Darrell…bad boy, that third part you dragged out with the outer casing was the tecchmarine’s backpack hehe

thats what i was thinking

Don’t get me wrong though Darrell, I’m loving your vids, especially the quantity and that you dig into some of the tactics of the models as well 🙂

Nasty flash and mould lines, bad packaging resulting in bent parts, difficult to build as a result of the design…

Yep sounds like a GW metal model.

No wonder GW didn’t need to try hard to make people think metal models are bad, the ones they produce usually are.

I have only build one of these, but it was a mess, with me considering to throw it out the window several times.

but it is really worth the points, and if you come up against some foot slugging orks, it’s going to get real ugly.

I utterly hated building this thing, it drove me to pinning big metal models with nails, which has served me well ever since.

Love the model once its done though, great for siege games

The harness is rather a pain to glue together, with all those tiny ass pieces. The cannon itself isn’t that much more difficult either.
For the calms you’ll shell out for the model, plus the HS slot it takes up, I’d go with a plastic tank every time.

what?! o.O how do you get those metal models THAT clean?! O.O

To be honest I have always been put off of this model due to the fact that it is entirely made of metal. However the rules for this have their attractions as well. Might think about shelling out for this in the future. Thanks Darrell once again, loving the vids and I always watch them (especially the 40k ones).

Why do all the videos load so slowly? Does youtube hate BOW?

I’ve been wanting to add a Thunderfire Cannon to my army but im a little nervouse about the build. Every source has declared the build to be rather nightmarish so I both want one and dont want one at the same time.

I advanced ordered the Thunderfire Cannon. When I received it there was barely any flashing or mold lines and the assemby went quick and easy. Maybe the Mold is getting worse.

if you fire the subterranean blast i asume it still affects tanks even if it cant penetrate their armour because it uses a blast marker and everything under the marker is “hit” meaning it can be useful against mechanised armies that move their tanks in a formation, the only thing stopping me from getting one is the price really

i made my own thunderfire cannon from eldar bits and landraider bits. i like it it fits my army even if i do get a bit of a slaggin for it, but it has killed its fair share of darrells puppys i mean space wolves. i love how they play because no one see’s them as to big a target so dont bother with it then it slows units and kills small tanks and such.

It is unfortunate the lack of quality casting and quality control of GW has given such a bad name in the metal miniatures, other companies have much higher standard and their metal miniatures go easy and carefree. As I have build one of these and it was from the first models produced, the bending barrel, non-alignment of parts excessive flash and mould lines are not from mould degradation, meaning GW should have replaced the mould a long time ago, but form the mould itself, meaning the mould was badly made in the first place and regardless of the bad quality… Read more »

This thing is hard to build.

I’m not sure why you guys re-posted this because a) The TFC is now a Finecast model, way better than the metal model was, and b) The new artillery rules in 6th edition make the TFC an even better (i.e. more survivable) unit to play than before. Just be sure to put it in a bolstered ruin or behind a Aegis DL.