You can already find these picture on the Space wolves page, I’m gradually migrating all the squads in to the category section of the site.
I try to mix armour types and weapons with my Space Wolves reasoning they don’t care as long as it works. One of the long fangs has a Forge World Heresy style Missile luncher. Three of these Long fangs use the original metal Devastator squad legs. I believe these are meant to enhance the power armours ability to carry large weapons. This armour upgrade still appear in the drawings within the Space Marine codex although G.W. don’t currently sell them. The heavy bolter is my favourite model in this squad. I think the combination of the targeting eye and old legs works really well.
Another source in GW has confirmed there is no plastic Thunderhawk planned as the margins on it are too small. I’m actually a little surprised at this statement. I didn’t think there would be any margin on it. GW has a very good handle on what we buy and how much we will spend. They also know exactly how much it costs to produce a new plastic kit. While the material costs of plastic are very low, the cost of designing and making a mould big enough to make a Thunderhawk are not. For the same cost they can make a number of other plastic kits. It also takes GW a long time to recoup to costs of plastic kits. They have to know they will sell lots. This is one of the reasons why they sell so many duel purpose kits like the ork flyers and make no special characters in plastic. The Thunderhawk is of coarse something many people would like to own. The biggest obstacle to GW selling them is not cost. I’m sure I’m not the only person who owns more than one Storm Eagle. The biggest problem with a Thunderhawk is the amount of space it takes up. Both on and off the game broad. The Storm Eagle doesn’t fit in a standard G.W. case. It’s hard to imagine many people buy 2 or 3 of these.
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