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An interesting move from that Games Workshop

An interesting move from that Games Workshop.

An interesting move from that Games Workshop

Their magazine, White Dwarf, is now going to be weekly.

Available exclusively through Games Workshop stores, independent retailers, and games-workshop.com. White Dwarf is an exciting and essential weekly hobby magazine that contains something for every hobbyist, every week – guaranteed!

I think this a strategic approach to get people to physically go to gaming stores. With weekly visits, are you more likely to spend more money? I am sure that is what GW want to happen. However I am sure like others you will remember in the UK when they stopped selling White Dwarf in WHSmiths, that certainly had an impact I am sure, it wasn’t that long before White Dwarf found its way back there.

A physically weekly magazine is an interesting approach and I wonder if it will be digital at some point?

In addition GW are also launching, Warhammer: Visions, a new magazine which will be their monthly journal, and I suspect that it will be available in places like WHSmith.

Experience a visual feast of super high-quality Citadel Miniatures. In more than 230 pages you’ll find a completely new take on the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 in a stunning new extended pictorial style.

Much more of an approach for the casual browser in the newsagents, looking for something visually attractive.

I find it interesting that this is relatively a quick change from the recent big change to White Dwarf. Very interesting approach for sure, will it work? Who knows?

Jed Sampson – Original Foundry Gunslinger

I also have some of the original 25mm Gunslingers from Foundry (probaly Guernsey Foundry if my memory serves me correctly). I don’t have their original codes (or names) so I have made them up.

The next stage will be a white undercoat.

Judge Guthrie Prentice – Old West Gunslinger

I have continued to paint my Old West Gunslingers, I am hoping to get a few more finished, despite having started to paint some more.

This is how far I have got with Judge Guthrie Prentice.

Rollo Sullivan

I already have quite a few miniatures suitable for the Old West style game. At GamesDay 2008 I did purchase the Warhammer Historical Old West rules, I also found some other Foundry Old West models to complement the blisters I already had.

Rollo Sullivan is part of OW9/1 Shootists.

I based the model on a two pence piece. The next stage will be a white undercoat.

1914 British Officer

There are four metal models from this range on the workbench. I gave the models a white undercoat. Here is one of the models, an officer with a pistol.

1914 British Infantryman on guard with rifle and bayonet

There are four metal models from this range on the workbench. I gave the models a white undercoat. Here is one of the models, an infantryman on guard with rifle and bayonet.

I have been looking at a few online forums for guides on how to paint these. Going for a relatively simple and quick paint job, probably basecoat, webbing and other details, followed by a wash before final detailing.

One of the Pinkerton Men

Another one of the Wargames Foundry Old West figures I found. This is one of the Pinkerton Men from the OW9/1 Shootists set.

I will use the same technique on this model as I have used with my other Old West figures.

Detailing the Bommer

The next stage with the Ork Bommer was starting to add the details to the model. I have already given the model a two colour base coat, a base spray of German Armour Yellow, this was then followed by a second spray of British Armour Green. The base yellow was masked with blu-tac in an haphazard manner as would be befitting Orks.

In the past I would have painted the details Chaos Black and then dry brushed the details with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal. This process has fallen out of favour with me, and with this model I am going to use a technique that I originally tried on my Victorian Science Fiction Tunneller.

This underside view shows the engine in more detail.

The process is to first put down a base of Boltgun metal and then using shades and inks to add washes to bring out the detail.

I am also intending to use some of the Forge World weathering powders I purchased a few years ago, which I have never got around to using.

Here is the bommer with the turret and cockpit in place.

…and a close-up.

One of the Pinkerton Men

I was looking for some other stuff when I found some more Wargames Foundry Old West figures. This is one of the Pinkerton Men from the OW9/1 Shootists set.