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.

Painted 28mm Pig Iron Miniatures Feral Trukks.

........continuing the 28mm Pig Iron feral project with these WH40K ork trukks from Games Workshop, really lovely kits, highly recommended..

28mm Painted Pig Iron Ferals (Ork) Light Dreadnoughts.

Have a few bits of armour and transport to add to the Pig Iron Miniatures Ferals, these are Games Workshop WH40K ork dreadnoughts painted to blend in with the ferals, have some other GW products for them and then they are done, will be heading the 20mm WW2 route soon after especially after Salute 2011.

These are really some of GW's best models and were a lot of fun to make and paint, coming up will be a Deff Dread, ork trukks and a bodge and scratchbuild of incredible little point or reason.....the anticipation you can taste it:P

Ignore the madness behind as Zombietown USA is being dismantled for a more rural larger setting for a zombie game.

My Painted and Bodged WH40K Stormraven Gunship.

..........now painted and even more bodged gunship due to stupidity illness.

Finally painted the Games Workshop WH40K Stormraven Gunship that I bodged in a recent post http://theangrylurker.blogspot.com/2011/02/games-workshop-wh40k-stormraven-gunship_23.html but I then made a bit of a gaff and glued the radar/sensor array on backwards but only noticed this when I had undercoated and started putting on the first coat of paint while sitting in front of the TV, now normally the model would have ended up in the fecking telly but reason prevailed and because SWMBO would have tried to kill me as she was sitting near (and she was the voice of reason). So got a hacksaw and cut the fecking crap off the gunship but it was a bit of a disaster and I ended up having to bodge something else together but it doesn't look as good but that's what Bell's Palsy does (well I'm blaming that because it couldn't be anything else?).

So it's now painted up for my Neo US forces and I know it looks like a flying skip but I think it conveys FUBAR about to handed out.

(Fucked up beyond all recognition) it's what I also call my dog!

Original bodged unglued sensor array look.

After hacksawing and furious anger!!!!!!!

Replacement bodged sensor array.

28mm Lead Adventure Neo US Special Forces.

It's a bit of an unstable beast on it's flying frame but it's a beauty.

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 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.

Wargames Magazines:Do you still buy?

Picked up my only 2 wargames magazines that I buy last night which are Wargames Illustrated and White Dwarf.Now I never look at the magazines before I buy them because I do not believe I would still buy them as lately I am growing tired of Wargames Illustrated as a lot of the time now it does not interest me as much with some of its articles especially all the FOW stuff,I still like it for eye candy and advertisements but now with all the forums and reviews and previews available on the web the magazine is already out of date when you purchase it I believe.

White Dwarf I purchase because I used to play WH40K and Lord of the Rings and still like the magazine for battle reports,Lord of the Rings(which I adapted for Samurai Warfare, War of the Spanish Succession and Pirates) and I still make the odd purchase of WH40K vehicles and use them with other figures and I know it is just one big colourful catalogue but I mainly read these magazines for the moments of peace when we are pondering in the toilet that there is actually peace and quiet and we may get half a magazine read or a couple of chapters in a book(apologies for too much information or if you do not do this).LOL

Other Magazines I used to buy and read regularly(well not Vae Victus because I am Irish and cannot read or for that fact speak French but great pictures and a game):
Miniatures Wargames.
Wargames Soldiers and Strategy
BattleGames
Dadi & Piombo
Vae Victus(translation please)

I have back issues of these magazines numbering into hundreds and think they were better in the past(without as much information on the internet) but maybe I am just old but I will still probably continue purchasing them if only out of habit and the toilet reading.