Plastic Crashed Thunderhawk Terrain

[Cleon]

This one I'm going to keep an eye out on and make a decision when the price is revealed, but in the meantime I get to think about what colour to paint it.

[Lathe Biosas]

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"they'll never let you touch the plastic titan now"

 

Do you think this is another piece of GW bait, or is there any truth to this?

[phoenix01]

 

44 minutes ago, Cleon said:

This one I'm going to keep an eye out on and make a decision when the price is revealed, but in the meantime I get to think about what colour to paint it.

That's easy: Imperial Fist's yellow, in honor of Valrak! That's how I painted my Space Marines Casualties; as fifth company Imperial Fist's as it looks good to have my Ultramarines surround them when I use them as objective markers.

Edited Monday at 10:14 PM by phoenix01

[ZeroWolf]

3 minutes ago, Lathe Biosas said:

 

Do you think this is another piece of GW bait, or is there any truth to this?

It's fake till it's true.

 

Valrak says he's heard talk of a plastic warhound but best to assume it's a lie

[Hfran Morkai]

We can play games of "Thunderhawk Down" now.

[Corswain]

3 hours ago, Cleon said:

This one I'm going to keep an eye out on and make a decision when the price is revealed, but in the meantime I get to think about what colour to paint it.

Don't actually decide, though - once a decision is made the purchase is inevitable.

[Felix Antipodes]

Liked the leg pull - have to admit I was both sucked in and suss in equal measure.  Not sure about the scale, seems a bit undersized looking at the pics.  It may come down to price in the end.

[Marshal Loss]

This is awesome, can't wait to pick it up - loving the terrain resurgence 11th has brought so far

[Orion]

Looks neat.

 

Kinda annoys me when these things come out that people will say. "Look! they now have a CAD model! They can make it in plastic!"

(Valrak, Kirioth etc....)

 

What do you think the Forge World one is? Styrene and kitbashing? 

 

[Mogger351]

1 hour ago, Orion said:

Looks neat.

 

Kinda annoys me when these things come out that people will say. "Look! they now have a CAD model! They can make it in plastic!"

(Valrak, Kirioth etc....)

 

What do you think the Forge World one is? Styrene and kitbashing? 

 

There's a chance a lot of people (myself included) thought the resin one was still the first resin design from the early 2000's when no, it wouldn't have been done in CAD.

 

Apparently it had a resculpt in 2017 which is likely when it was digitised and hence your above component sheet.

[grailkeeper]

People online are complaining its got primaris backpacks in the rubble so it can't be used in 30k. Does seem a bit needless to include them.

[Frogian]

16 hours ago, Crimson Longinus said:

It is very nice set and probably the only sensible way to use Thunderhawk in 40K

 

I want a complete Thunderhawk, but only so I can stick it on a landing pad as terrain, or design a mission around getting to it.  

[Orion]

51 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

There's a chance a lot of people (myself included) thought the resin one was still the first resin design from the early 2000's when no, it wouldn't have been done in CAD.

 

Apparently it had a resculpt in 2017 which is likely when it was digitised and hence your above component sheet.

 

But Valrak even owns a 2017 Thunderhawk. He even videoed himself looking at the pieces and the instructions.

People's over investment into things they know little about drives the nerd in me a little crazy.

 

Like when people think the Leman Russ kit and Chimera are from 2nd edition. 

[lhg033]

Like many, I would have seriously considered a full plastic Thunderhawk, for a reasonable price!

Reasonable being the operative word here. I would expect it to be Baneblade or up in cost based on the amount of plastic would include but new model/FOMO tax would probably have it higher than that.

 

In terms of this, it's nice and I would happily take it in a bundle with killteam or something. I doubt I would buy it separately though.

 

 

 

[MoriyaSchism]

If they ever do a plastic Thunderhawk I hope they ditch the Heresy style sponsons on the nose and go back to the older resin style with the Land Raider style heavy bolters. I don't like the MkIIB style of the current one, doesn't look like it would make for a good gun on a gunship. Looks great on the MkIIB Land Raider, but no so much here. 

[Lord Marshal]

1 hour ago, grailkeeper said:

People online are complaining its got primaris backpacks in the rubble so it can't be used in 30k. Does seem a bit needless to include them.

 

Ten seconds with some texture paste will solve that. 

[Crimson Longinus]

If they ever do a real kit of huge marine flyer, I wish they do Stormbird rather than Thunderhawk, as it is quite a bit better looking. 

[Orange Knight]

This looks so good.

So they clearly have the Thunderhawk in their design software on some level...
Give me a full plastic model. I would spend a LOT on one.

I have been put off large resin models just due to the weight.

[Bloodwraith]

I have to admit, this was NXT LEVEL trolling by them.....We did get a plastic Thunderhawk, I was mad for a split second and then realised the plastic thunderhawk is now GWs Rick Roll!

 

[Hfran Morkai]

2 hours ago, MoriyaSchism said:

If they ever do a plastic Thunderhawk I hope they ditch the Heresy style sponsons on the nose and go back to the older resin style with the Land Raider style heavy bolters. I don't like the MkIIB style of the current one, doesn't look like it would make for a good gun on a gunship. Looks great on the MkIIB Land Raider, but no so much here. 
 

 

Indeed.

 

I think these look more useful as weapons on a flyer with better arcs.

 

I suppose one argument is that the newer style could have greater ammunition stores as can be fed from inside.

[Robbienw]

1 hour ago, Orange Knight said:

This looks so good.

So they clearly have the Thunderhawk in their design software on some level...

Exactly the point Orion was making 

 

They've had it fully complete in their design software since 2017.  The Thunderhawk released in 2017 was full CAD.

 

The Aeronautica Thunderhawk was ‘debigulated’ from it.

 

This wrecked terrain will have been produced from it as a base.

 

Yes they do work from and modify CAD designs that started out as resin models into plastic model designs, as we have seen with a vast amount of Heresy vehicles now.

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

1 hour ago, Hfran Morkai said:

 

Indeed.

 

I think these look more useful as weapons on a flyer with better arcs.

 

I suppose one argument is that the newer style could have greater ammunition stores as can be fed from inside.

 

The argument is that it looks more like the old metal one. That's it, another HH shootout to the old designs.

Alternatively, they could redesign the canards to make them bigger and copy-paste the wing hbs.

[Father Mapple]

How much plasticard and glue do I need to put this thing back together? What if I bought two of the terrain sets?

[LostTemplar]

13 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

People online are complaining its got primaris backpacks in the rubble so it can't be used in 30k. Does seem a bit needless to include them.

 

I am sure you can put some greenstuff on top of the backpacks or otherwise cover it with gravel/debris/sand/skulls/grass.

 

I know I will, and I play 40k.

[Jukkiz]

People saying that "oh why there´s primarinades backpacks?" And other side of coin is "Just cover them or cut them out"

Question is, why indeed was there need to add that kinda bit in there anyways?