Felix's Gaming Pages

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.

Space Wolves Thunderhawk Transporter

I really quite like the Thunderhawk Transporter even though I am not a fan of the Gunship variant. I am guessing that the main reason I don’t like the Gunship is that huge gun on top! It just doesn’t look right. Also with all the aerodynamics of a brick, the Gunship doesn’t look like the assault flyer for an elite force as the Space Marines, for me the Valkyrie is more Space Marine Gunship than the Thunderhawk is.

So why does the Transporter work for me, well it’s a transport, so the fact it looking like a flying brick goes in its favour!

This Space Wolves army includes virtually (if not all) the Space Marine models and conversions from Forge World as well as all the plastic and metal models from Citadel.

It was on display at both GamesDay 2006 and GamesDay 2007.

More photographs of this army. Also have a look at our Thunderhawk Transporter galleries.

Washing a Looted Ork Rhino

I have spent a lot of time and effort working on my Ork Looted Rhino.

Having finished the base coat I gave the Looted Rhino a wash consisting of Chestnut Ink, Scorched Brown paint (which helps remove the gloss of the ink) and some water to thin the wash down.

It seems to have worked quite well.

Next stage will be a drybrush. See the full workbench feature on the Looted Rhino.

See our gallery of Looted Rhinos.

Kinder Killa Kans

After talking about a possible plastic Killa Kan earlier this week I remembered I had taken some photographs of George Dellapina’s funky scratch-built Killa Kan’s at Bristol Conflict 2004.

This was a very funky army which used a range of toys to good effect for trukks and buggies. The Killa Kans were based around Kinder Eggs (the plastic bit after you have eaten the chocolate).

See more of George’s funky Ork army.

Ork Fighter Bommer

Having finished the base coat on my Ork Fighter Bommer I gave the plane a wash consisting of Chestnut Ink, Scorched Brown paint (which helps remove the gloss of the ink) and some water to thin the wash down.

I am quite pleased with the end result. I was trying to get a rusty looking battered plane and I think that this paint job does do just that.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Bommer.

Plastic Killa Kan, perhaps…

There are a few rumours flying about the web that there may be a plastic Ork Killa Kan released sometime this year.

For me one thing which confirms it for me is that in the Ork Codex one of the (new) weapon options for the Killa Kan is the Grotzooka, which is not available as an option on the current metal kit.

It is this which confirms for me that there will be a plastic Killa Kan model this year.

Now whether that will be as a separate kit or as part of a boxed starter set, that is a different question.

Inquisitorial Storm Troopers Valkyrie Transport

Inquisitorial Valkyrie lands to disembark some Storm Troopers.

Inquisitorial Storm Troopers Valkyrie Transport

From a demonstration game at Bristol Conflict 2003.

More photographs of Inquisitorial Storm Troopers Valkyrie Transport and Imperial Guard Valkyrie Transport.

Resurrection Day

My book choice this week is Brendan DuBois’ Resurrection Day.

Resurrection Day

One of my favourite alternate history novels, which is a mystery story set in a world in which the Cuban missile crisis turned nuclear.

Brendan DuBois is an award-winning U.S. author of mystery stories: this alternate-world thriller is very much in the tradition of Robert Harris’s Fatherland. Consider this striking blurb line: “Everyone remembered exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them.” History went awry in this world’s Cuba crisis, leading to a 1962 nuclear war that devastated Russia, crippled America, and left Britain a major world power smugly giving aid to the USA. Cut to 1972 Boston and ex-soldier Carl Landry, now a newspaper reporter whose coverage of a routine murder is suppressed by military censors. He’s unwisely curious, investigates further, and inevitably stirs up a hornets’ nest. Attacks, deaths, and disappearances follow. With a new-found girlfriend–an English Times reporter who is not all she seems–Landry uncovers a succession of red-hot secrets about abandoned New York, perfidious British and military plotting, and crucial documents coveted by several factions with different beliefs about their contents. Is Kennedy unjustly despised for starting World War III? Is the rumor that he’s still alive just this timeline’s version of the Elvis myth? After building up terrific tension, DuBois delivers satisfying answers. Grimly plausible (apart from a few lapses in “British” dialogue) and worthy of the Fatherland comparisons.

I have read the book a few times now and enjoy it all the time, well worth reading.

Buy it from Amazon.co.uk.