tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901426566557963132.post6529511665709519702..comments2024-03-28T05:02:45.682-07:00Comments on Between the Bolter and Me: Militarum Tempestus: Plastic storm troopers finally arrive!Adam Wierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11710889303035437886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901426566557963132.post-37693259032947822612014-04-01T22:02:04.331-07:002014-04-01T22:02:04.331-07:00I am really looking forward to seeing the plastics...I am really looking forward to seeing the plastics in person. Some of the components are difficult to see in the pictures and it is tricky to accurately judge the sizes of everything. The plasmagun and meltagun for instance, I want to see how they compare in size to the Space Marine ones. They look to be a little smaller; hopefully that is the case. I also want to get a closer look of all the available heads they offer and start considering where I could use them!Adam Wierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710889303035437886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901426566557963132.post-40151640383852717432014-04-01T12:49:42.294-07:002014-04-01T12:49:42.294-07:00Cracking read Adam. The Troopies have had some gr...Cracking read Adam. The Troopies have had some great art over the years. I still quite like the Bedford sculpts personally but never really noticed the leg thing until now. <br /><br />I will pick up the Scions at some point. Too many cool bits to ignore it. I fancy up-blinging my normal Guard with the spare bits. <br /><br />The grenade launcher is the only awkward pose out of the set that I'm not too bothered with. The blaster thing looks a tad too Tau fur me. Ditto the ones that appear on the blinged out truck. LWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04769460904008281915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901426566557963132.post-3276039781305257942014-04-01T07:10:37.624-07:002014-04-01T07:10:37.624-07:00I am glad you enjoyed the post! The new plastic Sc...I am glad you enjoyed the post! The new plastic Scions do add a lot of wonderful pieces for use in all sorts of conversions for Imperial Guard or otherwise. The powerfist is certainly one of my favorites; I love how wide and flat it is (piston details are nice too). I was also really surprised and impressed that they reworked the plasma gun and made it a little smaller. I still wish they were even smaller and narrower like the plasma rifles used by the 2nd edition Imperial Guard (but you can’t have everything...) Looking a little closer at the sprues, it looks like the meltagun they give you is also a little different than the stock Space Marine one we have seen for years (it is still think it too large, but at least it does not have some massive precision scope). <br /><br />I was not aware of Zinge Industries, but it looks like they have a lot of nice accessories, including some wheels that would be suitable for replacing the front tracks. I would love to see how it works out if they attempt it. I will probably end up getting at least one Taurox to play around with and depending on my thoughts of it, maybe a few more to make a Militarum Tempestus army with all my old Kasrkin models. That anti-gravity box on the bottom of the vehicle seems a little strange and out of place for the Guard, but at least it is on the bottom and out of sight ;)<br />Adam Wierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710889303035437886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901426566557963132.post-70337732557569800952014-04-01T02:59:15.878-07:002014-04-01T02:59:15.878-07:00I loved this article - thanks very much :) I'v...I loved this article - thanks very much :) I've been watching the leaked images pop up with glee, but I'd somehow missed that beautiful powerfist! I hate the ones in the Cadian/Catachan command squads - un-detailed with crap poses. This one is great, and I love the piston details. I like that they seem to have fixed the size issue of the plasma gun (just taking a space marine plasma and whacking it on a Cadian body) and hopefully the meltagun has been modified too. I would guess the lack of stock is explained by the weapons being low recoil? The do look like accuracy would be an issue without it though :) I'll probably get a box for Inq28 too! The Taurox looks nice without the bling - I like the idea of an unarmed civilian model. One of my friends is already talking about replacing the front tracks with wheels from Zinge Industries, which gave me the idea of using the leftover tracks to build a rapier platform :) one daft thing in the white dwarf these are released in - there's a little plate on the bottom of the vehicle with a couple of coils - they said that it's an anti-grav plate to help the vehicle get out of difficult terrain. Hmmm...Deserterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05632775792103986037noreply@blogger.com