This is a super cool little kit! After the tournament the other week I wanted to get up to a good 1000 point list so maybe our local community can play that level.
It pretty obviously shares one of its sprues with the C3M4 combat drone, so folks are asking if my M4 is “pregnant” since this thing trades shooting power for the ability to transport.
Here are the common vs T7 specific parts laid out. The top turret is different, since this one doesn’t mount a plasma cannon, as is the “belly”.
This was an excellent kit to put together. The joins are all really well done, with no gaps to fill and all the “boxes” (the front, the middle) fit together really well. What few mold lines I found (I’m miserable at finding mold lines…) were mostly along edges that you were going to glue together, and at worst were along a non-detail edge. Some of the detail is a little soft on the belly and turret, but the common sprue is very crisp and the softness doesn’t look like it will be noticeable when I’m done.
I don’t know why they did this, but the hole in the model where the flying stand goes is partially filled in. I didn’t want to glue the flying stand on, and with this blockage the drone was back-heavy and wouldn’t stay up on the stand. It was fairly easy to clear the blockage, which allowed the stand to fit snuggly into the model so it would stand up without being permanently attached.
I think my only real complaint was given to me by Clark — that it doesn’t come with a batter drone. The kit comes with a spotter drone (which I have a million of) and a shield drone (which is very useful), but the unit can take a batter drone and I wouldn’t have minded getting one here, since they provide everything else!
I hope you can tell, I love the hell out of this model! I’m really looking forward to painting it, but I think I have a couple other things that need doing first. I signed up for a Malifaux league, so I’m assembling a new model to play with…
