Felix, Author at Felix's Gaming Pages

The Old West

One of the well constructed buildings from a nice demonstration game of Warhammer Historical, The Old West which was put on at GamesDay 2006.

More photographs from GamesDay 2006.

One of the things I liked about Cities of Death was the large Ork “town” which was there alongside the ruined Imperial Cities. I know I will never have the time, space or resources to make something similar, but I did like the concept and thought it would be nice to have some buildings for my Ork Airfield, well at least something that could be used alongside my Ork Bommer.

So I took an old DVD-R spindle tub I had, these are available in various sizes depending on how many disks there are, I used a 25 disk tub.

Once you have finished with the disks, you do have the basis for a good building. They come in various sizes as well, 25, 50, 100, therefore you can have different heights as well.

The first thing I did was cut up some plasticard, wooden sticks and Starbucks™ wooden stirrers into similar lengths. I also delved into my bitz box to get some parts, in the main from Imperial vehicles, ie Rhino and Land Raider doors.

Using strips of wood, Starbucks™ stirrers, plasticard, bitz from Imperial vehicles, I stuck them to the side.

Then using a hot glue gun I stuck these to the side of the DVD tub. A hot glue gun is perfect for this kind of thing, as both plastic and super glues are unsuitable for this kind of model.

When I thought about the floor of the fort, I did initially think about adding a series of wooden planks or metal sheets, however in the end I went with using modelling sand, which I think will look quite effective when painted and somewhat Orky.

The next stage will be to add rivets using cut plastic rod and plastic sprue.

See the full workbench pages for the fort.

Apocalyptic

At GamesDay 2007, Games Workshop put on a huge Apocalypse game.

You can see more pictures of the massive game on my website.

Catachan Chimera

This is a Catachan Chimera which was on display at Warhammer World.

You can see more Chimeras in our Chimera Gallery.

Washing their uniforms

After giving the Inquisitorial Stormtroopers a base coat of Desert Yellow the next stage is a wash. I gave the Stormtroopers a wash consisting of Chestnut Ink, Scorched Brown paint (which helps remove the gloss of the ink) and some water to thin the wash down.

These are the core troopers.

These are the Heavy Weapons troopers and the Sergeant.

Next stage will be a drybrush.

See the full workbench feature on my website.

Space Wolves Vindicator

This Space Wolves army includes virtually (if not all) the Space Marine models and conversions from Forge World as well as all the plastic and metal models from Citadel.

It was on display at both GamesDay 2006 and GamesDay 2007.

More photographs of this army. Also have a look at our Vindicator galleries.

Heresy today, gone tomorrow – take two

Yesterday I mentioned issues about Dark Heresy, however today I noticed that Dark Heresy is available from both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

Both Amazons are offering it at a discount.

So it’s not too late.

Heresy today, gone tomorrow

Back in the dark old days I use to play Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and that was the original version, not the recent Black Library version, nor the Hogshead, but the original Games Workshop version.

It was a real fun game, well it was the way we played it. I always hoped that one day that we would see a Warhammer 40K Roleplay.

Well I didn’t realise it would be twenty two years!

I also didn’t realise that after releasing Dark Heresy, the 40K role-playing game, it would sell out.

Well bang goes my chance of getting my copy, I’ll wait for the reprint.

Ah.

No.

The Black Library are going to stop publishing it!

Huh!