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I have added materials from the urban basing kit to my Ork Kommandos.
I didn’t use any of the resin pieces, but used the large and small slate. I think I will add some barbed wire as well.
I have decided to paint their backpacks separately, so will need to mount them somehow.
This is the Space Wolves Space Marine Razorback from part of Mike Sharpe’s superb Space Wolves army, which was on show at GamesDay 2006.
This is the Forgeworld version of the Razorback with the much bigger turret, which I much prefer over the plastic kit version that you get in the shops. As it is only £2 more now, I think the Forgeworld version is much better value for money.
Though you would get some spare parts with the plastic version…
This is the plastic version.
This is the Space Wolves Space Marine Razorback. Compare this to the Forgeworld version of the Razorback with the much bigger turret above, which I much prefer over the plastic kit version that you get in the shops. The problem I have is that the turret is really small.
Ruined Imperial Building constructed from the Cities of Death ruins sprues.
This is a nice model and this is by one of the Design Studio scenery people, though I can’t remember exactly who, I know it wasn’t Dave Andrews.
Photographed at GamesDay 2006.
This is a Space Wolves Space Marine Landspeeder Tempest flying over the ruins of an Imperial city.
This Forgeworld model is part of Mike Sharpe’s superb Space Wolves army, which was on show at GamesDay 2006.
Fire Support Drop Pod, now that’s going to hurt…
It is part of Mike Sharpe’s Space Wolves army, which was on show at GamesDay 2006.
In the ruins of an Imperial building… Seems lucky that though the majority of the building was destroyed, the control centre is still intact and operational.
Actually it is a nice model and this is by one of the Design Studio scenery people, though I can’t remember exactly who, I know it wasn’t Dave Andrews.
Photographed at GamesDay 2006.
In the most recent UK White Dwarf, issue 325, January 2007, was a battle report.
Battle Report: March of the Damned: We take two of Warhammer game’s toughest characters and pitch them headlong into mortal combat with one another. Will the evil of Manfred Von Carstein win out, or will the nobility of Kurt Helborg take the day?
This battle report featured three superb fantasy buildings, alas though they were shown in a few photographs, they were quite difficult to see. It was promised that more would be seen in the next issue of White Dwarf.
I was lucky to take photographs of all three buildings at GamesDay 2006. So here they are a month before White Dwarf.
I have posted two of the buildings before on the blog.
The buildings are from the talented hands of Dave Andrews and include this observatory.
A wonderful boat building combination.
Also a building with some wierd undead type thing on the roof.
They are really well done and very Warhammer’ish.
Pity that we won’t see Forgeworld versions!
The Vindicator assault tank is often used by Space Maines to breach heavily fortified enemy positions.
This is the Forgeworld version of the Vindicator assault tank. It is part of Mike Sharpe’s superb Space Wolves army, which was on show at GamesDay 2006.
Starship Comparison Chart explains why some ships seem smaller.
If you have ever played our version of Star Trek Full Thrust (or Babylon 5 or Star Wars starship games) you will realise that there are two major issues, firstly getting models of the relevant ships and secondly getting ships which are in scale to each other.
The latter point is more difficult as often the ships would be of vastly different sizes to begin with.
A nice series of comparison charts can be found on this website.
As you will see some ships are really tiny, really tiny.
This is the Mark IIB pre-heresey Land Raider.
It is part of Mike Sharpe’s superb Space Wolves army, which was on show at GamesDay 2006.
The model is available from Forgeworld and is a very nice kit. I have one but have not yet started it. It is based on the plastic Land Raider kit, and the model is very similar to the Epic Land Raider.