Saturday, 8 May 2010

NEWS - Spearhead Releases!

Well, was looking at the sprues from the local GW Black Box this afternoon (no pics, sorry!) and guess what?

Good News Everyone! - The Night Spinner and Fire Prism come on a single upgrade sprue to the Falcon, with all of the tasty extra hull pieces, the resculpted turret...and some pretty swish extras, including a Shuriken Cannon for the chin.  Means you never have to build a Spinner, after you read the terrible rules!!

Bad News Everyone! - The way the Prism is assembled means it is more than likely you will have to paint it on the sprue - or the gun at least.  Also, as far as I could tell, you only got one rollbar, so the weapons will be incredibly difficult to magnetize, if even possible.  :(

Good News Everyone! - The new Leman Russ boxset comes with the pieces for all the remaining Russ variants, including the regular Russ!  It comes with swish hull/sponson weapons, apparently identical to the new Demolisher sprue, but I haven't bothered to check.

Bad News Everyone! - It's a Russ sprue, so it is NOT the Manticore/Hyra/Deathstrike/Droids we were looking for.

That's today's news.  Now, over to Olly for the weather?  Olly?

7 comments:

Dethtron said...

are you serious? no frakkin artillery...I saw the CAD for that shit at Games DAy Chicago last year!!!!!

oviono: a carbonated beverage with a hint of onion flavor...

Faolain said...

I am going to find a way to magnetize that kit. Trust me. I magnetized the metal Eldar artillery platforms.

TheKing Elessar said...

lol
Well, you better do a post on it, because we ALL want some of that!


Dethtron - Fraid not. 2 Weeks later, I hear.

Zenos said...

Interesting... am a bit down on the guard stuff though...

Why oh why can't we have standard field artillery! Rapiers and Tarantulas are exceptional models... sigh...

Going back to my Thudd Guns. :)

Anonymous said...

Looks like it's an order to the UK for me then... I just haven't seen a conversion for the Hydra that looks better than the FW one.... I was REALLY hoping they might do a sprue....

Stupid GW....

I actually like the new Fire Prism cannon... My Wife thinks I should do space elves - but I've not been able to bring myself to because of the existing Dumb that is the their current Prism cannon.... (She also thinks I need Squggoths for my orks... God I love her)

TheKing Elessar said...

I would hold fire on that buddy - it appears a second release of kits is in order 2 weeks later...I just don't know the contents of it yet.

Unknown said...

None of the upcoming tanks do anything for me. I wouldn't mind a Punisher and Executioner for sheer coolness but I'll never use them tbh :(

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