January 25th 2012 · Read More · Comment(1)
Well, it never really went! Just took a backseat for a while!
The rumours (pretty much confirmed now) are that Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle is coming back in February.
Here’s what the Internet says:
Time to get a little more specific.
LotR get’s a relaunch this febuary (4th of feb to be precise).
Release includes 5 books (40k codex size and price, sadly no hardcover) that cover ALL armies. All existing books will be removed and are no longer for sale, except for the rulebook itself and the three campaign books for the three movies.
Following books will be released: Realms of Men (Arnor, Gondor, Rohan), Forces of Mordor (Mordor, Isengart, Moria/Misty Mountains Goblins), Free folk of Middle-Earth (Elves and Dwarfs I assumed), Fallen Realms (Harad and Easterlings) and one that sums up the rest.
The Books will contain updated rules for ALL LotR Miniatures and nullify the entries in the big Rulebook. The rulebook is not replaced, but each of the five new themed books contains several pages of updated rules. WotR will mostly vanish from stores and be a better supported specialist game. There will be releases for WotR, but the LotR tabletop stays the third of the three big GW games.
Expect your armies to change drastically.
The release is accompanied by one (1) new plastic box set (some kind of cavallery) and a whole bunch of finecast miniatures. Some old friends, like the WotR command boxes, and some genuine new sculpts.
There is nothing else happening in febuary, at least that’s what I’ve been told. First pure LotR month for some time now. Expect pictures any day now, the new WD will feature a LOT of LotR.
and going by the Picture of the cover on the above link, it’s all TRUE!
The cavalry will probably be Easterling Kataphraks, as they’re still metal (And are no longer available at GW).
Also if you go through each of the LOTR sections on the site, you’ll notice that there’s a few command (banners and musicians etc) that are no longer available, which is cool if they get re-released in finecast :)
I can see that the majority of people will shrug and say they don’t care, and that it’s a awful game etc blablabla.
Once the new stuff is out, go try it. It’s a FANTASTIC game, you barely need anything to get started, and is incredibly fun to play.
Best of all, the models are dead easy to paint, basecoat and wash!
January 24th 2012 · Read More · Comments(2)
As part of my University course, I’ve decided to increase my knowledge in model photography, because right now it sucks! Having to have some sort of deliverable item I decided to go for the rotating image thing that companies have started picking up on! Most noticeably on Games Workshop.
Not delved to far into the photography side of it yet, just the code, and managed to produce this! Yeah the Gimli isn’t fantastic, but the idea is there.
Simply click and drag left and right! You can even drag and ‘throw’ the gimli to make him spin(you’ll need to be on the actual site for those viewing on a Rss Reader):
Naturally when I learn photography better and have a decent set up I can make more frames, make it more fluid and make the light consistent!
January 24th 2012 · Read More · No Comments
Well, a new year has hit us! (Yes I am 24 days late ;))
As this is my final year in University we have a Final year Project which is a large part of the module.
It’s hard to find something dedicated, related and interesting enough to keep at it for 7 months. Then a thought hit me! This site!
So, over this year (well 6 months really) you’ll be seeing updates to the site, these will range from graphical, content, archives and other boring stuff. However I can promise that it will benefit everyone in some way or another!
You can follow the progress of the work on TVT on my Weird-But-Wonderfully-Colourful-Blog-Site-Thing. Not much on there, the only intersting part of the site is the blog, oh and maybe some of the Vassal40k artwork
January 24th 2012 · Read More · No Comments
With Games Workshop only producing one crpytek I decided to convert my own from spares:
I used most of the parts from the Necron Catacomb Command Barge, as on mine I didn’t use the crew (they look fine on the tesla version, but not so good on the barge), as well as some Deathmark heads and left over staff pieces from my Lychguard. I posed them all ‘weird and funky’ to make them look apart from the rest of the Necrons, sort of out of place, outcasts, you get the point!
January 23rd 2012 · Read More · Comment(1)
As promised in my past post I’m carrying on work with the Empire army! Me and my friend/client have decided to go to Doubles together with this army and my Empire themed Ogres. Should be good fun!
Today I’ve been building Greatswords and Manann’s Blades, you’ve all seen Greatswords before, so here are some pictures of the Warhammer Forge Goodness!
The kits are really nice sculpts, and barely any work went into cleaning them up, a quick brush with my Citadel Cleaning Thing, which works wonders and they were good to go! The arms took longer to prepare than the bodies! My biggest gripe in Fantasy is getting models to rank up, which was an issue here, so I’ve used lots of Regiment bases in the unit, and also magnetised them (A how-to article is in the works) to their tray. Now they are done I am happy! Should be a joy to paint!
