![]() ![]() But if you compare to say the trolls from the Hobbit, then these work out slightly cheaper per figure and a lot cheaper per part. That is expensive in comparison to a lot of models. This works out to roughly to 27p per piece and £15.83 per model. If the chest weapons were mounted above the head like a cyclone missile launcher then the chest area would look like it could house the arms and controls easily. I don’t buy that, firstly, if that is the case how’s he controlling the suit? Secondly I don’t think a marine with shoulder pads would be able to fold his arms across his chest. The designer explained this in the White dwarf article saying “the arms are folded in front of the marine’s chest”. There are no where for the pilot’s arms to go. This is right up there with a rhino not being able to fit 10 marines inside. The design is typical of Warhammer 40,000. The downsides are the design and the price. It evokes imagery of Ripley in her power loader, the APUs from the matrix and hulkbuster ironman suit. The idea of a devastator marine stepping into a war suit and it clamping down all around him as he picks up two heavy weapons is very exciting. The incredible amount of weapon options will leave you kitting out your other models with the spares (I’m thinking of adding spare siege drills to terminator models to represent chainfists). This box set features a whopping 175 pieces to make 3 unique models. I’m thinking of saving them for special character conversions. The sergeant’s helmet also has an option to glue on a plume. The kit comes with three identical marine helmets and sergeant helmet with bionic eye which are described as a mix of terminator/standard marine helmets by the designer in White Dwarf this month. The head is also on a standard marine head ball joint so you can switch the heads out and replace if you want. This gives us some articulation for poses. I thought I’d share this picture from the instructions. The thigh and crotch armour pieces are separate so you can leave off if you prefer. The torsos are on a ball joint. So if you don’t use the siege drills your bitz box immediately benefits from a total of 6 meltaguns and 6 flamers! These weapons are mounted on the side of the siege drills. In the above picture you can see two flamers and two meltaguns. 3x twin linked Lascannons, 3x twin linked heavy bolters, 3x Grav-cannons and grav amps, 3x Ironclad assault launchers, 3x hurricane bolters, 3x missile launchers (frag and krak, no option for flak in the codex), 6x melta guns, 6x flamers, 3x pairs of siege drills and an omniscope. In the box you get the following weapons. It is nice to have three models with different details sculpted on or three different bare heads or even different poses. It’s a lot more tooling to do then if they were to have just a single sprue. At first I thought the sprues were all the same, but actually you get three unique sprues here! That’s kinda cool, but does start to explain the expense of the box set. Stripping the shrink wrap away and opening the box you’re confronted with three sprues, a bag of bases (50mm, that’s 10mm bigger than terminators), a transfer (decals) sheet and an instruction sheet. The box is slightly deeper then your average troop size box (225mm wide by 150mm high and 45mm deep). ![]() Love them or loathe them the Centurions have arrived and Tale of Painters are pleased to share with you an unboxing of this controversial new box set.
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