modded Warhammer 40.000 Venerable Dreadnought
From the last order of Warhammer 40.000 miniatures I finally had a Venerable Dreadnought (now that hey are available in plastic and thus cheaper and easier to customize), so when my girlfriend got stomach sick it looked like the perfect night for some miniature assembling while taking care of her.
Having already two normal dreadnoughs (with the bad luck of both with the same multi-melta + combat fist combo), I wanted this third dreadnought to be really different, but the standard is to have a close combat left arm and a long range right arm.
As the kit comes with three choices of heavy weapons (plasma cannon, twin-linked lascannons and assaut cannon), I decided to risk destroying the left arm and modding it to have the twin-linked lascannon to have a real badass venerable monster :D
Here are the results of the (unpainted) miniature:
Basically it was done cutting the original combat fist, leaving only the "shoulder"), and cutting from the lascannons a square to make it fit exactly in the shoulder. For the bottom hole that was under the big cable I used one of the optinal "ammo" packs (with some cutting to make it fit), and finally I did some cuts too in the shoulder armor reinforcement to make it fit with the cannon.
It is not perfect and the arm has a few millimeters more of separation from the body than the right arm, but at least I did not screw it up and once painted it won't be noticeable at all :)
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Assembling miniatures
Taking advantage of my christmas holidays, I'm building the dozens of miniatures I had pending (plus more that I bought as an auto-gift :)
It is curious how now all the miniatures have so many optional components that in the case of orks, I've even had to discard some excess arms to make space for other pieces.
Apart from the last ork troops, I've got a bunch of Space Marine reinforcements (both troops and a few vehicles), but the "star project" is a homemade "ork stompa asembling facility": the box contents of a pressure cooker (similar to a crater) among with all excess and unused ork trukk and ork tank pieces and some additional materials (like chinese food sticks xD).
I've finished building it (and took some photos) but I prefer to wait until I've painted it before posting it (unpainted looks even more terrible than it is).
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Ready to play Space Hulk!
Finally, I've finished assembling all the pieces to be able to play Space Hulk.
Between a lot of Real World™ tasks and the arrival on pc of some nice games (specially Dragon Age), I've been a bit off from non-computer related gaming.
The assembled miniatures look just amazing, my only complaint is that they are clearly Blood Angels and I want Deathwing terminators, so even if it's not an easy task I'm going to try to reconvert them. Up to the moment I've only removed a few Blood Angel drop icons, but there is still a lot of work (and the incredible detail the miniatures have doesn't help to ease the task ;)
I'm halfway through the rulebook and unless my memory fails is almost the same rules of the first edition, but including Deathwing expansion weapons and Psykers/Librarians.
Time to find a free weekend morning to play it!
Space Hulk Limited Edition
They had it so perfectly planned that I first new about this via an official email than in any website (even being held the Games Day). Games Workshop has officially announced the new Space Hulk limited edition.
There were rumors (even talking about a fully plastic version), and seems that part of them were true. The game will feature the following plastic units:
- 11 Space Marine Terminators,
- 1 Space Marine Terminator Librarian
- 22 Genestealers
- 1 Broodlord
- 3 plastic mission objectives: a dead Space Marine on throne, a Blood Angels artifact and a Cyber-Altered Task Unit.
Plus corridor sections, doors, markers, counters, dice, a sand clock (seems that they are keeping the "real time pressure" turns), the rulebook and a mission book.
Having a librarian, a captain and the broodlord looks like the rules will be a mixture of the original Space Hulk plus parts of the expansions. I'm eager to chech the new rules and test them!
Having more terminators and genestealers I hope rules can be adapted for more than two players (and I can switch to the old ruleset anyway).
The miniatures look amazing (alhough I'll probably convert and paint them into Deathwing Terminators, to join my existing army). The genestealers look fantastic too, and will add more variety to the dozens I already have (I'm actually thinking about doing some imperial guard conversions to create genestealer hybrids).
Ahh, I can't wait for the 5th of september (well, a few more days until the order arrives home).
Comic Book: Warhammer 40k: blood & Thunder
Recently I've read (in one night, as usual with most comic books) is Warhammer 40.000: Blood & Thunder.
It's another comic book set in the Warhammer 40.000 universe (like Warhammer 40.000: Damnation Crusade), but this time telling another battle and almost from the oppositve perspective: The ork one.
Specifically, the story is told by an imperial guard captain, who is taken prisioner by the orks (thinking he is a rare snotling).
I won't make spoilers, but I can tell that it is even funny sometimes, and gives an insight of how the ork societies (well, more specifically the clans) work.
The drawings are nice, with the orks being quite detailed and different.
Maybe I could complain of the lenght. While not short, the amount of dialogs is smaller than in other comic books (given that orks speak less and quite badly), so you can finish it in a few hours at most of reading...
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