British 2nd Commandos

My box of Commandos arrived last week and I've been having great fun putting them together.They are even better models than the American infantry I began with. I've designed a list, 600 points of Commandos built from this box and a Tamiya Bren Carrier.

DreadBall Arena–Name that Stadium

The Kickstarter for Dreadball has been running for just over a week now and is doing great, $137k and rising. If anyone hasn’t seen it (unlikely I know) check it out, I wrote some first opinions of it here and haven’t been disappointed. The stretch goals to this point have been grand, nothing out of the box, but we still have four weeks and I’m expecting some big things.

Jake Thornton, the designer of the game has been releasing a series of articles on his blog, Quirkworthy. So far he has covered a bunch of rules and game concepts that shed some light on the game beyond Mantic’s great responses on the KS page and Frontline Gamer’s & War and Peace’s previews of the game on their own blogs. Again I recommend everyone to read these articles if you want to know more about the game, especially Jake’s.

OK, on to the point of this post. I plan to make a pitch for Dreadball. This is a project that goes beyond what I can manage really, but given my success (albeit slow) with my Tru-scale Grey Knights I’m willing to reach. I have gone through the cupboards and been down to the hardware store and collected together this pile of resources.

That’s a few wooden boards, some coloured folders, battery powered lights, some cardboard and a can of black spray.
Combined with some maths:  I’m ready to start.

And that’s where I realised I have no decent name for my stadium (pitch) or my Corporation Team that’ll be playing there. What I'd love people to do is suggest names for both in the comments section of this post. That’s a name for the pitch and a name for the Corporation Team that will be calling it home field.

Please, Get commenting…

Killteam Apache Construction & Blog Updating

OK, excitingly for me one of my players has taken the task of preparing models on himself. Simon made a few of the Killteam figures for last years game and has now started building a new Marine to take the place of fallen Brother Kain.

Brother Arius' player requested an Assault Marine of the Blood Ravens in a pose similar to the Sanguinor, here are the results so far.

 Simon has quite a task ahead getting these old biker legs to bulk up to current Marine torso sizes but is off to a great start. In his spare time he has also installed a Bionic arm on Brother Alatar of the Dark Angels to replace the one lost during The Depths of Atonement last year.

This blog is now month old today, and last night passed 1000 views. Many of them have come from Ordo-Xenos.com but many more are from all around the world so thank you to everyone who has read this. I really appreciate anyone taking their time to look on here and would love to get feedback on the posts I've been making. The Intro Story for example was the first part of fiction I've ever really written and I'd love to hear if it sucked or if it got some sort of feeling across? From the members of Killteam Apache I'd especially like to hear about their thoughts on it and views on the upcoming game.

I'm also now contacting a couple of blog networks that I enjoy to feature Inquisitor Drake to hopefully get a few more people looking here and not leaving only poor Brother Tiberius to comment alone. The Shell Case Alliance & The 40k n00b are both great blogs that lead communities of other great blogs so here's hoping the accept me.

Giant Samurai Grey Knights

First none Deathwatch related post (the story intro will resume after the weekend). I am planning on creating a new Space Marine army, my Knights Templar that got me back into the hobby around '04 time don't look all that special now and after seeing Kromlech's Samurai helmets I knew what I wanted to do.

Samurai Grey Knights!

The reason for picking the Grey Knights codex was the elite nature, I figured this would allow me to focus more on the individual models and keep to my goal of making a force that looks something special. Spending a few days looking for further inspiration I picked up a moulds block to help me create the Samurai look. As I played around with the figure I was pleased, but then I remembered something I'd seen a while back. True Scale Space Marines. Some searching around on the net led me to the works of the Master of the Forge. This guy is amazing and I realise that I won't be achieving anything like his works but they are an inspirational goal.

Artscale Grey Knights by the Master of the Forge.

So to go along side my first box of Grey Knights I went and picked up a box of the Termies as well. This evening as my friend over from England tries out Skyrim I've done a bit of blu-tac trialling and I like what I am seeing.

Artscale Grey Knight next to a regular Space Marine of the Knights Templar Chapter