Showcase: Minotaurs Razorback finished!

I just got sudden whim, bought a Razorback from eBay and changed two side doors and repainted the whole thing. And now I have a finished Razorback in Minotaurs colours, with two Forgeworld Minotaurs doors, and a front which where there when I bought it, also from FW.

Think it turned out rather nice, I'm satisfied with the result and I love the look of the FW side doors and really made me want to try and paint up those FW Minotaurs characters I have lying around. I'm not an expert when coming to painting 40k vehicles so c & c is extra welcome.

News: Night Goblin Command from WH Forge!

Feels like forever we got a new release from WH Forge now, but at last a new release is here and this time it's Night Goblins.

The text below is from the WH Forge Newsletter and pictures from their website where you can find even more.

Night Goblin Command Set
Prevalent throughout the Old World, the Night Goblins of the Worlds Edge Mountains have developed into a sun-hating sub-species of the greenskin race. Considered particularly vicious and cruel for their kind, they are infamous for their cultivation of dangerously hallucinogenic fungus and their skill at rearing the bizarre and improbable Cave Squigs.

Individually cowardly, when Night Goblins gather in massed ranks they are renowned for their maliciousness, and it is the Night Goblin Warbosses and Big Bosses that most epitomise this bullying spite, having risen to their position through treachery and backstabbing. In battle it is common for one of a Warboss’s underlings to be given a tattered, filthy and terribly ostentatious battle standard. Unlike the proud colours carried by other armies, the primary function of this banner is not as a symbol to rally around, but instead to boast of the power and majesty of the Warboss himself.

The most powerful (or most foolhardy) of these warlords sometimes ape the heroes of other races, and ride to battle on Great Cave Squigs, hand-reared at the cost of many dozens of Night Goblin handlers. The natural ferocity and toughness of these obnoxious beasts is also often augmented by crude armour plating, bolted and nailed to the Squig’s thick hide.

Night Goblin Shamans are sinister and crazed individuals, due to their consumption of huge quantities of the powerfully hallucinogenic fungus for which the Night Goblins are renowned. Their spells are malicious and spiteful, much like the Goblins themselves, and often accompanied by unnecessary additional effects such as puffs of oddly coloured smoke, obnoxious smells, and overly loud bangs.

The Night Goblin Command Set, designed by Keith Robertson, contains three multi-part resin models: a Night Goblin Warboss on Great Cave Squig, a Night Goblin Boss carrying a Battle Standard, and a Night Goblin Shaman. All are packed with fantastic and characterful details, from the severed beards and skulls of slain Dwarfs, to the heroic, martial pose of the Warboss and the malicious grin of the Squig he’s riding, to the sign of the ‘bad moon’ forming in the smoke billowing from the mouth of the Shaman.


This fantastic character set is available to pre-order now for despatch from Friday 25th January.

Comment: I like the look of all three, I hope they will sell them separately as well later on though.

Review: White Dwarf January 2013

White Dwarf is continuing the formula like it have since it's relaunch in October, this time you also get a free poster, showing the Hobbit miniatures on one side and the older Lotr stuff on the other. Sure I like when we get posters but I don't think this one is something I would hang up in my little man cave, I would much rather see some artwork or something or even miniatures that we got when Battle for skull pass was released for example.

Anyhow, I think everone knows by nopw what the main release is this month. It's the first 40k army I started to collect, the first legion and called the Unforgiven. The Dark Angels are back! So this is of course the main feature this month and we get a very cool cover showing the new Deathwing Knights. And thus this takes us to the new releases.



New releases

Dark Angels get four new plastic kits, one which makes Deathwing Knights, DW command squad or ordinary DW Terminators with some new toys like Plasmacannon. Ravenwing get's plenty of love with a similar kit that makes RW command, normal RW bikers or the new unit Black Knights. The two last kits is also Ravenwing with a large Landspeeder version called Landspeeder Vengeance and showed in the centrefold is the new DA flyer which makes either the Dark Talon or the Nephilim Fighter.

We also get two new characters in Finecast, the first one is Belial which I'm not very fond of I'm afraid. And we also get a new model for the toughest of all the Interrogator-Chaplains, Asmodai with a very cool looking  model. Shown as well is the GW Online only DA Standard Bearer in Finecast, with a beautifully sculpted banner.

So a lot of goodies for DA and all is showed in easy to look at pictures with great angles and without any special lighting. They actually changed my mind about the new DA miniatures quite drastic as I weren't that impressed at first when I only have seen the pics on the net, now I like all of them accept maybe Belial and still unsure about the Vengeance.

We also get some non 40k this month with some more Hobbit miniatures. Gwaihir and his Great Eagle friends which looks really nice. We also get Fell Wargs without riders and a set which captures one of the scenes in the film when Bilbo first meets Gollum, cleverly called Riddles in the Dark.

That's all so no Fantasy stuff this month =(

Painting and Modelling
We get the usual segments where are used to by now. Army of the month is Jes Bickham's Tyranid army- Blancheitsu is showing more Inquisitorial Warband miniatures but from other people with a similar style. I like this segment but I wish they could expand it further, and maybe show more themed miniatures, like Mordheim one month, Bloodbowl, Lustria, Necromunda etc. I would have liked that very much.

In this month's Hall of Fame we get to see the new plastic Karl Franz on Deathclaw made by Brian Nelson. Parade Ground is a little bit different this time and also bigger, showing the Golden Demon winners from several countries, this is part one so expect from more countries in the next issue. A nice change and we get to see beautifully painted miniatures. Kitbash is about different 40k scenery and not that interesting really. The same goes for Battleground where we see a Dwarf Hold, which looks really nice for sure but we have also seen it several times before.

In Paintsplatter we get a little more in depth tutorial showing how to paint Deathwing, Dark Angels, Ravenwing and also Fortress of Redemption. We only get the usual tips though just going trough every step with what colour you should use, I would like to see more in depth tutorials every now and then showing more advanced tecniques. We also get very brief tips on how to paint Tyranids in Jes green/brown colour scheme and how to paint the Great Eagles wings and skin on the Fell Wargs.

Rules and fluff
Almost non existent, I would like to see the return of chapter approved showing fluff and background for different Space Marine chapters, both loyalists and renegades. Especially about chapters we don't know much about. We get tiny bits of rules, and I mean tiny becasue they are showing small images from some pages from the new DA dex where you can read some point costs and so on but that's it. Would have liked a little preview of the Codex instead and showed us more about the new rules etc.

Gaming
We get a Battle Report this month with DA vs. Chaos Space Marines and I must say I liked it, especially that they modified the scenario with naming one of the CSM miniatures a secret fallen. It made you more interested in the game but I think they missed out on a perfect opportunity in writing a narrative for the game and I also didn't like that we don't know how much each army was in points, because they weren't showed. Big plus for many miniatures painted by the players themselves. We also get a Rivals article this month, this time with Assault Terminators with Th/SS load out versus Grey Knight  Terminators, letting both units try to kill different enemy units.

The other stuff
We get an article by Jeremy Vetock as always and now he is talking about the pros and cons about having a home and away version of gaming. In 'This month in' we get to see some more from the Battle report, doubles 40k armies and what the WD team as done the last month. In the Design studio we get to see some more about the new DA release of course with an little interview with Jeremy Vetock as well. When coming to Forgeworld we see a new miniature I haven't seen before, an Flagellant. We also get some minor info about Blackfire Pass. At Black Libray we get an interview with Gav Thorpe who returns to Dark Angels with the new book Ravenwing. We also get an interview with Josh Reynolds about his upcoming Blood of Nagash series.

Conclusion
Well first of that I can't write these reviews even if I think beforehand that I should. Other than that I quite like this months issue, some nice articles and pictures in there even if nothing is that spectacular. Do hope that they change some things in the near future though as it get a bit stale with the same type of articles and segments all the time. All in all good issue.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Showcase: Demigryph Knights Unit Finished!

So at last my unit of six Knights Manticore (yup that's the Knight chapters name) riding Demigryphs is painted and finished! I have put a lot of time into these, much because of the Quick Shade I think which almost made them take longer to paint (and this is of course not usually the case) and I will not use Quick Shade for the next Demigryph unit. But I'm really satisfied with the result in the end. I also really like the look of these big monstrous cavalry units, even If I don't think I will field units of six if I ever play with them in a game.

The last of the bunch, the musician with his special '"horned" shield

Feels great that they are finished anyhow and that I now can move on to other projects, will be more Empire in the near future as well as Guardians of the Covenant, but next post will be the Jan White Dwarf review. Until then please feel free to leave a comment below.  

News: Dark Angels Advance Orders are up!

So finally the new Dark Angels are up for advance orders, I'm in the process of ordering the stuff I want right now. It will probably be two boxes of Deathwing, one Dark Talon, the Codex and maybe a box a Ravenwing or Landspeeder Vengeance.

I must say that now when I have seen them in WD and photos on the GW homepage I like the models a lot more, especially the Dark Talon/Nephilim Fighter. Still not sure on Vengeance and I'm not keen on the Belial model but the rest I quite like. Think they will look good in GotC colours.

GW has relased two videos showing the Deathwing kit and the two versions of the new Codex, go and check them out down below.





Also if you want to check out more pictures and the Advance order go to GW webpage. Or if you want to help out a fellow wargamer please go to Wayland games who have 20 % on most of the new Dark Angel stuff and also free shipping! I highly recommend them and as a Affliate to them you help me out as well, just follow this link or click the the Wayland Games banner and shop til you drop ;) I know I will.

Guardians of the Covenant Revived

The new Dark Angel Codex is soon upon us and as a DA player... or at least collector/painter I needed to set my mind on what I want to do. Continue on the GotC, start to paint up more Deathwing or even start another DA Successor chapter like Angels of Redemption or Absolution. And I finally I decided to continue on my GotC, but I needed something new as I didn't like the look of the ones I have previously painted.

I decided I needed one more colour for them, I decided to go with DA green as I need something more to tie them in with their parent chapter. I also think this was needed to give them a spot colour, before it was too much red and metal, it needed something more. So here's the first models I re-painted and well... just tell me what you think. All suggestions and ideas are very welcome.

First up is my Terminator Sergeant, just changed the aquila on the chest and the shield on his left shoulder. The blue Power Sword was an older remake and I'm still unsure of what colour I want on my Power Weapons, red, blue, green, metallic... I dunno. I also did some touch ups on the base to get some more colour. Please tell me what you think. Here's the old version. 

I also did a Power Armour guy, one with robes that isn't totally finished yet and this one without robes. I think you get most out of the robed marines as I thought there was to much red and needed something else to break it out. But I also think that the un-robed marines look better with some DA green added into the mix. First three are in the new colours and the last one is on a finished unit of Marines in just reds and metallic.

So, finally got my GotC mojo back which is nice, now I won't need to repaint everything into Deathwing or some other DA chapter. Some re-painting is needed though and I all the help I can get from you guys with suggestions and ideas is more than welcome. So bring it on!

Empire Update: Demigryph Knight S. bearer finished

First post in 2013 and this time I'm showing the last miniature I completed last year, my fifth Demigryph Knight and the guy who holds the banner (mostly anyhow, his arm is magnetized if I change my mind). QUite satisfied with the result even If I'm getting tired of the old Quick Shade I'm using. It gets thicker and thicker even if I try to dilute it with white spirit. So with this unit of six Demigryphs is done I'm done using the Quick Shade at least until I buy a new can, and I won't do that until I start to paint my O&G again (it works perfectly with their skin tone) or the VC.

C & C is always welcome.