28mm Painted Pig Iron Ferals Heavy Dreadnought (Deff Dread).

.......their second last piece of heavy support for the ferals, a deff dread from their Games Workshop WH40K ork range and a really nice model, received my first 20mm WW2 order yesterday, only ordered it on Tuesday from the Sgts Mess  http://www.sgts-mess.com/, I believe my eyesight has failed since I last did 20mm because they're smaller than I bloody remember. Have ordered from a few companies to gauge scale and size for this new project. On Sunday the Rejects meet up for a game without the presence of Ray from Don't throw a 1 and things will go a lot calmer and smoother now:P

Don't know why there's so few picture but that's the ferals for you, they just buggered off.

Bodging Games Workshop WH40K Ork Trukks for 28mm Pig Iron Ferals.

.....or how Valentines Day kept giving.

You may remember how I got a Games Workshop WH40K Strormraven Gunship as a present for valentines day but a couple of days later I got another one as an illness present from a very good friend (Bell's Palsy has some benefits:D) but I didn't want 2 gunships so I brought back mine to the shop (with SWMBO permission) and they gave me these 2 Ork Trukk models for the same price (£20.50 each, good grief I thought) but they are excellent little kits with loads of potential for bodging (angry scratchbuilding) and I posted some pics for scale and size comparisons with 28mm Pig Iron feral miniatures if you ever thought of being this weird, they are great kits and as I said you don't have to follow all the instructions in the box.

28mm Pig Iron Feral Miniatures for scale comparison.

Some of the extra pieces are from WH40K Ork Dreadnought pieces I had left over, plasticard, WH40K Valkyrie pieces, an old crow piece and 1/48 scale WW2 sandbags (probably a bit big but it's called bodging). 

What they look like on the box or after follwimg the exact instructions.

Games Workshop WH40K Stormraven Gunship Bodging and Comparison Pictures

....bodging a sensor/targetting array to the gunship.

Finally made my Valentines day gift ( I like making kits), this one had a few areas where things didn't fit exactly as they shoud and required bodging (angry scratchbuilding) like cutting pieces to fit but maybe it was just me. I finished it after a couple of hours over a few days and I must say it's a lovely bit of kit and will fit in well with what I want it for but I have never gotten to grips with the top mounted firing point (it just looks out of place to me) so I decided I would change it by putting something else there, hence the bodging and I must admit I like it and I moved some guns to under the wings (madness I know).

The new piece is made from 2 sensor pieces from the company Old Crow Models, a GW piece that I have no idea what it's from (was in my bits box) and something from an office board (???) but it was in the bits box. I then did some size and comparison pictures for others who might like to own this model (in it's original state probably, hope it helps and bodging is king!

The piece replaced is seen here, the cockpit with the gatling guns. 

Front view with new attachment.

Side view.

Front view of bodged piece.

Side view.

Rear view.

With some 28mm Lead Adventure, Copplestone and Hasslefree Miniatures.

Front view with the addition of a 28mm Four A Miniature.

28mm Antenocitis Warthog and Pig Iron APC.

Another view with the Pig Iron APC.

28mm Pig Iron Miniatures and Antencitis Warthog.

A closer view with the 28mm Pig Iron Miniatures.

28mm Old Crow Gunship.

With anothe GW product the beautiful Valkyrie for scale.

28mm Unpainted Antenocitis Warthog Comparison Vehicle Pictures with Old Crow, Pig Iron and GW.

Put some pictures up last week showing the warthog with figures http://theangrylurker.blogspot.com/2011/02/28mm-unpainted-antenocitis-workshop.html and I was asked to take some pictures with some other companies vehicles for size and scale pictures, so last weekend I did.

28mm Pig Iron vehicles and figures.

28mm Old Crow vehicles.

28mm Games Workshop Valkyrie and Dreadnought.

Games Workshop WH40K Stormraven Gunship or how Valentines Day came early.

Being looking at this model on some other blogs and have seen a tutorial on how it goes together and been thinking about getting one, the one stumbling block being the price and justifying it to myself but that happens with other companies products aswell and not just limited to Games Workshop.

So out shopping with the other half the weekend just gone I picked her up a few things for Valentines day she wanted (which she is now wearing and eaten??????), she asked me what I wanted so I thought some money towards this Stormraven Gunship and hey presto I have a bright large shiny box.

The point I'm trying to make is that Games Workshop is expensive at times (some people will say all the time) but it makes a quality product and I will be using the gunship for somehing not Games Workshop WH40K related as I have done before and I have posted some pictues to show how I use them for other periods.The bottom line is if I can't afford it I won't get it or if I believe its essential I save for it, if you don't but a companies product then don't be surprised when they are no longer around.

I haven't opened the box yet as I'm trying to make a futile point to the other half as she munches her way through several packets of Hotel Chocolat product and says how comfortable her new footwear are..........and what is she really getting for Valentines Day?

The bright shiny box in my possession.

Neo Soviet Games workshop Valkyrie.

Neo Soviet Games Workshop Usarkar Creed as a Soviet General.

Neo Soviet Games Workshop Dreadnought.

A finished Stormraven Gunship, mine will not be red or probably this well made.

 

Angry Movie Lurker Review 24: Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2 STARS)

.....back on the horse after internet and phones returned yesterday late evening, did some painting, took some pictures and watched a lot of movies and this was one of them.

All I knew about this movie was a trailer I had seen on a blog and I was interested because I have always been a fan of WH40K especially space marines (dark angels), imperial guard and orks in that order.This movie was a bit of a let down and I realise it was made on a minimal budget but my only problem with this movie is the portrayal of the space marines, they are showed as less than superhuman, constantly bickering and making snide remarks at each other, they die after one shot mostly ( but 6-7 shots to take out a chaos marine) , keep taking their helmets off in the battlefield?.The marines I remember reading about over the years in novels and the magazines were insane killers who were virtually one man armies held in awe by their own people and in fear by other races.

Their is beautiful stuff here, battle barge, thunderhawk gunship, power swords, chainswords, heavy bolter, flamer etc......but one squad on a battle barge (12 men), some of the visuals are excellent (the scenes of the imperial fist battlefield devestation), the black legion chaos marines and the imperial fist chaplain but some of the rest is terrible.

The story is that an ultamarine squad plus apothecary and captain head to a planet and a shrine guarded by a company of imperial fists after an emergency beacon is activated, when they arrive they find most of the imperial fists dead and the mark of chaos is everywhere and they fight to find out what happened and get off the planet alive but chaos is everywhere and has plans of its own.I watched it until the end and I applaud the movie been made in the first place but what could have been with a better budget and a different chapter......Ultramarines have always been a problem for me too perfect and a bit preachy for my liking.