Necromunda The Sump: General hobby venting thread (Beware: old men shouting at clouds)

Speaking of missing body parts, I've noticed that the Howling Banshees have six sets of 'boobs' but only five lots of legs. There's plenty of spare arms and equipment, surely there was room on the sprue to make a sixth banshee? Would make for a much better value kit with 6 instead of 5 for £40 RRP.
 
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Speaking of missing body parts, I've noticed that the Howling Banshees have six sets of 'boobs' but only five lots of legs. There's plenty of spare arms and equipment, surely there was room on the sprue to make a sixth banshee? Would make for a much better value kit with 6 instead of 5 for £40 RRP.
Can you graft on a set of Guardian legs?

I know they put them in weird poses these days to prevent such obvious actions; however if you could construct a whole torso then perhaps you could flatten down the waist area and attach some spare legs? I don’t have this kit to know if that’s doable but I’d bloody well give it a go if I did!
 
You'd need legs and a back plate. Might be doable, but I don't think there are any spare legs on the guardian sprue. I'll probably just order an extra set of banshee legs from a bitz supplier.

It's just really annoying as there is so much sprue space wasted with a stupid scenery shrine thing (maybe it has gameplay these days, who cares) and pointless Eldar themed, tactical rocks.
 
It's just really annoying as there is so much sprue space wasted with a stupid scenery shrine thing (maybe it has gameplay these days, who cares)
It doesn't. Don't know why they put in the weird shrines without giving them some sort of use in either the Scorpions or Banshees. Usually something like that is at least used as a token to note a one-time use ability or a unit upgrade that doesn't give an extra model (Watchers in the Dark, Plasmacytes, Grot Orderlies, etc...).
 
You'd need legs and a back plate. Might be doable, but I don't think there are any spare legs on the guardian sprue.
I was just thinking of spare guardians I had.

Out of interest, does one of the six chest plates have more decoration on than the other five?

They usually do this to signify a character piece, maybe an Exarch in this case (probably along with a head and weapons), so you can make five regular ones or four with a character upgrade.
 
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I just found out that Combat Cards exist (again), albeit in digital form. But I don't really get the appeal of a collectable card game without any physical cards to collect.

They had a page about the classic cards (https://www.combatcards.com/classic-combat-cards/). I hoped those were getting reissued, if only on some made to order basis. If the 1980s ones were available at a sensible price, I'd certainly be tempted to buy them. (Though I expect GW would price them at about three times what I'd consider reasonable...)
 
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I was just thinking of spare guardians I had.

Out of interest, does one of the six chest plates have more decoration on than the other five?

They usually do this to signify a character piece, maybe an Exarch in this case (probably along with a head and weapons), so you can make five regular ones or four with a character upgrade.
Yes there's an exarch torso. The extra set of boobs is for the normal version along with an extra foot and smaller tactical rock and an extra slightly less ornate power sword and pistol, there's also a huge amount of extra heads (14 in total), so you've basically got 5 1/2 howling banshees including an exarch with extra options.

They could have easily made it 5 plus the exarch which is the amount you got in the older resin kits such as the fire dragons and swooping hawks. This would have been a much better value kit as a result and wouldn't have cost them any extra as there's loads of superfluous stuff on the sprue.
 
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Wow, that’s very odd. Guess the sculptor likes boobs then…

I remember getting my Howling Banshees in the early 90s and it was five metal ones in a blister pack then I had to get the Exarch separately. Think it was the same deal for all the Aspects back then (bar Warp Spiders which were 2 in a blister pack).

They were the originals with laspistols. Always liked those sculpts.

Keep meaning to get those resin reissues of the later metals - especially Swooping Hawks - much less likely to crash and chip!!

I do like whole squads in a box.
 
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That’s not half a dog. It’s a dog victim… :cry:
Just now remembered this poster (well, after seeing it on the table last night):
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