Dreadfleet: Swordfish finished!

After many painting hours and many gaming hours it's finally finished. I went with the same paint scheme as the original one in WD and pretty much followed the little painting tutorial found there. It was really fun to paint the ship, but a lot harder and more time consuming than I thought. I think some of the other are easier to paint though. Anyway here it is, will probably take a little break from Dreadfleet and paint some more Orcs or an island maybe, will try to make more updates this week. If I can drag myself from Arkham City :P.

Dreadfleet: My Swordfish Sneak peek

As you may have seen on my Twitter I haven't been able to post much lately and I haven't been able to paint much either. But I have been painting the 'Swordfish' and was hoping to have it done by today, unfortunately I didn't make it. So you'll have to do with some WIP photos of the ship and I will hopefully be done by tomorrow.

The ship was fun to paint, really something else to what I'm used to paint. But it takes quite some time, and I will probably be a little faster with the next ship.

Dreadfleet Pt. 1: Unboxing

So at last I got my box with Dreadfleet. I know most of you have probably already seen a lot of unboxings with this box but I decided I wanted to do one anyway, and write down some of my first impressions.

Box art is great, the rulebook and the artwork in there looks great as well. The details and stuff on the ships, islands etc. are amazing. Really like the gaming mat as well, was a little bit unsure of this beforehand but it looks great and have a lot of little nice details, also if the mat isn't totally flat, the waves looks even more realistic. 

The box is expensive, but you do get a lot of stuff in it. Even little plastic bags which I haven't figured out what they are for, probably to protect ships for transports or something.

As you can see on the sprue's, there's a lot of stuff. Markers and stuff for gaming, islands, monsters, little ships, large ships etc. And all of it have a lot of character and looks beautiful, and I feel really excited to start and build and paint all of them. Don't know what I want to paint first though, anyone have suggestions?

Will post more of my impressions on Dreadfleet as soon as I discover them 

Review: White Dwarf 382

This issue can be summed up with one word: Dreadfleet. So if you're like me and really excited that the new game is released this weekend and want to know more about then you're in for a treat. If not, then this issue probably won't be your cup of tea. There's a whole lot of information about the game, a battle report, an introduction to the game, some information about the story and all the ships that are in the game.

There's also simple but really great painting tutorials for pretty much every little piece in the game which is really great. As you may have noticed, I'm really excited for this game and it is on it's way to and I will probably get it on Tuesday. I like that it is a another scale than the 28mm I normally paint and it is going to be really fun to paint these extremely detailed and characterful models.

Anyway on with the review. As I wrote, there's not a lot of other stuff in this WD. But they are showing some new hobby tools, especially suited for the new finecast models but for the plastic and metal ones as well.The most interesting here is a new Green stuff in liquid form, can be very useful indeed. Then there's some more stuff for Ogre Kingdoms including rules for using Thundertusks, Mournfangs and Stonehorns in Storm of Magic. Nice that they do additions to the Storm of Magic rules. There are a couple of pages with Sisters of Battle and that's all the 40k stuff there is in this issue, will probably be a lot more when Necrons arrive in Necrovember.

That's all for now, I really liked this issue but like I wrote earlier that's because I'm really interested in Dreadfleet. And if you aren't already, then I promise you that this months WD will make you interested.

WD 382 gets 4/5

News: Dreadfleet is here!

I totally missed that that GW showed their new naval warfare game called Dreadfleet on friday, and I must say I'm really excited. It will be a while stock lasts release just as they did with Space Hulk. And that's fine I guess, it would be nice with additions of new ships and stuff in the future but as it is, this would probably not happen. I really like that GW still makes games other than the main systems, even if I would like a game that have more support like Mordheim! But this is better than nothing, and all the stuff in this box looks amazing.

The game isn't cheap but you seem to get quite a lot of stuff in the box and I must say, lovely models. I really like all the distinct ships with a lot of details and islands, dragons and a lot more. I think it will be a treat to paint these up. Haven't pre ordered one yet but I will as soon as I've done with this post.

There's a lot of more info on the Games Workshop webpage. So what do you think about this release? Was it what you expected? What do you think about these limited game releases?