Articles tagged with: Warhammer 40000

The truth is that I have few things in my wishlist of miniatures.

I started very young with Warhammer 40.000 so for example I am proud of owning a Rogue Trader Space Marines box (almost two squads), MK.I Rhinos (two), a Predator and a Landraider.

I've been collecting for years some wanted miniatures, and for example my Eldar army comes almost fully from second-hand miniatures (like 90% of the army). Everything except a Falcon, the dreadnought and some plastic troops are old metal units.

I might try to get some old Genestealer hybirds somewhere in the future (for my genestealer cult) but it is really low priority.

But... when I was young I always wished I could have tho specific miniatures (I didn't ever saw them in local stores), the two Inquisitor Terminators. One with a breathing mask and a hood, the other with beard and a cybernetic leg. Specifically, this two dudes:

My friend Vicente told me a while ago that one of the shopping websites we use (Noble Knight) had all kinds of second-hand goods, not only books and boardgames. So a few weeks ago I tried finally to actively search for this inquisitors, remembered that comment... and found one assembled and base-coated in black for just 15$ (At ebay I've seen things like 50$ minimum for a sealed box one, without detailing the pieces inside apart from a crappy photo).

I risked and bought it... And I made the right choice, because it arrived in really good shape and I've just started painting it:

So far only has a finished black base coating, dark grey for the armor and light grey tending to white for the hood and skulls.
No highlighting and most stuff not even started, but the color scheme is in place and I'm glad with how it looks.

Also as you can notice it has some excess lead not removed in some areas, the original owner didn't cared much when assembling it... But I have already taken them out (were not so easy to spot with the black mini).

One of the two Inquisitors obtained, one left :)

Update: Thanks to ebay I was able to find the other inquisitor, yay! My greatest collector's dream came true :D

Posted on 2012-01-22

Tags: Painting Warhammer 40000

Third and last book about the Grey Knights forming the Omnibus (there is a fourth book which I'm currently reading), Alaric will face again the forces of chaos... but in a different way.

The book starts with the capture of the main character by chaos forces (Ultramarines Omnibus copy?) but this time, filling with gladiator-like chaos arenas where he will fight hellspawns and mutants.

And so it goes most of the book, which is a pity because could almost be any other non-grey knight character. It is just "remembered" here and there with small details, but quite hollow in general. Excepting two or three specific points, the whole book could have any other main character without anybody noticing it.
In fact this way of forced refering to previous books characters and enemies is done too much, as if the author was trying to force us to link with the past because the current one was too detached (and indeed it is).

The story (without spoilers) gets really really absurd, to some points that I doubt a Grey Knight would have gone.

Also, unlike in other books not part of this trilogy Grey Knights are usually treated not as powerfull as here... but in this book it is too extreme. Way too much easy killing of demons and monsters by an almost unarmed GK (no power armor, no halberd, just gladiator old weapons).

A big dissapointment. I just finished it to close the trilogy.

Posted on 2012-01-19

Tags: Books Warhammer 40000

Lately I've been playing less videogames and assembling & painting more. I am becoming slowly tired of current games being all the same, meanwhile I read a lot about Warhammer 40.000 and I feel eager to do anything related to it.

Apart from a half-painted Dark Angels Dreadnought and a MK VI Space Marine I found and started painting (to test highlights in Dark Angels green), I am mainly painting one badass I had pending and that is actually taking a lot of space due to the unglued parts: The ork Stompa.

The head is fully done (but not yet glued) as it is the body and legs, excepting some minor details on the front (like the spotlights or the gretchin in the upper right tower)...

... and some details also in the back (mainly the two gretchins arguing at the door.

I've finally glued some pieces like the ramp with the mek gretchin.

The head was already painted, but the body took a while (I didn't had spray, which I will correct for the next time). As soon as I finish with it, I can paint the arms and this monster will be ready to break havok among the greenskin enemies.

I've played with some types of effects, like rusty metal, white + silver metals, and black washes to give dirty and used looks to the back pipes.

But I have another thing related with the Stompa.

Back when I bought it, I also bought an oven, and the cardboard had a shape that inmediately gave me an idea: To build an Stompa assembly facility.

I took some spare parts from my ork trukks, two spare gretchins and some wooden chopsticks. and built this scenery piece:

It is basically a big round platform (in which fits a real Stompa!) with mechanical arms, some decoration and walls, and a watchtower.

The ork trukk spare parts were really handy, both for the machinery and for filling the wall gaps.

This is the section that took most time: The watchtower, made of dozens of chopstick pieces cut and glued together. Plus some cardboard, a few ork grenades and used ammo at the floor, and that big sign is just waiting to have painted a big red "Waaagh!".

Some glyphs and the stairs to walk up to the tower.

I didn't wanted to abuse with the ork decoration, the walls already have an orcish look and feel.

The piece in the middle is from ikea, it was a bit curved so wasn't useful anymore for the hama beads, so it was perfect for filling the middle "crater".

Today I have finally base coated it in grey (spray gift of my friend Vicente ^_^)

It now looks much better (as you don't see the original material colors) and I can better think of the color schemes

My idea is to start with it as soon as I finish with the stompa, not giving much detail to the scenery but focusing on the details like the gretchin.

I progress quite slowly but as the main idea is to disconnect from the world and "reach my Zen" while assembling & painting, it is ok for me.

Posted on 2011-12-27

Tags: Painting Warhammer 40000

Second book of the trilogy/omnibus, sending the Grey Knights now to investigate a strange world that has appeared from nowhere and contains dangerous Dark Mechanicum tech-priests and other surprises.

Not bad story, albeith this one being more atipical (the Dark Mechanicum are not very detailed so the author decided some aspects for them).

Some plot parts are very predictable and the topic might not be as interesting as the previous book's one, but one thing I like is that all DK books seem to be settled in a specific "present" timeframe where Abaddon is coming out from the Eye of Terror so the whole universe is in a huge and delicate war with Chaos forces.

Too bad that the "background problems" not advance a bit :P

So, not a bad book but not as good as the first one, you will enjoy it if you like reading about the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Posted on 2011-12-02

Tags: Books Warhammer 40000

While you can find now the three Grey Knights books in one Omnibus compilation, I will do individual reviews as I read each book independantly, starting with the first one today.

The Grey Knights are a special chapter of Space Marines, created to fight with daemons and chaos forces, and led by the Inquisition (they act as the Inquisition military arm).

In this book they will hunt for informaton about how to stop the summoning of a terrible chaos daemon that was banished one thousand years ago and is coming back.

Well written, with a nice plot and good characters, thrilling, and with plot twists. Apart from depicting the GKs as ultra-religious and awesome in combat (as they should be in theory), their foes are nicely presented, detailed and suited for the story told. A good representation of chaos and cultists.

If you want to learn more about the Grey Knights definetly a good action book.

Posted on 2011-10-30

Tags: Books Warhammer 40000