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Stayin' Alive - Chapter 1  How Deep is Your Love? a Priest of Sigmar dies defiantly but swiftly...    My "undying" love (sniggers)  for the Undead and in particular the Vampire Counts.   GOBLIN GAMING    We all have that army we were instantly drawn to as a kid, the one that was in our mind when we sold our souls to the Games Workshop gods. For me this was the 4th or 5th edition Undead army, which ultimately split into to The Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings in later editions. A band of adventurers sealed their fate when they awoke Lorenz VonKeller from his beauty sleep.    I’ve collected Vampire Counts on and off for majority of my hobby life. Falling out of love with them for a short period of time when my attention was drawn to those little bearded buggers that love cannons ( *cough, cough*  And BEER ! we love beer... Fat Dwarf)     The vampire lore always drew me back and I loved the history in the early books, the main characters where "fleshed" out well. It

Warhammer 40k - Adeptus Mechanicus Chapter 8 Kataphron Destroyers Welcome to Mars!       Kataphron Destroyers now complete, they become the third troops choice for my Martian cohort. Crystal Codes for Element Games  RIC134  or  ROB8508    Assembly    To build this I mainly followed the construction booklet with the following options;    I decided to have 2 Destroyers armed with Plasma culverins and 1 with a Heavy grav-cannon. I also decided to vary the secondary weaponry by having 2 armed with Cognis flamers and 1 with a Phosphor blaster.    More controversially, I decided to add the side plate armour and the armour plates at the front of the tracks which are normally just used on the Kataphron Breacher models.     Two reasons for this - It makes them easier to paint and secondly (and most importantly ) - they look awesome!    I did not glue the models to the bases at this point so as to get better painting access to the bottom of the model. Painting    The bases were undercoated wit