Look around you - more real OLD world inspiration

Came across this website the other day featuring old photographs of a variety of industrial buildings - iron smelters, water and gas towers, mining buildings. For those who are into the terrain building aspects I thought it might inspire.

Not least because these sort of containers are easily modelled as illustrated by the legendary Bugbait_NZ who was the original inspiration for me making terrain in the first place. His models can be incredibly simple to do, just requiring patience and care to get the good results. A true genius in the field.

Some more pics of the the amazing buildings:

Check out the website for more examples:

http://poulwebb.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/bernd-and-hilla-becher-photography.html

40k addict on Youtube - quick 'Look Out Sir' dice rolls

Happy Christmas everyone and to celebrate I thought I'd throw in an extra post and what better post than my first and perhaps last youtube video taking into account the mind numbing and depressing monotone delivery that will undoubtedly cause many of you to think suicidal thoughts! Still, Merry Christmas and all that ;)

So essentially when I was at Throne of Skulls I was doing so many Look Out Sir! rolls I ended up adopting a speed rolling technique that I found useful and improved the pace a little. What you will need is:

• your usual dice and [mine are yellow]
• a single dice in a different colour [mine is red and was gifted by the gaming fairies ;) ]

The process is detailed in the video below:

But, if you haven't access to Youtube the simple explanation is your normal dice form the 'Wound Pool' [WP] and your single dice is the Look Out Sir! [LOS!] dice.

1. Put the WP dice in a pile your opponent can see
2. Pick up 1 WP dice and the LOS! dice
3. Roll the two dice
4. If the LOS! roll passes apply the WP dice to your units saving throw
5. If the LOS! roll fails apply the WP dice to your unit leader's saving throw
6. Remove models or add wounds if the saving roll fails
7. Move WP dice into a new pile of 'spent' WP dice
8. Repeat until the Wound Pool is empty or all your figures have died.

Now the first time I did this I was rolling the LOS! dice separately and the WP dice but doing them simultaneously speeds things up. Since then I've experienced a number of things to be careful about:

• Ensure you make it clear what your saving throws are
• Make sure you are using the correct LOS! value - 4+ for unit upgrades, 2+ for Independent Characters
• Ensure you correctly identify
  

  "LOS! roll is passed, unit fails saving throw", or
  

  "LOS! roll is passed, unit passes saving throw", or
  

  "LOS! roll is failed, leader fails saving throw", or
  

  "LOS! roll is failed, leader passes saving throw"
  it's easy to get mixed up so it helps to verbally confirm what the dice say
• Ensure the 'spent' WP pile is clear for your opponent - nothing worse than going through the WP only for them to say you've only done 6 rolls out of 7 and you're convinced you've doen them all - the spent pile proves this, thoguh equally the lack of dice in your Wound Pool should also prove where you're at.

Lastly, remember it's sometimes handy to want to fail Look Out Sir! because your unit leader may have a better saving throw. And also if your opponent believes something shady is going on because you have a 'special' LOS! dice they're not really thinking the process through because if you've got a 'special' dice that always rolls 4+ then you'd be using them for your main dice! 

Warhammer World Photobomb 2

Yet more pictures from the Warhammer World Exhibition [I've four lots, so two more left] I was a bit giddy taking pics. For the most part I'll let the pictures speak for themselves really, there's not much more I can say about them than is present in the image, so enjoy:

Now that's a horde!

Warhammer World Photobomb 1

After losing atrociously in the Pub Quiz we snuck upstairs to the current exhibition. For the most part I'll let the pictures speak for themselves really, there's not much more I can say about them than is present in the image, so enjoy:

Here are the two nigh identical Astoraths from the Studio Blood Angel army, although I can see now the one on the left is slightly more muted in colour.

It'd be cool to have a unit of Chaplains like this...

BloodBowl Skaven

With the Dark Angels on hiaitus I decided to continue with my BloodBowl Skaven. There's a pic at the end where I was last at. the all had albino fur and pink skin. The armour was just Devlan Mud/Agrax Earthshade washed Red Oxide primer but it would eventually be orange. 

I realy wanted to try out the orange armour plates so thought the Rat Ogre would be the best test model. One disappointment is my pot of Maccarius Solar Orange doesn't have quite the opacity as my Mechrite Red, however it being patchy in places gave the armour a weathered look I was quite happy with despite my intentions otherwise. In particular you can see the shoulder guard is quite mottled, although I have added a further orange highlight and Bonewhite in places.

Also some further experimenting with object source lighting with the obvious eerie warpstone glow leaking from the Rat Ogres stitches.

There are some palces it doesn't work, where I've been a bit heavy handed with the thinned Dark Angels green glow. In particular the top of the scars on the back ends up more green tattoo than ethereal light, but it'll do. The big win was with the applicaiton of some purple to the skin colour. the slightly bruised look really brings out the acid green colour and the choice to go Bonewhite  on the claws is quite subtle as well.

I'm pleased so far, although he only needs his black straps, base and number to be painted on but if I can replicate this on the remaining rats I'll be well chuffed.

Here's where they all were 16 rats to go!

And my 2nd Edition Endzone

Skaven