Apocalypse and the Plastic Thunderhawk

Some interesting Apoc rumors from Bell of Lost Souls this week.

1) Apocalypse Supplement
 
There has been lots of chatter of a followup book for Apocalypse that will not only provide rules for bringing superheavies (or a small carefully crafted selection of them) into your ordinary Warhammer 40K games.  It is also said to be a platform for the release of some new fortification kits.

2) New Plastic Apocalypse Kits 
 
There will be new Apocalypse kits coming in plastic to increase the range, both Xenos and Imperial.  So far we have:

Baneblade - Imperial Guard
Shadowsword/variants - Imperial Guard
Stompa - Orks
Tesseract Ark - Necrons
Lord of Skulls - Chaos

We saw those last two introduced  together with Apocalypse 2.0  A further supplement with fortifications and 2 new plastic Apoc kits in 2014 would exactly mirror the pattern from this year.   But if you look at that list of plastic Superheavies and wanted to add 2 to spread the love around between the major armies in the game there is a big white elephant in the room isn't there? The plastic Thunderhawk.

Then stuff like this started to show up from multiple sources:

-Plastic Thunderhawk - 2014
-Not an exact duplication of Forgeworld's kit due to the need to streamline for a limited number of sprues and boxing size limitations.
-Additional weapon hardpoints and weapon options compared to the Forgeworld kit.  Look for weapon hardpoints and options from other Space Marine flyer kits for clues.
-Multiple T-Hawk sub-variants can be built from the kit. ~editor's note: Forgeworld only offers the "standard" and "transport" versions, unless this is referring to things like Marine, Grey Knight, Inquisition, CSM variants...The Thunderhawk and other(s) plastic Apocalypse kit will be the featured new models in the 2014 Apocalypse Supplement.

Now if there is something that the 40K community treats like an urban legend it's any talk of the semi-legendary plastic Thunderhawk.  Like Nessie, Bigfoot and UFOs, we all want to believe.  There have been second hand accounts over the years, always just out of touch... But this is the highest concentration and most specific chatter we've heard so far.
 
We rate these rumors as follows:

Apocalypse Stuff: Probable coming from multiple known sources 

Thunderhawk Stuff: Possible coming from multiple sources, but it involves the words "Thunderhawk" and "Plastic" so we rolled it back one notch...


So there you go!  Let's see what happens.  I for one want 2 plastic Thunderhawks.

Nykona