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So you’re an Imperial Commissar and you need a personal transport.
No way are you going to be happy with a Chimera or a Leman Russ, no you need the biggest and the best, you want a Baneblade super heavy tank.
This very nice Baneblade modified for an Imperial Commissar was on display at GamesDay 2007.
More photographs of Imperial Guard Baneblade super heavy tanks.
There are some gaming things I buy which I later think, why on earth did I buy that! Then there are gaming things I buy which I now wish I had bought at least five times rather than just the once!
One of those things is the Urban Basing Kit which was released as part of Cities of Death. The box set contains 2 pots of slate, 2 pots of resin details and 1 pot of razorwire that can be used to decorate the bases of your miniatures or cityfight buildings. It was a limited edition and though since then Games Workshop have released a Warhammer 40k Basing Kit, personally I don’t think it is as good as the original urban basing kit.
I would have bought five, but they were very difficult to get hold of, and when I did find them, the shop only had one left…
I have used the kit with various models, but for a workbench feature on my website I have been photographing a 60mm and a 40mm base. Having added some resin and slate, I added modelling sand to change and vary the texture of the base.
The 60mm base I am intending to use with an Ork Killa Kan.
Read the full workbench feature.
This farm was part of a beautiful Warhammer Fantasy demonstration games which was displayed at GamesDay 2008 in the UK.
Very nicely painted and really works well together, made for an impressive table for gaming.
More pictures from the same game. More picture of terrain and scenery on my website.
My Orks cross the battlefield from a game of Warhammer 40K.
Packs quite a punch as there is a fair bit of heavy support.
As well as the Shadowsword video, the boys at Games Workshop have also published a video preview of the new Ork Stompa.
Games Workshop have published on YouTube a video of their new Shadowsword and Stormlord kit.
Though I have not quite finished my Looted Ork Rhino I have been using it in my games as an abandoned vehicle.
Just added a bit of lichen to make it look abandoned. Glad I modelled the rear door to open, the interior and that the top hatch is separate.
I normally like to base my models before undercoating, in this way I am gluing the base materials (ie sand or slate) to the raw base and not a partly painted base. Also the undercoat helps to cement the base materials. However not everything always goes to plan, sometimes I have a spraying session before I have a basing session.
This was certainly the case with my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers who were well painted before I started to base them. As I was doing a desert feel to these I knew I was going to use sand, but also wanted some rocks as well, so I used some slate from the Warhammer 40K Urban Basing Kit. Having added the rocks I then using PVA (white glue) flocked the based with some Games Workshop sand.
I do like the sand which has some small larger pieces of gravel, which adds a lot of nice texture.
The bases will be painted (which helps cement in the sand) and then drybrushed.
See the full workbench feature on my website.
I normally like to base my models before undercoating, in this way I am gluing the base materials (ie sand or slate) to the raw base and not a partly painted base. Also the undercoat helps to cement the base materials. However not everything always goes to plan, sometimes I have a spraying session before I have a basing session.
This was certainly the case with my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers who were well painted before I started to base them. As I was doing a desert feel to these I knew I was going to use sand, but also wanted some rocks as well, so, I used some slate from the Warhammer 40K Urban Basing Kit.
Next stage will be adding some Games Workshop sand.
See the full workbench feature on my website.
Back in November 2007 I wrote a blog post on the (then) new Forge World Macharius with Vulcan Mega Bolter.
I was astounded back then with the Heavy 15 capabilities of the Vulcan Mega Bolter. Throwing 15 dice on one go.
Well if resin isn’t your thing, then the forthcoming new plastic Shadowsword kit will make you happy as one of the variants you can make, the Stormlord, is armed with the Vulcan Mega Bolter! As you can see here from the Shadowsword box art from the latest White Dwarf.
Wonder how many of these models Simon is going to buy!