NEW RUMORS – Plastic Primarchs & 8th Edition 40k?

More rumors today about the plastic primarch Magnus, and his second in command turned sorcerer of the end times, Ahriman! Come see the latest!

Source: Sad Panda

In response to the question;

Thousand Sons only need one boss man. Ahriman is finecast. Magnus will be plastic.

Panda replied, and went on to say:

You’ll have a plastic Ahriman before you’ll have a plastic Magnus. Probably painted in red though.

…As I was told (though it might be nonsense), the earliest sessions to start work on a new edition led to the decision to not update (for the most part) the Tau Codex and no longer re-do older books. Apparently they actually had more thorough rule-changes for the Tau, scrapped them, but still printed loads of not-new Tau Codex books because the printers were already booked, leading to the hybrid old/new Codex that is the Tau book.

But they are definitely working on a new edition. It just won’t be released in 2016, not least (as I heard) because they want to move the story and need time for that.

So a red version of Ahriman would definitely mean of the 30k variety I would imagine:

I’m not sure how that would figure into plastic however. Now we still haven’t seen a “new” codex for Warhammer 40k yet this year right, with just additional supplements and reprints of existing rules to keep 40k players satiated.

It is possible that they will be launching a something BIG when the White Dwarf reboots in September? Maybe they will feature more store exclusives in GW stores this fall?

30k into 40k Ahriman Conversion

Follow Along With The Story:

BoLS reported back in June a “random” sighting of something that reportedly looked like a plastic version of the Primarch Magnus:

via Mauler 6-9-2016 (DISQUS)

 “I bumped into an old mate last night who had a chap with him who I’d not met before. He said that he knew people working at GW, said that they were working on Warzone: Fenris pt2 at the moment and showed me two grainy photos.

I assume that the delay in pt2 is down to the models involved as one pic was of Thousand Sons in ornate armour that I’d not seen before and the other pic was of a daemonic Magnus. Hard to make out details on him from memory but there was a fair bit of blue & red on him and I vaguely remember something like blue pinions outstretched from his back but I’m not sure if they were wings. Clearly a departure from a Primarch Magnus from FW.

And a plastic Magnus from GW was the last thing I expected to see. It looked legit, but I don’t know the chap, so…”

So we have Forge World cranking out thier own set of pre-heresy Primarchs, but this model description sounds like a Daemonic version of Magnus the Red. for Reference, here is the ancient Daemonic Magnus miniature from EPIC:

Daemonic Magnus, EPIC, Circa : 1995

It is also possibly a case of mis-identification.Remember very reliable rumormongers have been saying fro months the plastic Lord of Change that is said to be coming later this year.

And not 12 hours later the internet was alive with chatter related to this seemingly random utterance:

First off today we have Squiggly on Disqus:

There is an element of truth to this one.. The FW and GW studio’s were considering doing the Daemon Primarchs in plastic rather than resin, purely because of the nature of plastic. But I don’t think/didn’t know anything this was far done if this is accurate.

I’m not saying this is right/wrong. I heard we might get plastic ones, but no details on when, or even if, we will see them. Tbh if we were going to see any of them soon, I presumed it would be Angron. Considering he’s meant to be getting rules in one of the planned FW books.

I really hope we do see Magnussoon though.

So a solid maybe?

Then checkout what Sad Panda is saying about the same exact thing, but with more on the Warzone Fenris:

Warhams-77 wrote:
You mean the classic myth of GW producing Primarchs?

Myth no more.

A lot of people over the years claimed the GDs were all finished and claimed they saw them (talking about myths).All of them curiously missed this particular vintage-epic-inspired-villain next to the only recently finished LoC his design portfolio.Remember the Warhammer Fest comment about things changing, but not quite as drastic as End Times/AoS? 40K is on the move.

Remember it is still a few months out, especially the 40K stuff.

There are a lot of things in the pipeline before it. Deathwatch for example.

GW’s 2016 New Release Roadmap Roundup

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