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For his last birthday I got Simon a Space Marine Whirlwind.
In our last game he brought it along to show me the finished model.
I think he has done an excellent job on the model and it looks great.
We weren’t going to use it in the game, but when all was looking lost, I let him use it.
However one of my Ork Tankbustaz with a Rokkit Launcha managed to take it out.
G’Kar no more…
Andreas Katsulas, whose striking Greek visage was often obscured by prosthetic makeup in his several sci-fi roles, died on Monday, February 13, of lung cancer at the age of 59.
Science fiction fans know him well as the Narn ambassador “G’Kar” in Babylon 5. His numerous other TV credits include spots on Alien Nation, Max Headroom, Millennium, Diagnosis Murder, NYPD Blue, etc.
Katsulas also played the recurring role of the Romulan “Commander Tomalak” in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes “The Enemy,” “The Defector,” “Future Imperfect” and “All Good Things…”
Katsulas also had his share of movie roles, and perhaps his most famous was the notorious one-armed man “Frederick Sykes” in “The Fugitive” with Harrison Ford.
Of working-class Greek and American heritage, Katsulas was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and caught the acting bug at age 4. He earned his master’s degree in theater from Indiana University, and performed on stage in St. Louis, New York and Boston before being cast by Michael Cimino in “The Sicilian.” That started his Hollywood career, where his scowl and furrowed brow landed him mostly villainous parts, such as a ruthless mobster in Ridley Scott’s “Someone to Watch Over Me,” and a terrorist leader in “Executive Decision” with Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal.
Katsulas is survived by his second wife, whom he married less than a year ago, and a daughter and a son from his first marriage. Funeral services are pending in his native St. Louis.
I have made some more progress with my Ork Bommer.
It is getting there, but I keep getting sidetracked!
I have already got two painted BoarBoyz and I have started to model and paint another. I had already painted the boar and was intending to use the metal Warhammer Orc which I had bought, but in the end used the same plastic Orc legs from the Orc Warriors Command Sprue as the metal Warhammer Orc Boar rider was “too different” and in my mind would have looked out of place.
I wanted to give this rider a spear so decided to have the Shoota carried on the Ork’s back. Using green stuff I modelled a strap for the gun.
I am not that good with green stuff, but for a gaming model (this is no Golden Demon entry) it works for me.
Where’s the spear, well I haven’t stuck it on yet!
I had some green stuff left over from another modelling project, so I decided to have a go at modeling a covered trukk (ie one with a tarpaulin cover).
Not sure about the end result, but I think it will look better when painted. If I had the skills I would add ropes and stuff (I don’t so I don’t think I will even bother).
A comment from Simon during a recent game about Sharpe in an ITV advert for new drama, made me do a little internet searching and I found out about Sharpe’s Challenge.
Sharpe is back on the telly in an all-new mini-series based in India.
Sharpe’s Challenge will be on ITV on the 23rd and 24th April and BBC Worldwide will be showing it in other parts of the world.
Plot
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe’s Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general’s daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General’s daughter lie in one man’s hands….
Sean Bean is back as Sharpe, and Daragh O’Malley plays Patrick Harper (which is different to the books as Sharpe does not meet Harper in the books until Portugal). Michael Cochrane is also back as General Sir Henry Simmerson!
I wonder if these characters are in the main plot (hope so) and not just used as flashback excuse.
Had an excellent game of Warhammer 40k this weekend (well I won as well).
My Orks were tasked with defending an Imperial Administratum with just Boyz (infantry) and small-arms as well as a few heavy weapons.
There was one Nob in Mega-Armour, but for the game was considered to be not wearing it (or it wasn’t working, made out of mdf or cardboard or similar).
Coming in waves were hundreds and hundreds of Imperial Guard (okay fifty).
In the end the Imperial Guard were wiped out to a man, very Russian in their approach of waves of infantry across the square.
The scenery is Forgeworld, from Simon’s collection and has been excellently painted by him.
I was given an Ork Mekboy for Christmas.
Having stuck the arm on, but leaving the backpack off, I undercoated the model white.
Normally I undercoat my Orks black, but on the odd occasion I undercoat white, in this instance as I had no black undercoat!
I have undercoated my Ork Killa Kan.
You will notice how light the undercoat is, and that unlike previous versions this has a white undercoat. Partly to try out something new and partly as I had run out of black spray paint.
I have undercoated the Ork Looted Rhino, white not black.
It is has been stuck together into two separate halves.
I have left off the tracks and you will notice how light the undercoat is.
I still have to do the front top hatches, one of which will contain an Ork with a heavy weapon aka the Forgeworld model.