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Sorry there have been no postings for the last few days, I had a technical hitch when moving my blog to a new computer with being unable to move the iBlog application due to problems with registering and unregistering the new and old Macs.
Having posted a message on the iBlog forums, I was able to get in touch with Lifli and get some more seats for my licence.
Hopefully this will now mean service back to normal.
Ork Stormboyz hiding in the ruins…
At the beginning of the week I popped into my local toyshop which sales GW stuff and was disappointed to find that they had sold out of their copies of the new Warhammer 40K supplement Cities of Death.
Having been forced from the centre of Bristol due to a WW2 German Bomb I tried to leave Bristol via Cribbs Causeway and popped into the GW store there which did have copies (but none of the urban basing kits).
Picked up my copy and admired their Cities of Death terrain, one table was being built, the other looked finished and was in my opinion really nicely done, well worth a look if you are in the area.
Had a nice long chat with Zak as the place was surprisingly empty for 5.30pm about various games and stuff.
Cities of Death looks excellent and there are some lovely pictures in there.
I have also had a quick look at the stratagems which look for making a very interesting game and I am looking forward to making some models for them as well.
Next question, do I buy the plastic buildings?
If you have the time, the skill, the money and thousands of tiny Lego bricks.
You too can build a Lego aircraft carrier…
Cities of Death available in GW stores, but not to buy…
One of my local GW stores had all the Cities of Death stuff out, but it was covered in clingfilm and the staff weren’t allowed to sell any of it.
Why?
Tell me why?
Managed to look at the Cities of Death supplement, which though has some nice pictures, does not look as nice or as good as Cityfight from my flick through.
The barricades look really nice though, the resin ones for £12.
The urban basing set was about a quarter of the size I thought it would be, imagine the box needed for a Space Marine Bike and you have the size of the urban basing set! Within it will be five very small tubs!
Building sprues look better in real life than they do on paper.
No Orks until end of June though…
At GamesDay France, amongst a whole lot of new models from Forgeworld, one person managed to capture some new Epic models from Forgeworld.
They are an Epic Thunderhawk and an Epic Aruvs Lighter.
I know I have been one of a few wondering if Forgeworld were giving up on Epic, but these splended new models show that Forgeworld still have Epic models for us.
I am not a fan of the Thunderhawk, so I am hoping that they do an Epic Thunderhawk Transporter which is a model I really do like.
This book presents a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Sharpe’s Challenge”, a major film for television starring Sean Bean. The Sharpe television series is a high point of British television drama. Led by the charismatic Sean Bean playing the redoubtable hero Richard Sharpe, the films brilliantly echo and enhance the remarkable strengths of the bestselling novels by Bernard Cornwell…
Fourteen films have already aired and now two new films are being released. The series has achieved 14 million viewing figures, with additional and ongoing sales in video and DVD. “Sharpe Cut” is a unique book. It is the book of the creation of a television drama from start to finish; the first of its kind. Linda Blandford spent the entire six months of the filming of “Sharpe’s Challenge” with the cast, crew and producers. She has created a brilliant, vivid account, full of scene and story, high drama, near disaster and comedy.
“Sharpe Cut” gives the reader all the inside touches of what life on a film set is really like. From the producers to the stuntmen, from the chefs to the martial organisers, from the production designers to the costume designers and the make-up artists; they are all here. And so of course are the actors, famous and unknown, bringing all the work to life. Living together for months on end, they become a family of a sort and yet are torn apart at the completion of each film.
“Sharpe Cut” is a brilliant evocation of the life and work of creating a major television drama, with a narrative as compelling as a thriller. It is an intimate and compelling peak behind the director’s chair, into a world the audience can normally only guess at.
Though not related to a specific book (it took elements from Tiger and Fortress) I did find Sharpe’s Challenge an enjoyable romp and very much in the tradition of Sharpe on TV.
Sean Bean gave his usual portrayal of gutter rat raised from the ranks and was a classic Sharpe.
It was nice to see a little homage to the books showing Sharpe in India in 1803.
If you didn’t see it, you can now order the DVD which was released today (1st May 2006).
The new Sharpe is on tonight on ITV1 at 9pm.
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in SHARPE’S CHALLENGE. A year after Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches tell of a local Maharaja who is threatening British interests in India. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General’s daughter lie in one man’s hands….
As seen at the GW Museum…
I found some nice new pictures of the new Ork Kommandos at warseer.com
The pictures were taken at the GW Museum.
These are really nice.
I am certainly going to buy some of them for my Ork army.
Certainly well painted and look better than the other photos I have seen.