the games workshop thread

[self biased]

the guardsmen are coming. 5 of 40 assembled.

[Jamski]

I always look forward to these updates.

/me grabs a good seat *

Anyway, on the general subject of the thread, does anyone know anything about "Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War" The screenshots look beautiful, and the no-harvesters system sounds interesting. Anyone know what races and units will make the game?

-Jam

[Bosh]

Damn do some of you spend a lot of money on those models. I always just used Lego men, Risk pieces, a stuffed animal or two for the big things and whatever else I had on hand. Played a good bit of Warhammer (the medieval one, not the space one) with my brother that way.
I almost always played Skaven against his Chaos, and I just loved smoking the giant monsters he always blew most of his points on with warplock jezzels, except for the time when I let him have as many points worth of critters and he made his entire army able to fly

[self biased]

no idea. i'll troll Portent and Dakka dakka to find out.

[self biased]

current timetable of events:

october 2003 - april 2004 dark angels. 90 percent completed.
i've just got some odds and ends to finish up. i want to do a librarian conversion, add some more heavy weapons, and finish a squad of landspeeders, and a squad of attack bikes. edit: also new terminators when they come out.

may 2004 - october 2005 daemonhunters. 40 percent completed.
one squad of terminators, one squad of knights in power armor completed. working on the first full platoon, and i plan to do another. need stormtroopers, and to finish my leman russ conversion.

december 2005 - december 2006 eldar. preliminary planning.
mostly so i can field those wonderful superheavy tanks from forgeworld.

winter 2007 thousand sons. preliminary planning.
i've got a nice color scheme planned out, but that's about it.

[Jamski]

Winter 2007????

Who can plan their life that far in advance?

I don't even know where I'll be living next month.

-Jam

[self biased]

just giving myself ample time to complete my projects, jamski. i have some preliminary figures done on my daemonhunter guardsmen, i may post them in a few.

[self biased]

i was finally buggered this afternoon to take some goddamned pics. strap yourselves in, gents. this will be a long update. especially if you're powerd by 56k modems.

grey knights in power armor


grey knight with incinerator


grey knights in terminator armor


grey knight brother-captain



grey knight terminators with incinerator



grey knight terminator


inquisitor





inducted guard test model


work in progress: dark angels grand master





and because i can, more of sergeant hamlet




and a photo of my workspace:

[Jamski]

Words fail me SB. I can only repeat myself - these figures are too sweet to game with.

The GK terms are fantastic. I have to admit that the new minatures lack some of the "bulk" that made the old GK models so cool, but they kinda make up for it with the snazzy angles and styling.

Way to go, man!

Just one thing - shouldn't they have their names written on the "scroll" on the right pauldron?

-Jam

[self biased]

i'm not good at lettering. they should, but i'm going to have a friend of mine do it for me... like the servo skull on the grand master? he's going to have another one too at the top of that other post.

[self biased]

terminators are finally being updated! YAAAY! some Work in Progress sneak peaks.

[self biased]

without helmet

[self biased]

forgeworld is releasing "mortis" pattern dreadnoughts. a few years ago during their "hunt for the fallen" battle tour (which i of course took part of, and even had my picture published in white dwarf), they had a peculiar dreadnought named saul. he was armed with a pair of twinlinked heavy bolters. they're now releasing this style in heavy bolter and autocannon flavors.

[self biased]

autocannon dreadnought

[self biased]

been a while since i've updated. i'm currently working on finishing up the last few bits of my dark angels. i may even get to my dreadnought soon. but right now it's heavy weapons. i'll post as soon as i'm done.

i've also gotten my girlfriend into painting... she's doing a pair of unicorns. i'm also doing the new morgan la fey model for her... she doesn't know it though... it started out as a birthday present, but will likely end up a christmas present for her.