Horus Heresy Plastic Fellblade Super-Heavy Tank

[Redcomet]

Weird heavy bolter design flaw aside, I am very excited for this

[MoriyaSchism]

The quad heavy bolter looks awful and the new demolisher cannon mount looks oddly stationary. The new one doesn't seem like it has any traverse. I like the old Sturmpanzer style demolisher more. Other than that I'm quite happy to see a plastic Fellblade, these weapon issues can be fixed by 3D printing or 3rd party bits which I'm sure someone will make. I've seen Ryza Pattern style upgrades for plastic Solar Auxilia tanks already so I doubt this will go unnoticed by the larger Heresy community.

[Evil Eye]

The quad-bolters are as mentioned pretty shocking, but as MoriyaSchism said, there'll be printable replacements in no time I'm sure, and obviously if you take the other sponson options it's a non-issue. Overall it looks pretty nice- I like the Fellblade design a lot, especially the Soviet "soup bowl" turret.

[Matcap86]

Saw this post on Instagram, freeze frame from the new trailer shows the Glaive as well, so we can pretty much assume those will be around soonish as well.

 

 

[The boater]

40 minutes ago, Matcap86 said:

Saw this post on Instagram, freeze frame from the new trailer shows the Glaive as well, so we can pretty much assume those will be around soonish as well.

 

 

yeah I have no doubt we will see the glave and falchion in plastic too. They did all three cerastus, I can’t imagine they don’t do all three primary marine super heavies.

 

the heavy bolters are pretty disappointing, but it shouldn’t be too hard to fix. 

[Robbienw]

I prefer the Demolisher on this one, matches the style of the 30k Vindicators.

 

I prefer the rectangle doors on the original though, sadly won’t be able to use my old FW land raider doors on this one.

[madlibrarian]

This’ll be an instant purchase for me, as well as the saturnine dreadnought. And then there’s the new custodes release… prices prices…

 

I feel that this now being in plastic is going to open up a world of conversion opportunities. I was umm-ing and ahh-ing about purchasing a resin one, but now that this is announced, I’m definitely getting this instead. 

[StratoKhan]

I’m just wondering. Is the Heavy Bolter design definitely how the finished product will look? Could it be some less-than-stellar photo editing?

[MoriyaSchism]

12 minutes ago, StratoKhan said:

I’m just wondering. Is the Heavy Bolter design definitely how the finished product will look? Could it be some less-than-stellar photo editing?

It was there on both sides when they showed it off on stream.

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

26 minutes ago, StratoKhan said:

I’m just wondering. Is the Heavy Bolter design definitely how the finished product will look? Could it be some less-than-stellar photo editing?

 

Yes. The moulds are done. When was the last time GW changed a previewed model? Resin Cawdor Executioner in 2018 due to some people losing their minds over a capirote hood? But resculpting moulds for resin is completely different from making new moulds for plastc injection kit.

Edited Sunday at 04:44 PM by Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla

[The boater]

3 minutes ago, Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla said:

 

Yes. The model doesn't look to be a 3d print (that would allow for cheaper changes), so the moulds are done. When was the last time GW changed a previewed model? Resin Cawdor Executioner in 2018 due to some people losing their minds over a capirote hood? But resculpting moulds for resin is completely different from making new moulds for plastc injection kit.

if they were smart about it, it would be on its own sprue like the lascannon sponsons for the Spartan are. Wouldn’t t be hard for them to quietly fix a small sprue like that, but it would push the release back by a good bit

[Valkyrion]

Can anyone with a better sense of scale than me say if it is bigger than the current Baneblade? 

[Robbienw]

There is always the possibly the previews are printed models from before the first sprues were produced, and the actual box set bolters will be different and were changed long before the preview went out.

 

Unlikely, but it does happen occasionally with plastics.  Last one I can remember it happening with is the head of the Uriel Ventris model.

[Redcomet]

7 minutes ago, Valkyrion said:

Can anyone with a better sense of scale than me say if it is bigger than the current Baneblade? 

About the same size

[Sky Potato]

14 minutes ago, Valkyrion said:

Can anyone with a better sense of scale than me say if it is bigger than the current Baneblade? 

The original FW model was resin conversion parts over the core of the plastic Baneblade.

 

So very similar size!

[Marshal Reinhard]

The only way they could made that HB design work was if the top pairs drums were facing upwards or similar.

On the sides wouldn't work since its a sponson weapon... yeah dunno, painted themselves in a corner I feel.

[Wibbling]

The bolters do look odd, but I think this is a suspension of belief area. They're not real, after all.

 

Besides, it being a super heavy surely the obvious weapons to go for are the laser destroyers?

[TheWarmaster]

On 5/23/2025 at 11:05 PM, lansalt said:

I love this steel beast, but I can't help to notice that the quad heavy bolters are wrongly modelled. The upper ammo magazines are copy pasted without care into the lower guns

 

Why would they even have box fed sponson weapons on the outside of a tank, do they have to pull over to change the mags every few minutes? 
Surely it should have been belt fed. 

[OttoVonAwesome]

Who is gonna actually use the heavy bolters though? I mean this can mount laser destroyers no?

[Nephaston]

28 minutes ago, TheWarmaster said:

Why would they even have box fed sponson weapons on the outside of a tank, do they have to pull over to change the mags every few minutes? 
Surely it should have been belt fed. 

Box feed allows this to presumably move around on a swivel, which a modeled belt wouldn't unless you do it like one of the recent knights with individually molded and assembled belt links.

 

 

[Beef]

What will the price likely be for this>

 

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

2 hours ago, The boater said:

if they were smart about it, it would be on its own sprue like the lascannon sponsons for the Spartan are. Wouldn’t t be hard for them to quietly fix a small sprue like that, but it would push the release back by a good bit

 

I have no doubt that the weapons will be on separate sprues (my guess is a Spartan Lascannon sprue + double sprue for LD/HB, which might later get added to Spartan kit like Knights' sprues do), however:

- steel moulds are expensive and I assume that each contains several different sprues, so it's not a negligible problem.

- there is no real incentive for them to go through with a correction. Unlike scale modelling, where rivet counters' rage hangs like Damocles' sword over producers competing with each other to make more accurate and buildable kit, GW deals with imaginary sci-fi tanks with little to no competition, so such details are more readilly overloooked by the customer base. They churn out 80 EUR Dorn kit with no bottom hull. Internet ridiculed them for that upon its release, but there were no financial consequences and the kit is still in production unchanged - afterall our options are either buying a GW Dorn kit or having no Dorn kit (lets leave aside 3D printing and potential 3rd party proxies like Mortian's tanks - manjority of playerbase barely uses such alternatives). 

[Robbienw]

Probably similar to the Baneblade or the Cerastus Knight.  Somewhere between £115 to £140 I reckon.

[brother_b]

This looks awesome. It’s crazy to me how extensive the plastic vehicle range is for Horus Heresy. The mechanicum releases were so tough, and the available tanks and vehicles are great.

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

Hell yeah. Looking forward to adding this to my Night Lords 42nd armored!