Firstly we’ve been beavering away at something and secondly it was December.

Now to you December is Christmas parties, family time, and then New Year. For us it’s a time when posting orders on the same day is no guarantee of them arriving any time soon and don’t even talk to us about ordering in stock…

But now that’s over and normal service can be resumed at long last. Any day now we should have a big pile of resin to show you. Exciting!

Sanity Lost and I had a bash at it with mixed results:



(sorry about the blurriness of this one)

Also, yes, Angus is wearing a kilt. She requested one so I did my best to sculpt one. I’ve never sculpted bare Ork/Orc legs before so I figured it was worth a shot!

So I threw some together:

Firstly the five traps:

Pistolton’s mantrap. Suggested by Sanity Lost I sculpted a little mantrap (ostensibly belonging to a throwaway character in the radio comedy Bleak Expectations).

Painted. Sadly my painting really is not all that good

Another suggestion:


I’ve never held a banana skin in my life, can’t stand the fruit, but I did my best at sculpting one!

Based on a little trap from Indiana Jones:

Thinking of Fallout 3:

I wanted another obvious one so a chalked X seemed sensible. You should totally stand there. No, really, it’ll be fine. Trust me!

I also needed an emplaced Heavy Stubber so a spare M60 from the last campaign got strapped onto some spare resin:

Lastly, my favourite: Larry the millisaur. He was going to have a collar but I could think how to attach one to him.

I’ve never tried sculpting anything like this before, let alone painting, but I figured I’d give it a shot. I’m quite pleased with him, given how little time he took.

Geoff and Rich are nice guys and I had a lot of fun. I know I love a good forum and apparently so do they as they’ve just set one up over on FreeForums.net if that’s your sort of thing:

Chaos of the Warp forum

If you’d like to get their podcast on iTunes instead you can find it here.

Over on DakkaDakka there’s a worldwide Warhammer 40,000 campaign being put together:

Myself and a team of Dakka Members, are currently writing up Fluff and Mechanics for a World Wide Campaign.
Basically you (as a Warhammer Player), play games of 40k, and give your results into your "Warzone Commander" and they will pass them on in an organised fashion, to the Organisers.

This Campaign will revolve around a Sub-Sector in the very North-Western edge of the Segmentum Solar, there are 24 Planets divided into 4 Systems for the forces of Order and Destruction to fight over, each planet has an Imperial Control Rating (0-100%) and that shows who controls said planet, Disorder victories lowers the value, whilst Order increases the value. Each Planet is also worth Campaign Points, which ever side has the most Points at the end of 8 weeks "wins", but there will be a fluff result too.
Your every battle will change the fate of the Sub-Sector: Saved? Destroyed in Fire and Blood? Eaten and Digested? Enslaved?

And at the end of each week I will write up a fluff piece from the Imperial view point,
A Campaign Pack will become available soon. . . .

Interested?

The campaign thread is here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/469742.page

First off there’s the fact that Firefox thought there was something wrong with our SSL certificate. There wasn’t and never has been, worry ye not. As it happens we don’t need SSL on our shopping cart as we don’t handle the financial aspects – that’s all done through PayPal’s secure servers, not ours. Your money is safe

Speaking of the shopping “cart” there’s been some changes there too. Using a new version of Jigoshop’s Table Rate Shipping extension things are finally working properly. No longer do you have to worry about virtual items to create the correct postage levels!

Furthermore worldwide shipping rates have been implemented. There’s a calculator in the shopping basket to let you know how much it’ll be before checkout, just punch in your location.

There’s more news to come but that’s all for now.

Stay green!

They’re biker torsos modelled on the Spores of Anarchy Ork bikers you may have seen on The Waaagh or DakkaDakka (although these are more detailed than the ones they’re based on). There’s five different designs and they should fit with most normal scale Orcs and Orks.

As you can see it’s only one modest offering for the moment but there’s many more products in the pipeline. We’re also open to suggestions if there’s anything in particular you’d like to see.

Hopefully it won’t be long before we can announce the next things. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get sneak peeks at the workbench!

Stay green!

Anyway, to celebrate that we’ve managed to get our grubby meathooks on some photos of Drake1202’s “battlewagon”. It’d be just a battlewagon but, well, see for yourself:

It’s cleverly magnetised and so has different options. See that trukk bed in the background?

You can read more about this clanking monstrosity over on The Waaagh.

It’s a thing of beauty, ain’t it?

Created by orchead the red over on The Waaagh one of them is for sale on eBay at the moment:

eBay auction

How cool is that?

It’s been a bit quiet on the blog front of late as I’ve been a bit busy learning to sculpt. A friend of mine challenged me to create a model of myself to use as a House Agent in Necromunda. He’s a much better painter than I am so I decided to go for a different strategy – a complete sculpt:

(Gallery)

It’s based on me and is my first full 100% my own work model. I’ve got others I’m working on too for my Escher gang but they’ve used a couple of parts from other manufacturers (an ammo belt from Zinge Industries for example).

Soon I’ll be transferring what I’ve learnt back to my Ork stuff. My initial greenskin heads look clunky and primitive compared to what I can do now. Hopefully in a few months I’ll look back at these sculpts and cringe too.

It’s been a while since I updated the blog but that doesn’t mean there’s been nothing going on. Quite the opposite, really. Our stock is expanding steadily, I’m just taking a break from putting Stormboy parts on the virtual shelf to write this, for example.

So what’s coming next?

The Battlewagon, that’s what! It’s sitting here ready for photography, although that’s a job for tomorrow, I reckon.

If there’s a kit you’d like us to prioritise, I’ll add it to the list. Click the “contact us” button and send us an email, or leave a comment, we’re not fussy!

We also recently started stocking Grots. They’re mostly out of stock at the time of writing but they’ll be back on the shelves shortly, worry ye not.

Today begins the collaboration between Hive City Terrain and Fox Box. What’s Hive City Terrain?

Well I’ll let Jim tell you himself:

Hive City Terrain was started in 2011 originally to sell resin casts of terrain pieces that I used to create a large board for a heavy urban environment. I created pieces to fit the theme I had in mind and also created pieces that filled a gap in the UK  wargames terrain market.

After selling a few sets to friends and having positive feedback the next logical step was to start a small scale business.

Currently I am working with Ben of Fox Box to produce his excellent sculpts.

At the moment Hive City Terrain is predominantly 28mm scale but has pieces in the pipeline for 6mm wargames. Once HCT has made enough money the website will go online with lots of terrain pieces to fulfil a wide range of gaming needs.
-Jim

We’re stocking their stuff and they’re going to be helping us make our own product range a reality.

We’re starting off with his set of sandbags, of which you’ll get 3 for £6. Not too shabby, eh?

There’s more to come, of course, but that’ll take a few days.