The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

A quick note to Chrome users

It's been brought to my attention that The Warforge's gallery features have not been playing well with Chrome, despite working just fine in Internet Explorer and Firefox (and other browsers). I've looked into this a bit, and it doesn't look like I'll be able to fix the problem myself, and since my browser stat logs show that a bunch of you are using Chrome, I thought I'd address the issue.

The good news is that Google's fixing the problem themselves. The gallery problem has been fixed with the latest BETA version of Chrome. As of 2/8/2010, the latest stable version of Chrome is 4.***. The latest BETA version is 5.0.317.2 Beta. You can download from Google at http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/

Basically, the takeaway from this is that when Google has it's next version release, everything will go back to normal - the issue is with the browser and how it reads the gallery code, not the code itself, so there's little I can do to alleviate it with my current web coding knowledge.

Sorry!

Game on!

So I managed to get out for a game today for the first time in... well, months.

I took some assorted pictures of the game, just for the fun of things. We both took absolutely silly lists - I took a bunch of warbikes with Wazzdakka, stormboyz, a pair of kanz, and a looted wagon, and he took two trukks, a looted wagon, a burna boy squad, a boyz squad, and a nobz squad with a boss.

 

I soundly lost both games, but I think it was more to do with my lack of familiarity with all the fast attack stuff I had on the board. Also, Nobz are impossible to bring down.

Activate cloak-ing!

Here's a bit more on the Librarian, now tentatively named Aduro Terranum after the DakkaDakka.com forum member who suggested it; apparently it's some rough latin for the expression 'To Light The World Aflame', so it seems appropriate.

I found a cloak, courtesy of the... well, very, very, very old Von Carstein model from 4th edition WHFB. I certainly wasn't playing back then, but I picked this up off eBay on a lark, and I'm glad I did - it fits the back of Terminator armor like a glove.

 

A little dremelling in the small of the Terminator's back was needed, right below the vents, to get the cape to sit properly, but it's just the right height and width to go there. It splays out more to one side than the other, but I think the asymmetry adds a bit of interest to his pose. I'm currently picturing the left arm swept out, like he just swung it around from the front (which would work nicely with the cape). On the base, there'll be a ring of fire encircling the front left quarter of the miniature, gaining height as it nears the cloak and his hand. It's hard to explain, but I have a pretty clear image of it in my head, so you may just have to wait.

I'm hoping this miniature firewall on the base will be acceptable to most players as a storm shield, because the pose I'm picturing wouldn't be too hospitable to me strapping a shield on the left arm. We'll see!

Housekeeping

This is just a general notice that I've finished updating Wordpress and all of the related plugins I have running on The Warforge right now. As far as I can tell, everything went smoothly, and everything should be working as intended. If this isn't the case, please let me know so I can address the problem!

Charity Case

My good friend Mike has just informed me that he's currently trying to rid himself of a pair of Warmachine lots that include a fair bit of Mercenaries. Having seen and handled these in person, I can vouch for two things:

1. These models are actually very nicely built and painted.
2. Mike can't take flattering miniature photos to save his life.

As a favor to him, I'd like to direct your attention to these two auctions, which you can find HERE and HERE. The starting bids on these things are really ridiculously generous, since there's a ton of warjacks in each listing.

Give 'em a look!

Not quite a legion yet!

My first order of the Legion of the Damned's come in, and I'm working on cleaning up the metals and removing those godforsaken mold lines and flashing. I thought I'd show you guys the big pile of crap I've been able to amass over the past month:

I did manage to get my hands on a lot of old Legionnaires - the ones from 3rd edition. They're slightly smaller in size than the current edition of marines, but I figure if I lump them together in their own squads nobody'll be the wiser. That, or I can put them in vehicle hatches or the likes, where they'll end up making the vehicles themselves look a bit bigger by comparison!

There's a couple classic heavy weapons in that bin - the shoulder-mounted heavy bolters, lascannons, that sort of thing. All of them are the Legion versions, so they have skeleton iconography all over 'em. I think it'd be a pretty cool look to bring this kind of shouder-mounted retro weaponry into a newer, modern army style.

Savage boyz almost ready for paint

So I've got myself a full mob of 20 shooty gits here.

Just need to add straps to the masks at this point... then I think it's time to paint. I'm going to get some use out of my airbrush by spraying them a bone white or khaki base color, since I figure most of them will be wearing the standard, desert-ish snakebite garb.

Gribblies on E-bay

I had a couple people express interest in all of the nid bitz as a lot, but very few made offers or went anywhere - mostly just people kicking the tires, I suspect.

Accordingly, I've just gone ahead and thrown the entire lot of Tyranid Bitz up on e-bay. Bid starts at $50, and shipping's free. I encourage all of you to bid!

More updates to come later today. Some of the Salamanders may hit auction as well, and I certainly have some projects to update.

Buy, Sell, or Trade!

Okay! I've got some stuff I need, and some stuff I don't, so let's do this.

First off, the Things I Have:

Tyranid Bitz - Click for bigger pictures

Most of these are arms, heads, and other assorted limbs. I have very few bodies. All of them are plastic, but some have been sprayed with an old can of GW's Bonewhite spray. I am not a nid player, so I simply tried to sort the bitz into general piles based on size.

Figure someone might be interested in these, what with the new nids coming out and a lot of them being big gribblies that could benefit from extra limbs. I'm sure whatever doesn't go will end up on some looted tyranid monstrosity shortly ( ), but it's just more than I could possibly need for an army I don't play.

Secondly, we have Salamander Bitz which I no longer need as I'm switching them over to Legion of the Damned.

I inherited some of the loose bitz from a friend of mine, and when I tried to strip paint off of them, I discovered that some of them were a white resin instead of Forgeworld's regular. I can only assume he did some of his own casting and made copies of things. For what it's worth, they're pretty good casts, though the rhino doors don't have much detail on the 'interior', i.e. the side of the door that faces inwards that nobody ever sees. If anyone finds these objectionable, feel free not to be interested in them.

There's a few custom-sculpted bitz in the piles, as you'll see above.

The Vulkan He'Stan conversion (pictured at the top of the series) does have a head that has been hollowed out and accepts LEDs. The head is currently removed; I can conceivably put the LED head back on without too much difficulty. I can also change the LED color to green, red, or yellow. I'm able to wire the whole thing up to a battery mounted in a base, but that'll require a bit more work.

The razorback is lit, as the pictures show, and the battery is easily changed in a hatch at the bottom of the vehicle. The side doors currently on the thing are white resin, but they are magnetized on and can be easily removed (I intended to set it up so it could receive sponsons). The front hatch is also white resin, and is securely mounted there.

Now, for Bitz I am Looking For:

I'd prefer to trade for these if possible, but if not I'm willing to buy as long as you're being reasonable about valuation.

Think that's all for now! Anyone who is interested in any of the above can feel free to contact me.

EDIT: An additional find for my Salamanders For Sale - A converted Chaplain Xavier.

This guy's been converted up to work under Chaplain Cassius's rules in the current Space Marine codex.

Edit again! Some Space Wolves that I'd like to trade or sell.

More if I find it!