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Managed to get hold of the January issue of the UK White Dwarf #349. Not sure if I got it early or whether GW released it early as the last Friday of the month is Boxing Day!
It’s a very Orky issue, with lots of Orks in it, and Orky stuff.
Very nice battle report involving lots of Orks and lots of BIG Ork stuff such as submersibles and Pulsa Rokkits.
Of course lots on the new Battlewagon.
If you are an Ork player, well worth getting a copy.
Having finished building my Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor and added lots of symbology I gave the model a black undercoat.
I used Citadel’s Chaos Black spray.
I also undercoated the dozer blade as well.
The next stage will be to give the model a base coat.
See the full workbench feature on the Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor.
Over the last week or two Forge World have been publishing “bits” of a new Inquisitor model, well we now have all three parts and here he is.
Quite nice mode, very dynamic and typically Forge World lots of detail.
Nice.
These wonderful Epic BaneBlades are from Simon’s collection.
We often forget how well sculptured these models are (or should that be were).
With today’s plastic 40K scale BaneBlade these huge monstrous war machines can now grace the table for Warhammer 40K. Next year we’ll see the plastic Shadowsword and Ork Stompa and the gaming tables will never be the same again.
I am quite pleased with my Looted Ork Rhino but still have a fair bit to do.
One of the things it does need is some weaponry, this was an attempt to add an Ork Gunner with Big Shoota.
Alas it doesn’t work for me. It looks like the Ork’s firing his Shoota at aircraft rather than at enemy Imperial Guard. I will be revisiting the Gunner at a later date.
Tonight sees the final episode of Merlin, the BBC fantasy series on its reinvention of Merlin the Wizard from British mythology.
I was intrigued by Merlin from day one, and ever since the series started.
Really looking forward to the final episode tonight. Also hoping there will be a second series too.
My Forge World Ork Gunwagon full of Orks advancing through the ash wastes.
If you have been following my workbench feature on my Forge World Ork Gunwagon, you will know that it is nearly finished. Though not quite finished, it’s finished enough for me to use in a game (or two). Having read the Forge World Masterclass Volume One book I am re-looking at the model and will see if there are things I can add to the model. It performs quite well, and just ensure you have a few Meks around to fix it when it gets shot to pieces.
Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.
More pictures of Ork Gunwagons.
A few weeks ago back in October I said that Games Workshop would release a plastic Shadowsword. There was some scepticism on places such as Warseer, however I was happy that I had a good source.
Well in the new German White Dwarf they have a picture of the new plastic Shadowsword.
The article also says
Even though we associate the Apocalypse with the end of all things, for Warhammer 40.000 that is far from the truth – March will see plenty of new Apocalypse releases, among them a brand new super heavy tank. That is correct, the Shadowsword shown above is not a Forgeworld model, but a new plastic kit! And the best thing about it: this is only one out of six superheavy variants, that you can build with parts from the box!
There we go, so as the same source mentioned a plastic Stompa, then I know we’re going to see that too.
For my (very slow) grey Knights army I am using a variety of Space Marine models for the core troops. These include Space Marine Veterans and Dark Angels.
Having got a Dark Angels box set, I made them up and gave the models a black undercoat.
So they are not like the metal Grey Knights, but Grey Knights use a variety of old equipment, now and again I suspect they may use slightly newer kit hence being able to use the Dark Angels sprues.
See the full workbench feature.
Forgeworld have their own version of an Advent Calendar, certainly won’t have twenty four windows and it ain’t going be that festive!
Although we have called a temporary pause on new releases while we get everybody`s orders to them, we’re not resting on our laurels and we have a number of exciting new models on the way. By way of a teaser, over the next few updates we will be revealing a part of one of our new models to wet your appetite for the New Year. If you collect and assemble these teaser shots, you be able to see the whole thing!
Well the Inquisitor symbols makes me assume it’s an Inquisitor in Terminator Armour. Wonder what the whole model will look like?