6th Edition looms ever closer

I am extremely excited about Warhammer 40k 6th Edition coming out next week.  I have not been able to work on my Storm Talon this week due to other commitments, but I have been following the 6th Ed rumors/news rather closely.  As a Dark Angels player, I am very excited about the new psychic lores. We probably stand to gain more from this change than any other army due to how terrible our psychic powers are.  Dark Angels currently only have 3 powers, Hellfire, a completely random template attack that can be awesome or horrible, Force Barrier, which is admittedly pretty awesome, the best invuln save in the game, but only usable once per turn, and Mind Worm which is a terrible power limited only to Ezekiel that is a Heavy 1 remove from play ranged attack. I'd gladly give up all 3 for 2 decent powers. Ideally, however, we'll be able to trade 1 for 1 and will have the option to keep our Force Barrier while trading in Hellfire and Mind Worm for powers that don't suck.

Hit a block on assembling the Storm Talon

So, I originally wanted to magnetize my weapon pods so that I could swap freely between both missile types, heavy bolter or lascannon. However, the pods have a ridiculous number of bits to make the different weapon options.  Now I have to decide between tons of magnetizing for each pod which may result in them not wanting to stay together well or going with a less than optimal look for the cannon variants.  I hate thesekinds of decisions.  Anyway, here's some pics:

Storm Talon

In light of 6th Edition coming out on June 30th, I am putting aside work on my Deathwing or really much of anything that may significantly change in a few weeks.  So, I started building my Storm Talon.  I know a lot of people hate the look of the Talon and have decided to do conversions, but I decided to embrace the stock look and just see how it turns out.  Here's my assembly pics so far:

Stuck in a holding pattern

As 6th edition is right around the corner, I am kind of on hold until I see what I need to change for my list for the upcoming Golden Throne GT in San Jose.  From a rules standpoint, I am pretty excited by some of the rumors coming through about 6th. Particularly, as a Deathwing player, I am anxious about the rumored change to power weapons in close combat.  If it's true that most power weapons will become AP3, that is a huge boost to Deathwing.  Right off the bat, we'll be getting armor saves versus most power weapons, barring fists and the like.  But even more so, unless something changes, we will be getting Feel No Pain versus most power weapons making our Deathwing Command Squad absolutely beast.

I have ordered a Storm Talon, so I'll be posting my progress on assembling and painting that. It should be exciting.  I have to wait to see the actual model, but I have a feeling I will be making some modifications to the nose turret.