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The new Doctor Who has a new look (as would be expected).
Doctor Who fans have been given their first look at the new costume being worn by Matt Smith, the 11th actor to play the role.
The Time Lord’s new look consists of tweed jacket, bow tie, rolled up trousers and black boots.
Filming on the new episodes begins on Monday in Cardiff, with the new series going out in spring 2010.
Personally still apprehensive about all the changes, but you never know….
This site looks very interesting, a way of publishing your own games. Thinking I might use it to create some cards for the games I have developed.
This very large Ork Great Gargant was used in a demonstration game at GamesDay 2006.
A very clever model that uses Imperial Guard and Space Marine tank parts as well as components from the Imperial buildings from Cities of Death.
See more photographs of Gargants.
I have been enjoying the The Day Of The Triffids
I think that there is quite a bit of gaming potential with The Day Of The Triffids, small groups of survivors trying to get past hordes of triffids. Even groups of survivors fighting each other over food caches.
Might try and think of some rules and look for models.
Forge World have announced two new sets of transfers.
The Ork Transfer sheet, designed by Start Witter, is crammed with a profusion of over 1700 individual symbols covering all the major Ork Clans such as the Bad Moons, Bloodaxes and Evil Sunz as you can see here. The sheet is A4 (8.2” by 11.69”) and in colour, it features huge quantities of Ork glyphs, dags, flames, checks and symbols to add lavish Orky detail to your boyz and vehicles.
The Valkyrie & Vulture Transfer sheet, designed by Stuart Witter provides some fantastic decals, kill markings and insignia for the Imperial Valkyrie and Vulture models. You can see the sheet here. This white A4 sheet features skulls, Aquilas, and fuselage decorations of eyes and fanged maws to personalise your aircraft, as well as unit markings and pilot designations. The sheet also features three sets of Imperial wing decals; these will require the use of a modelling blade and are intended for experienced modellers.
Very nice looking and they look useful.
Forge World have announced a new Ork model, an Ork Halftrakk.
Our new Ork Halftrakk model, designed by Will Hayes and Owen Branham, is a hybrid kit of the plastic Ork Trukk and resin conversion parts which you can see here. This model uses highly detailed resin components to replace the Trukk`s engine block with a more powerful engine and its standard wheels with some armoured front road wheels and a heavy rear track unit. While you can easily use the Ork Halftrakk to represent a `Kustom` Trukk in your Ork Army, (and makes a great Meganob transporter!) it will also be used in conjunction with forthcoming Forge World releases and Imperial Armour rules.
Yay! Really nice model.
You can see it has been derived from the Ork Trukk concepts shown at the Forge World Open Day 2009 however it is not the same and there are some key differences. The implication I am sure is that there will be other Ork Trukk types later.
There were some great new models at the Forge World Open Day 2009. Will Hayes had a fair few Ork concepts on his table including this Ork Kill Kannon for Trukks and Battlewagons.
At the Forge World Open Day in April we saw various work in progress models from Will Hayes.
I have always liked this model, but wasn’t sure a) where it came from, b) what it was called, so I could never find it in the stores or on the online store.
It was only recently when reading through an old White Dwarf that I saw it was part of the Black Templars Chaplain Grimaldus and Retinue Boxed Set.
So now I knew which boxed set it came from, I could work out what it was called and find it in the online store. It is available either as part of a boxed set or individually. As I wasn’t too bothered about the other miniatures in the boxed set I purchased it individually through Mail Order.
I will be using it as part of my Inquisitorial retinue.
Having cleaned the model and basing it with GW modelling sand, I gave the model a white undercoat. I then painted the relic with black paint. I am intending for it to look like grey stone.
See the full workbench feature on the Black Templar Cenobyte with Relic.
Finally managed to find the time to watch all five episodes of Torchwood – Children of Earth, didn’t have the time to watch it “live”.
I really enjoyed watching it, very gripping and a great storyline.
Key question though is where does Torchwood go next?
Is it going to be more like Spooks, where the series is more important than the cast, or is this the end? No more?
Quite tempted to get Torchwood on Blu Ray
A Dwarf from the display cabinets at GamesDay 2005.
See more pictures of Dwarfs.
See more photographs from GamesDay 2005.