The Dreadknight - Giant Weaboo Fighting Robot Paladin in Shining Armor...of Doom... from Outer Space!

So you thought Tau were the only ones that can use gigantic fighting robots?
So you thought Tyranids had the biggest Monstrous Creatures?
So you thought Space Wolves and their Thunderwolves were able to fight off your opponent's army by themselves?
So you thought the Stormraven is the coolest vehicle on the block?
So you thought the Hellpit Abomination was big and scary.
So you thought the Arachnarok was bigger and scarrier.

But this... You are not prepared. You are not prepared for the GREY KNIGHT DREADKNIGHT!
The two pictures below and a ton of other SCARY rumors that I just don't have to discuss right now were brought to you by Heresy Online!

Just like in my Japanese animes!!!! DESU!!
Comes with Double Nemesis DOOMFISTS.. of DOOM.. of Malan'tai!
 

Now, you're probably thinking. "Oi, Skarvald. This doesn't seem proppa. Da pikcha is blurry and obviously photoshopped. I can see it in the pixels. This fing is obviously fake. And how tall would it have to be anyway?" My answer?

Stack two Rhinos on top of each other.
Taller than a Land Raider.
Half the height of a Stormraven mounted on a flying base.
How do I know? Well..

This will be hard, Wolf Brothers. The enemy is one we cannot and should NEVER underestimate. The Emperor has given them His blessing and in battle they fight with blinding speed and deadly finesse. In the last calm moments before our bloody clash with the Knights in Shining Armor, remember that Leman Russ has given us the ability to use our acute sense when blinded by their speed and an even deadlier brutality, and know no fear for victory will, without a doubt, be ours! 
FOR RUSS AND THE ALLFATHER!!!!


- Skarvald the Troll-faced

Things Your LGS Needs: #1 Proppa Haigene

And who better to enforce purity after leaving the Porcelain Throne but the one and only..

INQUISITION!!!

The manager of our beloved Games Workshop made this brilliant sign. Actually, he made two of them. They are now decorating the insides of the store's bathroom and I just can't resist to laugh every single time I see it.
But it doesn't end there. No, no, no. In our store we refer to the condition of the bathroom shortly after it was used for a longer duration by someone as "Nurgle'd". This is why there is also a simple sign above the bathroom that states:

If you Nurgle it, you clean it. 

If you Slaanesh it, use bleach.

I love my store.

New Savage Orc Boyz? *jaw drops* + [Adepticon 2011 Team Progress Update]

Today our store got the Black Box containing the new Orcs and Goblins Army Book, the new Savage Orc Boyz and the Arachnarok Spider. I'll be honest - I've been trying to stay away from Fantasy. For the longest time I was always busy with 40k and on the few occasions I got to play against people with friends armies I was pretty satisfied, yet not inspired enough to start an army of my own. People have been bugging me to start an army for the longest time too.. For my previous birthday I got a bunch of Skaven and was about to start my own clan Moulder with tons of Rat Ogre's aaand Hell Pit Abominations. But that never happened and I just sold/traded them on eBay. I got a nice trade for my last remaining 40 clan rats = got a badly painted Stompa!

Enter the Savage Orc Boyz!

 I... I was.. so happy when I saw the new Savage Boys. They are perfect. Orc skins is so much fun to paint and the lack of tons of straps, shirts and jackets to paint make them even more attractive. I always thought that the Ork Boyz were a pain in the neck to paint, especially because I never bother with painting heads and arms separate and everything eventually ended up being in the way of the paintbrush. But the Savage Orc Boyz! So bright! So much bones, so many possibilities! Look at them.. Definitely the best Orc/Ork models Games Workshop have ever sold.. I saw the kits today and there are so many weapons and other gubbinz to choose from. The Big Stabba? Why would you ever opt out of it? It is death on a stick..

Now, I know that I have plenty of things to paint. Those Space Wolves I have won't pant themselves, you know? I am planning to purchase a box of Savage Orcs and not open it until Adepticon is over. Or I'll try not to open it. How's that? I will be very careful about this project. I will only buy things that I'm ready to paint and will spend plenty of time on each model. I don't plan on having a horde army.. Maybe something in between. Like.. a smallish horde of elite guys and then some little guys. Here are some things that I'll have to change/think about/figure out:

Obsidian arrowhead!

- Figure out whether I want to run them with Spears, extra Hand weapons or Shields? Bows are out of the question.
- Will have the Big Stabba in every unit.
- Figure out a paint scheme. I definitely love the bright colors so I'll wait for some GW and blog articles.
- The stone weapons I plan on painting like obsidian. Probably Chaos Black with a light drybrush, white highlights and then gloss varnish. Or might use the Black Undercoat paint from the Paint Set. Then I'll sprinkle dried and fresh blood using Scab Red and Blood Red.
- They will start without tattoos but I will add tattoos to each squad when they prove themselves in battle. The more distinguished and successful a squad is, the more tattoos it will get.
- Will learn to be patient and paint the heads and other detail-obscuring pieces separate.

Other units to take will be Savage Boar Boyz, Goblin Wolf Riders including the new Goblin special character that makes them better at shooting (BS4 and other dakka!), definitely love new Savage Orc Shaman on Boar model so I'll have to pick it up at one point on another. Not sure what else as I was only able to peruse the army book and I am not that familiar with Warhammer Fantasy in general. The new Squig herd thing is pretty interesting too, and a pretty big unit of Goblins with Fanatics (with BIG skulls instead of chained metal balls) sounds pretty darn good to me.

Definitely a unit of Black Orcs that I'll need to convert somehow to make them look like Savage Orcs. I'm thinking that there should be a way to make their armor seems as if it was made from obsidian? Will have to research that. Maybe some very carefully placed Citadel Water Effects, Undercoat Black?

Team Razorback Spam Adepticon 2011 Progress:

- The pink foam part of the display board is not being glued to the wooden board with some PVA glue with.. hm... 8 Warhammer Fantasy Rulebooks and a Yellow Pages book sitting on top for some support.
- Met today with the guys to make sure progress was being made. We are doing different steps, but finishing on time definitely still seems possible.
- Started painting the faces of all the Space Wolves I own. Thinned layer of Tallarn Flesh, followed by a wash of Devlan Mud and then a 1:1 Tallarn Flesh and Elf Flesh mix was applied leaving some of the darker areas. About 50% have the 1:1 mix applied to them, the rest were washed before we had to call it a night.


- Still need to do some touch ups on the 4 Rhinos, Vindicator before I prime them Chaos Black and airbrush them with 2:1 Shadow Grey and Space Wolves Grey.
- Still need to prime and work on my 5 Thunderwolves.
- Still need to finish Skarvald's backpack and prime him.

Why Space Wolves?

Sometimes people ask me "Hey, Vlad, how come you like Space Wolves so much?". I often give them different answers, simply because there are so many. The Space Wolves codex, miniature range and fluff are really good and their rules are competitive to say the least, but for me the warriors of Russ are something far more special and dear than plastic dude men wearing wolf pelts.

But first, as Deckard Cain would say.. "Stay a while and listen..." 

It's offishul, boyz! Special Free Fan Screenings of Ultramarines in the US!

This ALWAYS cracks me up! Haha!

Remember that one time I was talking about about going to the "Ultramarines" screening with Dan Abnett and producer Bob Thompson? And then I also mentioned my doubts about the date of the screening that was published on the cinema's website and the total lack of any and all media hype about the event? Well, turned out I was right all along and that the actual screening will be on the 26th of February.




Don't believe me? Check the official "Ultramarines" website for information on how to get your FREE admission to any of the screenings throughout the country. Oh, yes. That's right. It's not only going to be in the Chicagoland area, my friends. Here's the current schedule:

Saturday February 26

Dallas, TX - 11 AM, at the Lewisville Cinemark Movies 8, 1600 S Stemmons Freeway @ Corp Drive , Lewisville, Texas 75067

Seattle, WA - 11 AM, at the Metro Cinemas, 4500 9th Avenue, N.E., Seattle, Washington 98105

Chicago, IL -11 AM, at the Classic Cinemas Charlestowne 18, 3740 East Main Street, St Charles, Illinois 60174 Followed by Q&A with producer Bob Thompson

Sunday February 27

Los Angeles, CA - 11 AM, at the Mann 10 Glendale Exchange, 128 North Maryland Avenue, Glendale, California 91206

Baltimore, MD - 11 AM, at the Landmark's Harbor East Cinema, 645 S President St., Baltimore, Maryland 21202

New York, NY - 11 AM, at the Village East Cinema, 181-189 Second Avenue, New York 10012 Followed by Q&A with producer Bob Thompson

As you can see, some of the screening will also feature a Q&A with producer Bob Thompson. While a similar message was posted on Dan Abnett's blog, it doesn't seem like the famous Black Library writer will attend the screenings for Q&A. This, while disheartening, is still not enough to stop me from seeing this with my friends. I think it will be a blast and I will see if we can bring a camera of some sort to record the Q&A with Mr. Thompson.

Again, if you have any questions that you'd like me to ask, feel free to comment and I will see what I can do!

Paincake is Deliciousness Leaving the Body!

Hurr hurr hurr..
Just became a brand spanking new member of the International House of Paincakes Blog Network and I was actually surprised that the person who read my application actually had taken the time to read some of my "articles". That was nice. Thanks, Dethtron. ;P Not sure why I didn't apply earlier.
So, if you have your own tiny, dandy place on the Internets where you like to share your little toy soldier stories with the rest of the world do not hesitate to drop Int'l House of Paincakes an e-mail if you think you are awesome enough.

I threatened them with my Thunderwolf and got accepted in no time.

Funny story about IHOP, though. And this time I'm talking about the place that serves delicious breakfasts 24/7. You might even say it's Warhammer 40,000 related. It was quote a long time ago:
Me and some buddies were driving to IHOP after a party, listening to some 100.3 FM and just commenting on how dark and scary the woods surrounding us were. You know, the usual blabber. Then all of a sudden a raccoon appeared. Man, was the little bugger fast! Our dedicated driver tried to avoid hitting him, but the raccoon apparently really wanted to give Death or Glory a shot and my friend's change of direction actually hit the poor little thing dead on. You could even say it got pancaked.
 
And then it that awkward, semi-sad moment I said the first thing that came to mind.. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! My apologies, PETA.

Other related news..

IS THIS NESSIE?!?

 It might look like a random blob or like left-over material from the construction of a Barby Doll House or something My Little Pony-related.. but this is the beginning of our Adepticon Display Board. It's a 3x3 ft. pink foam square that we are mounting on a wooden board. The stacked smaller pieces of pink foam will be hills and other raised areas and the hole in the middle is going to be broken ice from where one gigantic kraken tentacles and a bunch of other smaller ones (our Objective Markers) will be fighting our Space Wolves. We want the one big tentacle to be the radius of a monstrous creature base and tall enough to be seen from afar.
We'll be doing more work on this table on Wednesday..

And it just so happens that this Wednesday, February 09, 2011 the SIN of ALACRITY Space Hulk table over at A Gentleman's Ones is going to be announced for a raffle of some sort. No one really knows what the catch is going to be, but trust me when I tell you that this table is phenomenal and none of the awesome pictures do it justice. Its big, boxy, death trapy and grimdark. What else should it be? So mark your calendars and make sure you pay Brian's blog a visit.

Where's Waldo?: Fenris Edition

... all right. You can give up now. Waldo, an obvious Chaos Space Marine Chosen and a heretic, was killed on sight the very moment his curious arse set foot on Fenris. His corpse (or what's left of it) is now kraken bait. What can I say, Skarvald needs some more kraken teeth for his frost blade collection.

This is just a quick camera shot of some of our Space Wolves that was taken a few weeks ago during our Adepticon hobby night. They are all missing the golden and bone details that are currently adorning their power armors. Progress is slow but fulfilling and every minute spent on these bad boys is paying off.