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Ork Gargant Weapon, actually a brown coal mining machine…
I use to often look at my Epic ork miniatures and wonder if they could exist for real or was real-world physics going to get in the way of the fantasy of the game.
Then I saw this on the web…
It is a brown coal mining machine, but the resemblance to the buzzsaw of an Ork Gargant (or even Imperial Titan) is rather striking.
it just shows that one day there could be huge fighting machines…
I was trying out the Firefox browser when I noticed that it had a search box which could not only be configured to search Google but also Amazon.
I did a search of Amazon to see if the follow-up to Settling Accounts was available to pre-order.
I was thus pleasantly surprised to see that Homeward Bound was going to be published in December, which I am guessing from the cover is a sequel to the WorldWar in the Balance and Colonisation series.
I really enjoyed the WorldWar series and combined with Guns of the South made me a real Turtledove fan.
When I was younger I use to play a lot of Car Wars and even had an article published in Autoduel Quarterly, the magazine for Car Wars. One feature of the mag I liked was the historical references to “current” day events.
I was looking for something else on the web when I came across this, the SmarTruck III.
Now the blurb from the website says:
SmarTruck III is built on an International medium duty truck platform and features the most advanced communications, detection and deterrent systems to be deployed in a vehicle-based mobile unit. The next three commercial variants of SmarTruck III will be delivered to the Air Force; other potential end users are the Border Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service.
SmarTruck III, like its two predecessors, is loaded with sophisticated technology including a weapons station module – featuring a remote controlled 50-calibre machine gun – a surveillance module with a 360-degree camera, a pan and tilt night vision camera with laser range finder, a hydraulic assist system to help the vehicle during acceleration, a regenerative braking system, which stores energy and makes the vehicle more fuel efficient and a terrain adjustable suspension and chassis system. The vehicle has sufficient gross vehicle weight (GVW) to accommodate armor and additional weapons or control modules while still providing excellent performance and fuel efficiency.
(my emphasis)
Now if that is not straight out of Car Wars I don’t know what is?
I wonder if they will be available at UK GamesDay 2004?
From Simon’s collection.
The Musical Box was the name of a World War One tank.
More pictures of Imperial Guard Super Heavy tanks can be found here.
From Simon’s collection.
The Musical Box was the name of a World War One tank.
More pictures of Imperial Guard Super Heavy tanks can be found here.
This has to be one of my favourite models of all time.
The original Snotling Pump Wagon is a classic model and I did like the fact you could make it as either a single decker or double decker.
The new model (released a few years ago) is a poor imitation and certainly does not match the classic model.
At GamesDay 2003, there was a massive Warmaster demonstration game and one of the ley features were some excellent temples.
According to a variety of sources these were one off miniatures designed by Forgeworld and are not available to buy. Pity.
The newest edition of Warhammer 40000 is now out in the shops in the UK and I now have my copy.
Costing £30, the 288 page rulebook is a massive tome and I was pleased to see it was a hardback edition – my previous edition was paperback!
Unlike previous editions, this is a more an update on the previous version rather than a whole new version. In theory previous codices will still “work” with the new rules.
SFX Magazine has been running a design a new Dalek competition. There have been quite a few entries but my personal favourite is this one.
