I'm back! after a few weeks off the warhammer bandwagon I've kicked it up in high gear following an earth-shattering victory last Tuesday. The game had so many highpoints but none higher than my tactical squad that pod'ed in next to a Land Raider and promptly blew it up before it ever made a move!.... ahh what a game...
On the hobby front I've cracked open a few vehicle boxes and started assembly. Namely a Rhino, Razorback and a Land Speeder.
My paint scheme for the army has been divided into a basic and deluxe version, the aim is to speed up assembly and game readiness. The basic paint scheme will serve as foundation for the deluxe - in time everything may get the full paint job but for now its more important to get the stuff out of the boxes. The newly assembled Rhino is the prototype for the basic scheme.
I bought some plasticcard and magnets in order to make interchangeable weapons and gear, primarily on the tanks, first up is the Land Speeder which will get options for just about every weapon available. Pictures will follow in a post soon. However I am missing a Heavy Flamer for the Land Speeder so I've been checking out bit shops and ebay for that and other bits, there is an absolutely huge amount available at very different prices.
My first Rhino is finished, the paint job (excluding the interiors) was done in one evening, this must be a new record for me. Everything is glued on (the gun turn thou), all through I read that a lot of people buy Predators or Razorbacks and magnetise so they can be used as either the tank or a Rhino. However I think you'll need at least one Rhino in 9 out of 10 games so it can't hurt to have one or two non-magnetised, and since magnetisation interferes with painting the interiors I will forgo magnetisation on the first two Rhinos.
The Ironclad Dreadnought is coming along nicely, it will get the deluxe paint job since I'm already quite far, there's not much to magnetise on the beast since the weapons are interchangeable out of the box.
I still have a week left of my summer vacation, on one of the first vacation days I went down to Flensburg with my wife to shop and check out their hardware stores (I'm building a shack for my aviary but that's another story..). For some time I've been looking for a good bits box with lots of space, rooms of different size and most of all some sort of system where the small bits won't flow from room to room.
I was in luck, in Bauhaus I got this great box for just 20 EUR;
The brilliant design of this box is that the "rooms" are small boxes that can be removed and rearranged to your hearts desire. The larger of the boxes will hold 10 marines while the smallest ones are perfect for heads and other small bits. All the small boxes are held firmly in place by both the lid and holes in the bottom of the case, the hinges and locks are also solid and I bet I can drop the box from 1,5 meters without breaking it or even with a bit "jumping rooms".
Another great buy (from a local hardware store) was this aluminium case that I've filled up with a special black foam:
There are 4 layers of 0,5 cm foam and 3 layers of 3 cm foam. The 3 cm foam will hold 50 minis of varying sizes in each layer or up to 8 rhino sized vehicles in two layers (6 cm) of foam.
The case was 129,- DKK and the foam about 200 DKK - and that's enough foam for two cases of this size, much cheaper than the cases from Games Workshop.
