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Is GW Finally Releasing a Plastic Thunderhawk Flyer??

ThunderhawkGames Workshop has confirmed that there will no longer be a resin Thunderhawk and soon we may soon be getting a new plastic one.

Games Workshop stoke the fires of a plastic Thunderhawk at the Horus Heresy Throne of Skulls saying “…the last ever Thunderhawk Gunship was available in the Forge World Shop. It Will Not Be Re-stocked”.

Check out the latest pic from Battle Bunnies.

And of course the cheeky Warhammer TV video that spoofed the issue as well:

plastic thunderhawk box

The resin Thunderhawk has already been taken down from the webstore, and now we’re stuck in limbo waiting on the announcement of the new one to be released.

Heresy 30k / Apocalypse 40k site reports:

From a reddit thread. Someone emailed Forge World and they responded with:

“Thanks for contacting us. For the Thunderhawk we are having to carry out some extensive repair work to the master model used to make the moulds for it before we can produce any more. To do this our designers have to be taken away from the projects they are currently working on and so can only do this in their spare time.

As such this repair work can sometimes take quite a while unfortunately and sometimes the repairs needed are not possible so it could be that the Thunderhawk will not return in it’s previous form. If this is the case then it’s likely that we will produce a brand new version of it at some point in the future. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.”

So a plastic Thunderhawk is still up in the air!

We saw this picture come out a couple months back showing the differences noticed in the picture from the Inferno book. Is this what the new Thunderhawk will look like?

Thunderhawk

It looks like the forward Heavy Bolters could also be mounted akin to the Storm Raven.
The two plates on the side of the Cockpit look to be arranged subtly different to the FW one (where one seems to travel along the forward stability wing above by about 1cm and the other which goes vertically down). The possible redesign seems to have them both joining to the forward stability wing.
Wings look sleeker and more dipped too. The forward access ramp looks sleeker and narrower at the top too, and the ramp grips at the bottom don’t look as prominent.

You be the judge, is a new plastic Thunderhawk on the way from Games Workshop?

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