Book Review: The Lion
Note: This is a short story, published initially in the Hammer & Bolter magazine and now part of The Primarchs Black Library book.
The Dark Angels are my space marine army since I collect Warhammer 40,000, so having more background about their primarch is quite appealing.
This story depicts Lion El'Jonson, through two Horus Heresy events: A chaos attack to the primarch's warship and mediating between Iron Hands and Death Guard chapters on a conflict in a Dark Angels planet.
You get a sharper image of the attitude, character and intelligence of the primarch, and at the end, a better picture of what Lion knew about Caliban before returning to the home planet. Even what or how was his idea of helping to finish the war.
A nice lore information burst added to the Dark Angels background. Too bad it feels too short.
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Amazing Space Marine fan-made armour
Fully moving, with sounds, really nice looking (doesn't looks like plastic) and it is also huge!
And at this link all sort of building details and other videos.
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Comic: Warhammer 40,000: Defenders of Ultramar
While Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris and it's companion Pasanius are on a death oath and counted as dead already, orks appear in one of the planets under their command and sargeant Learchus will lead the defense and erradication of the greenskins.
With this simple premise, Defenders of Ultramar makes for a plain read. Not wanting to have any amazing plot, nor interesting twists, it is just a visual narration of space marines versus orks, very iconic, displaying a lot of unit types, and typical quotes from the rulebooks. That said, it is quite nicely drawn and painted, and it manages to plug itself into existing lore (at least the one existing in the books).
Not a bad comic if you like Warhammer 40k universe, I got mine second hand and I don't regret it :)
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Comic: Warhammer 40,000: Fire & Honour
I recently got two second hand comics, one of them being Fire & Honour, which narrates the adventures of the Cadian 71st Imperial Guard company fighting against the Tau in a planet where the Governor is a traitor (allied with the Tau).
The drawings are quite nice, very well colored and vibrant (despite depicting scenes of war and battle). Here what fails is not the drawing skills but the writing skills. The texts are typical hard-ass soldier speeches, cocky comments and drill sargeant orders, all around a weak, plain and obvious story which doesn't even tries to make itself interesting.
Nice for reading once but much better to grab a Black Library book if you want a good plot.
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Painting Progress 20130113
I am pretty happy because I've done two things this weekend.
First, I built an spreadsheet with all my Citadel paints, their equivalent with the new GW color names/chart, which ones are semi-dry or almost-dry (to buy new ones next week) and to have some kind of general look of which paints I might need in the future and plan accordingly.
And second, I've been painting a few hours, with the following minis being the winners.
Here is the 5th edition box plastic Dreadnought, with some specific Dark Angels props and banners. I had it half-painted so it's been more of finally following my past schema and ideas. Nothing special to remark except that it has my first attempt at Dark Angel green highlighting. I need to practice more and the photo does not show it so much, but it looks better so from now on, at least one highlight layer will be in any DA scheme miniature.
I also had from last year a lot of necrons pending painting. As they were a gift from my girlfriend it is "critical enough" so I've started the task... and they are fairly easy and quick to paint, so here is the first one I finished:
 
As I wanted to paint more necrons, I decided to start first with a small conversion I made months ago and I wanted to paint, a necron "specter" lord.
Apart from filling the gaps of the scythe, leaving plain the handle, a bit of green stuff to leave the hands more plain like necron ones and attaching a small "necron core" inside was not in need of more modding, so for once I built it a decent base.
As you can see it is not too complex, a bit of crappy "green lighting" inside, and playing with interlacing a mixture of greys with black washes until I like the cloak color. And the base is pending too, just the ruins have some color.
But I like how it really looks like a scary necron.
 
I have one more week of vacations so let's see if I can finish either a bunch of necrons or a few other minis. And I also need to work out how to improve room lighting for the photos, colors are not well captured.
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