Plastic scouts discussion thread.

[MidnightResistance]

A while ago I heard something about plastic scouts.
Was it true and is there a release date?

[Lady's Champion]

Nah sorry mate it's not true at all... is it?

EDIT: Whoops, sorry, looks like I was wrong

Ah well, my brand new metal scouts were a waste lol

[charlie_c67]

Rumour has it they'll be out with the BT's. However, with the 6 month rumour window in place no-one's got any concrete proof either way.

[MidnightResistance]

I'm contemplating an all scout army, so plastic scouts would be...very good

[Cloudscape_online]

what if GW is slowly making everything plastic, and quietly phasing out the metal models?

[Karhedron]

Rumours of plastic Scouts abound but hard proof is a little thin on thr ground. Just before old portent went down, one fo the posters mentioned a trip to Lenton and claimed he saw the plastic scouts being worked on. However since I have not seen him since we got back up, I don't know how reliable the claim is.

So far the farthest future release I know of is Assault Terminators scheduled for September. If BTs are scheduled for October/November time then I would guess we will start hearing details of them soon, maybe in the upcoming GDs.

[stahly]

Hope that they will fit to the metal ones, because except for the rocket launcher guy these models are awesome.
There are just too less poses.

[Alpharius]

Say, we're within 6 months of Decemeber....

Shouldn't we be seeing "official sneak peeks" of BT stuff, like the oft rumored plastic scouts and Assault Terminators?

I'd say that they don't want to steal the Tyranid's thunder, but, haven't we seen all of the ne Tyranid stuff by now anyway?

[x-esiv-4c]

I'd have to say that i've always been a big fan of Sniper rifle scout models, I hope they do a good job in re-doing them.

[rkunisch]

The 6 months frame does not mean that you will hear at once all about the next book when you are within the 6 months. It means that on events to come the people of GW are more free to tell and show stuff. I would expect that the next GDs will reveal more details about the BT.

Have fun,

Rolf.

[Typheron]

did GW not say that some time ago that they wanted to get as much as possable into plastic moulds as there easyer to convert?


I would guess that at some point GW has plans to do a plastic version of the scouts (not counting the really old OOP plastic ones). They did the termis in plastic which are by far a larger job to re-do than the scouts given all the variations of them.

[MidnightResistance]

Give it a couple of weeks then...

[my_name_is_tudor]

How can someone be sure they've seen plastic scouts being worked on anyway... surely they could just have been black templars-specific metal scouts.

Still, I'd like to hope they are making plastic scouts..

[charlie_c67]

The way GW seem to be going is getting all basic troops into plastic, with the reasons SoB, GK's and scouts weren't done was cos various bits (robes, tabards, gribbly bits) couldn't be done justice in plastic at the time. However, technology has moved on and the plastics details with it so things could/should be about to change.

[Insane Psychopath]

When I am down that the GT heat 1 I'll have a talk with a few people there.

[Cthulhu33]

I hope this rumour is true cause I love scouts and plactic mor convertable ones with chapter specific heraldry would be great. One question though does anyone know if they are redoing all of the scout line or just the assault squats (those being the most prodiminant ones).

BTW I am more than a little ticked that I have like 40 metal scouts already, I too may have to consider an all scout army if the plastic ones come into fruition. Scouts in a speeder, that sounds nice (and fast)

[Brimstone]

I've moved the discussion on pricing to it's own thread in other GW discussion.

At least we invaded Iraq for something...

Post spam like that again and you'll earn a yourself a strike.

[Great Harlequin]

Yup, I think the new scouts will be released with the Black Templar range.

EDIT: It makes sense considering that literally every Black Templar initiate has to be a mentor for a neophyte.

[Karhedron]

One question though does anyone know if they are redoing all of the scout line or just the assault squats (those being the most prodiminant ones).

Well no one knows for sure if plastic scouts are even going to happen. This is all just speculation at the moment. GW have just finished redoing the existing SM plastics to include more accessories and options. Therefore it seems likely that if they do make plastic Scouts, there will be a variety of options included with them.

But that is just speculation on my part. Sadly I don't have hard facts to share.

[Brimstone]

If I had to speculate on possible plastic scouts then I'd say they would be like the Terminators coming with a body and main component sprue with weapons on their own.

A Neophyte/scout close combat box would have pistols and cc weapons with variant boxes coming with a ranged weapon sprue sniper rifles, heavy bolter etc.