For a change I am doing this review quite on time for a change… so without further ado, let’s take a look at May’s White Dwarf. Can it be called a good, issue, a fine issue or just a gloriously illustrated catalogue of shiny new products from Games Workshop? Not that it would be that [...]
Well, after reviewing James Swallow’s tales “Faith & Fire” and “Red & Black“, you would have known that I’d continue with the third Sisters of Battle tale, wouldn’t you? So here it is, “Hammer & Anvil“, published by the Black Library in 2011 to coincide with the release of the newest incarnation of the Codices [...]
Before I start I should mention that this is actually the first “proper” Black Library-publication I’ve ever read. Normally I shun reading tie-ins, as it is quite difficult to produce a good book here. That’s because the usual readers of tie-ins are hardcore fans of the corresponding movie or game. They have a fixed set [...]
Well, I am late again, no doubt about that – but as I only returned from Japan last week, I actually only found time to read my Dwarf yesterday… sometimes it can’t be helped… Still, let’s take a look at April’s White Dwarf – is it worth buying or (if you already bought yours) reading [...]
Review: Titan Forge – Demon Slayers Cleansing Squad Shoulder Pads & Robes
Yesterday I had a look at Titan Forge’s Shoulder Pads and Robes for the Demon Slayers Heavy Squad – today I will review to other sets of bitz the folks at Titan Forge generously gave me for just that purpose. If you haven’t had a look at my other review, please do so now. There [...]
Review: Titan Forge – Demon Slayers Heavy Veteran Shoulder Pads & Robes
Titan Forge is a relatively new company from Poland, that hotbed for innovative bitz- and miniature makers (think of Scibor and Micro Art and you know what I mean!). During the last months, they have built up an impressive portfolio of miniatures, bitz and bases cast in resin, with parts for (almost) everybody out there. [...]
It’s astounding, time is fleeting…. as I will be off for a longer holiday later this month, I am running quite out of hobby time and my White Dwarf reviews – while being fun and actually blockbusters on this blog – are taking away quite a lot of them… I thought about abandoning those [...]
And here it is, gentlemen: my 25th anniversary model…
It took Games Workshop and the German Post quite some time to get this one sent to me, but finally my specimen of the limited 25th anniversary model arrived here last Wednesday. Normally I have the peculiar habit of opening my pewter or plastic fix only on my hobby evenings on Friday or Saturday, but [...]
Well, I guess I can keep this one rather short – first, because I am quite tired today, but secondly and foremost because it’s always less fun reviewing the tools of the trade than reviewing the nice miniatures you paint and adapt and convert with them – unless you are some kind of tool-fetishist, of [...]
A look at Jungle Bases from Micro Art Studio
Another not-really-a-review review of some bases from Micro Art Studio. Yesterday we already had a 60mm Dreadnought base, but the lot I acquired also included five 25mm Jungle Bases. Again I can’t really say anything about the way they are usually delivered (in blisters, I think, and 5 at a time), but then one has [...]
Just a short one today – it is a public holiday in Germany, but I want to use that time for some painting and ordinary household chores (well, there is a real life I sometimes have to attend to). A side project of mine during the bygone weeks was to find a way to create [...]
I haven’t posted that bit so far, but quite some months ago I won a EDEN starterset on that wonderful little newssite Tabletop Fix. It took Falk, the mastermind behind the website, quite some time to get hold of the starter set and to send it to me – but today it arrived: hooray! I [...]
If you follow my Blog you know that I have recently started to induldge myself into Carnevale, a fairly new skirmish game set in the alternate reality of the decaying city of Venice in 1795. Reading the rulebook and planning my forces and terrain pieces is quite a pleasure (and once I get hold of [...]
I had very much “Real Life” this weekend (no, not the exciting one – the boring one…), so I didn’t really have time (or the mood) for much hobby… still I advanced a lot with my Foamboard ruin. Just a few photos and comments this time, though – having a terrible headache… As you [...]
Well, it’s amazing how many people love Bushido – or love funding a kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign… I’m pretty sure we will see many, many more of that kind in the future… Anyway, just two days ago GT Studio’s campaign to fund the release of a new faction broke through the 15.000 US $-stretch goal, [...]
Oh, what a happy weekend! Look, what came with the post today – some nice brown little parcel right from Defiance Games in Massachusetts. It came pretty quickly, just eight days after I got the information that it had been dispatched to me. Inside I found my box of United Americas Marine Corps Infantry and some [...]
I know I am always repeating myself on this Blog (almost like history and surely like Guido Knopp)… still: FINALLY IT’S FRIDAY! It has been a mostly terrible week, culminating in my PC accidentally (though, you know, I do suspect that thing to hate me…) destroying three day’s worth of work… how much I hate going [...]
I am pretty impressed by the support Bushido’s Indiegogo campaign for a new faction starter has garnered. There are still 24 days to go and already they got 14,541 US $ out of 5.000 US $ they asked for. I really didn’t notice there are so many fans of the game out there – amazing. Though [...]
Have you already seen the updated release schedule (“roadmap”) of Defiance Games, the makers of Alien War? Fascinating times lie ahead of us indeed… Originally I wasn’t sure if I should really settle for the UA Marines Corps… you know, I was hoping for other armies to be published soon… but when I look at [...]
Today I am quite busy, so there’s just a photo for you… An acquaintance of mine wanted to get rid of his collection of White Dwarfs and of course I was more than eager to help him with that… so here they are: the first 40 german White Dwarfs (1-39 plus a german special [...]
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