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Took a few photographs of Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines’ Land Raider from the ‘Eavy Metal display cabinets at both GamesDay 2005 and Warhammer World.
Rear view of Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines’ Land Raider from the ‘Eavy Metal display cabinets.
Another view of Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines’ Land Raider from the ‘Eavy Metal display cabinets.
More photographs from GamesDay 2005 and more photographs of Land Raiders.
Here are a pair of Imperial Guard Heavy Tanks from Simon’s collection.
These conversions were made, probably about ten years ago, so way before the Death Korps of Krieg models found their way into Epic Armageddon and Forge World.
I am pretty sure that these are Hydra hulls, as for the turret, well if you look at this picture of one of my Ork tanks from the same era, I think you will be able to guess!
From a fluff perspective, it can be easily imagined that an Ork army overtook an Imperial Guard tank factory and utilised many of the components including the turrets on their own tanks and battlewagons.
If I remember correctly, from Simon’s perspective I think it was because he had all the Ork vehicles from the Epic 40000 boxed set that he decided to use the Ork turrets.
Alas the economic woes affecting the world economy have not left Games Workshop alone and September 29th sees a range of price increases across the GW range with the notable exception of their plastic kits.
Tabletop Gaming News has the inside story.
On Monday August 25th a message informing end hobbyists will be placed on all of our websites.
Prices will change September 29th.
A message will appear in our October White Dwarf.
The price increase will affect part of our paint and hobby ranges, as well as a large portion of our metal models and printed materials.
Even with the pressure of rising costs we are adamant that we will not at this time raise prices on any plastic model kits. Providing high quality, great value kits is fundamental to our corporate strategy and will continue to produce and distribute them at the current prices for as long as we are able.
Later this year we shall see a new Space Marine Codex and with the codex comes a bundle of new Space Marine miniatures out on the 4th of October.
One of the new kits will be a plastic Space Marine Drop Pod and I was pleasantly surprised to find it will only be £18 ($30).
This is based on the Forge World resin model which costs a massive £45!
You can get it “early” by buying the Space Marine Spearhead boxed set which comes out on the 20th September. I suspect they may have a few at GamesDay 2008 in Birmingham the week before.
Well my copy of Dark Heresy is here today arrived in the post from Amazon..
It’s a nice thick hardbacked book, in full colour with lots of stuff in it. Going to have a good look at it later.
You can order from Amazon.co.uk
One of the games I enjoyed a lot at GamesDay 2007 was Aly Morrison and Dave Andrews’ excellent World War One demonstration game.
There was some fantastic scenery such as this ruined village.
Excellent stuff.
You can see many more pictures of the game on my website.
George Dellapina’s funky Speed Freeks Ork army on display at Bristol Conflict 2004 included some very nice converted trukks and this superb Ork Fighter-Bommer.
See more of George’s funky Ork army.
See how I have painted my Ork Fighter Bommer.
Though I am growing to like the new plastic Deffkoptaz, I still prefer the metal ones.
I have a flight of three of them and though they never seem to last very long in the games I play, if they do get in range open fire with all those twin-linked Big Shootaz, then they can make a very nasty mess of Simon’s Imperal Guard infantry units.
I even modelled them with bombz, before they were included in the rules in the new codex.
At the beginning of March 2005 on my (old) blog I mentioned that GW were releasing a limited edition Witch Hunter model that would only be sold in the stores on the 2nd and 3rd April.
Well I didn’t think I was going to get one, but I was on my way over to Simon’s for a game of Space Hulk and stopped off at the GW store and picked one up.
It is a very nice model and is based on the Witch Hunter model that is available in the boxed set, but has a different weapon (plasma pistol) and is pointing rather than holding a sword. Personally I think it is a better model.
Now at the time I thought do I paint it, or do I keep it and sell it on eBay in a few years time (or does everyone do that).
After much thought (well two and a half years) I decided that I would put together the model and paint it. The casting comprises a single casting, but the model is in two parts. The model goes together very easily.
Having flocked the base with Games Workshop modelling sand, I gave the model a white undercoat.
The rear view.
See the full workbench feature for this model.
Rules can be found in White Dwarf #304 for this model.
