20K

Looks like we passed the 20.000 hits milestone last night...

It may not be much to speak of, compared to what some of the big blogs get, but for me it's kind of a Big Deal. This spring I thought we'd be here by our Kjerringvik event, but given the lack of activity on our part it's not really surprising that it dragged on for a few extra weeks.

In closing, I'd like to thank all of you that keep coming back here. We do appreciate it, and would love to have a little feedback from outside the Team as well.

There's also our group email address; team-dot-stormbolter-at-gmail-dot-com, if there's anything you would like us to cover.

Carry on, and Praise Kelly! ;)

Dark Eldar – Building Vect little – ØRNULVS SEPTEMBER 2012 PROJECT #1

After suffering a crushing defeat from Jørn Wednesday, it was time to rethink my DE approach to 6^th edition.

First out was building an Arcon (Warlord) that is WISIWYG. I was quit happy with my “Asdrubael Vect model”, and decided to base my new Arcon on that "build".

I went down to GW yesterday and bought a Finecast Arcon and a box of Warriors, loaded my favourite “Rum and Coke glass”, and well - this is how he turned out (sorry about the picture quality).

Not quite happy with how I play my Wyches, I opt for going with two more Warrior squads instead, needing two more “Blaster models”.

I have to finish the bases, put on some Greenstuff, and get them painted.

Reborn

Hi everyone! The hobby station is operative again after more than three years. Dark Vengeance is in da house. Some 90 points of extremely easy to kill Chaos Cultists glued together and soon to be ready for some work with the paint brush.

I didn't like them at all when I saw the first leaked pictures. But that has changed. I must say they are full of life (or death, especially their own) and nice details. My plan is to paint them as is. The only conversion is a changed angle on one knife. I plan to solve the fact that eight (and a half) models actually have duplicates with unique painting on each model. I fear though that the paint job will be time consuming...

Next up is buying some black spray paint and find out if some of my old paints have survived winter storage in a garage...

Then there is the fantastic chosen and the Helbrute, the latter maybe victim of some minor conversions. Time will show...

DreamForge-Games plastic Leviathan Crusader

"Something wicked this way comes!"

I stumbled upon Mark Mondragon's resin Leviathans earlier this year and was pretty much blown away, both by the various designs and by the detail quality they appeared to have.

As with most model and miniatures kits I come across, I wondered about how one would go about using the Leviathan models for Warhammer 40K. I spent a considerable amount of time looking for comparison pics and found a few - although none that included a WarHound Titan.

The plastic Leviathan Crusader will standt at 8.5" (215mm) to the top of its shoulders. With Forge World's Warhound reaching about 10" (250mm), the Leviathan isn't too far off. The Warhound deems a fair bit wider though, so I'm thinking about doing something a little different with the two I've pledged for in the KickStarter campaign that DreamForge Games has going at the moment.

And that brings me to the actual point of this article. I want more people (I.e. you!!) to pledge too. The Kickstarter project reached it's minimum funding goal of $30K in a matter of days, and passed $75K yesterday. That means that a lot of additional weapon options has already been opened up, and can be reviewed on the project's Kickstarter-page. Still more optionbs are in the pipeline, though, and there's one in particular that I'm hoping for.

At $100K there'll be a free left-handed Vulkan Cannon added to each Leviathan kit. How's that for a counts-as Vulcan Mega-Bolter?!?

...and if the Leviathans don't tickle your fancy, perhaps the Eisenkern Stormtroopers will. The stretch goals for the basic infantry squad, accessory pack and support weapon teams have already been reached. All you have to do is decide how many you want.

So go on! Click the link to the Kickstarter campaign below and have a good look around. The project funds on the 16th, so don't wait too long before jumping onboard! ;)

All images in this article are 'borrowed' from Mark Mondragon's Kickstarter campain page "DreamForge-Games model kit Something wicked this way comes!". They are all his property, and no IP challenge is intended.

Kjerringvik 2012 After Action Report

...and so it's over. Another weekend at Ørn's summer house filled with food and drink, fun and games, victory and defeat. What the hell! There's always next year to look forward to, right?

Let's get to the point of the article then: Pictures!

The first group of shots is from my game against IH's Orks. Fortunately for me, her dice were susceptible to bribery and refused to even pretend they were ever going to roll evenly. For her next game she benched them, an borrowed Linus' dice in stead.

Simultaneously, the Lords of the Dance (and pantyhose!) faced off on the other table. It must have been an intense game, cause they apparently didn't think to grab the camera and snap a few pictures. All I've got for you are these two shots I took myself as they were deploying.

André and Linus showed up during the aforementioned games, but quickly became unfit for playing so had to try and make up for it next day. Having been unable to get any games in with 6h, Ørnulv and I teamed up with one each and played a 2x1000 vs 2000 points game. By the time the game ended, Linus' last handfull of Plague Marines had managed to keep hold of the Relic. They were the last remains of the CSM army, though, and another round would surely have seen us tabled. Ørnulv and André managed to take all the secondary objectives though, so the game was a tie.

Can't wait until next year!!! Thanks again, big guy.