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There’s a pic of the Knight Acheron sprue on Instagram, but I don’t know how to lift images off there.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CsjbrkMNRTR/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Luckily, i am versed in such dark techno-arcana:

Eeeexcellent

Looks legit, but I'd prefer a Castigator (I've got an Atrapos - the best looking and worse performing Cerastus!).

Nice, plastic Acheron here we come.

Nice to see confirmation that its not just the Lancer going plastic.

Bit random this one sprue pic exists but the lancer sprues don't, I wonder if they'll be separate upgrade sprues or individual kits with a shared chassis.

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Nice to see confirmation that its not just the Lancer going plastic.

Also the reveal is pretty imminent, as this sprue is probably one that got sent out under NDA for being painted by a youtuber or whatever. We might get an emergency reveal this week even, GW usually does them when sprue/model pics get released into the wild out of turn, to control public perception.

Tsagualsa wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Nice to see confirmation that its not just the Lancer going plastic.

Also the reveal is pretty imminent, as this sprue is probably one that got sent out under NDA for being painted by a youtuber or whatever. We might get an emergency reveal this week even, GW usually does them when sprue/model pics get released into the wild out of turn, to control public perception.

Need to remember the "other lords of war" are due in Autumn, so this is too early for painters imo.

The Insta post blamed it on influencers, but it could be a mispack or people nicking stuff from the warehouse again...

Dudeface wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Nice to see confirmation that its not just the Lancer going plastic.

Also the reveal is pretty imminent, as this sprue is probably one that got sent out under NDA for being painted by a youtuber or whatever. We might get an emergency reveal this week even, GW usually does them when sprue/model pics get released into the wild out of turn, to control public perception.

Need to remember the "other lords of war" are due in Autumn, so this is too early for painters imo.

I don't know how far in advance these usually get sent out, but depending on what definition of autum we're talking about, that could be as near as 3.5 months (1. of September going by the meteorological calendar), so it could be possible imho.

2 months, max, from what's been said by some painters.

 Kanluwen wrote:
2 months, max, from what's been said by some painters.

Infernal Brush (Dave Perryman) said he had Castellan Crowe about 2 years before release, but that was in COVID times...

So that's this, Dante & the Cadian Upgrades that have leaked recently. GW need to tighten up :-)

Definitely nice to see these Knights going plastic. It'll open up access to more hobbyists when they invariably drop in price from resin to plastic, and it also opens up the possibility that we could see the entries in the Imperial Knights and Chaos Knights codexes instead of in a 'forgeworld index'.

Makes me wonder if we'll see Chaos versions of these, or if we'll see the Mechanicus Knights get ported over to Plastic as well.

This is just more stuff that FW isn't going to be worrying about. Really seems like they're actively downsizing FW.

drbored wrote:
Really seems like they're actively downsizing FW.

Or clearing stuff out to increase capacity for The Old World (and whatever comes after that).

drbored wrote:
Makes me wonder if we'll see Chaos versions of these, or if we'll see the Mechanicus Knights get ported over to Plastic as well.

The previewed Lancer had the Sons of Horus symbol on the top plate - people mentioned other options to go there.

I doubt we'll see a fully "Chaos Knight" version, though - at least for now.

Is the atropos coming as well?

 Dysartes wrote:

drbored wrote:
Makes me wonder if we'll see Chaos versions of these, or if we'll see the Mechanicus Knights get ported over to Plastic as well.

The previewed Lancer had the Sons of Horus symbol on the top plate - people mentioned other options to go there.

I doubt we'll see a fully "Chaos Knight" version, though - at least for now.

They seem to be quite content in making money of things that can be both chaos or loyalist for now - going 'full chaos' anything is a whole new phase of the line, and much more risky than doing endless basic marine and tank variants, or even some of the non-marine forces in plastic. I guess it will be years until we see substantial full chaos kits in plastic.

beast_gts wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
2 months, max, from what's been said by some painters.

Infernal Brush (Dave Perryman) said he had Castellan Crowe about 2 years before release, but that was in COVID times...

So that's this, Dante & the Cadian Upgrades that have leaked recently. GW need to tighten up :-)

Cadian upgrade wasn't really "leaked", but rather it was deduced from the photos in the Cadia Stands army sets.

 Kanluwen wrote:

beast_gts wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
2 months, max, from what's been said by some painters.

Infernal Brush (Dave Perryman) said he had Castellan Crowe about 2 years before release, but that was in COVID times...

So that's this, Dante & the Cadian Upgrades that have leaked recently. GW need to tighten up :-)

Cadian upgrade wasn't really "leaked", but rather it was deduced from the photos in the Cadia Stands army sets.

Wasn't there one for sale on ebay before the actual release?

Boosykes wrote:
Is the atropos coming as well?

Likely not, as it would be more than a single sprue swap like the acheron and castigator. FW possibly will change it from a full resin kit to a hybrid that uses the plastic core body though.

The Acheron sprue looks like a pair of arms and head. Bit hard to tell if the fuel tanks will remain mounted on the back of the hips like the resin model, or are shifted to sit on the back of the cannon arm. Either way it looks like the big fuel cable is gone.

Tsagualsa wrote:
Luckily, i am versed in such dark techno-arcana:

Not to be a Negative Nancy but isn't the flamer supposed to be longer than the chain-thing? This looks the other way around.

Not really? The flamer and chainfist are on opposite arms with the chain being attached closer to the “wrist” of the fist section.
Also the flamer barrels are directly attached to the front of the mechanism, projecting from the shield.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Not really? The flamer and chainfist are on opposite arms with the chain being attached closer to the “wrist” of the fist section.
Also the flamer barrels are directly attached to the front of the mechanism, projecting from the shield.

Yeah, usually with GW models you'd think the lower arm would attach at the shield, but for this model it attaches much farther behind.

Also, in their promo shots the flamer looks longer due to the angle and posing, but if you take another perspective the arms look about equally long in total:

the knight does look a very nice model

totally out of the sort of scale appropriate for 40k but regardless it looks nice

I have one of the first plastic ones they did, bought on the day of its release

hated painting it, the thing was just too big and ended up as such a waste

still pondering another though (for 30k) not so much to actively use but for an opponent of mine who likes cheese to know I have as a sort of background threat

would need to clear space to display it here though

Seems to have lost the fuel hose, which is certainly good from a posing perspective. Good to see more than just the Lancer getting redone in plastic, I feared a similar route to what they did with some of the tanks.

Wow, so happy I've got the resin one when it was first released. All those two part bits with gaping seam lines and the 'joy' of cleaning every single tooth of that chainsword...Reeee

I’m guessing the fuel line is on another sprue with the shoulder armor. All three Imperial Cerastus Knights not only have different weapons and heads but different shoulders as well. The Mechanicum Cerastus Knight will probably be redesigned as a resin upgrade since it has different shins and back carapace.

FYI - The Deimos Pattern Damocles Command Rhino Upgrade Kit is now £18 (rather than £35!).

$28 is still a bitter pill.