New Forge World Transfers

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.

New Forge World Ork Halftrakk

Forge World have announced a new Ork model, an Ork Halftrakk.

New Forge World 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.

Black Templar Cenobyte with Relic

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.

Torchwood

Torchwood Team

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, though  I ought to get an HD television first…

Bloodthirster Greater Daemon of Khorne

The Bloodthirster Greater Daemon of Khorne from the Forge World display cabinets at GamesDay 2004.

Bloodthirster Greater Daemon of Khorne

The greatest of Khorne’s servants, a physical embodiment of the Blood God’s rage and never ending thirst for blood. Armed with an Axe of Khorne and vicious barbed whip.

See more photographs of Chaos miniatures.




Warmaster Imperial Army

Warmaster is one of those games which I really like, but actually never do very much with in terms of modelling, painting or gaming! Maybe it’s time to do something about it in 2010!

This is one of the many Warmaster games which was on show at GW’s Bristol Conflict back in 2004.

Warmaster Imperial Army

In the middle of the photograph you can see an Imperial Steam Tank.

See more photographs from Bristol Conflict 2004.

See more photographs of Warmaster miniatures and games.

Mines, Bombs and Booby Traps

Yay!

Managed to get not just one set of the Mines, Bombs and Booby Traps, but got two sets!

I popped into my local Games Workshop, not expecting to get them, but one can live in hope. I was pleasantly surprised to see they had a fair few in stock, so I picked up a couple of sets.

I wonder if they had some left as they weren’t out on the shelves but behind the counter!

Didn’t think much of the front box art.

Mines, Bombs and Booby Traps

Don’t get me wrong it’s a great photograph, but at first glance it looks more like a box of Space Marines then a box of counters! The artwork from the website was better.

You get a fair lot of resin, 27 pieces all together. Nine mines, three mine field warning signs, four booby traps and six bombs.

Mines, Bombs and Booby Traps

Glad I managed to get two sets, one will be painted for my Cities of Death style games and one for the verdant grass scenery that I usually use. I have been thinking I might really need a third set for my desert scenery.

Of course I now need the Planetstrike rules, which true to form, were sold out at my local Games Workshop store.

Victorian Leman Russ Tank

The main focus of Bristol Conflict 2003 (was it really six years ago now) was the tournament games. Yes there was a Forge World stand and yes there were demonstration games and yes there was a very very small Games Workshop retail stand, however the main reason people went was to play games.

One Imperial Guard army which caught my eye was a Victorian Science Fiction themed army which made extensive use of the Praetorian Imperial Guard figures.

The main tank used was a “Leman Russ” though as you can see the actual model took elements of the Leman Russ and combined it with an Imperial Steam Tank from Warhammer Fantasy.

Victorian Leman Russ Tank

It was a really nice army.

More photographs from Bristol Conflict 2003.

More photographs of Imperial Guard.

Great blog on someone else’s Praetorian Imperial Guard army.