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The Centaur Artillery Tractor is one of many Centaur variants, designed to manoeuvre and deploy light artillery in the field.
This is one from Simon’s collection.
As you can see, compared to the Baneblade that it is quite small.
Really nice model.
A photograph of one of Simon’s Leman Russ Main Battle Tanks.
One of the huge demonstration games on display at Bristol Conflict 2003 was the excellent Helm’s Deep from the Lord of the Rings game.
An amazing looking piece of scenery.
There are some really nice Imperial Guard releases in May from Games Workshop. As well as the nice plastic Valkyrie, one other release is looking like a possible purchase, the Imperial Guard Regimental Advisors.
The commander of an Imperial Guard army is assisted by a host of orderlies, adjutants, aides de camps and specialist advisors from outside the regiment who are able to liaise with other elements of the battle group.
This blister contains three metal Imperial Guard Advisors, including: an Officer of the Fleet, a Master of Ordinance and an Astropath.
I am thinking they might make good characters for the Warhammer 40K role-playing game or as part of an Inquisitorial retinue.
I managed to get a sneak at the rules, the Master of Ordinance as you might expect can bring down the fury of an ordnance barrage, whilst I do like what the Officer of the Fleet can do. He has an impact on the reserves your opponent can bring to the game, reducing the reserves roll by one. Like the idea of this rule, you can imagine large Imperial ships stopping the enemy starships from supporting the battle, or aircraft of the Imperial Navy strafing a supply column or reinforcements just off the gaming table.
Nice miniature too!
There are some gaming things I buy which I later think, why on earth did I buy that! Then there are gaming things I buy which I now wish I had bought at least five times rather than just the once!
One of those things is the Urban Basing Kit which was released as part of Cities of Death. The box set contains 2 pots of slate, 2 pots of resin details and 1 pot of razorwire that can be used to decorate the bases of your miniatures or cityfight buildings. It was a limited edition and though since then Games Workshop have released a Warhammer 40k Basing Kit, personally I don’t think it is as good as the original urban basing kit.
I would have bought five, but they were very difficult to get hold of, and when I did find them, the shop only had one left…
One of the urban bases I have made using the kit was given (as per my Ork bases) a base coat of Codex Grey.
See the full workbench feature on how I am using the Urban Basing Kit.
There are some gaming things I buy which I later think, why on earth did I buy that! Then there are gaming things I buy which I now wish I had bought at least five times rather than just the once!
One of those things is the Urban Basing Kit which was released as part of Cities of Death. The box set contains 2 pots of slate, 2 pots of resin details and 1 pot of razorwire that can be used to decorate the bases of your miniatures or cityfight buildings. It was a limited edition and though since then Games Workshop have released a Warhammer 40k Basing Kit, personally I don’t think it is as good as the original urban basing kit.
I would have bought five, but they were very difficult to get hold of, and when I did find them, the shop only had one left…
One of the urban bases I have made using the kit was given (as per my Ork bases) a base coat of Codex Grey.
See the full workbench feature on how I am using the Urban Basing Kit.
There are some really nice Imperial Guard releases in May from Games Workshop. As well as the nice plastic Valkyrie, one other release is looking like a possible purchase, the Imperial Guard Regimental Advisors.
The commander of an Imperial Guard army is assisted by a host of orderlies, adjutants, aides de camps and specialist advisors from outside the regiment who are able to liaise with other elements of the battle group.
This blister contains three metal Imperial Guard Advisors, including: an Officer of the Fleet, a Master of Ordinance and an Astropath.
I am thinking they might make good characters for the Warhammer 40K role-playing game or as part of an Inquisitorial retinue.
Those of us in the UK can tonight look forward to the first of three new episodes of Red Dwarf.
Yay!
Back to Earth Part 1: The classic sci-fi comedy returns for a special three-part series. Older but no wiser, the crew discover a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship’s water tank.
Tonight at 9pm on Dave.
When Games Workshop released Cities of Death, they released a set of resin Urban Barricades and Walls. Unlike the Urban Basing Kit it is still available at the time of writing. You got six barricades and they blended in nicely with the plastic ruins which were also released with Cities of Death.
First was a black undercoat. I gave the barricades a Codex Grey drybrush, this was quite a heavy drybrush.
The next stage was to paint and drybrush certain areas.
The inside wall was painted with Scorched Brown.
The earth sections were drybrushed with Scorched Brown, whilst metal parts were picked out with Boltgun Metal.
See the full workbench feature on this barricade and on all my barricades.
When Games Workshop released Cities of Death, they released a set of resin Urban Barricades and Walls. Unlike the Urban Basing Kit it is still available at the time of writing. You got six barricades and they blended in nicely with the plastic ruins which were also released with Cities of Death.
They are very well detailed. This is probably my favourite with the wrecked Space Marine bike in the barricade.
First was a black undercoat. I gave the barricades a Codex Grey drybrush, this was quite a heavy drybrush.
The next stage was to paint and drybrush certain areas. The main part of the bike’s body was painted dark green and the tyres were given a brown drybrush. Rust was added to various bits of the barricade.
The earthy sections were drybrushed with Scorched Brown paint. The bike’s metal parts were drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal.
See the full workbench feature on this barricade and on all my barricades.