Looky Likey - DakkaDakka
Just got back from the Open Day, picked up the new command tanks and the picture below is the upgrade sprue that is included in the box along with a standard LR and Rhino.
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I spent a long time talking to the FW team about the build of the Warlord including future plans, even got to see the GW style build instructions (full colour booklet) for it. The build is best as a two man job due to the size and weight of the model, its about 7kg of resin, all on a handful of joints. As I took my tape measure and got the FW team to measure it, I know the Warlord is ~23" to the top most point and ~20" to the top of the carapace, 17" across, 17" front to back of the weapon arms. Frankly it isn't tall enough over the Reaver for the extra money but it is considerably larger in bulk. The head as two areas of internal detail but no internal detail inside the main carapace despite there being a large empty space, this was done to 1) reduce cost and 2) improve the rigidity of the model.
Weapon swaps for the Warlord are going to be very painful, you are either going to have to leave off the pistons for the arms or do a complicated join under a big shield on the arm, there is no easy way to do the swap. Obviously they have a full range of weapons planned, starting with the Reaver missile launcher first up. Oh, and an alternate, Warhammer World only, Warlord head. They also have Mechanicum and Chaos versions planned, Chaos first, but nobody has started working on it yet. I'm going to wait for the Chaos version.