Written by Elazar The Glorified | 28 August 2010

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I've finished the Land Raider Crusader and the Khorne Hounds for The Gorewing so I thought I'd post some pics. The first picture is of the painted army so far. Clearly still a lot to do!




Thoughts and opinions welcome as ever! Start the real painting tomorrow!

Written by Kris | 28 August 2010

OK so it's been an idea of mine for a while to incorporate many of the H.P. Lovecraft characters into the GW games and now I've got one about 90% done. The focus of this blog is the infamous King in Yellow. First a little history into the character.

 

The King in Yellow first appeared in the book “The King in Yellow” by Robert W. Chambers in 1895. The book featured 4 stories linked together by the play of "The King in Yellow" and the character Hastur. The play that the stories reference is known for being rather dull in the first act but the second and third acts of the play reveal universal truths that drive anyone who sees or reads it insane. H.P. Lovecraft eventually read the book and loved the idea and the ambiguity of Hastur and worked him into a couple of his stories and established him into the Cthulhu Mythos. Over the years many authors would tweak the idea and revealed the King in Yellow to be an avatar of Hastur, making him a much powerful figure in the stories.

 

Now that thats through let's look at the model. I used the Elrond figure from the LOTR line. I originally intended to use one of the Ringwraiths but I didn't really want to spend that much. I used some green stuff and added the mask and hood taking him from this,

 

to this.

 

Not too bad for my first time with GS. I painted it with Tausept Ochre, followed by Sunburst Yellow, a wash of Badab Black and a final highlight of Sunburst Yellow. The Badab Black turned out a little more powerful than I expected. Thankfully since they describe the King as being very tattered and not necessarily too neat looking so it works.

 

OK now the rules. As far as stats go I'm not too sure since I'm still getting my feet wet into Fantasy. My thoughts were high Leadership, so-so combat stats, average to high Movement and a low Armour save but high Ward save. Now powers and spells I've thought out.

 

Powers:

“Truth is my weapon”: CC attacks ignore armour saves.

The Pallid Mask: Causes Fear.

The Yellow Sign: Enemy units within 6” suffer a -1 to leadership.

Avatar of Hastur: Immune to Psychology

 

Spells:

Fear of the Unknown: Range: 12” Select an enemy unit within range. That unit takes a leadership test. If it passes nothing happens. If it fails reduce it's leadership by the amount it failed the test.

Universal Truth: Range: 12” Target unit must pass a leadership test or flee. Any attempt to regroup is at -1.

The Yellow Sign: Range: 12” Target unit takes a leadership test. If it passes nothing happens. If it fails cause 1 wound per point it failed the test.

 

Since the stories focused on people going insane I figured having a lot of effects that cause leadership tests with possibly disastrous effects. I'm not sure about Cast on values for the spells or a point value for the character. This is probably the most powerful and unbalanced character I've created. Any ideas you guys have would be helpful. Till next time.

Written by Terry | 16 August 2010

I posted a Blog a few months back about entering in the Ultramarinesmovie Banner competition.

 

 

The competition was for fans to design and submit a Space Marine Company or Chapter Banner of thier own devising. 5 total submissions were picked, 1 amateur submission from each major Geographical Part of the world. (North America/South America, Europe, Austrailia and Asia) and 1 winner chosen from Professional Artists around the world. The winners recieve a storyboard from the movie, and have thier submissions displayed on the UltramarinesMovie website in a special gallery.

 

The Entries were judged by Martyn Pick, Dan Abnett, and a representative from Games Workshop Licensing Department and Codex Pictures.

 

I'm very happy to announce that I was recently contacted by the Production Team of the Ultramarines Movie to let me know that my entry was selected as the North America Winner!

 

It's awesome to win, and I just wanted to share. Matty told me when I started my banner to make MyBattalion proud, and thats what I tried to do. This win is for everyone on MyBattalion, and I'll get pictures up of the Storyboard as soon as I can.

Coyote

 

Written by Elazar The Glorified | 09 August 2010

I was infuriatingly close to finishing the Land Raider and the paintbrush I need for all the detail that's left to paint has died. To be fair I generally run my brushes into the ground and this wasn't unexpected, I'm waiting for a delivery with my new paintbrushes in it, it was just typical that I have to do the shading on the weapons and paint the 'trophies' and that's pretty much everything except for a little bit of tidying up. I suppose it leaves time for some feedback before I finish it so that I can fix anything that I've not spotted! So here's a few unfinished pics:



As you can see, a good few messy unfinished bits but it's an hour of work at the very most, frustrating! If the brushes don't turn up today then I'll start prepping the rest of the minis so that I can make a start on blocking in the colours on them in the mean time as it's very much a case of stand still now and I won't get these finished in time!