The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Back from the Alaskan Wilderness

It's update-o-clock!

I imagine it's probably apparent that I was not, in fact, consumed by ravenous moose or other wild animals during my brief stay in Alaska, but I feel as though I should dispel any doubts as to that point.

I've been roped into attending a 40K Doubles Tournament at The Gamer's Realm in West Windsor, NJ on August 15, so I have been very occupied in the past few days with getting enough stuff painted and in playable shape to run. To that end, I'll be adding a new project to the Orks section of the site very shortly, and my lootas can expect an update soon because they are being assembly-line painted right now.

Speaking of painted orks, I have to also give a hearty thank-you to Dakkabu at The-Waaagh.com for his ridiculously generous assistance in painting some of the rank and file infantry and I have lying around. He took a mob of boyz off my hands, painted them up wonderfully for me, and returned them to me to be based and indoctrinated in the proppa way ta bash 'eadz in.

Thanks, Dakkabu!

As a last note for now, I just wanted to mention that I have received my first set of casts from D6 Hobbies yesterday, and I'm quite pleased with the results. As a reader, I would certainly not take my word on this as unbiased, because I've made it clear that I have an obvious stake in the sales of my product that go through D6 Hobbies. However, in the interest of disclosure, I thought I'd share a few pictures of their product, right out of the bag, in the same shape and condition you'd be receiving them.

My heavy automatic cannons are cast very well, without any warps or distortions in the barrel or ammo cartridges. The vents where the resin pours in are evident along the top of the gun, but cleanup on those flat surfaces should prove to be completely negligible. I'm comfortable stating that these guns require vastly less cleanup and work than any of the half-dozen pieces I have ever obtained from Forgeworld.

I also received a set of D6 Hobbies-brand lava bases, pictured below.

There's a little bit of darker particulate matter that seems to be mixed in with the resin, creating a 'flecked' sort of appearance, but this is obviously a non-issue on base terrain that gets primed over anyway. I am seriously excited to put some of my Salamanders on this terrain, as I have been looking long and hard for lava-themed bases that looked right. I know a couple other manufacturers make their own lava base brands, but I've really never been a fan of what I've seen, because usually it's a very tiny rock sticking up out of a sea of lava; if you base your whole army like that, they look like they're just about to sink into a firey abyss below. This is a more conservative 'cracked earth' appearance that lets me include some lava around the edges but make it look as though my Marines aren't on the verge of being cooked in their armor.

Before tomorrow evening, I'll have those promised ork updates on the site! For now, I sleep.