VERY IMPORTANT NEWS - 40K 6th Edition; June 30th 2012

I interrupt this broadcast to bring an announcement that you are probably all aware of anyway. I have just received confirmation that the 6th Edition of Warhammer 40,000 will be released on June 30th 2012.

This is earlier than I was expecting it (even with the pre-order teaser currently on the GW site).

I'm not here to bring you rumours of the actual rules... there are much better blogs to visit for that such as Bell of Lost Souls, Spikey Bits, Hogs of War or everyones favourite (though still absent from my blog roll for some reason) Faiet212. Besides, I'm only interested in hard facts.

Also, as and when you get sick of reading about 6th Edition Rumours, be sure to head over to my commisison painting blog iPaintmodels to catch up with my most recently finished commission work. Over the coming weeks I will be posting picks of a lovely Malifaux Colette Gang commission that will likely get drowned out by people having kittens about the new 40K rules! To whet some appetite, see below:

Review - Mantic Zombies

I've just finished putting together some zombies from Mantic for a commission and I felt that I really needed to post a review. The reason being that I was very impressed with them for a number of reasons! I'll be comparing them to the GW zombies because they are the ones most people will be familiar with...

Minotaurs! (no the other kind)

Magnetising Krull

You may remember Krull from the last post. Well, this post will cover some of the steps I had to take to magnetise him!

Krull - Who Needs Paint!?

Everyone seems to be talking about the new GW paints. This post is going to be something completely different! If you are bored of reading about paint then you definately won't find any of it here! No, instead you'll find a WiP commission of 'Krull, The Servile Lord of Dis'.

I have no idea who Krull, or Dis, are but this kit from BaneLegions is mammoth! A full resin kit big on scale and big on detail. The skin is chocked full of hair detail, the armour has fine battle damage. This chap has even got man-bubbles dangling behind that loin cloth! (I'll spare you the close up unless it's a particular request!)

It's for the Greater Good...

I've done it again... I've gone and got myself hooked on another classic piece of my hobby pie. This time it's down to a game I had against a "regular" opponent where I cracked out my Tau as a last minute "OMG I haven't sorted an army!" sort of thing. The Tau have always been my go-to, but have sat in their case(s) for a long while now.

I got quickly frustrated at just how unfinished the whole lot were. I mean, they could pass for finished, but there were lots of finer details that I had wanted to add but just never got around to them. (oh, and all the actually unfinished models too!)

Photography!

So I think I sorted out my photography! I was able to spend some time playing around with my set up, both the fold away light box and my camera. It's taken a long time to work out where I was going wrong and what I needed to do in order to improve the final quality. Not necessarily an issue for my blog here, which tends to have lots of WiP stuff anyway, but definately key for my ipaintmodels blog where I want to showcase my painting capabilities!

NEWS! Meatspace & How to Monster the Lab

January 2012 has been very busy in meatspace. There have been 4 birthdays, one of them mine, and one of them the little oinklings 1st! So much has been happening that I haven't been able to post all the random things I've wanted to!

First up, a shout out to the Midwest Monster Lab. Last month I was the surprised winner of a Member T-Shirt. It arrived at the beginning of the year, but Mrs oink decided to intercept it and wrap it up as a birthday pressie!

In true SAS fashion, here is Sir oink himself monstering the lab! 

iPaint - Goblins

News! This might be important!

So far this month I've been doing a bit of painting. The models are for a commission project for which I am but one of the painters helping to get one guys old copy of Heroquest up to date with nice new models! If any of you own or remember Heroquest you'll probably agree that is no bad thing!

I've also been doing some gaming (as you might recall) but otherwise I've had my desires for continuing my terrain put to a firm stop. The weather has meant I've been prevented from testing the Stone Texture Spray on any Cities of Death tiles and this has been top of my to do list!

News! iPaint

Thats right, iPaint. Well, technically this month I've not done much painting at all, but that's because I'm working to bring a new commission service online! I'm calling this iPaintmodels... because iPaint models for people! You can head straight there at any time by using the iPaint tab at the top of this blog!

As this venture is for me to do in free time and not a professional painting service to provide me with a main form of income, I will only take on commissions for projects that I can feel passionate and enthusiastic about whilst avoiding any projects which are likely to suck the life out of me!