Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

What's New... and Descent of Angels...

After a busy weekend of yard work and a trip to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, I am back. Nice place the zoo, but sadly, those animals can never be counted on to be visible when you are there to see them. *mutters* Stupid bears...

So on to the post...

On Thursday, the What's New on the Game's Workshop site was an very good post about painting tanks, in particular... Eldar tanks =D.

Friday, there is a nice article on Tank Hunting. Sure some of it seems basic, but it's stuff to remember.

Today's What's New has some great pictures of a custom built Leviathan. This thing is a really impressive piece of conversion work.

Over the weekend, I finished reading Descent of Angels. As it started, I was really enjoying the book, but at the end I found myself really 'blah' about it. I know there is another book that comes after it, but overall I thought this book was just lacking. The end left a lot to be desired, the story did not appeared to just throw things out there with no reason or motive, and the last 1/3rd of the book felt rushed. I hope the follow up to it is better.

Next up is "Legion", I started it Sunday, but fell asleep on the couch as I had spent the morning and early afternoon mowing and raking my yard because the weather was nice.

Tonight I am going to try to get some pictures of my entire Eldar force to post up here and on 40kOnline.com to see if I can get some motivation to work. Should be interesting to take inventory of what I have got again.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Painting Guardians and Support Weapons, Horus Heresy Books

Today's "What's New" on the Games Workshop site has a How-To for painting guardians and the new Eldar Support Platform. Good stuff for me! =) I really do want to have a fully painted army, but damn if I can focus on getting this stuff done like I used to. Here are the images of their painted models.


Enjoyable Reading


So I have also been reading the Horus Heresy book series. I have to say, I am really enjoying it. I started with "Fulgrim" because a co-worker loaned it to me and then he loaned me "A Thousand Sons". I read both of them and I was hooked. I have now bought and read "Horus Rising", "False Gods", "A Galaxy in Flames", "Flight of the Einenstain", and "Mechanicus". I have completely enjoyed them all. The authors are doing a wonderful job capturing the feel of The Great Crusade and the characters involved. The fluff is, of course, always welcome too. Last night I started on "Decent of Angels" and look forward to it as well. I have always enjoyed the Dark Angels' story.