Dark Angels and Space Marine Flyer Rumors

 

Remember that old statement by one of the GW guys that a new codex would be "winging your way"?  Well, it looks more and more likely the Dark Angels are coming back in a big way.  They are prominently featured on the new 40K Paint set.  And are these new minis?

Meanwhile on Warseer, forum member Harry (Redepmtion on Dakka) posted this rumor that backs up other rumors we have heard about another Space Marine flyer.

At the risk of getting the cr@p kicked out of me ..... (after the whole "summer of fliers" thing)
I have heard scraps that suggest there may well be something going on with 'fliers'.

I have heard some snippets about :

a) A kit for a SM flier called a "Storm Hawk"
b) An Ork fighter kit (might have been a fighter/bomber?)
and
c) A 'fliers' supplement. (...as the first supplement to 6th Edition).

Now you have to remember I don't know so much about 40K OR follow 40K rumorz.
So .... I don't know:

a) If you have heard this already?
b) What I am talking about!

When I hear 40K stuff it really doesn't mean that much to me?
So I tried the google 'Storm Hawk' and found this:
(No idea of the original source ... I am sure someone here will know if it was in a GW publication originally)

"The Storm Hawk is a smaller, more agile transport from the same design lineage as the Storm Bird. Used extensively for small operations, as the Heresy progressed much of the STC data to build the Storm Hawk was lost although the Mechanicum have kept copies so that if it were to fall completely out of service a variant could be reintroduced at a later date."

PLEASE REMEMBER THESE IS JUST RUMORZ

I have based this on the smallest scraps of information, from different places.
It is possible I have been mislead or I have put two and two together and come up with complete bobbins. 

So there you go.  Resin Roundup will be up shortly.  Have a great weekend all!

Alec

 

Forgeworld New Releases - Minotaur Characters, Rapier Laser Destoryer

Forgeworld has just released some AMAZING Minotaur characters as well as the long-awaited Rapier Laser Destroyer.

Asterion Moloc and Ivanus Enkomi

 

Sold as a set for 30 GBP.

From Forgeworld:

The name of the bloody-handed and paranoid master of the Minotaurs Chapter, Asterion Moloc, is a byword for slaughter and destruction in the name of the Imperium across a hundred worlds, yet he is also a diligent and disciplined logistician and a master of siege craft. In battle he can most often be found at the head of his 1st Company Terminators, and when not prosecuting a conflict he occupies a brazen throne at the very heart of his flagship, the labyrinthine heavy assault carrier Daedelos Krata.

The gaunt and brooding Reclusiarch Ivanus Enkomi became the eyes and voice of his master during the Badab War; an aloof and distant observer at Carab Culln’s war-councils. A paradox, whose red-irised eyes and crimson-tattooed features speak of some feral origin, yet in whose voice lies a capacity for fierce and stirring oratory, Chaplain Enkomi is a skilled tactical commander, most notably during the Loyalist attack on Shaprias that uncovered the black depths to which the Tyrant of Badab’s treachery had sunk.

Asterion Moloc and Ivanus Enkomi, designed by the talented Simon Egan, are incredibly detailed multi-part resin figures available as a set of two models. The set is available to pre-order now for despatch from the 2nd April, and rules for these special characters can be found in Imperial Armour Volume 10: The Badab War Part 2.

Rapier Laser Destoryer

The Rapier Armoured Carrier is an ancient device, one of many such technological relics of the dawning days of Mankind’s stellar empire. A bulky, armoured track unit, which mounts a powerful antomantic reactor, the Rapier is often armed with a powerful quad lascannon known as a laser destroyer. This has become synonymous with the Rapier Armoured Carrier itself, and the Graia Pattern Rapier Laser Destroyer is perhaps the most common design of this potent anti-tank weapon in use.

The Space Marine Rapier Laser Destroyer is often deployed by many Space Marine chapters, especialy those descended from the Imperial Fists and Iron Hands Legions, and is widely used during Boarding Assaults and in the close and deadly confines of Zone Mortalis. Model designed by Mark Bedford and Will Hayes, this multi-part resin kit is supplied with two Space Marine crew in MkIII ‘Iron’ Armour and is available to pre-order now for despatch from the 2nd April. Experimental rules for the Space Marine Rapier Laser Destroyer care available to download from the Forge World website now.

Forgeworld will take advance orders for delivery at Adepticon for another week, so get those orders in!

Alec

GW New Paints on Advance Order with Dark Angels!

The new paints are up on Advance Order on the Games Workshop website!  And I have to say, GW is stepping up its game big time

Here is the new range of kits:
 

 

Citadel Paint Bundle

145 different paints as reported earlier and pictured above.  This comes with one of the large carrying cases.  You can find it on the GW site here.

Priced at $ 536.

How to Paint Citadel Miniatures

This is truly fatastic.  a 136 page book on painting models as well as a 90 minute video.  This is a big boon to hobbyists and I am looking forward to getting this.  Very pricey though. 

 

Priced at $49.50

Warhammer 40,000 Paint Set

This set contains:

5 Plastic Space Marines
1 Starter Brush
1 Space Marine Painting Guide
1 pot of Mephiston Red
1 pot of Agrax Earthshade
1 pot of Caliban Green
1 pot of Leadbelcher
1 pot of Ulthuan Grey
1 pot of Ushabti Bone
1 pot of Mournfang Brown
1 pot of Imperial Primer

 

Priced at $37.25

NOTE that those are Dark Angels on the box!

Citadel Hobby Starter Set

This set contains:

1 pot of Leadbelcher (12ml)
1 pot of Macragge Blue (12ml)
1 pot of Waaagh! Flesh (12ml)
1 pot of Averland Sunset (12ml)
1 pot of Bugman's Glow (12ml)
1 pot of Mephiston Red (12ml)
1 pot of Mournfang Brown (12ml)
1 pot of Imperial Primer (12ml)
1 pot of White Scar (12ml)
1 Starter Brush
1 pair of Plastic Cutters
1 bottle of PVA Glue (20ml)
1 bottle of Plastic Glue (20ml)
1 Tub of Static Grass (10 grams)
1 Tub of Sand (45 grams)

 

Priced at $57.75


There are also paint sets for Fantasy and Lord of the RIngs

I for one am looking forward to the new book and DVD.  Maybe what I need to start painting my own stuff and stop paying Aaron Lovejoy to paint my Crimson Templars!

Alec

Ork Soopa Stompa Scratchbuild - FINISHED!

Greg Teeuwen finally painted his custom built Soopa Stompa and here it is in all its glory.  Pay attention to the signs and gun names.

Thanks again to Greg for all his great scratchbuilds.

Alec

Blood Moon Minis resin models coming.

Blood Moon Minis is a new two resin accessory maker, that will soon be releasing some cool 40K pieces.  They have previewed the pieces on Dakka Dakka.  They are Obliterator sized and come with different weapons. 

 

 

Some Chaos door WIP

I will be following up with Blood Moon and hopefully interview them and get more details.  

Alec

Scibor Dread Knight!

Scibor is on a roll.  They just released a Dread Knight analog and it is pretty cool.

From Scibor:

SF Templar Mechanized Armor - Paladin. In the blister You’ll find 1 unpainted resin model and scenic round, 60mm, resin base.Model is 105mm tall from feet to top.

It is priced at about $ 56 and available here.

Games Workshop Paint Video Trailer

This is somehow supposed to get us fired up about Games Workshop's new paints?  The # 145?  One assumes this refers to the # of paints/inks in the range.  But seriously GW, how about throwing us a bone?

Go here for the previous news on the Citadel Paint range rumors.

Alec

The Latest Chaos Rumors

From The Dark General on Warseer

The new Codex is done, and yeah, it should be leaving the printers shortly, to be stored up in ware houses for distribution within the next couple of months. As for models, apparently 4 waves are planned...there's a lot of Chaos to be covered. With the Daemons to be redone sometime next year (2013) for both 40K and Fantasy, we'll see the new Greater Daemon models then.

Interesting that vehicle upgrades have been brought up, especially for Legion specific types of weapons, and apparently we do get some similar to the old "3.5" codex in these. Poisoned flamers for Nurgle, higher strength/lower AP for Tzeentch, sonic weaponry for Slaanesh and brutal blades for Khorne? Raptors are Night Lords, where as Assault Marines are all Legions and can be marked.

As i've already mentioned, HQs will have an affect on the types of units/marks available to your Army. IF 6th Edition returns to Percentages, the Codex will make more sense...

Hope you Chaos types are looking forward to the new codex.  I for one will be happy to stop hearing about all the whining about how bad Chaos is now!  :-)

Alec

Custom Dice from Chessex

Adam from The Dice Abide, one of the best gamer blogs out there, was the first to tell me about custom dice from Chessex.  He did a bunch of sets to commemorate the first anniversary of his blog and they came out great.

Adam was kind enough to give me a set and got me thinking about doing some custom dice for The Big Game or some other special occasion.  Now the only problem with Chessex is that the smallest dice they will customize is 16mm, which is bigger than the 12mm most of us use and which come in the dice cubes like this:

For information on ordering custom dice from Chessex, go here.  You can also find out information on custom dice from another manufacturer at Crystal Caste.  Other than these two, most seem to be much more expensive.  

But these dice, which were the inspiration to write this blog, don't appear to be Chessex 16mm.  Anyone know anything about these?

Alec

 

Ork Soopa Stompa Scratchbuild

From Greg Teeuwen, our resident Ork scratch-builder

I've been swamped with making Orky aircraft for the last several months and hadn't done anything for myself as of late.  As luck would have it, I had a week-long break in between commission work as I waited for key parts, so I decided to quick-build a second Soopa Stompa for my Apoc army.

My first Soopa  Stompa ("Masta Blasta") was a really quick build off a stompa-kit's body.  I just added some shoulder and body weapons.  Using Kustom Stompa rulez, my soopa stompa had 2 Flame Belchas, 2 Deff Kannons with co-axial gigashootas, 2 Bursta Kannons (D-weapons), and a Deff Arsenal.   :twisted:   All told, it's about 1000 points of total beat-down.  In all the games it's been in, it's been quite the terror.

At the last big game, I realized I only had two stompas in my army, so I decided to create another soopa stompa.  I intend to equip it with the exact same weapon load-out as my first soopa stompa, but I wanted it to be a total scratchbuild.  In the end, the only non-scratch parts I used were a Battlewagon cabin (still modified extensively), stompa feet, and a couple of gun-type bits I won at the last Big Game (thank you for everyone who voted for my scratch-builds!  ;) ).

I also wanted to do something cool with the Deff Kannons- I've always liked revolvers, so that was my motivation in creating the arm kannons.  I used wooden dowels as "bullets", complete with primers in the rear of the shell.

Oh, I need help naming this thing.  Any help?

Chaos unleashed from The Black Library

 

The Black Library has announced two new books featuring the powers of Chaos.  

The first is a series of four novellas and titled Architect of Fate, which features the greater Daemon of Tzeentch.

From The Black Library:

 

Collected for the first time, all four parts of the Architect of Fate novella series are presented in a single printed volume. The infamous Kairos Fateweaver, greater daemon of Tzeentch and master of manipulation, has discovered the limits of his power – even one so prescient as he cannot divine beyond the event horizon at the end of the 41st Millennium.

The second is Aaron Dembski-Bowden's final chapter of the Night Lord series Void Stalker.

From The Black Library:

The hunters have become the hunted. The Night Lords flee to the dark fringes of the Imperium to escape their relentless pursuers – the eldar of Craftworld Ulthwé. Their flight takes them to the carrion world of Tsagualsa, where their primarch died and their Legion was broken. There, history will repeat itself as a deadly assassin stalks the shadows, and the Night Lords are drawn into a battle they are destined to lose.