldn't fly. Some have a fuselage, but no wings. Some have wings, but no fuselage. And some are... well... y'know.

The Custodes flyer though... I... I just don't know what it's meant to be. I had to re-check the first picture at one point as I wasn't sure which end was the front. There's futuristic flyer, and then there's whatever that thing is meant to be. Such a weird design.

I don't think it's a weird design, seems like they are going for early scifi sky captain of futurama retrofuturistic aesthetic. Having looked on Forge World, all their vehicles look like that. I love it myself, fits the theme for the army.

Thank you for putting the Stormhawk in a tag though. That abomination should be purged from existence. It looks like it was made out of the spares after the kit was put together for another model.

Chopstick wrote:
Henry Cavill doesn't play AI and also had enough money to afford the FW ares gunship.

You know how pushy GW staff can be. He could have fobbed them off with "if you make them, I'll play it" or something.

 Olthannon wrote:
Thank you for putting the Stormhawk in a tag though. That abomination should be purged from existence. It looks like it was made out of the spares after the kit was put together for another model.

Hang on - which version of the kit do you believe to be the abomination? The Stormhawk Interceptor, or the Stormtalon Gunship?

I can buy someone thinking the Stormtalon is an abomination, but I quite like the Stormhawk.