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[Orange Knight]

Well, I imagine the standard Landraider kit will be refreshed at some point.

 

Who's to say they won't take that opportunity to make it bigger and more heavily armed?

[Karhedron]

18 hours ago, Interrogator Stobz said:

So, a Spartan. 

 

I would love to use a Spartan, especially for my Space Wolves who tend to be foot-sloggers. I am hoping that improved support for Legends in 11th edition will make it more acceptable to use HH vehicles in 40K.

[Marshal Reinhard]

2 hours ago, Orange Knight said:

Well, I imagine the standard Landraider kit will be refreshed at some point.

 

Who's to say they won't take that opportunity to make it bigger and more heavily armed?

Really boggles the mind how long its taking them to do a proper 40k era land raider kit. The whole "keep the ranges sepperate" argument also dont hold much water since they did redo terminators. Now get me their iconic ride already - get to it GW.

Edited 9 hours ago by Marshal Reinhard

[Karhedron]

I gotta say, the LR kit has held up really well over the years. When new, it basically the defined the slabbed, layered armoured look that defines the Marine STC look. Could GW do something better after 25 years of progress with injection moulding? Maybe. But that iconic design still looks great to me. 

[Blissful Brushes]

43 minutes ago, Karhedron said:

I gotta say, the LR kit has held up really well over the years. When new, it basically the defined the slabbed, layered armoured look that defines the Marine STC look. Could GW do something better after 25 years of progress with injection moulding? Maybe. But that iconic design still looks great to me. 

All they really need to do is tidy the lines up a little bit and improve the tolerances. Maybe make it 20% bigger so it looks mighty next to the indomitus terminators

the biggest issue with a rework is that it’s going to go from £57 for the basic to probably £80

[redmapa]

42 minutes ago, Karhedron said:

I gotta say, the LR kit has held up really well over the years. When new, it basically the defined the slabbed, layered armoured look that defines the Marine STC look. Could GW do something better after 25 years of progress with injection moulding? Maybe. But that iconic design still looks great to me. 

 

Considering what they did with Terminators I am fully on board with GW updating the Land Raider and I own like 6 of them, I trust that they will keep the iconic look of the model just like they did with Terminators.

 

When they do update the kit I hope they come up with new sponsons or variants, you could easily split it like Siege Land Raider (Crusader, Redeemer, Prometheus) and Support Land Raider (Phobos, Excelsor, Helios).

[Nephaston]

I wouldn't mind a slight redesign of the front/hatch area, to plausibly permit two terminators to stride through it side by side without crouching, cause otherwise it could be twice the size before that's the case.

[Evil Eye]

The visual aesthetic/design language of the Land Raider is fantastic. Shame the thing barely lines up anymore after decades of production, and as mentioned the assault ramp could do with a bit more clearance. And then there's the nonsensical interior...

 

That being said, I don't think the tank itself needs to be much bigger. It's already a huge vehicle, and realistically it's just the assault ramp that needs a higher roof to make it look more plausible on the table rather than inflating the entire tank. And, y'know, even historicals tend towards representative scale/deliberate undersizing for vehicles so expecting true-scale would be a bit silly.

 

I'll say I'd like to see a new Land Raider have some more weapon options but not be fundamentally changed at the base level; put the parts to build it as a standard Phobo-pattern, a Prometheus, a Terminus Ultra and maybe a Helios in there, but don't add any extra "compulsory" weapons such that the old one becomes completely obsolete. I'm still mildly annoyed they decided to slap a hull-mounted heavy bolter on the Immolator and Exorcist where there wasn't one before.

[irlLordy]

I don't think they can make the Land Raider much bigger without it moving into Spartan size territory though? 

 

[Orange Knight]

The Landraider has indeed stood the test of time. The size of the vehicle is also generally good.

 

I actually built and painted one recently (even shared some pics on this forum) and despite the kit being old and wonky, an experienced hobbyist can get it fully assembled, and once painted it looks very good.

 

A redesign could make it a bit bigger, but even a refreshed kit that simply looks a bit more jazzed up and actually comes together properly will be a win.

 

This is my new Landraider (I used bits from my 30k Ultramarines to make the bolter and hunter killer look a bit more unique):