Author: Felix

Ork Fighter Bommer

Having finished the base coat on my Ork Fighter Bommer I gave the plane 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.

I am quite pleased with the end result. I was trying to get a rusty looking battered plane and I think that this paint job does do just that.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Bommer.

Plastic Killa Kan, perhaps…

There are a few rumours flying about the web that there may be a plastic Ork Killa Kan released sometime this year.

For me one thing which confirms it for me is that in the Ork Codex one of the (new) weapon options for the Killa Kan is the Grotzooka, which is not available as an option on the current metal kit.

It is this which confirms for me that there will be a plastic Killa Kan model this year.

Now whether that will be as a separate kit or as part of a boxed starter set, that is a different question.

Resurrection Day

My book choice this week is Brendan DuBois’ Resurrection Day.

Resurrection Day

One of my favourite alternate history novels, which is a mystery story set in a world in which the Cuban missile crisis turned nuclear.

Brendan DuBois is an award-winning U.S. author of mystery stories: this alternate-world thriller is very much in the tradition of Robert Harris’s Fatherland. Consider this striking blurb line: “Everyone remembered exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them.” History went awry in this world’s Cuba crisis, leading to a 1962 nuclear war that devastated Russia, crippled America, and left Britain a major world power smugly giving aid to the USA. Cut to 1972 Boston and ex-soldier Carl Landry, now a newspaper reporter whose coverage of a routine murder is suppressed by military censors. He’s unwisely curious, investigates further, and inevitably stirs up a hornets’ nest. Attacks, deaths, and disappearances follow. With a new-found girlfriend–an English Times reporter who is not all she seems–Landry uncovers a succession of red-hot secrets about abandoned New York, perfidious British and military plotting, and crucial documents coveted by several factions with different beliefs about their contents. Is Kennedy unjustly despised for starting World War III? Is the rumor that he’s still alive just this timeline’s version of the Elvis myth? After building up terrific tension, DuBois delivers satisfying answers. Grimly plausible (apart from a few lapses in “British” dialogue) and worthy of the Fatherland comparisons.

I have read the book a few times now and enjoy it all the time, well worth reading.

Buy it from Amazon.co.uk.

Inquisitorial Acolyte

As part of my Daemonhunters’ army I have a retuine for my Daemonhunter Inquisitor including an Acolyte, a trainee Inquisitor.

Having painted the parchment on the figure, I added the writing. I have also highlighted the purple cloak with Warlock Purple paint.

Personally I am not too happy with the text writing so I may start over and try again.

Full workbench feature on the Acolyte.

Codex Orks

Released yesterday, however I got my copy of Codex Orks this afternoon.

Ork Codex

I am quite pleased with it, but though much bigger than the old Codex, I would like to have seen more colour pages in there.

The codex does change the Orks quite a bit and it will take some getting use to the new rules, it only feels like I was getting use to the old ones.

Nice to see the return of the Shokk Attack Gun and  it looks nasty so I might get one!

I had intended to get a Trukk today alongside the Codex, but my local GW had sold out!

More thoughts another time.

Finished my Grey Knights (eventually)

After quite a long time I have finally finished the first of my Grey Knights.

These were started a few years ago and I never really got around  to spending huge amounts of time on them, as other projects always seemed to take over.

I am quite pleased with them and I am using them as the basis for my other Grey Knights.

I am using desert basing to fit in with my desert terrain.

You can see how I painted these Grey Knights in the full workbench feature on them.

There is a datasheet for the Ork Submersible

Back on the 1st Jan I mentioned that there were a lot of rumours flying about the web about a possible Apocalypse Datasheet for an Ork Submersible.

Well it’s looking like the rumours are true. I have now seen the datasheet for the submersible so soon you will be able to use models like this one which was used at GamesDay 2007.

Ork Submersible

The other Ork datasheets include a huge flying mine layer, a horde (100+) Orks, a trukk force and a Pulsa Rokkit.

I just wish that GW published their datasheets in colour (as Forge World did).