Forge World New:Stormeagle? and more...

So I was just on Facebook and saw that this had been leaked on Warseer....

Fantastic looking kit and I think is an interesting addition to the Marine range. Apparently an add on to the Stormraven so basically makes it look a lot more awesome. Look forward to seeing what this is all about.

Also released is the new new weapons for the Chaos Decimator the Conversion Beamer and SoulBurner.

And also New weapon options for the Deimos Pattern Predator which includes the Conversion Beamer and Plasma Turret.

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Forge World:Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour

Once again the 'shut up and take my money company' have done it again and released some excellent looking Marine variant armour.

Mini Contemptor Dreadnoughts, I really like them personally, very different to the usual Terminator. One thing I also really like about them is the more dynamic poses they have over the regular Terminators. They look bad-ass and I think they will be quite popular.

Let me know what you think.

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Forge World News:Minotaur's Characters and Rapier Laser Destructor

Got the newsletter and once again loved what I see and am very jealous of people doing Minotaurs, wish they did me some Crimson Fist characters.

The Rapier Laser Destructor looks awesome and I was talking about getting a stand-in for a Thunderfire Cannon and this is very tempting. I may just wait till (fingers crossed) they release it in either plastic or finecast, plastic preferably. Also I noticed that this is from Rogue Trader days so I'm sure the old school guys will be jumping on this.

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Forge World New Release:Chaos Decimator Daemon Engine

Just got the newsletter through and wow! Just wow! This thing looks absolutely fantastic!

It has a very good Chaos look to it but not to much which I like, kinda looks like a mini titan.

The price also I think is fairly reasonable when you consider the size of it (pictured below) the price being £35 for the body.

Me wants....

Personally Dreadnoughts are one of my favourite things in 40k and when Forge World released the Contemptor I thought that was excellent and then they released the Relic version which I thought looked even sweeter and now they release this and I think this tops it personally. The design is excellent and they have out done themselves once again.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CHAOS_DECIMATOR_DAEMON_ENGINE.html

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150+ Followers Giveaway

So without my realising I have hit a rather awesome milestone which I'm really happy about. I never expected to get as much attention as I have gotten and I appreciate everyone of you. I've been trying to think of what to give as a prize and came to the conclusion that £15 from Wayland Games would work. I get around 90% of my stuff from there and I know that not all of you like/want GW stuff and because of that I thought I'd choose somewhere you'd have a little freedom to choose.

So just so it's clear that's one thing worth up to £15 from Wayland Games obviously delivery not included.

So how do you enter?

Well I'll show you....

My Shiny New Resin Bases...

So I've been waiting awhile but I finally picked up some resin bases for my Imperial Fist army to really finish off what I have painted.

The ones I picked up are reasonably cheap I think for resin bases and are great quality in my opinion.

Check 'em out

This is just what I had out at the time the rest are in the wash.

What I ended up buying was 30 25mm bases, 5 40mm and 3 60mm bases. This all came to around £20 which I think is really good for what I got.

Link to ebay store I purchased them from

If you want specific links just ask.

My only real problem now is how do I paint them? Generally I think I'm going for the grey mixes for the  rubble/ground and dirt/rusty metals but I want to try and spice it up a little. Any suggestions? Also if you have any tutorials for rusty/dirty metal please point them out.

One last thing I have added a chatbox to the sidebar so get chattin! Maybe give me some tips for my bases on there?

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Which 40k Army Do You Want Next?

So as it is a release of a WFB army today in the way of the Vampire Counts I tough to myself about all the rumours I've seen circling the blogosphere recently about the next armies coming. Thearmies that seem to be next for release are Black Templars, the Tau, Chaos and Eldar. Now my question to you is which would you rather see hitting the shelves next?

I think what most excites me about coming release is the quality in miniatures seems to be getting better. I'm not saying quality in production, Finecast being a major fail in some cases but seems to be passing now which is great, but the designs and actual product seem to be just getting better with every release. Dark Eldar for example have a fantastic range now I think and the miniatures are great. I really do look forward to any models from any of those armies just to see how they turn out. The release schedule seems to be pretty all over the place with the latest one I saw was that Eldar were to be next with 6th edition (seemingly the only thing with a solid release period of around june/july) after them. I find this interesting being that most of the rumours have been mainly Tau and Black Templar related. But I think they would be choice for release next as I love the Eldar range and would love to see it get an update and with the fluff of 4k going the way it is I would love to see Eldar then 6th then obviously Codex Space Marines the Chaos to see how the story goes.
 

The only thing that worries me is that I'm gonna turn into a 'ooo look at the shiny new Codex' kinda person haha. I haven't even properly started my Necrons and I'm still looking at the rumours thinking 'Oh I might start a Chaos or Eldar army when they are released' haha. I'm going to try and resist and get through what I have and then start my next one. My aim I think is to get a 2000 point army painted for both my Imperial Fists and my Necrons before I move on to the next thing haha.

One think I will finish with is how do you think these Codices are gonna look in a competitve standpoint? With Necrons I think you have a good balanced Codex that brings up some exciting things do you hope for another Necron Codex for these releases or would you prefer the more 'broken' Grey Knights? More than likely if it is your chosen army you would like the latter but I think the Necron Codex is competitive enough and fun enough to be a good thing for all new releases.  Let it be known that I am still a noob and anything I say about competitive should be taken lightly as I don't know much about what I am talking about but am just making an observation. Anyone who knows what they are talking about please correct me if I am wrong.

So which would you like to see next? Will you jumping on any of these releases?

Let me know and thanks for reading.

Warflake Out.

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Whats On Your Xmas List....

So with Xmas only a few days away I thought I'd ask what you were looking forward to getting?

Maybe it's an opportunity to start that Necron Army?

Maybe it's a chance to get some resin crack from Forge World?

Let me know what you've asked for and what your hoping for.

On another note what's your opinion on this years GW xmas release? The army sets looked pretty nice to be honest. The Space Marine boxset actually looked pretty good. And how about the Eavy Metal Brush Set and the Mega Paint Set?

For me it's a chance to get a start on my Necrons with only Warriors at this moment in time....

Also possibly add to my Space Marines....

We shall see....

I have a few pictures to take but the misses has taken the camera to her parents for Xmas unfortunately.

Thanks for reading.....

Warflake Out.

Autocannon Dreadnought #1 FInished...

So my first Autocannon Dreadnought is complete using the arms from bitspudlo.com.

Before you say I do realise how bent the barrels are but I shall sort them out as soon as I can. Being that there resin that shouldn't be to hard.

Overall I really like the design and it was nice and easy to paint.

Looks pretty badass to.

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Forge World New Release 05/12/11

So the moment we have all been waiting for is here....

The arrival of the Contemptor Pattern Autocannon.....

Pretty badass...

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CONTEMPTOR-PATTERN-AUTOCANNON.html

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New Bitspudlo Alternative Necron Products

Once again our friends over at bitspudlo.com have released and are going to release a couple of cool looking Necron alternatives for you who need/can't wait for the model.

First up are the scheduled for release soon Scarabs (I will update you with when if your interested)

If the pricing of there previous products are anything to go by expect these to be really reasonable and I'm fairly positive I shall be purchasing from them as soon as they release.


Then we move onto what is released which I'm really interested about, there alternative Triarch Stalker.

No Necron seated in the cockpit (for obvious reasons) but that is easily fixed and you can't argue this looks pretty menacing. This is really a case of if you can wait or you really need one and your scratchbuilding skills aren't upto par (much like myself). Personally I love it let me know what you think.

If your interested in this heres the link to it. Reasonable pricing once again I feel considering the fact it is made from resin.

Thank you Bitspudlo for releasing a great looking product once again.

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Forge World New Release 18/11/11

So just got the Newsletter and this thing really caught my eye so had to post it up.

His name is Irillyth Pheonix Lord of the Shadow Spectres

 Link to check it out http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/IRILLYTH-PHOENIX-LORD-OF-THE-SHADOW-SPECTRES_.html

Also please note that there is a reason I haven't posted last few days, I have been working for a charity furniture company and when I get home the last thing I think of is blogging or anything for that matter haha. I have the weekend and mondays off though so I shall get hobby done during that time and hopefully get some more content.

Until then I'm sure you will agree this guy looks fantastic.

Well done Forge World once again.

Warflake Out.

A Massive Thank You

A big thanks go out to The Emperors Codex as he gave me a shout out over him buying the Autocannon Dread alternative arms I suggested here.

I will say also that one of the owners of bitspudlo.com commented and also message me on Dakka Dakka to thank me for referring people to them as they saw a spike in there traffic coming from my blog.

So thank you for acknowledging that and thanks to everyone that went over there and at least had a look as they do some great work and I see only good things coming from them.

What I will also say on an un-related note I'm in the process of completely re-designing the blog, which includes the name as you can see. New banner is in the works first of all, struggling with a bit of the design currently haha.

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Autocannon Dreadnought WIP

So I got in these lovely Autocannons from http://bitspudlo.com/ extremely cheap and great quality. If you want them look in the section Bitsbox.eu and look at there flak cannon platform.

Basically you have these Dreadnought shaped arm attachments that are separate from the platform mechanism and you have to do some minor work to get them to fit. I will say that it will make it easier if you have a dremel, but I used a knife haha. It's all resin so easy to work with, I'm now gonna sort out some magnets to make it easier for me to keep them on. This is because it was hard to get the hole sizes right with a knife but I did an alright job haha.

So I highly recommend checking them out even just to look at there other bits.

Apologies for the poor pictures but my set up has gone missing since moving stuff around haha.

I will try and get a better set up soon as I have a few things to show.

Thread where I found them http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/341067.page

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Warflake Out.

Thoughts On The New Necrons

So the new necron units hit the internet yesterday and frankly people went absolutely crazy haha.

I can understand why and if you haven't seen them I have the pictures here

So my initial thoughts were 'Amazing! New Necrons! Yeah!' but then I tried to stay level headed and went through the pictures properly.

The First thing I noticed were the fact that none of them had the florescent green tubes, which in my plans to replace them with a different colour isn't to much of a bad thing for me.

I then noticed the obvious influence from Star Wars with there transport.

One thing I have noticed is people complaining about them being to much like Tomb Kings, to me this isn't a problem as I noticed the obvious throw back to them from before and didn't mind that then and don't mind it now. I was going to go further into the influence of Egyptians with the colour scheme with golds, bronze and blues and such.

Generally I would say the only thing I didn't care much for are the snipers.

I personally just don't understand the idea of this unit but I can get over that with the others.

I think they have made the units alot more interesting looking and alot less minimalist which you either love or hate but I personally like the new design.

I think what I'm really looking forward to now is the Codex to see how all this stuff ways up in stats.

Though I am tempted to pre-order with Total Wargamer (See top/turn ad-blocker off) having up to 22% off.

That is extremely tempting now that I know what they look like.

If you haven't already seen the units please go here check them out and let me know in the comments section if you like/hate them, what you like/hate about them and whether you will be purchasing them.

I think I'm fairly settled I'm getting them but I think like most people I want to see how there codex weighs up.

I think they have GW have once again come up with some amazing kits that are, as usual, unrivalled. This is why we continue to throw money at them haha.

Thanks.

Warflake Out

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New Necron Releases Leaked...

Wow some interesting photos coming out from the Necron rumours courtesy of Beasts of War.

This being the Command Barge

Possible Jump Infantry?

Let me know what you think of them.

I personally think they have a fitting design and look forward to seeing them.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/

One thing I did notice is the lack of clear plastic....Interesting.

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Warflake Out

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Community Shoutout: Give Away

So I thought I would direct your attention for a moment towards Mr HOTPanda and his Blog The Chaos Manifesto as he is holding a give away in celebration of his 100th Post. All you need to do is just be a follower of his blog and you shall be entered in to win a Games Workshop Gift Certificate.

So please head over to his blog and give him a follow and you may just get yourself a nice discount off of the growing expenses of Games Workshop products.

I don't think you can argue with that personally.

Just so you know where I found out this information here is the link to his give away http://thechaosmanifesto.blogspot.com/2011/10/100-post-by-me-and-give-away-from-me.html

Thanks!

Warflake Out

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Necrons In Two Weeks? Next Army?

So according to alot of the big sites/forums the Necrons shall be returning with an update in two weeks. I'm looking forward to it to be honest as they do interest me and for them to get an update may push me to get them. Plus my girlfriend keeps telling me to buy them for some reason. She says that should be my next army and as we share money I can't argue haha.

So are you guys looking forward to it?

I think one thing this may be is just a tie over White Dwarf release much like the Sisters. Mainly because if they are releasing 6th Edition next year they may just tie them over until then. But I hope they do a better job with the Necrons rather than make the codex worse as many Sisters players are claiming.

There is some really interesting rumours floating around one of the biggest ones being the introduction of a transport. This I think might be true due to how the game has turned into a 'parking lot' as many gamers have put it.

But I hope they don't ruin them as one of the reasons I like them as they are very different to the other armies and I hope they remain to be unique.

So if they do get a nice update expect to see some Necrons coming to you!

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2011/10/40k-rumors-necrons-two-weeks-out.html

Thanks.

Warflake Out

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Should GW stock Forge World?

So I've seen a few videos and a couple of people bringing it up since Games Day about how the lines were ridiculous purely because people wanted Forge World. I look at the line and even joined it a couple of times to later think better of it and decided to leave it. Which I think a few people did.

So this does beg the question of whether they should stock Forge World so that it is more easily accessible for people to pick up.

I just watched a video where the guy had sent a letter to Mark Wells asking whether this was possible and he got a response of no because they had apparently already tried that a few years back and they didn't sell the stock.

I think that this is most probably true but I also think that if they tried it again it would be popular. I think that since they tried it last time FW has grown alot and people really want there stuff. I think this is mainly due to people wanting Pre Heresy themed armies due to Black Librarys Horus Heresy books, which they do stock.

I'm interested in what you think about this as I know that if it was in front of me I'm more likely to buy it.

It would eliminate shipping charges which I'm sure people like alot.

Another thing I think would be good is if independent retailers could stock them which I'm sure that a big percentage of them would if they were given the chance to.

Let me know your thoughts and if by any chance you are a retailer if you would be interested in stocking Forge World if you could.

I would also like to say I commend Mark Wells for responding to the guys letter.

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One thing that was bought up was the packaging. Being that the presentation right now is just a bag how could they get around that without boosting the price more?

Also bought up is if they could use there ordering service in store to order FW bits to be sent to the store as they do with there own products if it's not in stock.

This way no extra packaging needed and people wouldn't have to pay shipping also.
 
Thanks.

Warflake Out.

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Cheap Dreadnought Autocannon Alternative

So I wanted four twin linked Autocannon arms for my Dreadnoughts but really didn't want to pay out like £30 for 4 arms from Forge World. So while I was looking around for people's conversions I found this thread on Dakka Dakka

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/341067.page

Which showcased some cool bits but it wasn't until I saw this...

I knew I wanted them!

If you have a look through that thread I posted there is a couple of examples of people that have used these for there Dreadnoughts straight off the sprue.

And the best part is the price.

I paid £16 after shipping for 2 of these which equals four Dreadnought arms =D

I think there other stuff looks cool but I want to wait till I get these before buying anything else from them.

Here is a link to there site for you to check there stuff out.

http://bitspudlo.com/t/category/216-bitsbox-dot-eu

Thanks!

Warflake Out

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