In this issue:

• Cover art by Hammertooth
• From the Gut by Randroid and Barney
• Ask Aunty Doreen by Aunty Doreen
• The Feeding Grounds: 8th Edition Overview by Sandals, Rocdocta, Lexy, Avian (We Iz Orcs) and Malorian (The Orc Tactical Team Podcast)
• Butcher’s Cauldron: How to Paint Blood by Jarhead
• Tactics For Tyrants: Gut Magic Tactica by Entreri Bloodletter
• Gastronomic Rumblings From the Butcher’s Pot: A Question of Why by Eric J
• Tales of Conquest: Ogre Kingdoms vs. The Empire by Mercules
• It’s a Trap! by Ultra-Mega Bob
• Blood Bowl Ogre Team Overview by Three Die Block
• Armies of the Stronghold: Feastmaster Tribe by DonTheDime and Barney

We’ve got an interview with games designer Alessio Cavtore, talking about his new ventures since leaving Games Workshop.

RPG

• Frontier town
• Morae River

Wargames

• Zulu War & Isandlwana
• Dark Age Campaign: Magic
• Colonial skirmish rules

Tutorials

• Clothing & Zenithal Light
• Making Chaos Trees
• Colonial British Guide

Community

• Artist Showcase: Will Kirkby
• Interview with Alessio Cavatore

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In dark medieval times, every city had to defend itself. Buildings like Guard Tower enable soldiers to spot the enemy on time in order to make all necessary actions to properly prepare the city for attack. When the soldiers on the Guard Tower sound the alarm, town gates are being sealed and all who can fight equip themselves with weapons and readily await the battle to commence. Guard towers are built on the outskirts of a city, preferably on higher ground. These buildings have to be sturdy enough to withstand enemy’s cannon balls, stones thrown by catapults or even attacks by frenzied monsters such as Giants and Treeman. It has to be high enough so soldiers are able to see as much landscape as possible. Sometimes whole regiments of archers and other troops are stationed in one Guard Tower.

This massive kit comes with lots of accessories:

• 1 x watering place
• 1 x hitching post
• 1 x cart (consists of two wheels and a cart)
• 6 x barell (two kinds)
• 2 x bucket
• 1 x reinforced door
• 3 x hatch
• 3 x torch
• 1 x lantern
• 1 x table with food
• 1 x table with bags, sword, binoculars, arrows and lantern
• 4 x bench
• 1 x cabinet
• 6 x sword
• 2 x sword stand
• 1 x wooden stairs
• 1 x spiral wooden stairs
• 3 x stone stairs
• 12 x window shutter

News Source: Tabletop World

Well, it’s that time again. The premier independent fantasy gaming magazine continues its run of ambling shenanigans and outrageous fashion advice (seal fur is soooo in this season) with its October—November edition.

Still at 56 pages of full-colour, eye-melting goodness, the latest issue contains:

- Wayne’s World: a brand new series of hobby articles written by Wayne Kemp of Heelanhammer podcasting fame. This issue he provides his unique take on building a Rat Ogre Bonebreaker from an all manner of bits and pieces, using a plastic River Troll as a basis.

- A Legend Never Dies: it may sound like the title for a James Bond film, but it’s actually a coverage of the recently held Giant Fanatic tournament, wonderfully written by our Danish agent in the field, Jimmi Stender. GF is one of the premier events in Europe and Jimmi gives us all the hot gossip on what went down, who did what, and what colour the carpet was (just kidding – there was no carpet). Also included is an interview with one of the organisers, a familiar face, about the merits of a newly conceived Line of Sight system that was used.

- Army Showcase: “Old School” Chaos Warriors. Matt Birdoff is one of the most prolific Warhammer players in the USA. He’s owned eight Chaos armies over the years, each a little whackier than the last, and this issue we showcase his latest weird and wonderful creations.

- HUGE Kings of War coverage. Included with the magazine is a copy of Mantic Games’s Kings of War, a brand new set of fantasy gaming rules that you can use with your existing miniatures. We also managed to land an interview with their CEO Ronnie Renton, get the Test Dummies to do a review of the rules, score two units of Undead Cavalry to give away, use their studio armies in a Dwarfs vs Undead battle report, and even use our patented Jedi Mind Tricks to convince them to let us give away an entire army!

Intrigued? As always you can check out a 10-page preview of the magazine HERE.

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Content at:
00:00.33 – Lounge Talk
00:42.00 – RayJ – Being Gamist
00:46.00 – M&SU Bar – Nicodem Overview
02:08.05 – Outro

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Project 1: Terrain Day 2: Electric Boogaloo

The first Terrain Day was very productive, but the projects all needed more work, so we ran the sequel this week.

First up, the Troll houses. Here’s where they were when we left off last week.

I used craft foam to enclose the roof, so the thatch would have something to adhere to.

“Wait… thatch?”

Yep, thatch.

The key is to use fake fur. Here I’m hot gluing the fur to the foam.

Once it’s glued on, I give it a “haircut” to turn it from the shaggy mess on the left, to a pile of random-length clumps as seen on the right. Once it’s all nicely trimmed, I soak it in watered-down white glue and brush it all into downward-pointing clumps.

Once the glue’s dry (which takes almost a day, since the fur absorbs a ton of liquid), it’s hard and looks like hay. I got as far as priming it today– I’ll do the final paints on this for next week or the week after.

The next things I worked on were a series of obstacles to spice up the battlefields. Here I’m using styrofoam to make an art deco Khador monument. Step 1 was to cut some smooth, squared bars out of 1″ foam, and a Khador symbol out of 1/2″.

I glued the bars to a base of more stacked foam, using matchsticks as a spacer to keep the bars separated.

Once that was done, I stuck the symbol to the top with toothpicks and carved a word into the front with a pen. The word is “United”, in Russian, spelled phonetically, and turned into the Khador font. So… yeah. It’s pretty much meaningless at this point.

I’ll be painting this to look like either granite or marble… haven’t decided yet. The symbol may be stone or bronze.

Next, I did a war monument. Here I’m cutting out the smooth marble slab. Making smooth, accurate cuts in foam with a wire cutter is nearly impossible freehand– you can control what the cutter does on one side of the foam, but it’ll wobble like mad on the back side where you can’t see it, which makes terrible cuts. To fix that, I lightly glued sticks to the back side to act as guard rails; I’d keep the cut straight visually on the near side, and trust the guardrail to do the job on the back. It worked out quite well, but it’s definitely a slow process, and wouldn’t be very helpful if you’re cutting out a ton of pieces.

Here’s the built monument, made out of stacked foam and plasticard, and topped with a couple Winter Guard I got on sale today at the HK birthday party.

Like the Unity monument, this one will be a stone foundation with bronzed figures once it’s painted.

The next two pieces are back to the Troll stuff. Here’s a village Krielstone; drawing the 80+ runes on this thing took freaking forever, but I think it came out looking pretty good in the end, so I’m happy. This will be VERY quick to paint.

This is the other one, a shrine to Dhunia. I ended up ripping the “wings” off in the end, as they looked kind of dumb.

It’ll be similarly quick to paint, though I’ll be putting a ton of foliage and flowers into a garden at the base (on the blue-colored part).

Next up, I made some fences. I bought pre-fab fences on sale from Michael’s, but needed a way to securely attach them to the bases. I accomplished this with nails; my accomplices today drilled holes roughly 4″ apart, and we put 1″ tack nails through them. The nails were quite securely attached to the base with hot glue. They’ll snap if a ton of pressure is applied, but should hold up fine under normal gameplay use.

Finally, I cut the fences into 4.5″ segments and glued them to the upright nails (which you can see toward the ends of a few of them). These, like everything else, should be really fast to paint + flock.

All in all a pretty productive day, but once again I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t finish anything. I’ve got three weeks before the next DoV… hopefully I can knock all this out before then.

As with the first Terrain Day, the real fun of today was in the guest stars. I was really terrible about taking pictures of their stuff… I was having too much fun building and goofing around.

Kyle “X” Stratford worked on a few different things. Here he’s detailing a fallen standing stone.

He did a fantastic job of imitating the look of Circle stones on this. To cut out the sunken areas, he carefully traced the edges, then cross-hatched with a knife to “shred” the surface. He then spent quite a while carefully digging the shreds out with the tip of a knife. A tedious process, but you really can’t argue with the results.

Kyle also worked on finishing and basing a few things he started last time, like his his crate stack.

This is Pat “AEdge” Gordon, aka one of the best painters at the Hobby Kingdom, and (as far as I recall) our very first terrain guru. Check out his site for some absolutely spectacular models and terrain. In particular, he’s got a tutorial for how he does some of the best winter terrain (snow and ice) I’ve ever seen. Definitely worth checking out.

Today, Pat worked on water terrain. I helped him cut vaguely 4″x8″ MDF bases, and then he spent the day adding styrofoam “lips” around them to contain water. He textured them with drywall filler (pink goop that hardens like plaster). Here he’s hand-drying some glue after he stuck textured ballast onto the surface.

Our third attendee, Scott Burt, was out of the room when I went around for pictures, but he was working on some sweet trench templates. He gave each one a single elevated side cut out of sloped styrofoam, and held in on the other side by planks and posts like a real trench.

We also had one semi-attendee– Jordan “JDWhitee” White was killing time for an hour, so I drafted him to cut out styrofoam rocks with a wire cutter to make more obstacle bases.

He works very quickly– he made six rock obstacles in an hour. I’ll be painting these myself, but like everything else, they should be really quick. I’m actually going to spray these instead of brushing the basecoat on, because I WANT them to “rot away” a bit from the spray for added texture.

Here’s all my stuff drying. I use a floor heater to speed the process up.

The heater’s also handy for drying my slugs.

Kyle gave me these at the last terrain day– they’re metal remnants from his day job at a machine shop (they want a hole cut in something, so he collected the center circle for each one). They came drenched in machine oil, so I got to spend an hour scrubbing them all with soap and water. I’m going to hit them all with metal spraypaint tomorrow to keep them from rusting, as they’re not galvanized metal or stainless.

We’ll be using these for base weighting on various terrain bits– they’re quite hefty despite their small size.

Aaaaaaaaand that’s what we did today. Here’s all my terrain stuff packed back in my car (the attendees were awesome enough to help me lug it all out there)… I really have too much terrain crap. >_<

Thanks again to everyone who showed up! I’ll have pics of all this stuff when it’s all painted (and pics of the other Elves’ work closer to the event).

Stuff

That’s all I’ve got for you this week. Next week I’ll have updates on my modeling projects, and possibly my Secret Santa model, which I’ve just gotten done priming.

*waves*

-Spud

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Our 5cm canal system is a small-scale counterpart to our already popular gothic canal system for 28mm. Made from lasercut acrylic it’s tough, easy to paint and easy to assemble.

The ”water” is made from translucent acrylic and is offered in smoke grey or in flourescent green for that classic 40K-style. Being translucent it’s easy to create many different effects by placing coloured or printed paper inserts underneath.

I would also like to remind everybody that Xmas is approaching rapidly. In addition to the usual postal delays that accompany the season, please remember that all of our products are made to order. While we will do our upmost to get as many orders out in time for Xmas as possible the earlier you can get them to us the better.

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But there’s a problem. The sprues only carry one infernus pistol! These nasty little weapons pack all of the power of a melta gun into a convenient wrist mounted pistol. Most people are going to want more than one!

Luckily the blood angels death company sprues include two of these weapons so today we’re going to show you how to convert death company infernus pistols for use by your very own sanguinary guard.Er, for Sanguinius!

For this conversion you’re going to need a death company infernus pistol and either a sanguinary guard plasma pistol or angelus bolter. Since we’re not plasma pistol fans here at GDMNW we knew ours would never see the light of day, so we’re using those. But the choice is yours.

Ideally you should use a hobby saw or a series of small cuts with a hobby knife to remove the front end of the plasma pistol. Be careful to avoid damaging the wrist mount beneath the pistol housing.

Next you need to cut away the plasma pistol housing itself. It’s best to cut through the pistol housing and then clean up the top of the wrist mount rather than risk cutting into the mount by cutting away too much at once. You want to leave a flat surface preserving the detail of the mount itself.

Next remove the infernus pistol from the death company arm. This is also best accomplished in two stages. First remove the hand and weapon at the wrist. This cut is easy to make as it is well away from parts of the model we want to preserve.

Second, cut away the hand and clean the area under the pistol housing and behind the heat sink. The designers who made the blood angel miniatures use standard pre-made weapons for all of the range so the death company infernus pistol is identical to the sanguinary guard one.

It’s a perfect fit.

At four cuts, some cleaning and two dots of polystyrene cement this is a straightforward conversion that meets the GDMNW standard for good conversions. (You can’t really tell that it’s been converted) When you put our newly made sanguinary guard infernus pistol next to the real thing you can hardly see the difference.

Here’s some we made earlier. With four of these vicious relics from the dark age of technology our sanguinary guard will be cutting through the oppositions tanks like hot knives through butter.

There you have it. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Tutorial provided by: Garreth at gdmnw.com

A Warhammer: Invasion card of the week

The fearsome knights of the White Wolf are based in the northern city of Middenheim and follow the creed of Ulric, the god of battle, wolves, and winter. The White Wolves wear mantles of wolfskin over their armour and eschew the use of a lance, instead carrying mighty cavalry hammers to smash the skulls of…

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Warhammer: Tower of Sorcery shows you some different ways to use Witchfate Tor and Dreadstone Blight in your games. ‘The Roving Tower of Lustria’ scenario could be very amusing (and pretty frustrating too, I bet) as it features a moving Witchfate Tor. While this is not strictly a rule from the rulebook it is a perfect example of how you can make your battles even more spectacular by adding a scenario that you have designed yourself.

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The Liche King and Skeleton Archers are in stock now! We know these have both been long awaited releases, Both sets officially go on sale this Friday, but we have decided to start sending out any pre-orders for either set from today!

So just as a reminder, here is how you can pick up our latest Undead Releases:
As a special offer, only available if you buy off our website, you can pick up the Liche King as an individual model for only £7.50/€10/$ 13.50. All you have to do is go here!

In addition you can also pick up the Liche King as part of a box-set, which not only includes this fantastic metal sculpt, but also includes 10 plastic Revenants. This set is only £14.95/€20/$ 24.99. Pre-order yours now!

If you are looking for a new ranged unit for your Undead Army, you can pre-order your own Undead Skeleton Archers here!

For only £14.95/€20/$ 24.99 you get the contents of a full Undead Skeleton Troop Box-set, which is enough parts to make 10 skeletons in varying poses, plus you get 10 metal coversion parts to create your archer unit.

(News Source: Mantic Blog)

The dimly lit pub was populated by unsavory characters of all types, sipping their drinks as they surveyed the room from beneath dark hoods. The innkeeper moved deftly and noiselessly to refill the cups of his thirsty patrons with the watered-down swill he kept on tap, until a gaunt man in a tall top hat interrupted him. “I’m looking for something… special, and I understand you’re the man to see,” whispered the visitor. The innkeeper’s eyes narrowed, but the visitor’s hand quickly appeared from beneath his cloak, jingling a leather purse full of coins. “Aye,” grumbled the innkeeper, the glint of gold in his eye. “What’ll it be?”

The thieves of Cadwallon are always looking for an edge, and an inventive innkeeper may have just what they need. But in this town, nothing comes without a price…

Head to our support page and download The Inn (pdf, 320 KB), a variant for Cadwallon: City of Thieves! With these new tools and tricks at your disposal, the streets just got a bit more interesting.

(News Source: Fantasy Flight Games)

On November 25, we are releasing the Tree Warriors, our first unit.

And to celebrate Thanksgiving with our American friends, we’ll throw in a special launch offer…

Don’t miss out!

The Forest is awoken. The Tree Warriors march forth to bring bloody ruin upon the young races. Run while you can…

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Leading a Dwarven army into battle is a grinding, relentless march towards victory – proving to be one of toughest armies to defend against – and it’s never been easier to start your own Dwarf force!

Within the Dwarf Christmas Starter Set you get everything you need to start playing some truly epic tabletop wargames. Inside:

• Dwarf Army Set

• Dwarf Paint Set

• Mantic Clippers
• Army Painter Plastic Glue

Once you have got your models built and painted you can start playing, the FREE rule-set included has been written by the world-famous Alessio Cavatore, and have been designed so you can start playing games immediately.

So what are you waiting for? Order your’s now!

Please Note: This item is currently only available to pre-order and will be shipping on the 26th November 2010

Other Starter Sets: Undead, Dwarf

News Source: Mantic Games blog

Celebrating and showcasing Black Library’s books, audio productions and authors, Black Library Live! returns for its third year at Warhammer World, Nottingham on Saturday 5th March 2011.

Tickets include a free pre-release paperback novel to collect on the day – choose from Time of Legends: Caledor, or Victories of the Space Marines.

Only 350 tickets available so get yours now to avoid disappointment!

For more information about the event, including which authors will be present and which pre-release products will be available on the day, please visit the event page.

November 2010 • 350 tickets to an exclusive event hosted in Warhammer World, Nottingham, United Kingdom • ISBN 5011921021925

News Source: Black Library

Banners from all the Games Workshop stores in the UK, Games Day & Golden Demon 2009

Image by Steve B Chamberlain
Kingsley, my father and myself attend Games Day & Golden Demon 2009

ArkiTris a Lucca Comics & Games 2007 – Marco durante uno degli Workshop

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Marco durante il workshop di colorazione digitale.

Foto © Letizia Tasselli

I think he really nailed the snow on this one. It’s easy to make your snow too slushy if you’re not careful – and this has just the right mix of fluffy and slushy to really work for me.

Get your scenic kit today at the Secret Weapon store!

Privateer Press Brass Balls Challenge

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Me yes thats right TAB …Tracy’s work… over there in the corner… right next to that HUGE pot of paint….do you think they are going to dip it …noooooo!

privateer press cosplay 3

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Games Workshop

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Games Workshop-butikken i Møllergata 5

See, Games Workshop

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Micah at Games Workshop, Barcelona, Spain. He was really excited to point them out since they don’t exist near our home.

Games Workshop Club Room

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New Games Workshop has a room full of fold-up tables covered in imaginary landscapes. Kind of reminded me of a whist drive.

Games Workshop

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10 Rue du Lombard 1000 Brussels, Belgium
www.games-workshop.com/

The decision to design the cockpit after the Totenköpfe skull was primarily nostalgic and a matter of national pride. The frame of the first Leviathan was designated VR5 in honor of the 5^th Regiment commanded by Colonel von Ruesch, the first Hussar commander to use the deaths head symbol. The Prussian army Hussar first adopted this symbol in 1744.

The Mortis in its purest form is outfitted with two close combat weapons, and no additional armor, this allows for the fastest possible movement and a vicious close combat capability. The massive oil stacks provide the option of overcharging the reactor for enhanced speed or combat. Two KwK 200 20cm auto cannons mounted in the torso ensure its survivability in a ranged engagement.

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If you would like to see the movie on a big screen, ahead of the release date, simply email moviepreview@ultramarinesthemovie.com with your name, address and contact number, and BLOG in the subject line, by 6pm GMT Tuesday November 23rd.

Ten winners will be drawn at random by an independent party, and notified by email on Wednesday November 24th.

ULTRAMARINES has been rated as 15 Certificate in the UK and rated R in the US.

Read the Terms & Conditions here.

First one out will be the blog by Ricalopia where he painted this awesome Eldar units….

Here is my second vyper, just one more to go until a full squadron, meaning 21 str 6 shots. Yes please, especially at 210 points.

Does a swarm of eldar bikes and grav tanks remind anyone else of schools of fish?

There was no green on that vyper, it didn’t feel ‘right’. So with the war walker I attempted to use both.

The bad part is, now I only want to look at it from the one side…
That’s all for now, I must get back to my fire prisms.
Ricalope.

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Lord Elthenar’s Vengeful Cohort is a great way to start your own Elf army this Christmas, or to expand your current force. Within this set you get: 40 Spearmen, 40 Bowmen, 20 Seaguard, 20 Scouts, 20 Palace Guard, 5 Stormwind Cavalry, 2 Bolt Throwers, 1 Dragon’s Breath, the Elf King’s Court, an Elven Lord on Dragon and the limited edition Elven General. That is an incredible 160 figures!

Also included in this set is a FREE Mantic Messenger Bag and Printed Kings of War Rules included in this set!

Elthenar Bladedancer is the youngest lord of the Eastern Reaches ever to have worn the mantle of rulership, yet in the decades since donning the sacred Helm of Dawn he has earned the respect of both ally and foe alike. Haughty, arrogant and proud, he is regarded as a fair if merciless and cold ruler, yet it is on the field of battle where his true skills come to the fore. Indeed, such is his tactical brilliance and unmatched blade-skills that he has been compared to the great dragon-riding battle kings of old.

This army deal allows you to field an impressive Elven Army, made up of an amazing 160 figures, for an absolutely incredible price of  £150/€185/$ 270

So what are you waiting for? Pre-order yours here!
Please Note: This item is currently only available to pre-order and will be shipping on the 26th November 2010

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The fearsome short-ranged firepower of a Hurricane Bolter is often used to augment the Ironclad’s firepower, allowing the ancient hero within the sarcophagus to saturate breached defences with a deadly storm of bolter shells. The MkIV Ironclad Dreadnought is a full resin kit that comes complete with Hunter Killer Missiles and Frag Assault Launchers, furthering the Ironclad’s potent weaponry, as well as additional armour plates to fit the resin MkIV Hurricane Bolter, MkIV Seismic Hammer and MkIV Chainfist and our other MkIV Dreadnought arms. Each of these detailed kits is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing December 6th.

News Source: Forgeworld

The first of our new wave of Space Marine releases is the devastatingly powerful Land Raider Achilles. This resin and plastic hybrid kit, designed by Stuart Williamson, boasts sponson-mounted twin Multi-Meltas and a hull-mounted Thunderfire Cannon. A line-breaker beyond compare, the Land Raider Achilles’ firepower is capable of forcing a breach in even the strongest defences at the tip of an armoured assault.

Originating in the closing years of the Great Crusade, the Achilles is perhaps the rarest and most venerable Land Raider variant still used on the battlefields of the 41st Millenium. It was originally created by the Imperial Fists Legion in response to a dire xenos threat now lost to the mists of history, and fittingly rare outside the noble Imperial Fists, their successors and the Ordo Reductor of the Adeptus Mechanus. The Achilles is perhaps most vaunted for its legendary durability – each stage of the hull’s construction incorporates layer upon layer of ancient electromagnetic algorithms and ferromantic incantations. This arcane lore is etched into the very structure of the Land Raider Achilles at a molecular level, and is one the most secret and ancient rites of the Cult Mechanicus.

The Land Raider Achilles is a complete resin and plastic kit, and is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing December 6th, and is included in the Space Marine Siege Assault Vanguard army list in the forthcoming Imperial Armour Volume 10: The Badab War Part II. As an exclusive extra, we have prised the rules for the Achilles from Alan Bligh’s grasp and they are available to download for free here.

News Source: Forgeworld

The hand appears to have a fraction of malign intelligence within it. It speaks to those it believes it can corrupt. Attempts to silence its voice have proven useless. Currently Savant-Militant Grendel is engaged in a struggle of wills with the dark entity that now takes home within. He is one of the fair few trained in the…

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The latest release for our hugely popular Bolt Action Waffen-SS range are the Specialists. Containing two-man Sniper and Flamethrower teams this pack will give your army plenty of focused fire…

Whether it’s an accurate headshot at 300 yards or a gout of flame to clear an unsecured bunker, this pack has it all.

As with the rest of the Waffen-SS range the models utitilise the Warlord Figure Head system of separate heads. This give you loads of scope for building your force as you wish to and in the posing that suits your personal tastes. The Sniper has two different head options – the one shown here with the metal face mask and the other has him with a face veil pulled to one side as he takes the shot.

Alternately you can pick up either the Sniper Team or Flamethrower Team separately in our Waffen-SS reinforcements section.

Don’t forget to lend some support to your dedicated Waffen-SS Specialists! The Waffen-SS boxed set has a slew of great miniatures at a great price. You get a 6-man Command Squad, 9-man squad, an 81mm mortar with 3 crew, and 2 soldats with StG44 assault rifles. Nice! Head here to get your hands on a box for yourself.

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New: Waffen-SS Specialists!

City Street bases are great for both fantasy cities and more modern cities.  The streets are brick and some bases contains sidewalk curbs, drains, and manhole covers.  This theme will really work great for Malifaux, Warmachine, Hordes, Spinespur, and Warhammer Fantasy.  Right now the 30mm fancy round is available.  The next bases to arrive in this series will be the 40mm and 50mm fancy round.  Eventually there will be the full line of square and normal round bases as well.

Wooden Deck bases will be great for a pirate theme army or any place that has old wooden floors.  30mm Fancy Round is now available and the 40mm and 50mm fancy rounds are in progress now.  This theme will also be fully flushed out to include the square and normal rounds in the future.

(News Source: Warcast Studios)

The new “Flight Deck” series has launched with nine new products and an “All Your Bases” package! This new set includes TWO new 90x120mm oval flight bases including the one in the detail photo above.

Pick up your set at the Secret Weapon store today!

	Sprue Review – Dark Eldar Ravager www.battlebunker.com Following on from my Hellion review I open a Ravager box to discover the truth we all knew was coming ! Bom bom bom ! Part One here: www.youtube.com	From: BattleBunkerTV Views: 382 12 ratings
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The 50mm Fancy Round Dirt Bases are complete and will be available to purchase on the web site shortly.  This completes the 3 different sizes in the dirt theme for use in games like Warmachine, Hordes, Malifaux, Spinespur, and Brushfire.  There are more to come in the Dirt theme.  We will soon have the complete Dirt line in square bases and non fancy round bases.

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This is a truly huge set of Zombies! In fact enough zombie models to build your own horde – in one easy purchase. The set of 60 pose-able plastic models comes with lots of conversion parts, and includes sprues letting you make figures with just shambling legs, and others dragging themselves across the ground – ideal ways to add Zombie-esque character to your Undead army, or board game.

This set includes:

• 60 Undead Zombie figures
• 2 Undead Poster Guides and 4 Sticker Sheets
• 4 Mantic Points
• 60 20mm bases

Models supplied unassembled and unpainted.

So what are you waiting for? Pick up your very own Zombie Horde here!

Please Note: The Zombie Horde is made up of two Zombie Regiments, this deal is exclusive to the Mantic Website.

(News Source: Mantic Games)

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Our Revenant Cavalry Competition has been massively popular, which is great to see!

The competition is now closed. To win all you had to do was tell us

Well, kind of…

New ideas and thoughts about the future of Librarium Online are needed and all requests, questions and ideas should be sent to post@librarium-online.com. There are no age limit, the only thing we want from you is good ideas.

Everyone with good ideas will be put into groups where they can work with their own LO project in dedicated private forums. LO emails are also offered for those who interested.

We have our first cast in of our Mycetic Spore, as you can see it could realistically transport a carnifex ora  brood of gaunts.  This is a 4 piece model

First up are the pre-heresy Thousand Sons shoulder pads, these are especially nice showing their first attempt at pre-heresy Terminator pads, also they have a rather nice Mantis Warriors space marine pad set.

Lastly for the pads, the Chapterhouse Studios resculpted the Blood Ravens shoulder pads to have a blood drop instead of an inverted drop.  The previous pads will be listed as Blood Eagle pads, while the updated sculpts will be listed as Blood Ravens pads.

They also offer 3 new Rhino Conversion Kits for the Space Wolves, Dragon based Chapters, and a Tactical Door kit with skulls

(News Source)

S6 Engineering is a new manufacturer of wagaming scenery and accessories.

They already have several exciting ranges of new products available including a modular gothic canal system and a unique modular city system which is offered in two scales – the larger ideal for 25-30mm systems like 40K, the smaller for 15mm and 6mm systems such as Epic, Heavy Gear and Battletech.

In addition to they have a selection of accessory items including template sets in various colours to match your army and a unique magnetic flying stand with the most positive attachment available.

(More at s6engineering.co.uk)

Alien Temple Gaming Bases
Bases are available in sets as follows:

• 25mm Round Bases Alien Temple (Set A) 5 for £3.50
• 25mm Round Bases Alien Temple (Set B) 5 for £3.50

or you can buy both sets in our special combi pack:

• Combi Pack (Set A & Set B) for just £6.00

These bases are available right now and we will start shipping orders this Monday (8th November).

We have plenty more bases and themes planned over the coming months (for both Sci-fi and Fantasy). We will also be expanding the ‘Alien Temple’ theme to give you a larger range of base sizes for your armies and units .

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We’ve also got a reminder about the very last show that we’ll be attending this year – the IPMS Scale ModelWorld event which takes place on the 13th and 14th of November.

Eldar Hornet Available to Pre-Order Now

The Eldar Hornet, designed by Daren Parrwood, is a brand-new addition to the Eldar range. One of several new Eldar units that will feature in the forthcoming Imperial Armour Volume 11, this complete resin kit may be armed with a full range of Eldar weaponry and is supplied with two resin Pulse Lasers, and a plastic Eldar heavy weapon sprue, to allow you to refine its potent weaponry to a specific battlefield role.

The Hornet is a light tank employed by Eldar armoured forces in a fast reconnaissance and raiding role. Piloted by a single crewman, it can be found in the forefront of Eldar aspect warrior assault waves, speeding ahead of heavier Falcons and Wave Serpents and often operating alongside other high-speed attack craft such as jetbikes and Vypers.

The Eldar Hornet is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing the 29th of November. Imperial Armour writer Warwick Kinrade has put together a set of experimental rules for the Hornet which can be downloaded for free here.

Raptors Transfer Sheet

Masters of stealth and ambush, the Raptors play a major role in the Badab War and this new A4 transfer sheet, designed by Paul Rudge, is packed with over 150 Chapter symbols, squad markings and vehicle identifiers.
These decals, along with our existing Raptors Terminator Shoulder Pads, Rhino Doors and Land Raider Door sets, allow Raptors players to add unique character and detail to their armies.

This fantastic new decal sheet is available to pre-order now and will be despatched in the week commencing the 29th of November

Etched Brass Sheets

The latest additions to our range of detailed Etched Brass symbols are these fantastic sets of Iron Hands and Imperial/Crimson Fists icons and Ork Glyphs from the talented hands of Graphic Artist Kenton Mills.

The Iron Hands and Imperial/Crimson Fists frames are packed with intricate symbols, Chapter and Company markings, scrollwork and Imperial Aquilae that can be used to decorate your Space Marine vehicles and infantry, as you can see in the images on the Forge World website

The Ork Glyphs frame provides a huge range of Ork pictograms with which to embellish the vehicles, armour and banners of your Clans to suitably insult your foes. The Ork sheet also contains a chequy pattern on the frame itself that you can trim into smaller sections and add to almost any model in the Ork range.

Each of these Etched Brass sheets is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing the 29th of November.

Forge World Events News

IPMS Scale Model World Reservations Now Being Taken
Forge World will be attending the IPMS Scale Model World show at the International Centre in Telford on November 13th and 14th and once again, we’ll have a sales stand packed with a wide range of resin models, weathering powders and Imperial Armour publications. All of this will be available to purchase at the show and anything we run out of can be ordered on the day with the added bonus of completely free shipping!

If you have a specific shopping list, the best way to guarantee that we’ll have exactly what you want is to place a reservation order beforehand.

To place a reservation, just send an e-mail titled ‘IPMS Reservation’ to ForgeworldReservations@games-workshop.co.uk including your name and a list of the items you’d like us to provide, you can also telephone us on 0115 916 8177. In either case, we will provide you with an order number and total cost slightly before the event. We’ll also inform you of anything that we can’t guarantee to reserve for you.

For this tutorial, I’ll be using Inkscape since it’s a free program available to anyone. If you’re not interested in creating a badge digitally, feel free to skip ahead to step 4 for the stamp making. As I said we’ll be using Inkscape here. You can get it for free at Inkscape. Draw Freely.

Basic Tools

• Super Sculpy
• Sculpy (optional)
• GreenStuff
• X-acto
• Good tweezers
• Smoothing tool
• Tape
• Some plastic (Plastic bag works great)
• Vaseline

A little more advanced Tools

1. Digital Art Program. Preferably something with Vector (Pen) tools.
2. Printer

I’ll take a second to explain why going down the sometimes troublesome path of creating a vector can be useful. As most people familiar with photo editing or digital art know. Significantly resizing an image generally looks like garbage.That’s because they’re pixel based images (rasterised). When resizing a rasterised image it tries it’s best to fill in gaps or cram too much data into a shrinking area, resulting in a mess As seen on the left side below.

A vector on the other hand is never really “printed” onto your workspace. It’s lines are mathmatical solutions connecting the points you’ve provided. Slightly confusing, yes, but what this means is you can scale up that vector to be the size of your house, or down to fit on a space marine’s shoulder pad and it’ll look exactly the same as your original. This is shown on the right side of the image below.

Step 1

So let’s crack open Inkscape and get to work.You’ll be presented with a blank work area. Start by pasting in your source image. A source is very important in all artwork, and it makes vector life so much easier. In this case I have a badge for the Raptors chapter from Lexicanum, but it could be anything like a photo or original artwork. I’ve sized the image up quite a bit to make it a little easier to work with. This is done with the selection tool. Click on your image, grab one of the corner arrows, and drag while holding CTRL to keep it from distorting. Then go up to Layer and Create New Layer. Name it whatever, this is where you’ll be putting your vector object.

Step 2

From now on we’ll be using two tools for the whole project. “Draw Bezier Curves and Straight Lines” (Draw) and “Edit Paths by Nodes” (Edit)

With the draw tool a single click will give you a hard point and straght line.
With a click+drag you’ll pull out a Bezier handle that can be edited later.

Take the draw tool and select your starting point. This should be an area with a flat edge or point. Start with a click and it’ll feed out your vector “rope”. On large curves like the beak, you’ll want to put another point on about the center of the curve.On small curves you’ll want a point at the start of the curve and a point at the end. I pulled out a bezier handle and matched the line to the curve of the beak.

Now it’s easiest to make the outline in one pass. So keep clicking away tracing your artwork, making sure to give yourself enough points to work with later, but too many and you’ll get a headache. Generally speaking give yourself 3 points for a big curve, 2 for a small, and a hard point for your sharp edges. If you’re not sure about a point, just be safe and give yourself a bezier handle, you can always edit it later.

Don’t worry! It’ll look like crap when you finish. Now it’s time to edit.

Step 3

Grab your Edit tool and start repositioning points to make everything pretty. The bezier handels in this program are a little finniky, but managable. If you’re looking for a sharp corner, push one side of the handle all the way into the point. Then readjust the other end of the handle to match your curve. With a little doing it’s very simple.

Now that that you have an outline, add any interior detail by starting a new vector object (just start clicking again). In my case I only have the eye. Once that’s complete and edited you can shift+click all your objects, go up to Path and hit Combine.

Now let’s go up to Object and hit Fill and Stroke. What a cool bird! Make sure your new vector object is selected. Note that I get rid of the eye and filled it with Flat color – Black to aid with my stamp making later on.

To size your badge (or whatever) go to File > Document Properties. Change your page units under Custom Size from px (pixels) to Inches or mm.Then click on the Grids tab and enable Grids with inches (or mm). I decided that 1/4 inch tall is a decent size for a space marine badge, so I changed spacing X and Y to 0.25. Now you’ve got a properly sized badge and can color it to your liking and duplicate it to high heaven for printing transfer sheets just like the ones on BoLS, or make a small sheet of different sizes to print for a stamp making aid

Step 4 – Stamping.

This entire stamping portion was done with an X-acto knife, a little bit of toothpicking, and smoothing with a silicone tipped clay tool. It’s pretty straight forward but I decided to include it anyway for the sake of completeness.

I printed out a little sheet to help guide me and taped it onto a plastic bag so it wouldn’t get mucked up. I flattened out a round of Super Sculpy to cover one of my pad sized prints. I use this as a loose guide to make my cuts. I just cut a little out at a time and keep matching it up to my print out. Super Sculpy is important for this as it’s much firmer and easier to cut at than just plain Sculpy. I didn’t worry about really sharp points as this can be cleaned up in the negatives. Once that’s done I stuck it in the oven to bake. A good trick I learned about sculpy in art school is ignore the cooking instructions on the back. Preheat your oven to 250-275, put your piece in, and turn the oven off. Then just leave it for a few hours or until the oven is cooled off. For very thick stuff just leave it on for 5-10 minutes then turn it off.

Step 5

Now flatten out a bit of Sculpy. I prefer this kind for the stamp as it’s much softer so I don’t have to worry about cracking or anything. Just push in however many times you want so you can be GSing several at a time. The toughest part is getting the original out. It takes a light hand and some pointy tweezers, but most of the time it comes right out. Now bake your new stamp. (Edited with a better stamp)

Step 6

Put a thin coat of vaseline into your stamps making sure it gets in all the corners but doesn’t build up enough to block the GS. I use a crappy old brush for this. Mix up a ball of GS and carefully push it in. Again, the corners are important. Let it sit in the stamp for a few minutes then carefully peel it out, trim off any excess, and slap it onto whatever you want.

I use this for a lot of random little things that I need a few of. Besides Chapter badges of various sizes I’ve done goggles for my Imperial Guardsmen and plan on doing some simple backpacks.

GS could be used instead of scuply of course, but I prefer the feel and endless working time of it. Plus it’s extremely cheap compared to most epoxies.

If I glossed over any important steps let me know and I’ll clear that up. I feel like I got everything in there.

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The guys at Zlurpcast just got another show ready for you.

On the road with Main Guy and Other Guy! November’s Zlurpcast was mostly recorded at a crummy hotel the day after Orctoberfest, where Main Guy has one nut out, Other Guy is crying from losing to Main Guy, and Taylor 2.0 has anal warts. Oh, and a bird shit on Jonny’s head outside the hotel just before he was arguing with them about how 3 dudes were going to fit in one bed.  True story!   To round out this episode, we are airing an awesome and informative interview with Romeo from Battlefoam, Zlurpcast’s newest sponsor. Also, Bertha Bigfist checks in and Xtreme announces our latest contest – it’s our best one yet!

(News Source: Zlurpcast)

The Crystal Brush awards are a showcase for the best in miniature painting, primarily focused on fictional settings. As a competition meant to celebrate the hobby,  figures from any manufacturer are welcome.

Huge cash prize

Chief highlight was the news that the top scoring miniature would receive $10,000, and unheard of sum for miniatures.  2nd and 3rd prizes were also guaranteed at $2,000 and $1,000 respectively.

“This is quite a large sum of money”, said Chern Ann Ng, Director at CoolMiniOrNot. “Running CoolMiniOrNot.com since 2001 has shown us that there is a huge pool of talent out there, but global competition tends to be focused around just manufacturer sponsored and controlled events. ”

“We thought it was high time that someone stepped forward and organized a competition that would really let creative juices flow, regardless of manufacturer ties.  Hopefully, the miniature painting community will see we are dead serious and we expect a good turnout and fantastic miniatures.”

(News Source: Crystalbrush.com)