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20Mar/250

Warhammer 40,000 – Forge World Imperial Sandbag Bunker

In addition to the Taros Underground Entrance I picked up the Imperial Sandbag Bunker a while back. They go for insane prices on eBay, but I managed to get it at a reasonable rate through one of the Bitbox events quite some time ago.

The article code was TR-40K-S-030 and was sold for  20 GBP / 34 EUR when available around 2006. The model was designed by Tim Adcock, who designed the Falcon and first 28mm scale Thunderhawk.

Warhammer 40,000 - Forge World Imperial Sandbag Bunker Warhammer 40,000 - Forge World Imperial Sandbag Bunker

11Mar/250

Star Wars Legions – Priority Supplies

This set has been around for a bit longer, I actually picked it up during my vacation in Spain (there fore the spanish and portuguese description / packaging). As I have a sweet-tooth for terrain, especially objectives and scatter, I picked these up at the local store in Santander (Distrito Zero), especially as I got a discount and paid around 20 EURs for them.

Star Wars Legions - Priority Supplies Star Wars Legions - Priority Supplies

Priority Supplies is similar to Vital Assets a non-core addition to the game, and covers 12 items that can be used for markers, points-of-interest, mission objectives and so on, in detail they are 3 comms stations, 4 moisture vaporators, and 5 supply crates. As the set was released in 2018, it seems that it was discontinued by now, as it no longer listed by Atomic Mass Games or Asmodee - but there are several listings on independent stores, where you can pick it up between 20 to 30 EURs.

5Mar/250

Warhammer 40,000 – Forge World Taros Underground Entrance

A blast from the past - a Forge World item from 2006 that I picked up a long time ago, but for a bit more than the original RRP of 16 GBP. Nowadays you would have to pay somewhere between 55 to 130 EUR on eBay to get your hands on one of these.

Warhammer 40,000 - Forge World Taros Underground Entrance Warhammer 40,000 - Forge World Taros Underground Entrance

As it is so rare, I thought I would take some measurements. Just in case some of you want to scratch build this thing. Due to its bulky and non-organic structure, this should be within realistic limits. The grid of my cutting mat is 1 cm each.

2Mar/250

February 2025 review

Welcome to March and let's do a recap on February 2025.

I pre-ordered the Army Painter - John Blanche Masterclass sets at Radaddel and now that they were shipped, I have set 1 and 2 in my hands. Looking forward to use them on the Turnip project.

Army Painter - John Blanche Masterclass

Beyond that, we had a lot of Warhammer on here during February. From the High Elves release for The Old World, we covered the Ellyrian Reavers. And strongly reminds me to get back painting my Blood Bowl High Elf team.

27Feb/250

Horus Heresy – Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank / Venator

An entirely new kit from the Mechanicum Heavy Support Force is the Krios Battle Tank including the Venator variant.

Horus Heresy - Mechanicum Krios Battle Tank Venator

This vehicle was moved from a former Forge World resin kit into a multi-part plastic kit, covering both variants and three different weapon load outs. You can build from this set the regular Krios Battle Tank (either with Lightning Cannon or Irradiation Blaster) or Krios Venator with a Pulsar Fusil. We do not have a official RRP yet, as the kit is currently only available as part of the Mechanicum Heavy Support Force, but pricing is very likely between 55 to 62,50 EUR.

22Feb/250

Horus Heresy – Mechanicum Heavy Support Force

Early in february we saw the teaser for the next Horus Heresy boxed set - the Mechanicum Heavy Support Force! A bit as a surprise, because we mostly saw regular battle groups so far with Legiones Astartes or Solar Auxilia, now the Mechanicum even gets some tactical reinforcement.

Horus Heresy - Mechanicum Heavy Support Force Horus Heresy - Mechanicum Heavy Support Force

Interesting combination regarding the content, as we get variants of existing kits with the Karacnos and Thanatar, and an entire new plastic kit with the Krios Battle Tank / Venator, for a price of 110 GBP/ 145 EUR.

13Feb/250

Star Wars Shatterpoint – Vent Building

We had a good time with the last kit we build from the Star Wars Shatterpoint terrain range, the Maintenance Bay Terrain Pack, and have an eye on the upcoming releases. And while I have the two other sets, High Ground and Take Cover, I was missing a single building, that is exclusive to the Starterset.

While that is a real good bargain, with two starter warbands and a lot of terrain, I want to use this terrain with my Legions miniatures and wasn't interested in the other items from that set, so I went on the second hand market and picked up the Vent Building on its own. The other terrain items from the Shatterpoint Starterset are the same as in the High Ground Terrain Pack.

We have a few sprues and as usual the assembly instruction can be downloaded from the Atomic Mass Games website, and I put them on my tablet.

Star Wars Shatterpoint - Vent Building Star Wars Shatterpoint - Vent Building

Quick removal of the parts from the sprue. A bit of clean up where the parts connect to the frame, but beyond that very little mould lines to clean up.

11Feb/250

Warhammer 40,000 – Converting the Space Marine Terminators

Last year I showed you the new Space Marine Terminator Squad, in updated scale and Indomitus pattern armour. And those were build with the intention of use in Space Hulk, as written last July as well. As I pointed out, a few options and poses were missing to fulfill all roles needed to play the different campaigns.

As a TLDNR sum up, there is the core game of Space Hulk and further campaigns, making use of the Terminator variant boxed sets for Dark Angels or Space Wolves, and I wanted to re-create this more Codex Astartes compliant with Sons of Dorn, the Imperial Fists. By using the parts from the Terminator Squad plastic kit and further sprues, among others from the Deathwing Assault set, I went on to convert the Terminator miniatures for the weapon load outs, that I would need to cover the extended gaming material.

While could build most of what we need, especially for the Space Hulk core set and Ultramarines campaign from the vanilla Terminator squad, there are still a few poses open.

From the Dark Angels campaign Bringer of Sorrow, we would need the third Terminator with a special weapon, in this case the Plasma Cannon, as we covered the heavy flamer with the multi-part squad and the assault cannon from Leviathan.

Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marine Terminator Squad Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marine Terminator Squad

1Feb/250

January 2025 review

Welcome to 2025 and we're doing a recap on January!

The year started directly with a gaming event, Dino and I went to ScenarioCon in Hackenheim. I managed to play quite a few games, tried out Fallout Wasteland Warfare, a home brew horror game about Jack the Ripper and All That'Z Left.

SzenarioCon 2025 SzenarioCon 2025

31Jan/250

Adeptus Titanicus – Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XVI

With the finished bases packed in the boxes, I went off to the paint meetup last year, and this was my project for inbetween the other things to get either into the mood for painting or as a palette cleanser.

I used 3d printed bits and parts from the Civitas Imperialis ruins set, along with spackle and cork, to finish the bases.

Adeptus Titanicus - Legio Astraman Ad Arma Pt. XV TabletopWelt - Maltreffen 2024 Rittergut Lützensömmern

From there I went the regular route, adding the texture paste (used the remainder of the Armageddon Dunes and Armageddon Dust, but from now on using Dark Earth by Vallejo) and let it dry properly.