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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.
When I was at GamesDay I had a chat with the White Dwarf crew about future issues. They only had the October and November issues available to preview. The October issue was in fact on sale at GamesDay, though the November issue did have a picture of the Ork Battlewagon. I was told by the WD crew that the December issue wasn’t at GamesDay as that would “ruin the surprise”.
Now what was that “surprise”?
I wondered at the time if it was going to be the Ork Stompa, now I think looking at the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tabletop Gaming blog was the “surprise” a plastic Lizardman Stegadon?
I don’t have the issue of White Dwarf to hand so I can’t check to see what else is in it, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
There may be a few ways I think I could use a plastic Stegadon in my Warhammer 40K games.
At GamesDay I managed to have a look at the November issue of White Dwarf which had a picture of the forthcoming Ork Battlewagon. I wrote the following back in September.
In the November issue of (the UK) White Dwarf you will be able to see a picture of the finished Ork Battlewagon which is been used as part of the Tale of Four Gamers.
I was going to take a photograph from the pre-production copy at GamesDay but the White Dwarf team were very insistent that I didn’t.
The model comprises (the already seen) tracks with two Trukk style wheels on each side at the front.
It looks nothing like the Forge World model.
The cab is similar to the original wheeled Battlewagon (from what 15 years ago now and used on the FW Gunwagon).
Well some now have that issue and now I can blog a picture of the Battlewagon.
So what do you think?
I do like it and will certainly be getting one (or two) for my Ork army.
Picture source Warseer.
So there I was driving home form work and I thought, hey it’s the last Friday of the month, that means the new White Dwarf will be out.
Then as I continued to drive, I remembered…
I had bought it at GamesDay 2008!
Hmmm.
Got wait four weeks now to the next issue, well at least that one will have pictures of the new plastic Ork Battlewagon in it.
So there I was about to pop into the supermarket and I thought should I pop into the newsagents and get a magazine, nah I’ll wait until next week as White Dwarf will be out then…
Well unknown to me, I could have got my copy of White Dwarf, as it is out a week earlier than usual, something about a 25th anniversary of Warhammer or some such thing…
Slightly annoyed as tomorrow is Easter Sunday which means that virtually every shop in the UK is closed and I won’t be able to get it, well I don’t think I will be able to.
Well I can wait.
In White Dwarf 332 (which came out today) the big news for me was the announcement of the new plastic Imperial Guard Super Heavy Baneblade Tank.
This has been rumoured for years, but here it is in the pages of White Dwarf.
Looks good.
Three look even better!
Managed to get the limited edition model today…
This weekend, White Dwarf magazine celebrates its thirtieth birthday. Issue number one was first published back in may 1977.
I only started reading White Dwarf around issue fifty, in the main when it started to cover Warhammer and the articles on miniatures and painting increased.
Games Workshop have released a new Limited Edition miniature and I decided that I would get one. It was only going to be on sale on the 26th and 27th May.
So I arrived at Games Workshop in Cribbs Causeway at 9.02am to find of the fifteen models they had in stock, eleven had already been sold in the first two minutes since they opened.
I did get mine though I did notice that everyone who was buying it was an old git like me, as in we could remember buying and playing first edition Warhammer!
I did consider getting two, one to paint and one to gather dust… but though I am sure I could have made a mint on eBay at some point, I decided I would rather leave it on the shelf and let someone else have a chance to buy it.
What was nice was they every customer got a random free blister pack. This is where my luck ran out, as I only managed to get some Chaos Space Marines (and you know how I feel about Chaos) and some Black Templar Space Marine backpacks (really useful, not). I got two free blisters as I made two purchases, I also bought an Ork Kommando with Burna, but that’s another posting another day.
I do like the limited edition model and it will form part of my (very) small Dwarf army I am building.
I will write up a workbench feature on how I paint up the model.
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!
In the most recent UK White Dwarf they had some pictures of the new models they are releasing for their new summer campaign.
One of these is a Ork Big Mek.
It will be nice to see some new Ork models.
I hope this is something we will see more of, I have disliked the way that GW release whole armies now and whilst doing so ignore the other armies.
I have often wondered about this strategy especially in terms of people adding to their armies. I also suppose that some people will always go out and buy the new big thing (whether they paint it is a different story).
I like what GW use to do back in the 1980s when they released new miniatures every month for a range of armies rather than concentrating on two big releases like they do now.
Also released this summer will be some new Ork Kommandos.
Seeing this image recently from an old White Dwarf.
It reminded me how good GW epic scale custom made scenery was. The Dwarf and the (older) rule books were full of these kind of pictures. Which is why I wish the Epic Armageddon book had being full of these kind of pictures (or even these pictures) rather than the (cartoony) artwork from the collectable card game.