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With Warhammer Historical available, GamesDay 2008 wasn’t just Fantasy and 40K, in Hall 1 there were a fair few historical wargames on show using the various Warhammer Historical rules.
This was a nice game featuring an amphibious invasion, old style!
You can see more pictures of historical wargaming on the site.
I have undercoated my Mark IIb Land Raider with a black undercoat.
This is to be a Grey Knights Land Raider, though I may use it now and again as an Inquisitor transport. As you can see from this shot though, the undercoat didn’t really cover the front, so I might need to give it another coat.
Next stage will be the basecoat.
Full workbench feature on the Mark IIb Land Raider.
Have just spent a good hour undercoating various models. Some with a white undercoat and others with a black undercoat. I also took the opportunity to give my Ork Desert Fort a spray of dark red.
Once they are dry will take some photographs which will eventually appear on the workbench feature of my website and here on the blog.
I took a wealth of photographs at GamesDay 2007. There were many games on display including some very nice Warhammer Historical games of which the Vikings game looked very nice. The scenery was excellent and very inspiring.
You can see more pictures of historical wargaming in the historical miniatures gallery.
Having started painting some Old West miniatures, I started to think about scenery. I remembered from years ago that Snapdragon Studio made some Old West Scenery. So let’s “Google” them. I did find them and found their wonderful Old West buldings, however I was also pleasantly surprised to see that Snapdragon had started to sell some of their 1/300th SF range again.
I was always a fan of their buildings and have quite a few in my collection including this bunker.
Simon has one as well.
My Epic battle reports shows many of their buildings off (there are some Forge World ones in the reports as well).
Time to think about which buildings I am going to buy.
I was lucky enough to get for Christmas two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws (thank you Simon).
There twelve miniatures in total, which should be more than enough for some Old West games.
I shall be using the Legends of the Old West Warhammer Historical rules which I purchased when I was at GamesDay 2008.
A tabletop miniatures game which allows you to bring to life the deeds of the brave lawmen and gunfighters of the most famous period in America’s history. This lavish, full-colour manual contains all the rules you need to gather your posse and play games set on the harsh American frontier. Within you will find eight action-packed scenarios, and a campaign system that allows you to develop your fighters into hard-bitten heroes and villains of the Old West.
Fight alongside some of the deadliest figures of Western legend – such as Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Rob a stagecoach with the James gang, or try to out-draw Wild Bill Hickock. Grab your sixgun, saddle your mustang and prepare to take part in the wildest adventure of them all!
First stage will be to base them and then give them an undercoat.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery.
Finally pictures of the plastic Stompa have surfaced on the web.
I do quite like it.
Apparently it will be released on the 7th March along with the plastic Shadowsword.
If you have looked at my Grey Knights Landspeeder you will realise that I am attempting to paint a Grey Knights force which goes beyond the listings in the DaemonHunters Codex. What I am trying to do is to create a Grey Knights force (using the Space Marine Codex) and then using a DaemonHunters force as allies.
Having constructed my Razorback and added Grey Knights iconography I gave the model a black undercoat.
The next stage will be adding the basecoat.
See the full workbench feature on my Grey Knights Razorback.
Forge World do make some excellent scenery, especially for Cities of Death games.
Simon now has a fair few of the pieces including the huge ruined tank factory.
It makes for an impressive centre piece for any game.
Simon has done an impressive job on painting it as well.
Managed to get hold of the January issue of the UK White Dwarf #349. Not sure if I got it early or whether GW released it early as the last Friday of the month is Boxing Day!
It’s a very Orky issue, with lots of Orks in it, and Orky stuff.
Very nice battle report involving lots of Orks and lots of BIG Ork stuff such as submersibles and Pulsa Rokkits.
Of course lots on the new Battlewagon.
If you are an Ork player, well worth getting a copy.