Hobby Rundown

Well, it has been awhile and I have been doing a little of this and that but nothing in particular.

I did a few small repairs to damaged models to ensure they are ready for the next round of gaming.

Next up, the past week I have been slowly washing about 100 skeletons from my Tomb Kings with Dev. Mud to darken them down then lightly brush on some bone highlights to clear up the stain spots that tend to appear in unwanted spots.

Part of the horde of Skeles, archers.

A close up. Going to touch them up and maybe put some dead grass on them.

I also started to paint the Ark of the Covenant, er, I mean the Casket of Souls. Just some basic paint job and this has been a long mothballed project. I built a base for it to add some depth to it and add some more detail as I went.

Next up, I worked on some Space Wolves. These was a few leftover marines and some freebies that someone gave me to try to rehabilitate to worthy Space Wolves.

I also ordered some bits from a new website called Horde of Bits. A review is pending about this company once I get my product. These will be the torsos and legs for my Orks for Blood Bowl, I plan to modify them using some 40k shoulder pads, use both 40k and Fantasy heads. Then add some arms from the 40k line to finish them off. I feel this is going to give me a very characterful team to bring to the league on the 16th for the kick off night. I just hope I get my bits in time and there is a break in the damm weather. This hurricane has just added to the humidity and rain that is typical of this year. So, when a window opens to primer you prime as much crap as you can before it goes to hell.

There is other things I am sure I am forgetting to mention right now, until next update!

Waking the Dead: Revival of the Vampire Counts and Playing Warhammer Fantasy

That’s right! I purchased my first copy of White Dwarf (#379) this weekend in what may be almost 2 years. I have broken my person boycott of the magazine as the content clearly sucked. It was little more than a large, elaborate catalog that was expensive at $9 a pop designed to sell goodies to the kiddies. It was little more than Tofu of hobby magazines, filling but no real taste.

It warmed my undead heart to see the Vampire Counts get some love in this issue with a new unit, new models and updates to their Army Books.

GW may finally have seen the value again in their magazine as a means to update rules, add new things to old books and to maintain the hobby. This was how the White Dwarf was long ago: alternate rules, updates, changes and great hobby articles that was worth reading. You was afraid not to subscribe or buy an issue at your local store as you may have missed some great articles.

They managed to finally pack an issue with painted bitz from the Terrorgheist and Zombie Dragon sprue. Rules for the Garden of Moor, a new unit the Terrogheist, added new heroes (going back to the old codex before) and included a good battle report to help cement it all together with some hobby articles also.

Then they printed the first part of two of the Sister’s of Battle Codex. For the most part, it has some concepts that are interesting but the army is unplayable as Faith is really nerfed at least until they get their official Codex. We all remember the Blood Angels one done in White Dwarf. It turned out nothing like they published really. I am sure the Sister’s will get lots of goodies just like the Blood Angels.

I encourage everyone to write to Games Workshop and compliment their work in this issue and encourage they continue down this path to make their hobby magazine better!

White Dwarf Going Old School!

That’s right! I purchased my first copy of White Dwarf (#379) this weekend in what may be almost 2 years. I have broken my personal boycott of the magazine as the content clearly sucked. It was little more than a large, elaborate catalog that was expensive at $9 a pop designed to sell goodies to the kiddies. It was little more than Tofu of hobby magazines, filling but no real taste.

It warmed my undead heart to see the Vampire Counts get some love in this issue with a new unit, new models and updates to their Army Books.

GW may finally have seen the value again in their magazine as a means to update rules, add new things to old books and to maintain the hobby. This was how the White Dwarf was long ago: alternate rules, updates, changes and great hobby articles that was worth reading. You was afraid not to subscribe or buy an issue at your local store as you may have missed some great articles.

They managed to finally pack an issue with painted bitz from the Terrorgheist and Zombie Dragon sprue. Rules for the Garden of Moor, a new unit the Terrogheist, added new heroes (going back to the old codex before) and included a good battle report to help cement it all together with some hobby articles also.

Then they printed the first part of two of the Sister’s of Battle Codex. For the most part, it has some concepts that are interesting but the army is unplayable as Faith is really nerfed at least until they get their official Codex. We all remember the Blood Angels one done in White Dwarf. It turned out nothing like they published really. I am sure the Sister’s will get lots of goodies just like the Blood Angels.

I encourage everyone to write to Games Workshop and compliment their work in this issue and encourage they continue down this path to make their hobby magazine better!