coolminiornot's $10,000 award

it seems that adeptacon is hosting a $10,000 award for the best painting, and going with their basic principle of letting people judge other paint jobs half of the score for the award will be public and the other half is judges.

book review

ok im here to talk about a book that has allowed me to read warhammer books again after such a long time, Gav Thorpe's Path of the Warrior. the whole reason i stopped reading them is not because they are bad, they are amazing! its just because they are all about ether imperial guards or space marines. at first they were great, but because thats all there was i finally got tired of that. but this new book changes the norm, being about an eldar who starts off as an artist, but due to some events decides to join a aspect temple, becoming a striking scorpion and his journey after that. this book shows a lot of the social and psychological aspects of the eldar as a people. this is a big change from the classic as i stated above, and this is a change i endorse. this is a must read.

looting pt. 2

ok now we have my deff dread. this took a bit of leg-work to get done because i like the three arms and scorcha  combo. so first i found a old bionicle toy from McDonald. i then proceeded to hack and slash to make the arms, like so.

i then  took two of the Tau flamers and stuck them together to make the scorcha.

for a little added character i put the head of an Ork in the torso that looks like it was eather torn off or the hole was blown open. it looks like he is piloting it.

 so this is how the model looks like when looked at completely. its one of my favorite conversions i have done so far.

off-topic

dont you just hate it when in a group and pretty much everyone except you are talking about annoying things like "Twilight", but since most everyone likes it you cant stop them, but if you talk about something you like, but they dont, you eather lose your right to talk about it, are ignored, or even worse kicked out of said group.

warhammer terrain

as you are all possibly aware, the new tower of sorcery is available for advanced order now. these pieces look amazing, GW keeps coming out with amazing looking terrain.
take a look here.sorcery tower                              
all intellectual property belongs to their respective owners, so i dont own the above link, or what have you.

looting

thats right folks, this is about how to loot and the cheap.
Now this is a big area of Ork units that ether didn't have a model at the time or are expensive. now with me i like to have a theme in my armies so my orks have some looted tau stuff i got from a guy at my FLGS. i was able to get 2 devil fish, 6-8 crisis suits, and like 12 fire warriors. i first took the devil fish and roughed them up a bit by cutting out a chunk of the door, like it was ether blown up or ripped off.

i then took some chain and "chained" a fire warrior who decided to try and fight off the orks to the death.

then i cut out a hole for the boom gun to go, added a gun and secured it with cu up bits to look like scrap metal used to hold it on.

the final touch is the ork sticking out of the top hatch.

     and this is the final product! the paint is not the greatest, mostly because its a early model i made. the red marks on the side are ork glyphs reading "ork 2 Gaork" yea, miss spelled it a bit, but oh well. most people wont notice the slight problem. next up is my looted deff dread!

hello there!

this is a blog focusing on warhammer, both 40k and Fantasy. i am a student so i may have rush jobs or periods of non-posting, but i will try to update when ever possible! and, hey, you get the view point of a student about this wonderful hobby of ours. and remember, we are all students in life, because if we do not learn we become stagnant.