Elf Lord with Bow

One of the reasons for creating this blog was so I could show (Martin at least) my minatures I’ve painted recently.

This is my latest Warhammer Fantasy figure.  Amber bought it amongst other things as a wedding anniversary present.  I’ve always liked the model.  It’s essentially painted exactly like the GW version, though sadly with a little less skill.  In fact I was so dismissive of it in it’s completed form that I decided that I was not going to paint fantasy again until I got some new good quality brushes, brush care material, flow improver, improved my technique (or at least stopped being so lazy) etc etc.  Essentially it was painted with a fishtailing synthetic size 0 brush, which though adequate has not produced a finish I’m proud of.  So in the meantime whilst I restock on essential art supplies I’m painting FOW Fallschirmjager (again with crappy synthetic brushes which are starting to fishtail or hook but meh they’re so small it’s not really noticable).

Warhammer 8th Edition

Having now bought the FOW rule book (yes it’s taken this long) I thought I should purchase the WH rulebook.  Then reading the article about VC deathstars that martin sent a link too the other day I noticed a blog about Warhammer 8th Ed rumour roundup.  I checked this against Warseer and GW (http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=&section=&pIndex=0&aId=9800040a&start=1) it seems certain that we’ll have 8th Ed in July (10th I think).

Thank goodness I’m lazy and haden’t bought the rulebook for 7th Ed.  Looking through the changes I kinda like them.  If they’re true of course.  As usual there is a lot of panic and tanties on Warseer which is kinda amusing since they’re prejudging something on third, forth, fifth hand rumours.  Taking everything with a healthy dose of skepticism though it looks like they’re simplifying things a bit which probably is a good thing.

Anyway check this link out http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/04/wfb-rumors-8th-edition-rumor-roundup.html (which is really just a roundup of what’s on warseer)