Felix's Gaming Pages

Undercoating the Cybermen

After preparing the bases on the Cybermen I gave the models a white undercoat.

The next stage will be a metallic basecoat.

Putting it all together

Putting together the Kingdom of Britannia Illustrious Class Sky Fortress was not as simple as I thought it was going to be and certainly not as simple as other Dystopian Wars models I have made.

The rotor pylons and the rotors themselves were quite fiddly and I even needed to do some drilling.

I am not as much of a fan of this model compared to the Eagle Class War Rotor which I do like a lot. I might think differently once it is painted.

Egyptian Sarcophagus

This is a resin Egyptian Sarcophagus from Grendel, which I gave a white undercoat.

Painting High Elves

In addition to the Army Book for the High Elves for the iPad, Games Workshop have also produced a painting guide to the new High Elves.

The High Elves march to war as a glittering host, bedecked in the full and vibrant panoply of war. This How to Paint book contains eight detailed guides including High Elf Spearmen, Dragon Princes, the Lothern Skycutter, and the noble Sisters of Avelorn – using the Citadel paint range. These techniques can be used to help you paint any models in the High Elf range, and get your army ready for the battlefield.

These guides are a really useful aid, if you like an effect or colour scheme on the models in the Army Book and want to replicate them on your own models.

~~Get How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: High Elves from the iBookstore.~~ sadly no longer available

Kingdom of Britannia Illustrious Class Sky Fortress

High above the waves the Illustrious Class Sky Fortress gracefully glides into battle, held aloft by six gigantic manoeuvring rotors and the Royal Engineering Corps’ most advanced Sturginium Gravitation Generators.

The model itself comes in a blister. It mainly comprises one large piece of resin.

In addition to the engine pylons, you get an ‘island’ and aircraft flyer tokens.

Next stage after washing the resin will be putting the model together.

Digital High Elves

Games Workshop have released their new army book for the High Elves as a Digital iBook for the iPad.

Warhammer: High Elves is the indispensible guide to the mighty realm of Ulthuan, its regal lords and glorious armies. This book details Ulthuan’s turbulent history from the first cataclysmic war against Chaos, through years of schism, decline and determined defiance, and provides you with full rules to field a High Elf army in games of Warhammer.

This book also features an interactive miniatures gallery, handy quick-links for special rules and weapons, and will always be up to date with the latest FAQ’s.

As with many of the Games Workshop digital publications, this has been put together very nicely, in the sample I saw there was a little too much scrolling of text on certain pages. Something which is a bit of a pity is that the small screen of the iPad does make it difficult to appreciate the high quality images and painted miniatures within the book.

Click the image for a “full size” version, the native resolution of the retina iPad means that you need to use “large” high quality images. Viewed on a normal “screen” you do appreciate the quality of the photography, the miniatures painting and thought that has gone into this.

Of course some people will prefer the “printed” version, but where I think this digital version wins is your opponent is High Elves then getting a copy of this will give you an insight into how your opponent will use them tactically.

Get Warhammer: High Elves from the Apple Bookstore.

Cybermen

Cybermen were a “race” of cybernetically augmented humanoid. They varied greatly in design, with different factions throughout time and space. The two major groups, from which all other known versions derived, were the Mondasian Cybermen, which originated on the planet Mondas – Earth’s twin planet in the Doctor’s Universe – and the Cybermen created by Cybus Industries, which originated on Earth in an alternate universe.

They attacked Earth on many occassions, providing a lot of potential for gaming scenarios.

Back in the 1990s Harlequin Miniatures produced a licensed range of 28mm metal miniatures and I have three Cybermen. They are Mondasian Cybermen from the original series rathe than the new versions that arrived on our screens in 2006.

The first thing I did was to “cement” the models to their bases using some Green Stuff.

Kingdom of Britannia Eagle Class War Rotor

The Eagle Class War Rotor is a marvel of Her Majesty’s Flying Corps and the pride of any pilot that is granted the honour of captaining one. Years of engineering have gone into the development of this flying behemoth, and the utilisation of hybrid rotor driven propulsion and Sturginium-enhanced Anti-Gravitation generators allows thousands of tonnes of British steel to glide into the sky above the battlefield, much to the horror of its foes.

The model itself comes in a blister. There are three main resin pieces and some other parts in metal.

Really nice concept for the model and something that I will enjoy painting.

Hovels Church

I’ve mentioned some 1/200th or 10mm Hovels Ruins on the blog before. I found the other day the church that I bought at the same time.

This has been undercoated black, and partly painted grey.

I will now take the opportunity to repaint it for Flames of War. Though obviously smaller than the 15mm or 1/100th scale of Flames of War, I think it will work fine as a background piece of scenery.