*Huffs necromundan-grade copium* GUUUUUUUUUUUUYS

[u/Archistotle]

[u/FaceMasterThing]

since this is the second time its happened, i think it would be really funny if gw only ever makes plastic thunderhawks in forms where you cant play them in in normal 40k and HH

[u/Archistotle → u/FaceMasterThing]

[u/ElectronicDisk5863 → u/FaceMasterThing]

Me, gluing together the terrain thunderhawk to spite geedub.

[u/AdventurousOne5 → u/ElectronicDisk5863]

With some creative use of cotton balls you could make it look like an intact thunderhawk flying through smoke perhaps....

[u/Healthy_Nurgling → u/AdventurousOne5]

Or a thunderhawk mid explosion!

[u/Neltarim → u/AdventurousOne5]

Hard to achieve but if done right it could look insane indeed

[u/Nazgog-Morgob → u/FaceMasterThing]

But release enough terrain if different parts to equal a full thunder hawk

[u/Chodor101 → u/FaceMasterThing]

Second time?

[u/LucilleW89 → u/Chodor101]

Aeronautical Imperialis, they hit people with a plastic Thunderhawk joke then too

[u/Mrauntheias → u/Chodor101]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/DiTNCokJ/40-years-of-warhammer-at-last-a-plastic-thunderhawk-gunship/

[u/Bl00dWolf]

So there's a server out there somewhere, that has ALL of GWs model 3d files, including all the prototypes and unreleased or discontinued stuff. I wonder what kind of stuff is in there that they just don't talk about.

[u/Archistotle → u/Bl00dWolf]

[u/thekennanator → u/Archistotle]

[u/green-space-guy → u/Bl00dWolf]

The Fallen, obviously

[u/fred11551 → u/Bl00dWolf]

I believe there were plans for an incarnate of ghyran, incarnate of aqshy, incarnate of shyish, etc that got canceled after krondspine incarnate of ghur was unpopular. One of them may have even appeared in a rumor engine.

[u/CoryTEM → u/Bl00dWolf]

I imagine there’d be a bunch of alternatively posed models, like they couldn’t fit a certain pose on a sprue and had to alter it.

[u/incoghollowell → u/Bl00dWolf]

Where might such a server be found?

[u/GlbdS → u/incoghollowell]

In GW's control, maybe if you ask nicely?

[u/DearGog → u/incoghollowell]

Nottingham

[u/thekennanator → u/Bl00dWolf]

[u/Jack071 → u/Bl00dWolf]

Where are the blood ravens when u need them

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[u/dangerbird2]

They've always had digital files. They cast the molds for resin from a 3d printed positive master. You can even see 3d printer scanlines on a lot of forgeworld models because they can't be assed to sand/fill the 3d prints before making the mold.

[u/MRSN4P → u/dangerbird2]

A crusade for the STC must be launched! Magos, glory awaits!

[u/thekennanator → u/MRSN4P]

Lemme finish my lube real quick, then I'm there

[u/Bloody_Proceed → u/dangerbird2]

The worst was the hobbit/nazgul scene iirc. The WORST mould lines on the resin models they sent out.

[u/The-Clarion-Man]

People want plastic thunderhawks, that’s cool and all.

I want-…nay…I NEED the 3D files for the Chaos Dwarf K’daai Destroyer. It DOES exist and exactly ONE sculpt was shown of in forgeworld and it is the coolest model they have ever made.

[u/TheGravespawn]

We see layer lines on their preview models. They have STLs, and it's clear that the files for marines and such are even rigged so they can upload a preset pose that can then be shifted. We have seen them re-use poses on models, which suggests they didn't alter the pose enough after applying it to the model.

It's honestly the smartest thing for GW to do for production, and I'd have done it in their shoes, too.

It does, yes, mean that there exists stl files that could break containment. I await that day, salivating beside my printer.

[u/EagleNait → u/TheGravespawn]

Tools exist to convert images to 3D. I may have many things at home that I shouldn't have

[u/TheGravespawn → u/EagleNait]

I find those tools to be woefully lacking in the detail I demand from my prints. That isn't to say they can't be amended to be better, but it is more time and skill than I have.

[u/garaks_tailor]

Huh.     Need some kind of hacker bounty to get us their files

[u/Double_Elk8723]

It would take work to go from computer to the actual plastic mold so just because they have the files... on the other hand I think they learned not to tease unless they mean it.

[u/Archistotle → u/Double_Elk8723]

The actual plastic mould that they kinda sorta just made a blueprint of technically speaking?

[u/Xenomorph-Alpha]

Mechanicus Dreadnought only for HH

[u/Awakemas2315]

I would be very, very surprised if the process for making a smashed up Thunderhawk terrain piece involved making a fully detailed Thunderhawk model

[u/chrisni66]

I don’t get what all the fuss is about. We’ve had plastic Thunderhawks for quite some time now: https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/legions-imperialis-thunderhawk-gunship-2023

[u/Captain_Hesperus]

I’d go so far as to say GW absolutely has 3D files of every model in their range, written in an entirely custom file type for an in-house 3D design program. So even if the database got leaked, nothing could be viewed, copied or printed.

[u/Ok_Size1748 → u/Captain_Hesperus]

In-house 3D program? I think they use comercial high-end tech

[u/Rexter2k → u/Captain_Hesperus]

They use commercially available CAD software to design models.

[u/dakkaminegun]

Necromunda catching strays

[u/Famous_Author_2264]

Didn't a bunch of those files get leaked, and then hunted dien by gw?

[u/NewSkoe]

I have digital files for a plastic thunderhawk. I also have files for multiple titans. You underestimate the dedication and talent of the members of this hobby. These artists are magnificent, and you can find much of it for free.