Felix, Author at Felix's Gaming Pages

The Hobbit gets going…

After months of delays due to funding problems, filming on The Hobbit is now set to begin in February 2011.

Warner Bros also announced that Peter Jackson, who directed the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, would helm the two-part prequel.

The films, based on JRR Tolkien’s book, had been delayed for months due to MGM Studios’ – which owns half the project – ongoing financial woes.

No release dates for the movies have been given.

Imperial Guard Medusa

This Imperial Guard Medusa is from Simon’s collection and the photo is from a CityFight game.

More photographs of Forge World’s model Medusa.

Forge World Mk IV Dreadnoughts

Forge World at GamesDay 2010 had some “work in progress” pre-heresy MkIV Space Marine Dreadnoughts on their studio display.

Complete with weapons.

First undercoat for the Battlewagon

Having masked the Battlewagon I gave the underneath of the Battlewagon a black undercoat.

As you can see the black undercoated parts have been sprayed. Still need to do the bodywork.

I did consider detailing the interior, but decided it was a lot of extra work and it wouldn’t be seen by anyone.

Here are the wheels and tracks, these were also undercoated black.

Here is how the model looks at this stage, I have added a cap to one turret and added the lobba to the other.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.

Eldar Phantom Titan

One of the highlights of GamesDay 2010 was Will Hayes’ Eldar Phantom Titan. This is the sketch model.

Very impressive and very tall.

It will be at least six months before it goes on sale and probably closer to nine months.

One of the interesting comments from the Forge World seminar on the logistics of Forge World. Basically they have the resources to make one BIG model every two years. In 2009 we saw the Reaver Titan, 2011 we see the Eldar Phantom Titan.

So what do we see in 2013?

I know I would like to see an Ork Gargant, however I suspect that a Warlord Titan is probably the most likely option.

Another comment made in the seminar was that the resin and process they use, is used by companies such as Rolls Royce to make resin models of their aircraft engines. This means that size isn’t really an issue! So a Capitol Imperialis is certainly possible from a logistics perspective, from a market perspective, some would sell, but would enough sell to make it worthwhile for Forge World to make one?