Well recently we saw a lot of advertisments on the Forge World website for the various armour variants they produce, I thought this was strange that they advertise items that were quite old, established and the meat and gravy of all Legion forces, I even posted about it at the time thinking it was strange and that I predicted it was the Precursor to a Plastic Range. This accidentally came out the other week and is all over the web.
Games Workshop and Forge World have been very good to us recently in my opinion and am quite happy that it feels as though it is a "Let them eat cake" style attitude.
This I believe is continuing. . . .
. . . this week we have the Thunderhawk gunship on the new FW page.. .
Now this may be purely supposition, but I really do expect that this is the forerunner to us finally seeing the holy grail of wargaming: the Plastic Thunderhawk.
In my opinion the Sokar is too similar in size to warrant having both on their books (see the Lucius Warhound).
A plastic Thunderhawk kIt could even be the base for the Thunderhawk Transporter and Sokar to keep the cost down.
And these would sell quite well if the Plastic Thunderhawk was released.
Wishful thinking :)
Drake Seta
A great observation... did you also notice that, on the American site at least, they only list the thunderhawk gunship, not the other variants with rhinos or landraider? I know that they were last seen listed as out of stock, but they aren't even listed now, unless I'm just missing them
ReplyDeleteYeah. Not sure how long it has been gone for though. Bit of a shame, was a good looking model.
DeleteA plastic Thunderhawk is pretty much the only way I'm ever gonna get one.
ReplyDeleteSo here's hoping!
This would be cool. Wanted one ever since the lead/pewter version was released! Plastic should mean it's easier to build also with less warping like resin
ReplyDeleteMaybe wishful thinking, but as always your observations are very reasoned too. Who knows. With the plastic Knight kits they are already getting up to the £100 mark, perhaps getting people attuned to a more expensive kit.
ReplyDeleteRealistically I see any plastic thunderhawk as being exactly the same price. GW and FWs prices are closer than some realise. The individual plastic Stormcast Eternals are around the £20 mark nowadays, compare that to the limited edition centurion seen today. A plastic thunderhawk would be preferable for me though as I am not very keen on working with resin on such scales. In short - I would buy a plastic thunderhawk at the current price OR below. I won't buy a resin one at its current price.
ReplyDeleteA friend just reminded me of a conversation we had with a rep in the FW store the other week, they said they thought if they were going to make a plastic TH it would probably be a variant and not the same as the resin one, it almost sounded as if he was hinting
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of this!
DeleteI think I'm the only one that doesn't want to see this happen.
ReplyDeletePersonally, i think some things should be left for the dedicated collector's/players out there.
I still don't get the exclusivity argument. A Thunderhawk, even in plastic, won't come cheap, will take a fair amount of labor to assemble and paint, and isn't going to end up in everyone's collection.
DeleteGive your fellow hobbyists some credit.
I'd take plastic thunder hawks any day. I remember the white dwarf when the new (at the time) plastic land raider came out and Jes saying that they wanted to do a hawk but plastic tech wasn't there for it yet.
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