RUMORS: Marine Minis

Hi guys,

We have heard these whispers on the wind regarding the upcoming Space Marine Codex and minis:

The “Big Gun” the techmarine can get is called a Thunderfire Cannon and it’s aesthetically a throwback to the old Thudd gun. The model is very Adeptus Mechanicus looking. Huge tracks with a quad barreled gun. The techmarine operator is looking up with a controller in his hands. His servo harness has reversed arms with the flamer and plasma on top. The left servo arm holds a “quick reload” of four shells and a single shell is in the other.

An Ultramarine Tank commander special character is coming that appears in two versions. One for putting in your tank and one on foot. He has a bare head and a helmeted head that looks like a Mk3 helmet. Rules are unknown.

The Land Raider will now be one unified kit that makes the three variants. The sponsons have larger armor coverings for the Crusader’s Hurricane bolters and the Redeemer’s Inferno cannons. The Reedemer has two inferno cannons and twin-linked assault cannons. There are revised frag-assault launchers for Crusader and Redeemer; angled to be pointing forward, not the 45 degrees upwards like the current ones are. The Inferno cannons are modeled as huge, over sized heavy flamers, similar to an upscaled version of the Forgeworld siege dreadnought variant.

Power of the Machine Spirit rule allows Land Raiders to move 6″ and fire all their guns.

Scout bikes are slightly smaller than the standard marine bikes but use the same tires. They have small front fenders that only cover the top and back of the tire. There is no trim on the handlebar canopy and the riders are like the plastic scouts. The scout bikes are covered in gear including a big shotgun holster mounted on the front forks.

The land speeder has been re-cut to make it easy to assemble without clamping. The sides are separate pieces and all the bits for variants are on the sprue now. It looks like you get some extra heads on the sprue as well.

Pedro Cantor has a powerfist and a stormbolter mouted like a greyknight on his other wrist. He’s kinda leaping sidways firing the SB. There is a belt feed for the SB going to his backpack. He has a mk7 helmet.

There is an Ultramarine scout vet. sergeant who’s bald with a beard, armed with a bolter and another Ultramarine special character captain who’s an homage to the old Ultramarine captain model (with the transverse plume on his helmet and a gladius).

~Lots of interesting news here folks and that Thunderfire cannon may mesh with the rumors we’ve heard of techmarines or the Master of the Forge being able to take a set of arcane and powerful old school ranged weapons now. Its also great to see the “combo kits” with all varients included for both the Land Raider and Land Speeder. That makes collecting some the harder to find models easier, and gives my bits box more extra goodies for conversions. As usual, Caveat Emptor folks, this stuff if still slated for after summer.