Games workshop Badab War part 2

Games workshop is is organizing badab war part 2 in May.

More info here: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=2200008&aId=14500005a

And I will discuss it tomorrow in depth.

Rhino ready to prime. A view of some details.

My first nightlord rhino is ready.
I was going to dedicate it to first claw (chosen chaos marines) but because of the size 500p I decided first claw are on foot, they can still infiltrate of outflank.
So here is the rhino with the old school rails.

The rails took me about 2 hours to make, alot of twisting and pipe cutting.

Etched brass in the front, the skeleton torso is from the nurgle banned in the chaos marine sprue, also a dark angel helmet.

green stuff stamp taken from a piece of gw ruined building

THis guy was made again from the nurgle banner the head isfrom the same sprue too. The chain was superglued after.

Nightlord symbol,  gasoline canister and a unsalvagable salamander terminator helmet taken from a space hulk. (From the short story "the Core" from the book "Fear the Alien"/Black Library)

Another severed head, and the melta gun shots, I think the red -orange -yellow around the holes will look nice against the dark blue, how a rhino can survive four  melta shots is beyond me or maybe that is the damage from one shot.

Sculpted chapter sumbol and a bit of etching on the lid.

And finaly I added another track. I had a few when I was a driver in the greek army, why not in the year 40.000.  I drove a APC called Leonidas 2, made in Greece.

Hopefully today I can get some colour on it. And this time I am writing down the bloody recipe.


A few thoughts:
 Chaos Space marine trophies; Space marine helmets and armor especialy is what i want to mention. I am very reluctant of adding space marine helmets as trophies, cause in the nightlord books from Aaron Dembski-Bowden you realy get the feeling of the lack of space marine weapons and armor, everything found is salvaged and reused. Sure its ultra cool to carry around loads of space marines helmets but is it realistic? Would you not save everything for spare parts?  In the book the nightlords tend to have skulls attached to bronze chain. I added the terminator helm because it is damaged beyond repair, I am sure the electronics where removed from withing before handed back to Lucoryphus.

Old style railing. My frind sanjay told me two intresting facts about the railing on the old rhinos when I told him I was adding them for my rhino:
1) You used to buy 3 rhinos for 9£. I dont think my mind can realy conceive the idea of that.
2) Space marines used to hang from the rails to assault.
  Whould that not be a nice idea for a rhino upgrade,
50p assault rail: marines can assault from a rhino.  What do you think?

Wip 1st claw part2

I don't think 200p of 40k have ever taken me so long to put together.

Cyrion-Xarl-Talos-Mercurian and 2 traitors.

You can see I bought a deimos pattern rhino for the first claw.
It still needs a few bits to be almost done. Etched brass iconography has been added, I also added the nightlord symbol on the back door. I also added some more skulls which are similar to my drop pod so they will match nicely:

I also sculpted the nightlord symbol on the drivers shoulder pad, and made the bolter into a twin linked.
I also cut a nozzle of a stormbolter and replaced it with a melta nozzle to act as a combi-melta.

Things I still need to do:
1)I want to be able to create come spare tracks hanging on the side of the rhino.
2)I also want to add the railing that the old rhinos had

3) Add some battle damage, the forgeworld how to paint tanks masterclass book had  a photo that really caught my attention, I looked like a meltagun blast the metal around the hole had gone bright orange.

Finally for the newly Faq'ed hatch doors (2 can shoot out of them) I want to paint this:

Its quite a challenge.
Back to first claw.
Uzas is missing from the picture cause he is almost finished, left in store cause I could not transfer him fresh green stuff.
Variel I have not even started.
The first claw consists of 6 members (Talos,Uzas,Cyrion,Variel, Mercurian,Xarl) I did not want to have another 2-4 random nightlord marines with them, so I will add 2-4 renegade troops to count as plain elite marines no weapon configuration. They are there just to suck up some wounds as any good nightlord would use a slave. These renegade slaves would prefer to face death than torture from a Nightlord. Those worthy in battle might receive the geneseed of fallen nightlords.
I am going to use enforcers for them I like the scary masks.

Also raptors are going to be sent back 1-2 months, I am going to buy a 3d printer and hopefully work some magic on those guys. Also gw will do plastic raptor hopefully so lets see. For now i will add another claw (chaos space marine troops) which I already have modelled.
So once more I rewrite the list (this is going to be  like version 3.2), I need to ask if I can not field an hq.

The furute is now. Part 2/Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi

An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!


Rasberry Pi is made from Cambridge univercity.

 To give you an idea of the size compare the eithernet and usb ports on it. The great thing is this whole device will cost about 25$. 

An introduction:

and a display playing quake, truly remarcable

air play and rasbery pi

A small number of boards will go on sale in 2-3 weeks time, for more info visit their website:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

The future is now. Part 1/ Affordable 3d printer.

 Good morning to you all,

It has  been a couple of times that I have heard the sentence "in five years/soon/ in the near future  people will download a file from GW (or create their own) and 3d print they own miniatures".

Well ladies and gentle men the best kept secret is that the future is now.  Rep Rap.

Please watch this video.

You can also find a lot of info on the wiki page http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap

 and on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/RepRap-Ltd/166702003367573

On paper Rep Rap ticks all the right boxes.

Price: It  currently costs 425£/$657 for a full kit (assembly required).

Quality: Quality at the moment is my biggest concern, well until I saw this

 this is a picture under a microscope, you can see all the small layers  well the black line is actually a human hair, yes the layers are that thin. When (if) creating molds I think the latex will not even pick up that detail.

here is a picture of the object above:

Speed: I think they take 2-10 hours depending on the size of your object. To be honest I don't think it is an issue, also work has been made to reduce the time via software.

Some of the machine specifications:

   - Build volume: 140x140x110mm
   - Overall size: 260x280x280mm
   - Printing materials: ABS, PLA, 1.75mm diameter thermoplastic.
   - Build surface: PCB-heated bed to ensure parts do not warp.   - Accuracy: 0.1mm
   - Resolution: 0.0125mm
   - Building speed: 1,800 mm/min
   - Moving speed: 12,000 mm/min
   - Deposition rate: 33 cm³ / hr
   - Motion: Linear ball bearings on X and Y axes, Igus low friction bushings on Z axis.
   - Fully pre-soldered electronics with built-in microSD card slot for standalone printing.
   - Universal power supply; works with all mains voltages.
   - Enhancements to the printed parts to improve the ease of assembly of the X and Y axes

And if all of the above were not good enough the rep rap can print more than 50% of its self and that is the general idea, you print one for your friend, then he prints one and so on.

 I have asked for a sample and will be sending a file of a raptor jump pack once I design it, I am on my 4th attempt. So stay tuned for more.

Finally let me say I am really amazed by this product and I will be buying one.

The invention is from Adrian Bowyer and its a name I think that people should recognise  in  five years/soon/ in the near future.

Raptor jump pack WIP 3d.

3rd post in a day I do spoil you.

WIP of the Raptor jump pack, maybe its to early for an opinion.

Screw you Loyalists! Death to the false emperor and your false codexes.

I have seen the true power, as Conraz Curze received his punishment for his actions so will I. I want to use the 8th legion I will do it with the Chaos Space marine Codex. It might not have feel no pain, It might not have nightvision counter strike, it does allow me to field the first claw (With some minor counts as).
 Who knows maybe in the next 5 months the dark gods bless me with news of a new codex. For now it will do.
In big batles the first claw will hunt week units and tanks. Hunting tanks is not bad especialy in 5th edition.



my first 500p

Chaos Lord	90
Lucoryphus
pair of lightning claws	30
jump pack	20
Chosen Chaos space marines
Mercurian	18
heavy bolter	15
Cyrion	18
melta bomb	5
melta gun
Uzas	18
pair of lightning claws	20
Talos	18
Aspiring champion	10
power weapon	15
melta bomb	5
Variel	18
Melta gun
Xarl	18
2 slaves	36
rhino	35
Combi melta	10
5 raptors	100
total	499

I realy hope I dont change my mind again.
Sure Xarl and Talos are no super stars in this list but at least its WYSIWYG. Only Uzas is using a sword and a chainaxe as a pair of claws.
Now I need to make an old version rhino before the end of the month.
I will also attempt to make a pair of  chaos jump packs on a 3d program and see if I can get them printed.