News: Forgeworld shows us Ferrus Manus !

Got a mail from Forgeworld with a video showing us the first of the Primarchs that stays loyal to the Emperor, Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands legion. Really cool looking just like the Primarchs done before. Down below you can watch the video and what they wrote in the mail.



The Primarch of the Iron Hands Legion was a figure of legend amongst the peoples of his home world of Medusa, named by them ‘the Gorgon’ after the most ancient of mythic creatures. Ferrus was amongst the strongest of the Primarchs, reflected in this giant figure, dwarfing many of his brother Primarchs.

Forge World will be attending UK Games Day, held on Sunday 29th September at the NIA in Birmingham, and Ferrus Manus, the latest model in our Horus Heresy Character series, will be available to purchase on the day. As part of our Games Day UK previews, we have a feature on the Forge World Visual Feed about the Primarch of the Iron Hands Legion. In our latest video, designer Simon Egan talks about how he created the model of the Gorgon and how it can be incorporated with Fulgrim to form a stunning diorama.

You can also watch Edgar Skomorowski talking about Erebus and Kor Phaeron, our trailer for The Horus Heresy Book Two – Massacre as well as a video of writer Alan Bligh talking about what you can expect to find in this forthcoming book here.

If you would like to stay up to date with the Forge World Visual Feed of videos dedicated to our latest releases, simply select the Subscribe option in our YouTube channel. This will ensure you receive a notification every time we add new videos.


Alongside Ferrus Manus, The Horus Heresy Book Two – Massacre, Erebus and Kor Phaeron, and the Tau XV107 R'varna Battlesuit will also be available to purchase at Games Day UK. There will be a limited number of these pre-release products there on the day so we suggest that you turn up early at our Sales stand to avoid disappointment. If you would like to purchase a ticket for this event, click here.

We are still taking reservation orders for Games Day UK for non pre-release product. Click here to find out how to place a reservation order. The cut-off for placing reservation orders is 6pm (UK time) today.

Thanks,
Forge World Sales Team

News: Forge World Fulgrim model

Got an e-mail from Black Library showing some really intresting stuff, the a painted model of Fulgrim,  the Primarch of the Emperors Children and the second Primarch to be made into a model. He looks really awesome and can't wait to see more about this. There's also some more interesting bits in the mail, if you haven't got it yourselves already check it out below.

First look: Mars White Dwarf Pics

I got my White Dwarf today and some of the pics have already been out on the web, but I also found some more interesting pictures I haven't seen before, like the WIP pics of the FF Horus Heresy Thallax for the Mechanicum Orde Reductor and Legion Reconnaissance Marine with an sniper variant bolter. There's also Warhammer Forge pictures of the Orc Command with an cool looking Orc Boss and Bsb with an banner made of an Wyvern wing, really cool looking models. There's also some new stuff for Hobbit and so on.

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 October 2012

A real interesting review this time around as the whole magazine is remade with an new staff, new format and an whole new design. And I must say this was much needed and this issue actually does feel fresh, but is the rest as good as they promised beforehand?

The new White Dwarf
So the format is changed, it's now a little bit smaller, about 1,5 cm less in height but instead has ~150 pages instead of ~120 like before. The whole magazine looks and feels more robust as well as more lavish than previous issues. The cover is nice, I especially like that we don't get white background on the front cover this time as we have for quite some time now. It has a matte background with a more glossy illustration and text, It looks much like the 8th ed. army books and I really like that effect. Other than that the actual White Dwarf  title is also changed and now looks more retro, in a good way though.

Inside the magazine the layout has changed much as well. It now looks less cluttered and more clean in it's design and even though they still promote their new products (and why would they stop that?) but it dosen't feel as forced and obvius as before. Overall I like the new layout and the it feels and looks more like a hobby magazine than a fat GW flyer.

New releases
I think most of you have heard what the new release are by now, it's of course the new Chaos Space Marines. And there is mixed opinions about the new miniatures and I must say I agree. I like the Maulerfiend but not the Forgefiend as much. I also like the new Raptors, Warpsmith, Aspiring Champion, Dark Apostle and Sorcerer. The stuff I don't like as much is Warptalons (much similiar to Raptors but I prefer the Raptors), the Close Combat versions of Obliterators called Mutilators (have never really liked Obliterators either so..). And the big thing that I'm a bit unsure of is the Heldrake, a big robot dragon flyer. I like the look of it but I had rather seen a piloted air craft of some sort, like the Forgeworld Hell Blade Chaos Fighter. As always we also get a good amount of old models released in Finecast among them, Abaddon the despoiler, Ahriman, the old Daemon Prince and more.

I like the cleaner layout in this issue where they show us the new releases, just a picture, some text and that's it no prices or anything (these can be found on an separate page with all the new stuff and prices). I also like the new red and black backgrounds they use for the pictures on the models, and together with red lighting really brings the models to life.

Of course we also get some small pictures of some of the pages from the new CSM codex, which by the way will get the 8th ed WHFB treatment. Meaning that all the future 40k Codexes will be hardback and full colour.

Painting and Modelling

Quite a lot, there's for example very easy tutorials for different  Chaos weapons called Daemonfire Techniques, there's tips for Ork Dakkajets, Heresy-era Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children, World Eaters and Deathguard as well as some post heresy marines like Alpha Legion, Night Lords, Black Legion and Red Corsairs. There's also tips on how to paint different rust effects and some tips on how Ben Johnson painted his banners and warpstone. So all in all quite much even if they don't really go in depth on any of these tutorials.

There's also some kit bashing tips for Ork Fight Boomers which is quite cool and there's also some pictures of a nicely built 40k battlefield. Other than this there's tons of Showcases for the new stuff of course as well some other stuff. The coolest thing is some models painted by John Blanche himself. There's also pics of some of the Design studios models including Necrons, Orks, Rangers of Gondor, Night Lords, Death Korps of Krieg and Bretonnians. And for last there's also a Showcase for the enormous Skaven army of the former Bad Dice co host Ben Johnson. With a lot of conversions and really nice painting as well, this was quite a large and nicely written article where Ben talks about how he started Skaven and how he has built up the army, really nice stuff. There's also some really nice Forgeworld pics as I have showed here on the blog yesterday, including Angron the Primarch of World Eaters and plenty more.

Rules and Fluff
Not as much of this in this issue actually. Not that strange though as this issue is crammed with other stuff.

Gaming

We did get a Battle report this month and it's the new Chaos Space Marines (painted as a nice Alpha Legion army) vs. SM: White Scars. I don't know if it's hugely different from the latest Batreps but I did enjoy reading this one, and it's was easy to see what happened in the game. A lot of pictures as well but I would have liked to have some bigger pictures of the battlefield, now it was a lot of smaller pictures and no really big one. I also like the post-battle review where the players as well as three other comments the game and what they should and shouldn't have done in the game. And I didn't see the standard phrase we always could see in the end of the old battle reports "Wow, that's was the funniest game Iv'e had in years, and bla bla." and that was a nice change.

There is also article called the Rivals where two gamers, in this case Martin Morrin with Dark Elves and Adam Hall with Vampire Counts is having a tactical debate on which army is the strongest and if it's best to spread the power across the whole army or have all the eggs in one super powerfull basket (in this case four Vampires in a Black Knight bus unit). Quite an interesting read and both the armies and tactical chat feels much more useful than many in the pasts White Dwarfs.

Conclusion
Wow feels like I could go on and write forever on this review as this issue just have so much stuff in it. Which is great of course, and I found most of it really interesting and I really enjoyed both reading this issue as well as looking on all the pretty pictures. And here's a big change, many models we haven't seen before. Not to mention Angron and some of the new Forgeworld stuff. Also nice to see that GW is looking outside of the actual GW HQ, like when they do a big article about Ben Johnson's Skaven army for example. More of this please. All in all I really liked this issue and there's plenty of stuff for almost everyone (not LOTR players though because there is almost nothing LOTR in here). And after this issue I see a much brighter future for WD and hopefully it can grow and become even better.

Rating: 4,5 out of 5

Forgot to mention you also get this poster with the magazine, and according to WD daily we will get more stuff with our magazines in the future.

 

Primarch Angron and more pics from Oct WD

Yes the first Forgeworld produced Primarch is showed in the latest WD which I got today. So for you who haven't got it yet and want some pictures of the World Eaters Primarch Angron as well as some more Forgeworld minis, here they are. Will post some CSM pictures as well later.

News: The Horus Heresy Vol I: Betrayal - New Trailer!!

Got this in the mail box today from Forgeworld. A really nice trailer featuring Alan Bligh talking about the new book and there is also plenty of stuff showing what's in the book. They are also showing new miniatures like Cataphractii Terminators and Jetbikes! I think all of this looks awesome and if this interests you I suggest you go check it out now!!

Some screens taken from this thread on Warseer.