Power Up The Cygnar Thunderhead Soon For Warmachine
January 19, 2016 by brennon
Privateer Press have previewed the rather mighty looking Thunderhead over the last few days for Warmachine and the Cygnar faction. This is like a mix between the massive Stormwall and a normal Cygnar Warjack.
"The Thunderhead is a marvel of innovation, arguably the most sophisticated warjack ever built. Storming into battle armed with electrically charged shock fists and a lightning coil, the Thunderhead lands blows that liquefy metal, roast flesh, and disrupt cortexes, and its lightning coil releases focused electrical bolts of tremendous power with unerring accuracy."
I love the imagery of this on the battlefield even if I don't particularly like the model. The look of it is a little weird and wonky looking more like a massive generator than an actual war machine. Still, the idea of this just unleashing lightning across the tabletop is quite interesting.
What do you think?
"Still, the idea of this just unleashing lightning across the tabletop is quite interesting..."
Isn’t this just a resculpt of the old model, and so technically the Cygnar Stormwall is based upon this, no the other way round.
yea its a resculpt, we are getting a few, I will keep saying ‘where is my Karchev resculpt’ until I get one!
Very nice.
I prefer the other sculpt. The idea was that Thunderhead was a prototype for another project that Nemo was working on for years, which turned out to be the Stormwalll. So then the Stormwall colossal model was released. And now this was given a resculpt (needlessly imho) and now it looks like they changed it to make it look more like the Stormwall, which it looks a little too similar to now. I think a prototype should look different because its not the final one before mass production. I dunno I feel very deflated today.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ui5nzvoiL.jpg
http://files.privateerpress.com/warmachine/StormwallComparison.jpg
I know I am getting old. I appreciate I am spoiled rotten. I know this is the sort of design they do but… the model doesn’t look menacing, it looks funny. It’s hugely unbalanced like those comedy body builders with tiny legs. I appreciate this is Privateer’s styling and that the game locks their base sizes (which is daft as it stops them being creative with poses) and to read it is metal and resin is the last straw.
Wyrd, for example, are showing off their emissary sculpts and those will be plastic and are dynamic, flowing.. beautiful things.