Painting Progress - 2012-06-17
I have retaken the Stompa project, and while I still have some gretchins unpainted along the hulk and windows of the "body", I managed to paint the whole right arm practically in one morning (a record for me, considering how much the Stompa is taking to get painted).
I still feel that it is too black and I should add more red, but probably will wait until the other arm and all gretchins are painted before taking a decision of adding more red (and where).
I am not going to paint anything else (see the exception below) until I've finished the huge ork machine.
I recently searched for and ordered some "biohazard suit minis" for the Pandemic boardgame, because the infection strains look quite cool, the map looks quite cool, but the player "pawns" were too simple. So after some googling I found cheap and good looking minis and ordered a pack of 5.
As an exception to finishing first in progress minis, I have painted them today. They are missing maybe one or two details, plus filling the holes in the bases, but taking into account I did a quick low level painting with 3 colors per mini and that they don't have much detail, the result is acceptable anough:
 
After the stompa, I still have to decide, if painting buildings (not much detail/attention needed), warhammer 40k minis (got lots and varied ones) or my recent purchase, Blood Bowl teams (Humans & Orks from the gamebox and Skavens from my friend's gift). We'll see :)
EA stealing Games Workshop Warhammer 40k tank models
Electronic Arts recently launched the beta of C&C Tiberium Alliances, a typical "stragegy" management browser game, with small battles played like a simplified tower defense.
The game itself is quite boring and dull (I lasted around two days until leaving it for boredom), but I don't want to talk about the game itself.
A friend just sent me a Reddit link in which people have discovered that EA is directly ripping/stealing Games Workshop's Warhammer 40.000 tank models for the game.
And as an image is worth a thousand words, let me directly show you two:
(click on the images to see them full-size)
How many differences can you spot?
I've seen non-profit fan-made projects being shutdown or sued for much less "ip-violation", plus being EA the greedy ones they are... I would love to see them sued by GW.
Update: EA reply, with excuses of early model designs (curious then that they surfaced on the web if were discarded early ;) and remembering "the net" (maybe also GW?) that they distribute Warhammer Online. So probably nothing else will happen.
Tags: Videogames Warhammer 40000
Comic: Warhammer 40,000: Damnation Crusade
Chaos forces are digging something in a planet, and a force of the Black Templar Space Marines is sent to stop them; A new recruit is gathered in a planet to join the Black Templars; An ancient Dreadnought is awakened to participate in the neverending wars against Chaos.
These are the main story plots of Damnation Crusade, a 6 numbers comic book settled in the Warhammer 40.000 universe.
While not bad, the plots switch a lot, which combined with different artists for each issue of the comic means sometimes chaos identifying characters, until somebody calls them for their name and you reassociate them.
The story... is not deep, not long, nothing impressive nor too elaborated. It didn't engaged me much.
The drawings are fine, some quite detailed and cool, others just fine. Also varies with the artist.
Overall, recommended only if found cheap.
Tags: Comic Book Warhammer 40000
6th Ed. of Warhammer 40.000 will feature Dark Angels
Well, if all the latest rumors were not enough to confirm that 6th edition of Warhammer 40.000 (that everybody points for mid-year) would be Chaos versus Dark Angel Space Marines, now we have some kind of proof:
If you look at the paint kit for WH40k, the miniatures look clearly Dark Angels!
Last edition basic kit was Ultramarines (as the game box then had depicted in the cover), so changing the army to one less known (but still on the "big list") for me is a the final sign that they will come in the near new edition.
I love DAs. They were my first army, I have dozens of miniatures both painted and pending painting, I've read all the books and have two codexes (2nd edition and 4/5th edition).
I fell in love with them not only because of their dark knight feeling (if only were for that I could have chosen Black Templars), but because I like the concept of having a dark secret, inner circles, an endless hunting for the fallen, the unclear but tragic ending of their home planet and primarch, the mysterious Cypher...
And of course, their great Deathwing company (I have all the story in PDF), simply the best Space Hulk theme that Games Workshop has created.
But I also fear the new money-based policies of GW. Even lower points cost to enforce buying more miniatures for the same points army? All new cool models done in Finecast with the huge pile of fails it has? More huge buildings that I cannot almost store at home?
I don't play much, but checking my old points list (from 2nd ed) the difference is abysmal. I can simply ignore the new rules and use the 5th edition ones (as I won't ever go to a tournament).
I can also simply skip buying the new buildings, as I've done in the past.
But with Finecast sometimes you cannot avoid it, as new minis don't have any metal counterpart. I've suffered small bubbles and imperfections in the few Dark Eldar Finecast minis I have, and I can simply return the new ones if have defects, but I directly don't like to buy a defective material product.
It's a matter of principles, I wouldn't buy a defective car or computer, so why I have to do it with miniatures?
My hope is that they just move to finecast all metal Dark Angel minis (I already got the ones I want in metal) and not add many new ones. And my pocket will be happier too :)
Original source of the paint kit image
Tags: Miniatures Warhammer 40000
Where to buy Games Workshop miniatures online
Many people loves Warhammer and/or Warhammer 40.000, but GW has been increasingly rising prices up to the point of making it an elite hobby, at least if you want to keep with it more than one or two years and then move on.
But we are lucky that internet allows also to break barriers and access multiple shopping alternatives.
I am going to mention a small list of online shops where I have at least once bought something, explaining in my opinion the good and bad aspects.
Maelstrom Games (Closed, alternative can be Wayland Games)
The good: Really competitive prices (my favourite shop). Deals and special offers. Free shipping with small shopping cart.
The bad: Small stock on some items. Slow restocking. Limited catalog of products.
The good: You can find virtually anything. From really good deals, to nicely painted full armies, to old goodies like really old boxed games, books or miniatures.
The bad: I am not a fanatic of eBay because I have friends who had bad shopping experiences, so my advice is to stick to good reputation people, well known bloggers, or those announcing at websites like BoLS.
Miniatures Hobby
The good: Insanely cheap. Free shipping with small shopping cart. Cheap Forge World item clones. A few no longer available metal miniatures.
The bad: Resin is low quality (specially in thin areas). Molding lines and general cleaning work needed. No instructions, no box... just pieces. Really slow delivery.
The good: Really old treasures can be found here. 100% reliable (unlike eBay). Some items are real deals.
The bad: Very limited catalog. 1-item stock most of the times. Delivery quite slow (3-4 weeks to Spain, and not free!).
The good: Free standard shipping. Exclusive online-only old models. Best customer support (fast, efficient, solving your problems*).
The bad: Same price as physical stores. No discounts, no special web offers, no extras. Delivery times are also slow (at least in Spain, around 2 weeks).
The good: Exclusive official side-factory of GW for normal/non-finecast resin miniatures. Titans, conversion kits, uncommon miniatures (alongside the Imperial Armor codex-like manuals). Some of the miniatures are awesome. Quality is much better than Finecast.
The bad: Price ranges from expensive to insanely expensive. Some miniatures have shopping tricks (like buying separately the two arms) that make them even more expensive.
I also love visiting physical independent stores. Some might have the normal prices (same as GW website), but others usually have discounts or interesting offers, not mentioning maybe one or two no longer available relics.
Also if you want to avoid Finecast, some will probably still have metal minis.
And lastly, ask your friends if they play WH/WH40k if they have some minis they don't want. You might get a positive reply and be able to negotiate a reasonable amount!
Feel free to add more shop recommendations in the comments, indicating where have you bought from to give a hint of delivery locations.
(To avoid being flagged as spam please keep a limit of two or three web links maximum per comment, sorry)
* I had two different problems (a missing sprue from one item, and a delivery problem) and in quick phone calls they took note and fixed it really fast and easily for me.
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