Games Plus, a suburban Chicagoland LGS, recently ran one of their auctions. I had a large box of Star Wars X-Wing stuff sitting around, so to the auction it went. I wasn’t able to attend any of the auction this time around, but I did get nearly $200 in store credit from the X-Wing stuff. Games Plus had a couple of the new plastic Fellblade kits in stock so the decision of what to do with my store credit was a really easy one. The kit itself is made up of 8 sprues and comes with a huge sheet of decals with the usual Sons of Horus, Imperial Fists specific decals, and also Salamanders and Iron Warriors decals along with a bunch of more generic vehicle markings. Pretty neat.
Assembling the Behemoth
The Fellblade is by far the biggest Warhammer kit I’ve put together. Much bigger than the Kratos or the Spartan that I recently primed. Fitting together hulls and tracks and making sure there aren’t any gaps can be an issue with model tank kits. Some of the Italeri/Warlord plastic tanks for Bolt Action are notoriously bad at fitting together without gaps. Thankfully this wasn’t the case at all for the new plastic Fellblade. I built this over 2 leisurely sessions after work, using a paint brush instead of the little Tamiya brush handle to make sure all of the connections were really solid and the seams between hull pieces were sealed up nicely. This kit had little to no mold lines to remove and the gates were easily filed off or taken off with an X-Acto Knife. When the time came to fit some of the bigger hull pieces together with the sides of the tank, there were little tabs to tightly fit them together.
After this the turret went together really fast, with the massive Accelerator Cannon making an imposing silhouette. I decided against adding a Havoc Launcher, Pintle-Bolters, or Flamers for the hatches on the turrets because I wanted a cleaner look. And plus, this thing is going to be hunting other Super-Heavies and Lords of War. The kit does come with the sprue that includes all the normal pintle options that other tank kits for Horus Heresy come with. With the turret done, the kit was nearly finished and I figured it would be fun to snap a pic for scale comparison.
After this all that was left to put together are the sponsons. The kit comes with the usual Lascannnon Array, but it also comes with brand new plastic Laser Destroyer Batteries and Gravis Heavy Bolter Batteries. I built these two new sponson options, and I imagine I’ll run this mostly with the Laser Destroyers in future games as this will be my centerpiece tank-hunter for my Emperor’s Children.
Final Thoughts
This kit was a breeze to build, and made me wonder what the old resin kit was like (which in turn inspired the name of this blog lol). I’m stoked to see what other big kits GW puts out next because they knocked this one out of the park.
I recently had a chance to prime this and I’m hoping to get it painted ahead of the first Horus Heresy apocalypse game for 3rd edition, happening later in November at Dice Dojo. Next up will be more progress shots of some other armor I’m working on for Emperor’s Children. I’m going to try to batch paint my way through a Predator, Kratos, Spartan, Sicaran, and Land Raider Proteus I got 2nd hand. My wife named this box of tanks sitting next to my desk the “Divorce Box” lol. We’ll see how it goes.
My build soundtrack: the new Sabrina Carpenter album, OM’s Advaitic Songs, and the two most recent episodes of Radio War Nerd.
Thanks for checking out my first post! Cheers.
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