Author: Felix

The Return of Blake’s Seven

Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s alongside Doctor Who the BBC broadcast an excellent sci-fi series called Blake’s Seven.

When it was broadcast I use to watch it and thought it was fantastic.

Blake’s Seven

I have never tried to watch it again now, as I know I will destroy my treasured memories as at the time the sets and effects were fantastic, today they will look horrible, tacky and cheap!

Having said all that I am pleased to hear that there is to be a new series of Blake’s Seven which will be made for Sky.

A new remake of sci-fi series Blake’s 7 could soon return to television screens, Sky One has revealed.

The satellite channel has given the green light for the development of two 60-minute scripts for a “potential event series”.

I am already looking forward to it.

Of course from a gaming perspective, the battles between the rebels and the “evil” Federation are just waiting to be recreated on the table. We also have the starship battles with the infamous Liberator.

Epic Ork Trukk

This is an Epic Ork Trukk which I converted.

It was done for some additional rules for Epic 40000 which appeared in one of the Epic 40000 magazines (remember them). This is an Ork Trukk.

Take one Ork FlakWagon, use the gunners from some Warbuggies and place where you would put the Flak gun.

One thing about this model is that it has had an ink wash and as a result is rather glossy as I did not know at the time to add paint to wash mix which removes much of the gloss.

Drybrushing the Gunwagon

In a post the other day I showed how I drybrushed my Ork Looted Rhino. I used the same technique with my Ork Gunwagon.

I had given the Gunwagon an ink based wash, after this had dried, I gave the model a drybrush.

This brings out the detail, but I did try and avoid being too heavy with the brush.

I will now need to go back over some of the metal details to lose some of the the dusty dirty look.

I also want to go over the front “teef” and add some weathering and scratches – well do you expect Orks to look after their vehicles and keep them clean and looking like they just came out of the showroom?

Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.

More pictures of Ork Gunwagons.

Epic Ork Rokkit Trukk

This is an Epic Ork Trukk which I converted.

It was done for some additional rules for Epic 40000 which appeared in one of the Epic 40000 magazines (remember them). This is an Ork Gun Trukk (Lobba).

Take one Ork FlakWagon, use a Pulsa Rokkit with launcher; and place where you would put the Flak gun.

One thing about this model is that it has had an ink wash and as a result is rather glossy as I did not know at the time to add paint to wash mix which removes much of the gloss.

Drybrushing the Rhino

The next stage of the modelling journey for my Ork Looted Rhino was to drybrush some detail onto the model.

I had given the Rhino an ink based wash, after this had dried, I gave the model a drybrush.

This brings out the detail, but I did try and avoid being too heavy with the brush.

I will now need to go back over some of the metal details to lose some of the the dusty dirty look.

There is still some work to do, in particular I still need to model the front top hatches.

See the full workbench feature on the Looted Rhino.

See our gallery of Looted Rhinos.

The Battlefield

In a previous post I talked about a game I had played and promised to get the pictures online soon. Well still have that to do, so in the meantime here is a photo of the battlefield.

The boards are large polystryene tiles (4′ x 1½’ or 120cm x 45cm) which have been covered in GW’s grass mat. I have four of these tiles, and GW’s mat covered all four. Generally though in a game I only use three as my table is not big enough for all four.

The hills are purchased and I got them from a company whose name I can’t recall, whilst the trees are K&M and the lichen is from a model railway shop. In the middle you can see my Looted Ork Rhino which I used as terrain in this game.

It was a typical game for me with my Orks versus Simon’s Imperial Guard, though different in another way as my force was very mechanised and his was very much infantry based with a Hellhound and a Medusa. Okay to call a Squiggoth mechanised is probably going a little too far, but I did have Wartrakks, Trukks, Killa Kanz, Dethkoptaz, a Gunwagon and a flying Ork Fighter-Bomma as well as the Squiggoth.