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Warhammer 40k - Adeptus Mechanicus - Welcome to Mars Chapter 2 Knights of House Taranis Welcome to Mars! Chapter 2: The Knights of House Taranis    So I'm now collecting an Adeptus Mechanicus army which initially consists of the units in the Forgebane box set. I had also ordered a copy of the Codex and, having received this wondrous tome, proceeded to digest it's contents.  Wow, they have Knights and the Renegade box set had just been released - how "fortunate"... two knights and at a discounted price via Element Games - I'm in!   FIRESTORM GAMES  For Great Prices on a wide range of products Age of sigmar new releases  @ GOBLIN GAMES!   On arrival of said box set, I opened it up and was pleased that the assembly and painting of a Knight appeared to be compatible with how I had approached the same tasks with the Armiger Warglaives. ( See 'Welcome to Mars, Part 1' for assembly and painting tips) .  Welcome to Mars Cha...

Painting Scenery Review -Tweaking Gale Force Nine Battle Field in a Box Terrain    I’m a big fan of pre painted terrain and scenery, Gale Force Nine have seen a fair bit of business from me over the years, but I do always feel the need to tweak the finishes to better match my own collection. Don’t get me wrong here, this is how I want it, GF9 take the painting far enough that they can be happily applied to your gaming table. However they can also be given a further 20% to take them to a good finish and bedded into your own collection. Swamps/Toxic Pools    The swamp comes with a flat matt coat of dark green on the liquid surface, I see these fitting in with both my Necromunda collection and my Ogre Kingdom Army from Warhammer Fantasy. But I had just received the new Contrast paint set and I thought after playing a bit with them, that I could add a wet shimmer and yellow fade with these to add some depth to the liquid areas. The pools come with a littl...

Modelling - Storage Options Foam Boxes    I recently decided to conduct an experiment, I'm working on my 3rd/4th edition Space Hulk Set and the extra mission sets. This means a set of 5 Space Wolf Terminators, 10 Deathwing and 10 Ultramarine Terminators. I have a set of foam from element games for the Space Hulk box contents themselves, but these extra troops come in standard 40K boxes. I thought perhaps we could find a storage solution in regards this, and I stumbled on something great...    Element Games are great for storing foam solutions for your favourite board games.   I'm going to be investigating new methods of storage and foam solutions for some of my games over the next few months, and I would like to share that journey with you here. So please follow us. If I get enough comments I'll share my CAD files so you can all produce these yourselves, or I may even open an Etsy shop...  So I looked at the...

Review - Star Trek Destiny Trilogy by David Mack    The Star Trek franchises ( the 90s tng/ds9/voyager series particularly ) have long been a draw to me, I’ve recently begun reading some of the novels after hearing about the best of them following the “What We Left Behind” documentary on Deep Space Nine and their proposed 8th series/season teasers.  Starting my review series with David Mack’s Destiny trilogy, I understand that this is often touted as the best or at least one of one of the best of the series of novels. I had it recommended to me by several different people, so I thought I'll give it a go .   I admit that I had low expectations of Star Trek novelisations and novels, I have heard many derogatory opinions on them, but as I understand there are so many that surely there is a great variation in quality.        The Destiny trilogy of books occurs roughly 1 earth year after the events of Star Trek Nemesis. Revolving...