Bunker Rebuild 3

Moulds done and first three casts are out.

After cleaning up the first one looks pretty good.

As you can make out there is one air bubble, on the comms unit which is a bit annoying but one air bubble on a model this size isn't too bad at all.

The roof lugs were drilled out and the lifting bars added.

Underneath you can see the stepped base I created:

Which fits into the MDF base which I cut the centre out ready to take the pillbox.

Once glued in position it got a layer of plaster and then sand was added.

Still left to do is fill the one air bubble and carve in some battle damage.

I have two more cast up but I can't do much with those until I get some more MDF.

Recalcitrant Daze - Coming Months

It may not have slipped your notice but over the last few months things have been very quiet on RD, I’ve barely touched a model and most of the posts I have made have been concerning events rather than any hobby I have done myself.

I don’t think things have particularly changed of late; I am still struggling to get started on anything. The bunker I can just about manage (for some reason terrain has always felt different to working on other models). I have decided I need to force myself into doing something to see if that sparks it all off.

So I have put together a short list I want to look at/work on over the next 1-2 months (in no particular order):

Deamons – get at least one unit finished that is currently PIP so that the force gets moving again. Currently in the PIP stage are a Blight Drone, the Plague Drones, three Nurgling bases and Scabby. There are a few others just undercoated (and one Decimator unbuilt).

Scabby in his current state.

Blight Kings – I picked up a box at half price at the B’day event last weekend. The plan is to use some of these as new Heralds for the Daemons. The potential in the kit will hopefully be a hook I can hang myself on.

Nice looking kit.

Militia Infantry – get the remaining figures finished and shipped to Sheep ASAP.

One of the HW team to re-do.

War Altar of Nurgle & Weirdboy Battle Tower – Get these out and decide what to do with them - either continue with the build in the future or get them shifted. It would be nice to either get these finished or get them out of the storage cupboard. I can see the former being finished and kept and the latter either going now or being finished and then going.

The Weirdboy Battle Tower,
been a while since this was worked on.

Inq28/Inquisimunda – the first models for the planned warbands. 

The tub of FW Show Only figs,
the base of hopefully two warbands.

Terrain – specifically my Realm of Battle boards which are nearly finished…

Two of the converted RoB boards
which need finishing off.

Pillboxes – …though I will start with getting some of these cast and based this weekend.

The Pillbox, currently in the casting process.

Hopefully after a couple of months I’ll have ticked off all those things as achieved (not going to happen). I am not going to say that list is set in stone as I fully intend to change things if something comes up that I want to do, after all the aim is to get back into working on models so as long as that is achieved I'm not too fussed what models I end up actually working on as long as progress is made I shall be satisfied.

In the middle of this two month period I will be attending the Horus Heresy Weekender which will be somewhat distracting and you never know what I may come back with...

GW 40th Birthday at Warhammer World

Today I went along to WHW for the 40th b'day party thing.

Not a bad day, pale in comparison to something like the FW Open Day but considering it was free it was worth going along.

As always FW were the highlight, though seeing the guys who put together the WHW gaming tables and exhibition having a stand was nice as you could chat to them about the boards/exhibits and see some WIP pictures of the exhibition.

Anyway, onto new stuff from Forge World. Pics are large (and many).

Corax & The Raven Guard.

Alpha Legion Headhunters:

Mastodon: 

I asked Tony Cottrell about this beast, current expectation - but in no way concrete and may change - is that this will be out in April for a ball park figure of £300.

Warlord Weapons -

Plasma Annihilator:

Power Fist (with built in Vulcan Mega Bolter):

AM Ordinatus, with new weapon.

Leviathan Dreadnought - New Weapon:

Red Books:

Updated Legion Book & New Crusade Imperialis book collecting Solar, Militia and Knight lists, only just gone to printers so don't expect them any time soon.

Specialist Games:

Forge World have been reorganised to some extent with Andy Hoare now head of the Specialist Games area, the first on the workbench is Blood Bowl. Expect late this year with plastic Human and Orc teams in the box with more teams in either plastic or resin to follow. The plan is FW will design the models with Citadel producing them in plastic. Whether the additional teams happen in plastic or resin (if at all) will probably depend on how well the box set does.

While they hope to cover all the old games nothing is set in stone and there is no plan currently laid out. So while they may hope to redo Epic (or some kind) in may not happen, or if it does it may be far off and come back in a different way.

Concept work by Mark Bedford (I did ask before I took pictures):

3D CAD renders of the Orc player.

That is all for pictures from me.

I picked up the new Heresy Masterclass book, if you have any questions of the contents of that feel free to ask.

(Had to edit post as I forgot the new Leviathan Dread weapon)