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At GamesDay 2003, there was a massive Warmaster demonstration game and one of the ley features were some excellent temples.
According to a variety of sources these were one off miniatures designed by Forgeworld and are not available to buy. Pity.
The newest edition of Warhammer 40000 is now out in the shops in the UK and I now have my copy.
Costing £30, the 288 page rulebook is a massive tome and I was pleased to see it was a hardback edition – my previous edition was paperback!
Unlike previous editions, this is a more an update on the previous version rather than a whole new version. In theory previous codices will still “work” with the new rules.
SFX Magazine has been running a design a new Dalek competition. There have been quite a few entries but my personal favourite is this one.
With Dr Who returning to the screens in 2005, I have been looking at a few of the photos and stories on the web and decided to add a section to the Blog.
I have also dug out my hold Harlequin Dr Who miniatures, and one day I may get round to painting them…
Interesting links on the proposed German invasion of England…
I have quite a few books
The overall conclusion of most historians (and what if experts) is that Sealion could never have succeeded… having said that the whole what if of Sealion makes for interesting games.
In the past I had quite a few games with Home Guard versus German paratroopers, great fun.
I once wrote an alternative Sealion, Otaire de Vigneur, the French invasion of England circa 1940. Though the french strategy of eclair was never taken seriously by British officers in the field.
If you consider the logistics of D-Day, the allies built two ports (Mulberry), the Germans would have had to capture an English port.
Second World War bunker on the West Somerset Railway…
I was quite lucky to catch a picture of this…
stuck the camera out of the window and snapped a shot as the train passed Dunster Castle.
This (I presume) Second World War bunker (or pillbox) was very likely built to defend the railway from German attack. From what I could see it was in pretty good condition.
These miniatures are from the collection of a friend of mine and you can find more here on my website.
These are my two Orks in Mega-Armour.
They are quite nasty and dangerous individuals and have caused quite a few headaches for my opponent.
You can see more pictures of my Orks and pictures from various shows in the Orks Gallery on my website.
A superb model from Simon’s collection…
This is a variant Imperial Guard Hellhound.
The main addition is the trailer which is, as most people can guess, from the Ork Skorcha model.
The new rules for Hellhounds in the latest Imperial Guard Codex certainly make them more threatening then before.
This is a very simple conversion.
Ork Trukk with Krooz Missulz (aka an Orkish version of the Imperial Deathstrike Missile Launcher, but why not use the Krooz Missulz rules for the Mega-Gargent. The model is built using a Flakwagon base, a firing platform from a Pulsa Rokitt and the Krooz Missulz, well it’s a 40k scale Fighta-Bommer Missile.