There is some beautiful detail on that shield. There was plenty of evidence of the new Salamanders content and a strong sense running around the design hall that the next primarch release would be at the Horus Heresy weekender in May, and that it would be none other than Monsieur He’stan himself! They did have a work in progress sculpt (looked pretty finished to me!) of the new Fire Drake terminators: I’ll be doing a more detailed kit review once I start work on painting him up. He was on sale as well, would’ve been extremely rude to turn him down, so I didn’t – here’s a little ‘unboxed’ shot. There were several painted examples of him on the day, this was my personal favourite. painted shots above). There have been some rules doing the rounds now as well given that the third Horus Heresy book was available on the day, which also contains a lovely Mechanicum army list (more on them later). It’s definitely more flexible in its assembly than the plastic kit given that the three I saw on the day all looked very different (as you can see from the unpainted vs. The model is a plethora of pose-able pieces, and apparently any purchaser can look forward to positioning each piston individually. I think we should expect its slightly bulkier brother to make an appearance in the not too distant future as well. The new knight model is easily two inches taller than a standard knight and built to stride rapidly across the battlefield. They also had some rather nice heraldry shields on display:
Probably the most talked about new model on the day was the Cerastus Knight Lancer: Yay! This time however it was the queue to buy ALL OF THE THINGS! I saved that for later and dove straight into the design studio, with the aim of tweeting the hell out of anything new and shiny I might find. I arrived and was greeted by a huge queue which, once I defeated, lead to yet another queue. Forgive me, gentle reader, should my fingers stumble in the scribing of this missive, because I’m knackered right?Ī 5am 6am start (stupid daylight savings time!) saw me heading off to Nottingham to Warhammer World and the Forge World Open Day!