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Arvus lighters are back baby!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/08/10/the-arvus-lighter-returns-to-show-the-horus-heresy-that-frills-dont-pay-the-bills/

Glad I held off buying one from ebay for my Imperial Navy, this will save me considerable monies

In resin.

What a swing and a miss.

... the last arvus in resin was basically unafordable... so too will this thing be.

How very random

 Kanluwen wrote:
In resin.

What a swing and a miss.

Why is bringing something back into production a "swing and a miss"?

You can pretend that it simply doesn't exist if you like, that way you have lost nothing.

You're welcome

I guess that makes one less unit in Legion Imperialis that won't have an equivalent in 32mm scale. Both of them will be resin, no one jealous.

tauist wrote:Arvus lighters are back baby!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/08/10/the-arvus-lighter-returns-to-show-the-horus-heresy-that-frills-dont-pay-the-bills/

Glad I held off buying one from ebay for my Imperial Navy, this will save me considerable monies

Not Online!!! wrote:... the last arvus in resin was basically unafordable... so too will this thing be.

The duality of man

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
In resin.

What a swing and a miss.

Why is bringing something back into production a "swing and a miss"?

In. Resin.

You can pretend that it simply doesn't exist if you like, that way you have lost nothing.

You're welcome

You can be happy that it's just back, but don't expect me to be pleased just because they decided to start producing it in resin again. This would have been a perfect plastic kit to bring in for GSC, Necromunda, or even just as a scenery piece for KT.

Since LI is delayed I'm sure they also had to delay some LI reveals and now they have to fill them with something else. The question was just if they move up some HH reveals or if they just spin some out of nothing/leave some weeks without a reveal. This seems to be the second case to me.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

tauist wrote:Arvus lighters are back baby!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/08/10/the-arvus-lighter-returns-to-show-the-horus-heresy-that-frills-dont-pay-the-bills/

Glad I held off buying one from ebay for my Imperial Navy, this will save me considerable monies

Not Online!!! wrote:... the last arvus in resin was basically unafordable... so too will this thing be.

The duality of man

Nothing duality here, it's overly expensive for what it is.

 Matrindur wrote:
Since LI is delayed I'm sure they also had to delay some LI reveals and now they have to fill them with something else. The question was just if they move up some HH reveals or if they just spin some out of nothing/leave some weeks without a reveal. This seems to be the second case to me.

Doubtful. Heresy Thursday existed long before LI was even leaked.

Frankly, LI getting less noise is a good thing. It's been sucking the oxygen out of the room.

 Kanluwen wrote:

In. Resin.

Yes Kan. It was resin before, and it still is now. It's a very simple concept.

***

You're being negative about a model that has been bought back into production. There is literally no downside.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
How very random

I'd guess that this being 'retooled' means it's been done with an updated Epic-scale version in mind... possibly in plastic. Currently it's the only confirmed Solar Auxillia transport in that scale.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

In. Resin.

Yes Kan. It was resin before, and it still is now. It's a very simple concept.

***
You're being negative about a model that has been bought back into production. There is literally no downside.

I'm being negative about the fact that they're doing a hype article about them simply reissuing a resin kit.

This isn't new to me. This isn't exciting to me.
I get that maybe some people are super-stoked to be able to throw money at FW for it, but this isn't even a HH piece! It was a piece intro'd way back when, intended to be a thematic piece for officers/Inquisitors to ride around in.

It was the perfect opportunity to do some gap-filling for Newcromunda, GSC, or Guard for a "small, flying transport". And that opportunity was instead squandered on simply redoing the resin kit.

 Kanluwen wrote:


It was the perfect opportunity to do some gap-filling for Newcromunda, GSC, or Guard

Why would those be in a Heresy Thursday article

 xttz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:


It was the perfect opportunity to do some gap-filling for Newcromunda, GSC, or Guard

Why would those be in a Heresy Thursday article

By that logic, why would the Arvus be?

Things can exist for multiple game systems at once. Especially since the Arvus was a 40k piece before Heresy was even a game system.

Because the people who make the rules & fluff say that it belongs there?

Can we drop it please, this is getting tiresome.

What a totally random thing to bring back.

Reminds me... I should build mine...

I'm glad it's back, even though I already have one.

It definitely feels like more of a collector or painters model than a gaming piece to me, mostly due to the lack of guns I guess.

Mine's currently parked in a loading bay that I've been using for Necromunda

Fairly random thing to bring back, but to be fair I do want one so I'm glad they are.

There's lots of other FW stuff that a MTO window would suit...

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
Since LI is delayed I'm sure they also had to delay some LI reveals and now they have to fill them with something else. The question was just if they move up some HH reveals or if they just spin some out of nothing/leave some weeks without a reveal. This seems to be the second case to me.

Doubtful. Heresy Thursday existed long before LI was even leaked.

Frankly, LI getting less noise is a good thing. It's been sucking the oxygen out of the room.

I might be misunderstanding you but that has nothing to do with what I said?
They have a plan what they want to reveal each week and now that some LI reveals can't happen anymore as its delayed they either have to fill those holes with something else or leave them blank.
Lets say of the five next reveals three would have been HH and two LI, now they have to fill the two with something else and the Arvus today seems like such a filler article to me. Of course they didn't just start production up again for this but if they didn't need to fill those slots it might not have gotten a dedicated article but only a mention in a Friday Forgeworld preorder article that its available again

I'm with Kan here. Maybe the Lighter eventually shows up in plastic, but GW trumpeting the return in resin means that will be a while yet.

It's basically the exact same as when FW re-tooled some of the remaining resin tanks to take the plastic sponson sprue. Sure, it's not bad news... but it means plastic Arquitors (which many of us were hoping wouldn't be that far away due to the extra tracks on the Sicaran sprue) are probably years away yet.

 The Phazer wrote:

There's lots of other FW stuff that a MTO window would suit...

I came across a couple of old Forge World catalogues recently, from 2003 and 2008. I'd give a kidney to get some of that stuff back into production.

The guard tower, both metal and wooden bridges, the Imperial Fortress walls...and that's just the scenery

I want the fortress walls too, but only if they go plastic and come with a matching tile to mount them on!

I guess I’m merely…whelmed.

Nice to see an old kit refreshed, but not something I’d ever use myself, except perhaps as an extravagance for Necromunda.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I want the fortress walls too, but only if they go plastic and come with a matching tile to mount them on!

They would certainly weigh less in plastic

The Arvus is awesome but I don't do Forgeworld.

I wouldn't mind one of them for Stargrave as a crew's spaceship.


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 Kanluwen wrote:


Frankly, LI getting less noise is a good thing. It's been sucking the oxygen out of the room.

Compared to the last year of ramming 40K and Horus Heresy down our throats, its been rather quiet.

It’s an appealing model - nice to see something that’s not bristling with weapons. But I don’t do FW vehicles. How has it been refreshed (apart from a new paint job)?

One would hope for a more assembly friendly retool of the model, the FW designers know that most of their flyers are utter pieces of garbage when it comes to assembly.