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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Storm Eagle kit: "Build a straight square box out of these 4 bananas"

That was my experience. Also having two identical parts being a full centimeter different in length led to an adventure with customer service.

The Caestus Assault Ram wasn't ever a peach either.

After my experience with the Storm Eagle and seeing others have bad times with large kits, I will only order small stuff from them. Less shrinkage and shorter curing time mitigates Forge World's lack of quality control.

I think it's mostly about large flat planes, eg a Porphyrion is no problem but I wouldn't even attempt a FW baneblade.

Suddenly, a ton of tanks have been removed from the FW site. The various Superheavies and the Arquitor.

So... more tanks incoming, but this time bigger.

Yeah, large flat(especially thin for its area) pieces are probably one of the worst things to cast out of resin.

That’s the Legion Arquitors gone from the Webstore.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s the Legion Arquitors gone from the Webstore.

No falchions either. Looks like some big tanks on the horizon.

I hope the bit about other Knights being made into plastic ties into this next wave of Armour. Maybe the next Black Book could be Tallarn and cover a lot of Armoured Spearhead stuff?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s the Legion Arquitors gone from the Webstore.

And the Deimos command rhino, the Damocles, has gone

 zedmeister wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s the Legion Arquitors gone from the Webstore.

And the Deimos command rhino, the Damocles, has gone

The Damocles could be repacked as a conversion kit with the plastic Deimos Rhino.

PLASTIC FELLBLADE / GLAIVE / FALCHION ...
...
...
sponsons.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/30/heresy-thursday-old-tanks-learn-new-tricks/

At least we get some fantastic new paint jobs to marvel at.

Explains where all the tanks have been going...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/30/heresy-thursday-old-tanks-learn-new-tricks/

Actually, looks like they're re-working the hulls so they can make use of the plastic sponsons...

Boooo. It’s resin with plakky sponsons.

I doubt the prices will drop either. What a waste.

So much for plastlc mastodon.

If they are doing the Damocles as a upgrade to the plastic kit, why not do the same for the 3 Sicaran turret variants too?


I never expected a plastic Mastadon, but I was excited at the thought of plastic Fellblade or Javelin.

Everyone: "Enough! No more plastic tanks!"

*Monkey's Paw curls one finger*

Well that was one of the most disappointing HH-Thurdays
If they are recutting them none of them will be available in plastic anytime soon.
Mastodon isn't much of a surprise, Fellblade versions and Arquitor is disappointing but especially the Javelin is really sad

More tanks but resin. What a dissapointment.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
More tanks but resin. What a dissapointment.

With them covering 8 vehicles at once doesn't this mean the tanks are now basically done though?

 xttz wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
More tanks but resin. What a dissapointment.

With them covering 8 vehicles at once doesn't this mean the tanks are now basically done though?

You mean them staying resin? Highly probable. It could mean that we will get some infantry in plastic because of that.

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 xttz wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
More tanks but resin. What a dissapointment.

With them covering 8 vehicles at once doesn't this mean the tanks are now basically done though?

You mean them staying resin? Highly probable. It could mean that we will get some infantry in plastic because of that.

Or the limited Specialist Games plastics capability is being used for something else...?

 zedmeister wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 xttz wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
More tanks but resin. What a dissapointment.

With them covering 8 vehicles at once doesn't this mean the tanks are now basically done though?

You mean them staying resin? Highly probable. It could mean that we will get some infantry in plastic because of that.

Or the limited Specialist Games plastics capability is being used for something else...?

Do I hear Epic?

 zedmeister wrote:


Or the limited Specialist Games plastics capability is being used for something else...?

More tanks... but at 25% the size!

Shadow Walker wrote:Do I hear Epic?

xttz wrote:More tanks... but at 25% the size!

Oh man, if only. I just know these hopes are going to be crushed though...

Will the Glaive/Fellblade/Falchion now use the Kratos hull?

Probably not, but...I don't want a big resin Forgeworld tank ever again!

So javelin remains unafordable... Good , what a waste of time and effort

Something's off. I thought the plan was to port all the generic Legiones Astartes kits to plastic?

My intuition tells me this was still in the cards in 2022, but something has happened in the board rooms, and 2023 is starting to look like "back to HH 1.0 level of support" is back on table.. Making room for what? 10th Edition 40K? Epic? Something else? I mean, first we get CC resin upgrade and now more updated generic Legion resin kits?

I don't like this at all tbh, it's pointing towards plastic assault infantry becoming available next year at the earliest.. Unless they are reprioritizing kit releases so that all plastic vehicle releases get postponed and plastic infantry gets closer to release in the manufacturing cue?

One off the cuff take: GW didn't expect for HH2 launch to be as successful as it was, and with 10th edition just around the corner, they want to make damn sure that HH2 doesn't overshadow the launch of #New40K.. so intentionally cripple the game by keeping assault infantry and some vehicles in resin, and launch Epic HH instead, so at least if that one sells well, the 8mm scale will not threaten the other 28mm flagships?