Author: Felix

XXX White Dwarf

Managed to get the limited edition model today…

This weekend, White Dwarf magazine celebrates its thirtieth birthday. Issue number one was first published back in may 1977.

I only started reading White Dwarf around issue fifty, in the main when it started to cover Warhammer and the articles on miniatures and painting increased.

Games Workshop have released a new Limited Edition miniature and I decided that I would get one. It was only going to be on sale on the 26th and 27th May.

So I arrived at Games Workshop in Cribbs Causeway at 9.02am to find of the fifteen models they had in stock, eleven had already been sold in the first two minutes since they opened.

I did get mine though I did notice that everyone who was buying it was an old git like me, as in we could remember buying and playing first edition Warhammer!

I did consider getting two, one to paint and one to gather dust… but though I am sure I could have made a mint on eBay at some point, I decided I would rather leave it on the shelf and let someone else have a chance to buy it.

What was nice was they every customer got a random free blister pack. This is where my luck ran out, as I only managed to get some Chaos Space Marines (and you know how I feel about Chaos) and some Black Templar Space Marine backpacks (really useful, not). I got two free blisters as I made two purchases, I also bought an Ork Kommando with Burna, but that’s another posting another day.

I do like the limited edition model and it will form part of my (very) small Dwarf army I am building.

I will write up a workbench feature on how I paint up the model.

New Warhammer Trees look like plastic model trees…

The other day I popped into Games Workshop in Cribbs Causeway and managed to have a really good look at the new Warhammer buildings as I posted earlier.

I also managed to have a good look at the new plastic trees.

I will say I was not impressed!

They look like plastic model trees.

I am sure that some will like them, but they are plastic model trees!

Coming soon to Doctor Who…

Lots of scarecrows amongst other things…

At the end of the Lazarus episode of Doctor Who a trailer was shown which unlike most other trailers covered more than the next episode.

In it we see lots of previews of other episodes.

On Saturday 26th May we shall see some scary scarecrows. No idea what they are up to, or where they came from.

It is also apparent that Doctor Who ends up in the trenches in the first world war.

We also see the return of Captain Jack as implied in the final episode of season one of Torchwood.

I think we can say that David Tennant is certainly working well as the tenth doctor.

I am enjoying this season.

Saw the Warhammer Buildings in the “flesh” and the Chaos ruins as well…

Yesterday I popped into Games Workshop in Cribbs Causeway and managed to have a really good look at the new Warhammer buildings. The shop had constructed theirs and had given it a black undercoat. They had constructed the fortified manor house, which consists of the tower, the chapel and a joining section.

It is a very nice model, however it was smaller than I thought it would be, but there are some really nice details.

It looks like it will be nice to paint, but may need some texture to bring out the fact it is in fact stone and not plastic!

The details are nice and include swivel guns, skulls and has a range of options.

I also had a good look at the chaos temple ruins which are very nice and look like they can be used equally with Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40000. You get quite a bit of ruin and I personally thought it wasn’t bad value for £15. I think I would have preferred it in resin over plastic and like the buildings would benefit from a stone texture.

Overall I was impressed with both plastic kits.