Red Corsairs, 3D printing, and Internet

 Welcome back to the most regular and scheduled Warhammer blog on the internet! 

    There have been some interesting developments in Warhammer news since I last posted and I finally feel like I have enough to say about it to write something interesting. I've also been keeping a keen eye on the development of 3D printer technology. As a 3D modeler by trade, I feel a machine like that would give me some unique hobby capabilities! It also seems to me that the technology has reached a nexus of affordability and quality that will soon be hard to ignore. However, it is likely to be a while before I have the proper space for a 3D manufactorum of my own.

    But before I get into the cool new models I would like to collect, let's take a look at the recently painted ones I already have...

Lord Pauoolio Bane of Ultramar

The Dark Apostle

Aspiring Champions

    With the completion of these last few members of dark vengeance, I finally have the whole set painted! Better late than never I guess.

All of 'em together

But that's not all I've been up to. I have set a goal for myself to paint up all the finished assemblies in my backlog. 

Mr. Fist

Plasma Gunner

Chaos Lord

Aspiring Champion

    There are some that I am waiting to complete after I acquire the 3D printer for one reason or another, so they will have to wait. But the models that just require magnets and glue, are in the queue.

This guy thinks he's special

Speaking of magnets, I found this great pen drill online for drilling barrels and small magnet holes.

It's called the 'wow stick drill' and yes it's perfect for a dirty joke.

Around the internet

Blessed 3D Manufactorum

    I've seen some really cool stuff online lately involving the hobby, firstly, the quality of STL files you can get is insane. Some really talented people have created unique sculpts for models as proxies that are better than anything you could buy officially in some cases. For instance, I've always been a big fan of the Dawn of War series of RTS games. Take a look at this unique Gabrial Angelos! What an awesome sculpt! I'd love to print this out and paint up a Blood Ravens cohort. 

Gabriel Angelos

    Recently the imperial guard has been getting a lot of attention too, they have a new sentinel, tank, new infantry, etc... it's all looking pretty good, but I found this guy online who makes his own guard sculpts based on a WWII American army style. It might just be one of the coolest guard styles I've ever seen:

'Sherman Russ'

On the more official side of things, GW is also re-making the Khorne Berzerkers and they look awesome! I have some old ones in my backlog already though so I'm not sure if it'll be picking up a box yet...

I'll admit, these look way cooler than the old ones.

But for everything GW does right, they do something I cannot forgive:

HERESY!

Anyway, that's all I can bring myself to write about for now. Thanks for stopping by to read the blog! 

Till next time, Paint one for me!

New paint jobs/Custom codex

Welcome back to THE Obsidian Tower. I've got my paint station set up again and I have done a little bit of painting. It's nice to make a little bit of progress on the forever backlog. This time I couldn't resist painting a couple of Ultramarines.

Chronus can actually command the Land Raider now.

After all this time, he earned that veteran paint job.

Yeah I know I painted some more Ultramarines, but to be fair they have been in my backlog for half a decade. Painting again has given me some time to do a little bit of thinking. I think a lot about when I used to play regularly, and the old way of playing, before the dark times, before 8th edition. 

8th Edition "The Age of poopy"

That's what inspired me to create Battle Axe 40k. Now that I have done that, and have my own "core rules" to play with. I thought about how I always hated the look of the Space marine centurion. 

Cool conversion somebody did on reddit

When it is finally updated, it will probably turn into a Primaris marine. I thought about how I would change it if there were no Primaris marines. I don't think it would be too hard to make it look cool. Then I started thinking about what else I would change about the Space Marines, and that sort of spiraled into a full redo of the codex. 

  So I made my own space marine codex.

I don't think I'll post it because I'm certain it would violate some kind of copyright. Try to imagine a lot of copy and paste rules and points costs from the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th edition space marine books made into something useable. It's part wish list, part 'best of', if you know what I mean. 

I wish, "You lose!"

It's sort of a mash-up between old and new (more old than new). I tried to be as fair as possible points-wise. I'm sure the point costs probably still need some adjusting. When it's finished, hopefully, it will basically be a book for all the space marines in my collection, and be tailor-made for playing "Battle Axe 40k"

If I ever do get around to playing with all the rules I've written I'll be sure to post about what was good and what needed to change.

Till then, paint one for me.