I am always wary of paying too much for a single figure and therefore paying £7.00 (at the time) for an assassin seemed a little too much (especially as it is a rather dimunitive model). Therefore I have decided to use a Catachan Sniper (which was only £2.00 at that time via Mail Order).
I have not had the best results when painting this model, but more pleased with it than I was.
I flocked the base with Games Workshop Modelling Sand, before giving the base a cost of Bestial Brown.
I am not totally happy with this model, and I may re-paint, or get a new assassin and try again. I quite like the Tallarn snipers from Forge World.
I was in the Bristol Games Workshop today and the manager let me have a peek at the March White Dwarf which is due out this Friday (27th February).
Though I flicked through the mag, the main piece which I looked at was the article on Stompa variants. One of the options you can have is a belly gun (which is something that Gargants have) which makes the mean Stompa even meaner!
If I had the money (and the time) I would love to have a horde of Stompas, though I expect I would also have to buy Simon some Shadowswords to compensate for them
Whippets were first used in action near Herbetune in northern France on 26 March 1918 to help stem the German offensive when twelve “Whippets” near Colincamps surprised and put to flight two German infantry battalions.
But the Mk As really came to the fore in August 1918 when some 96 Whippets of the 3rd Tank Brigade were used during the Battle for Amiens. Although cavalry horses were still faster and better able to cope with rough, muddy terrain, Whippets proved more of a match for serious opposition.
One such Whippet, “Musical Box”, belonging to B Coy, 6th Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant C.B. Arnold, took part in the big attack on August 8, 1918, overtook the slow Mk V:s, routed a German Artillery Battery and on it’s own penetrated to the rear of the German lines. Essentially the lonely Whippet, with its bold crew of only three men, carried on a war of its own. It shot down retiring infantry, attacked horse and motor transport – even ramming a German lorry into a stream -and regularly terrorised the bewildered “Boche”. This went on for eleven hours, and then the tank was first immobilised, surrounded and then destroyed by fire from field artillery. Arnold and one of his crew survived, and were taken prisoners.
Fantasy Flight Games have announced their new Warhammer 40K RPG, and it’s called Rogue Trader.
In Rogue Trader, you take on the role of a Rogue Trader and his most trusted counsellors, empowered by an ancient warrant of trade to seek out profit and plunder amongst unexplored regions of space. Your ship will take you to new worlds and uncharted reaches of the void, where you will encounter rivals, pirates, aliens, and possibly even creatures of the warp. You will acquire and spend great wealth and riches, and fame or infamy will follow. You will discover ancient and forgotten mysteries and search out the unknown to find lost human worlds or never before seen celestial phenomena. You must survive the dangers of space, for beyond the threat of vacuum and deadly radiation lurk things Man was never meant to find.
Those gamers with memories as old as mine will recall that the original Warhammer 40K rule book was called Rogue Trader and though had rules for Space Marines and Orks the background was very much based on the Rogue Trader.
I am adding some Henchmen to my Inquistorial force. I am not quite sure what a Dialogus is and what they do for the Witch Hunter Inquisitor, but it is an interesting model nonetheless.
Having flocked the base with Games Workshop modelling sand, the model was given a white undercoat. I then gave the model a base coat of Desert Yellow.
Back at GamesDay 2001, Carl from Dropship, which is back up and being updates now, put on a most excellent Epic demonstration game with some fantastic models and some fantastic scenery.
This is an section of artillery about to open fire.
comes Rogue Trader.
