FREE Wood Elves Battle Magic Cards!

The Wood Elves have returned from the depths of the forests!

Pre-order the brand new army book, Warhammer: Wood Elves (RRP £30.00) from Kirton Games for just £27.00 and we'll give you a set of the fantastic new Wood Elves Battle Magic Cards (RRP £4.50) absolutely FREE!

Of course thats not the only Pre-Release this week! In addition to the Army Book and Magic Cards, we also have the massive new Treeman which also builds the Treeman Ancient and Durthu, a named character, and Araloth a new plastic character model!

NUSU II Tournament Report

On the weekend of the 25-26th of June around 30 gamers descended upon Exeter Inquisitions first public Tournament, Nut Up or Shut Up II, held at Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, in the UK.



Three individual events were being held, with tournaments being run for 40k, WFB and Infinity. 40k saw five 1500pt rounds being played over the weekend, WFB five 2000pt rounds and Infinity managed to fitting eight rounds at 200pts.


At the end of a hard weekends gaming, and following the Best Army vote from, from a choice of three selected by the judge (hmmm me) from each system the final results were as follows.
Warhammer 40,000

1st	Richard Morgan
2nd	Tayakorn Kupakanjana
3rd	Jason Withey-Tebby
Best Painted	James Fox

Warhammer Fantasy Battle

1st	Jonathan Clack
2nd	Dave Petit
3rd & Best Painted	James Cockburn

Infinity

1st	Robin Sealey
2nd	Alex Withycombe
3rd	Richard Deane
Best Painted	David Boardman

The full results are available HERE.

Which just about wraps it up for this year, we're planning to run another two day event in the same format next June if this has wetted your appetite - theres also talk of us hosting a one day event in November - watch this space.

So finally a thank you to the team from Exeter Inquisition who worked tirelessly to make the event happen, to our sponsors, Secret Weapon Miniatures, Total Wargamer, Wayland Games and the Wargame Trader, and an extra big thank you to everyone who attended, we hope to see you all again next year!

And yet something else...

Alongside the English Civil War force - which will be replacing my Space Marines as is only right an proper my Warhammer Fantasy army is also moving to the fore.

As mentioned previously I did have a Fantasy Orc & Goblin army - which I quickly fell out of love with - instead it was sold and replaced with a motely collection of Warriors of Chaos. I quickly settled on doing an all mounted army as the idea appealed to me greatly, even more so when a list which was written for me by one of my club mates proved... somewhat nasty.

Here is the force in full at present, as you can see there are a few unassembled models, several assembled (mostly with whole tubes of glue), a few undercoated and some Knights in varying degrees of ... well something. I'm going to focus on one unit at a time for the moment, they won't be getting a really time consuming paint job, I'm hoping to do this mostly with washes as it's a functional army rather then a really nicely painted one.



The first unit which I'll be working on is this unit of Marauder Horsemen who will be equipped with a Musician, Light Armour, Spears and Throwing Spears - with the Mark of Slaanesh.

Commission - WFB Dragon Repair (Part 2)

I'm still beavering away at the moment on various projects, with a couple completed or very nearly completed, first of those completed from the most recent batch is the WFB Dragon repair job.

The wing join was quite badly damaged and required a complete repair and some resculpting, this I've now finished, retaining a removeable socketed joint as was asked by the customer.

The finished body with it's socket...



...and the finished wing with it's pins.



The hardest bit about the repair was getting the join between the wing and body to look right, I made extensive use of cooking oil (as I would with greenstuff casting) to get a fairly tight fit without the surfaces bonding, I've left it slightly loose though as once painted and varhished it should then become a good tight fit as is shown in the above and below shorts of the join.




And thats that, one Dragon ready to fly again, I've got to say I found the project really enjoyable, sculpting scales and skin is a real change of pace from the projects I'd normally tackle for myself. I just hope I hav'nt shot myself in the foot with this job though, I'm expecting to start seeing this Dragon across the table soon!

Commission - WFB Dragon Repair (Part 1)

The Brief -

A plastic WFB Dragon which was knocked off and had it's wing snapped at the join with the body, a hasty repair involving lots of plastic glue was made. My task is too clean up the damage caused by excess glue, and repair the wing in such a way that it can be removed for transport.

The Commission -

My first step was to remove the wing, this proved qutie a bit easier then I'd expected given the amount of glue used, I suspect though it's probably a case that while lots was applied to the joint itself much of it simply seeped out from it when pressure was applied.



The next stage was to clean up the model removing as much gunked plastic as I could, a pin job followed. Intact the original wing had a single large joint, however I opted for two smaller pins fixed at about a 45degree angle.



With these in place I broke out the greenstuff, firstly I rebuilt the structure of the body in such a way to form a tight fit for the wing so that it was both a sturdy fit and could be painted to look good despite being an organic looking detachable part. I've now started to detail this with scales mirroring that on the undamaged side of the model.