Horus Heresy Plastic Fellblade Super-Heavy Tank

[roryokane]

4 hours ago, Son of Rawl said:

I like it. It gives me hope we will see a plastic Mastodon one day.

The dream.

[Armchair Warlord]

On 5/25/2025 at 8:40 PM, OttoVonAwesome said:

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

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!  And this time, I haven't got to chop up two rapiers to do it again!!!!!

[MoriyaSchism]

Just realized an easy fix for the Demolisher cannon on this version. If you have a spare Baneblade Demolisher you could easily slot it it in place of the new one.

[Vogon]

On 5/30/2025 at 2:14 PM, Son of Rawl said:

I like it. It gives me hope we will see a plastic Mastodon one day.

I'd want to see a plastic Warhound first. 

They have the 3D model from Adeptus Titanicus that they could scale up.

 

Cheers 

Vogon.

On 5/30/2025 at 2:14 PM, Son of Rawl said:

I like it. It gives me hope we will see a plastic Mastodon one day.

I'd want to see a plastic Warhound first. 

They have the 3D model from Adeptus Titanicus that they could scale up.

 

Cheers 

Vogon.

[Joe]

1 hour ago, Vogon said:

I'd want to see a plastic Warhound first. 

They have the 3D model from Adeptus Titanicus that they could scale up.

 

Technically, they wouldn't even have to do that - they designed the 28mm CAD to begin with. 

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

8 hours ago, MoriyaSchism said:

Just realized an easy fix for the Demolisher cannon on this version. If you have a spare Baneblade Demolisher you could easily slot it it in place of the new one.

 

That "IF" is doing some heavy lifting here.

[MoriyaSchism]

13 minutes ago, Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla said:

 

That "IF" is doing some heavy lifting here.

Yeah, it requires buying a whole Baneblade and building one of the variants without the Demolisher or getting lucky with the turret ring frame on Ebay. 

[Marshal Mittens]

14 hours ago, Joe said:

 

Technically, they wouldn't even have to do that - they designed the 28mm CAD to begin with. 

Rumor that a plastic warhound is coming has been circulating for a few years now, right?

[Marshal Rohr]

1 hour ago, Marshal Mittens said:

Rumor that a plastic warhound is coming has been circulating for a few years now, right?

Judging from the Cerastus box (2 unique tank sprues, 1 doubled tank sprue, 1 weapon tank sprue in a large box double the size of heavy tank boxes) I imagine they could do a Warhound with a doubled up leg sprue, two unique sprues for the torso/carapace, unique sprue for the head, unique sprue for the feet, and then Turbo Laser, Plasma Blastgun, Inferno Cannon, Vulcan Mega-Bolter, Melta Cannon, and Harpoon would all be individual tank sprues. That’s five unique sprues for the body, six unique sprues for weapon variants which is the equivalent amount of unique tank sprues to the Thanatar, Karacnos, Triaros, Malcador, Dracosan, Infernos, Leman Russ, and Arvus if my math is right. So the development cost for the molds to make one warhound would be the same as all the Heavy Tanks and the Battle Tanks of the Mechanicum and Solar releases. So the price point for a model most people will buy one of would be around 400 or 500 USD. Sounds risky but the payoff could be huge. They’d also need to use the Baneblade and Canis Rex super box for shelves. 

[Robbienw]

20 hours ago, Joe said:

 

Technically, they wouldn't even have to do that - they designed the 28mm CAD to begin with. 

Not this again 

[twopounder]

5 hours ago, Marshal Mittens said:

Rumor that a plastic warhound is coming has been circulating for a few years now, right?

 

Yeah, it's going to get released right after the plastic thunderhawk.

[Aarik]

21 hours ago, MoriyaSchism said:

Yeah, it requires buying a whole Baneblade and building one of the variants without the Demolisher or getting lucky with the turret ring frame on Ebay. 

 

If the market is there, I'd bet that 3D printed options crop up pretty quickly too.

[Matcap86]

16 hours ago, Aarik said:

 

If the market is there, I'd bet that 3D printed options crop up pretty quickly too.

 

Even if the market isn't there, there's probably someone annoyed enough at the design change to just make it. 

[Wibbling]

If Workshop did release a plastic Warhound and - being sensible if they also said 'weapon arms are a different box extra' - I'd buy one. As it is, I'd like one of each of the super heavy tanks. I like building these things - I want to build them before the Parkinson's gets me completely! 

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

The Thunderhawk is incredibly iconic and I'd be shocked if we don't have a plastic T-hawk by 2030, maybe 2032. 

However, we all thought Tactical Squads, Rhinos, and Predators were too iconic to replace, and now we have uglier and untreaded versions of all of those (don't be pedantic, you know I'm not saying Tactical Marines have treads.)

I wonder how far down the line the Falchion will come, as that's a completely different turret. I also hope tanks in Heresy third edition feel a little more survivable. I took a break from my armored Night Lords because of this very reason! 

[Crimson Longinus]

3 minutes ago, Hungry Nostraman Lizard said:

The Thunderhawk is incredibly iconic and I'd be shocked if we don't have a plastic T-hawk by 2030, maybe 2032. 

However, we all thought Tactical Squads, Rhinos, and Predators were too iconic to replace, and now we have uglier and untreaded versions of all of those (don't be pedantic, you know I'm not saying Tactical Marines have treads.)

 
As you mention the new and improved marine designs, I similarly wish that if we ever get a giant marine flyer in plastic, it is the far better looking Stormbird rather than the dated Thunderhawk. 

[infyrana]

2 hours ago, Hungry Nostraman Lizard said:

I wonder how far down the line the Falchion will come, as that's a completely different turret. I also hope tanks in Heresy third edition feel a little more survivable. I took a break from my armored Night Lords because of this very reason! 

 

What I found interesting was that they put out the Sicaran Venator before any of the turret swap options for the basic Sicaran body.

 

Time will tell if they do the same for the Falchion and leave the Glaive for later (well, later for the Sicaran has still yet to be known).

[Robbienw]

2 hours ago, Crimson Longinus said:

 
As you mention the new and improved marine designs

 

Not that new anymore, definitely not improved 

[Redcomet]

Primaris bashing never fails to make an appearance 

[roryokane]

57 minutes ago, Redcomet said:

Primaris bashing never fails to make an appearance 

The culling of the firstborn range is Dropsite Massacre levels of betrayal. In 10,000 years I will still be mad about it. And I will still be buying firstborn on CyberEbay. Along with Heresy stuff.

 

 

as to the rest: the thunderhawk is depicted in Space Marine 2 and is still widely referenced in canon books. It won’t be going anywhere.

a plastic stormbird would be nice but feels like such a reach (while you’re at it can we have a plastic mastodon too?).

 

I’m really looking forward to a plastic Glaive. Volkite weaponry always looked hella cool, and a giant CHOOM canon is just ace.

 

[Evil Eye]

1 hour ago, Redcomet said:

Primaris bashing never fails to make an appearance 

When GW stops replacing iconic designs with ugly Poochie-tier replacements, we'll stop complaining about them.

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

23 hours ago, Crimson Longinus said:

 
As you mention the new and improved marine designs, I similarly wish that if we ever get a giant marine flyer in plastic, it is the far better looking Stormbird rather than the dated Thunderhawk. 

Agreed. The designers at FW really cooked with a lot of the Imperial Armor/early Heresy designs. It was the perfect levels of big and angry bricks that radiated pure power. The flyers  shouldn't be aerodynamic, but the sleeker and longer bodies of the Fire Raptor/Storm Eagle really make you believe through good levels of suspension of disbelief that they will PUSH the atmosphere away to make it work. The tanks were big, treaded things that stamped the will of the Emperor into the mud and terrain. The Spartan, Glaive, Mk IIB Land Raider, Mastodon - these are the embodiment of marine vehicles. Shout out to the Caestas Ram too.

 

21 hours ago, infyrana said:

 

What I found interesting was that they put out the Sicaran Venator before any of the turret swap options for the basic Sicaran body.

 

Time will tell if they do the same for the Falchion and leave the Glaive for later (well, later for the Sicaran has still yet to be known).

Oh that's right, that did happen. Maybe the Falchion will come sooner, you're right. Sometimes, I wish we could peer into the decision making meetings!
 

20 hours ago, Redcomet said:

Primaris bashing never fails to make an appearance 

Would you like to add anything meaningful to the conversation? 
 

19 hours ago, Evil Eye said:

When GW stops replacing iconic designs with ugly Poochie-tier replacements, we'll stop complaining about them.

Assault marines are so damn iconic. You take a 7.5 foot tall slab of human muscle, weighing in at almost 800 pounds on average, encase them in a heavy (but ceramic based to be light enough to work) plate armor that probably doubles their weight, or let's be on the conservative side of things - 500 pounds at least, and you've got a massively heavy material thing. You slap something that's essentially JET engines onto them as a 'jump' pack, intended to control descents down, or brief jumps up to entrenched positions, say sniper nests or heavy gun emplacements. 

The suspension of disbelief to lift this heavy bio-weapon works because of how large the jump pack looks. It tricks our brains into thinking it'll work because of the sheer size of the turbines, and we can think that in the future, some sort of fuel exists to co-work with the size of the tech there. IT WORKS.

Contrast that with the nu-marine 'suppressors', who have tiny bulbs attached to a basic power pack for the energy source, little bulbs at the back of the calves and shins. The marine is now supposedly bigger, so more muscle and flesh tonnage is added. Then you give them a big massive gun, one that looks like it's better suited for emplacements and as turrets, or perhaps better mounted on a vehicle. Then you tell me that his heavier, larger, with a smaller propulsion system - can fully HOVER? 

Nah. I'm not buying it.

 

[01RTB01]

21 hours ago, infyrana said:

 

What I found interesting was that they put out the Sicaran Venator before any of the turret swap options for the basic Sicaran body.

 

Time will tell if they do the same for the Falchion and leave the Glaive for later (well, later for the Sicaran has still yet to be known).

 

The glaive was in the launch trailer so we'll see it before the falchion.

[roryokane]

1 hour ago, 01RTB01 said:

 

The glaive was in the launch trailer so we'll see it before the falchion.

It's the cooler of the two fellblade variants any way! :P

[Interrogator Stobz]

This big resin Boi is getting some love, he's been waiting inspiration, and the thought of getting the fellblade options in plastic is just that.

Nobody, and I mean Nobody has behaved badly enough to have to endure building more than one of these monstrosities.