If you identify with the idea, and most of all if you're putting out new takes, go ahead and use Colonel Kane's 40K OSR logo - to the right.
If you do, consider crediting Kane and adding Tales from the Maelstrom to your blogroll. If the OSR exists, this is it; up at the moment more Rogue Trader landing party members.
If you do, consider crediting Kane and adding Tales from the Maelstrom to your blogroll. If the OSR exists, this is it; up at the moment more Rogue Trader landing party members.
As well as that, this week we have rules suggestions, conversions and a scratch build, alternative models and short fiction.
- First - a week late and found only thanks to Lantz - an alternative approach to priority proposed by Tenzing at Gaming All Areas. He looks at using Initative for unit activation. Good idea. Will we see this next edition?
- Master Bryss at Rules Manufactorum has the usual inspiring thinking, this time a set of suggestions on creating characters for campaigns.
- Lantz was busy at Twin Linked Awesome with more adeptus mechanicus conversions for his AdMech FanDex, this time a Leman Russ Vladd, some evocative Forsaken and a batch of Luceo Rollers, due in the next edition.
- Lantz used Brotherhood models from Blight Wheel Miniatures for those Forsaken, and You Ain't Seen Squat! continues looking at alternative miniatures, this time for the Squats and/or Demiurg, here and here.
- Hudson has something pretty spectacular up at the moment, an update on progress on a super heavy Exorcist for the adepta sororitas.
- Going bigger still, Apocalypse 40K has an update on the Warhawk Lander, that ongoing transfer of the Epic space marine miniature to 40K.
- One of the guys working on an army for the Heroes of Armageddon project is John at Santa Cruz Warhammer, and he showed a converted Ork Hunter squad with a hive ganger aesthetic. This for me goes deep into the setting.
- One that didn't make it last week was Gotthammer's mention of Blinded Eyes Do See, his entry for a fiction contest, starring an astropath.
- Linked with this, That Guy James lists 40 things that make 40K what it is.
- And finally, a post that might make more sense if you remember the Rogue Trader days, jabberjabber at Warpstone Flux has a Khorne-following Ork.
A couple of wild cards too, on different scales.
- First, a 6mm Epic Tzeentch feral titan at Wargaming Workshop. Wow.
- Second, as a follow-up to my mention in 40K OSR? (3) of those 15mm 'space dwarves', the relaunched Dropship Horizon talks about how to get into 15mm. If 40K works at 28mm and 6mm, why not a compromise 15mm?
As for me, this weekend should see an expansion for the hive interior supplement I put together for Heroes of Armagedon, with rules for playing games inside gargants. I love the idea, and wonder why I've never seen it done before. I hope I can do it justice.
As usual, any and all links to alternatives are very welcome.
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3 comments:
I loved 40k when you had single metal figures but then they changed to resin so now you have to superglue everything together and it's a pain.
I have a soft spot for one-piece metals. I like the filled spaces and sense of completeness, and even the weight.
Of course, it's likely at least a little of the love comes from being used to multi-part plastics now, and wanting some of the burden of posing back off my own shoulders and on the designer. In a similar way, when one-piece metals were the norm, multi-part plastics were also desirable just for being different.
In a sense the one-piece metal represents acceptance, of a complete artistic work, and it's great just to pick it up and enjoy it as is.
On the whole, I do prefer the freedom of full plastic kits, but I know when I build and convert I'm often aiming at the best of the one-piece effect.
Hey, thanks for the spotlight.
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