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"Oh no."
"What?"
"Don't look now... Brother Lanius has brought his damned flag again."
"He knows he can't fit that inside the tank, right?"
"I don't know why..."
"Brothers!"
"Hey!"
"Hello Lanius."
"Another day to inspire the troops, hey?"
"You know it..."

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Oh no."
"What?"
"Don't look now... Brother Lanius has brought his damned flag again."
"He knows he can't fit that inside the tank, right?"
"I don't know why..."
"Brothers!"
"Hey!"
"Hello Lanius."
"Another day to inspire the troops, hey?"
"You know it..."

It's fine, the flag uses the same technology that allows the shoulder pads to fit through a hatch that is significantly narrower. And for units that are particularly corrupted by Chaos they just permanently mount the top half of the marine on the turret like a servitor.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Oh no."
"What?"
"Don't look now... Brother Lanius has brought his damned flag again."
"He knows he can't fit that inside the tank, right?"
"I don't know why..."
"Brothers!"
"Hey!"
"Hello Lanius."
"Another day to inspire the troops, hey?"
"You know it..."

The lack of backpack banners is one of the worst Primaris trends.

A proper 8th Legion tank commander would have the good sense to stay inside of the tank.

 ThePaintingOwl wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Oh no."
"What?"
"Don't look now... Brother Lanius has brought his damned flag again."
"He knows he can't fit that inside the tank, right?"
"I don't know why..."
"Brothers!"
"Hey!"
"Hello Lanius."
"Another day to inspire the troops, hey?"
"You know it..."

It's fine, the flag uses the same technology that allows the shoulder pads to fit through a hatch that is significantly narrower. And for units that are particularly corrupted by Chaos they just permanently mount the top half of the marine on the turret like a servitor.

You know perfectly well that the outer shoulder pads of power armour can articulate all the way up and close around the occupant’s head for extra protection, or to get through narrow openings.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 ThePaintingOwl wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Oh no."
"What?"
"Don't look now... Brother Lanius has brought his damned flag again."
"He knows he can't fit that inside the tank, right?"
"I don't know why..."
"Brothers!"
"Hey!"
"Hello Lanius."
"Another day to inspire the troops, hey?"
"You know it..."

It's fine, the flag uses the same technology that allows the shoulder pads to fit through a hatch that is significantly narrower. And for units that are particularly corrupted by Chaos they just permanently mount the top half of the marine on the turret like a servitor.

You know perfectly well that the outer shoulder pads of power armour can articulate all the way up and close around the occupant’s head for extra protection, or to get through narrow openings.

They also come off completely, as seen in the HH tank kits that come with a sprue for the crew and pintle weapons.

 ProfSrlojohn wrote:
They also come off completely, as seen in the HH tank kits that come with a sprue for the crew and pintle weapons.

Indeed, although it would still be a pain trying to unclip one's pauldrons in order to get back into the hatch - especially in a hurry. Anyway, I think it's a rather nice model. It would certainly add some visual interest to a SoH Predator or Sicaran.

There are historical precedents for tank crew using flags. Before radios were common, they used small flags for signalling. And there are numerous photos of Soviet tankers in WW2 with flags. Maybe just for the camera, but it isn't as ridiculous as some seem to think.

leopard wrote:
also the whole point of resin spin cast stuff is the tooling to make it is very cheap, heck for gravity cast you can do it at home.

releases like this take more manpower to make but allows some seriously specialised models

Making me wistful for the days when the whole point of Forgeworld was to randomly release cool, fluffy stuff that looked awesome and had little to no game impact.

 Jadenim wrote:

leopard wrote:
also the whole point of resin spin cast stuff is the tooling to make it is very cheap, heck for gravity cast you can do it at home.

releases like this take more manpower to make but allows some seriously specialised models

Making me wistful for the days when the whole point of Forgeworld was to randomly release cool, fluffy stuff that looked awesome and had little to no game impact.

exactly, this is nothing you couldn't proxy but looks good and is easy to come up with silly narratives for aka "drive me closer I want to hit them with my sword" level of stuff

cody.d. wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
The Sons of Horus: Decurion Lanius is up for pre-order next weekend.

Spoiler:

Yes i rather like them, will certainly stand out on a tank as an arrogant commander watching over his forces.

Makes me wonder what a 3rd legion one would look like. Foot on the cupola, waving around a sword like a spanker or maybe with a big arse sonic speaker mounted behind him to scream things?

incidentally he'd look better as an arrogant ruthless commander if he wouldn't hold the flag but rather lazily point at a grunt infront of his tank or hold a binocular.

the flag should be, if at all, stuck to the hatch behind him.

 ThePaintingOwl wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Oh no."
"What?"
"Don't look now... Brother Lanius has brought his damned flag again."
"He knows he can't fit that inside the tank, right?"
"I don't know why..."
"Brothers!"
"Hey!"
"Hello Lanius."
"Another day to inspire the troops, hey?"
"You know it..."

It's fine, the flag uses the same technology that allows the shoulder pads to fit through a hatch that is significantly narrower. And for units that are particularly corrupted by Chaos they just permanently mount the top half of the marine on the turret like a servitor.

This is fun and all but the dude does in fact not have shoulder pads.

 Sotahullu wrote:
Well I found this interesting

The Decurion Lanius is a cruel tank commander unique to the Sons of Horus. Emerging in the latter days of the Heresy, these hatch-mounted enforcers maintain the Warmaster’s grip by callously executing any allies who fall out of line. Designed to work with the plastic Deimos Pattern Predator, the Sicaran Battle Tank, the Sicaran Punisher, or the Kratos Heavy Assault Tank, this resin miniature also comes with a choice of heads.

The Sicaran variant I have been waiting for a while.

What a dumb piece of lore. A tank commissar for traitor space marines. Weak. Also can't wait to see a £30 price tag for half a mini.

Still, I do like him as a model and wouldn't mind converting one to an emperor's children for my Spartan, so I may end up grabbing one later down the line...

Everyone always forgets General Grizmund

a commander of one of the first tank battles in history, General Hugh Elles of the Royal Tank corps at Cambrai in 1917, flew a tricolor flag from his command tank. this went agaisnt orders in fact, as they had been informed they were nto to fly any sort of identifying banners. so he snuck a large green, red, and brown tricolor flag to the tank under his uniform, and raised it after starting their advance on the enemy lines. green red brown.. through mud and blood, to the green fields beyond. the unofficial motto of the Royal Tank Corps.


(said flag remains the colors of the Royal Tank regiment to this day)

Does that mean if the decurion snuck his flag aboard, he has to execute himself for disobeying orders? No wonder the traitors lost the war.

It's a nice model. The helmeted version anyway.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/13/heresy-thursday-this-loyalist-champion-is-ready-to-collect-traitor-heads/

Meh. Looks a bit too Imperial Fist for me.

Mind you, it’s nothing I can’t convert or kitbash myself.

"Brother Consul?"
"Yes, Brother Gaspain?"
"You appear to staring off into the distance with a quizical look upon your face."
"Yes, I suppose I am."
"What are you thinking of?"
"The end of this war, Brother. And how things will be in the far future, should we emerge triumphant against the Traitor Horus."
"What thoughts reach you?"
"I fear that, ten thousand years from now, my combi-melta might inexplicably be not as effective as it is today."
"What an unusual thought."
"We live in unusual times..."

Looks quite nice. Not going to do a FW order until they get me the one from 2 months ago though.

I'm liking that. Weird it's not more 'Epic' stuff this week but whatever. Nice to see a new armour sculpt that's a bit more baroque and fits more with Legions like the Imperial Fists, Dark Angels etc. The beakie helmet kind of spoils that a bit mind, probably stick a mkIII or something on there if I were going to go with a helmed option.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:


"Brother Consul?"
"Yes, Brother Gaspain?"
"You appear to staring off into the distance with a quizical look upon your face."
"Yes, I suppose I am."
"What are you thinking of?"
"The end of this war, Brother. And how things will be in the far future, should we emerge triumphant against the Traitor Horus."
"What thoughts reach you?"
"I fear that, ten thousand years from now, my combi-melta might inexplicably be not as effective as it is today."
"What an unusual thought."
"We live in unusual times..."

You know, the moment i scrolled past the combi-melta in that article i thought 'Oh look, guess who's gonna use this as a opportunitiy to complain again', and look how not wrong i was...

Tsagualsa wrote:
You know, the moment i scrolled past the combi-melta in that article i thought 'Oh look, guess who's gonna use this as a opportunitiy to complain again', and look how not wrong i was...

I decided to have fun with it. Shame you couldn't join in.

Is it just me, or is the left shoulder pad riding a bit low?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is it just me, or is the left shoulder pad riding a bit low?

Look at the "rubber" joint underneath, he's slumping his shoulder.

Just looks a bit weird to me. As ever could just be a jaunty angle of photography.

What is their obsession with pinline trim on mk6? It looks so bad every time and it's a gakker to paint.

could we get literally any other legion at this point except SoH and IF?

He's very nice and barely looks like mk6.

But of course I'm not buying resin.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
He's very nice and barely looks like mk6.

But of course I'm not buying resin.

It does feel like a blend of maybe mk2/mk3 with mk6. Which makes sense for what would presumably be a custom-made artificer suit.

Not Online!!! wrote:
could we get literally any other legion at this point except SoH and IF?

Requires new edition by minimum.