What comes next...

That's the phrase that keeps going through my head. I've been thinking about where I am with my hobbies and my projects and I keep thinking, "what comes next". I've been playing Warhammer 40k since the early 90's, the days the old timers irritate the younger players with by saying, "I remember back in Rogue Trader...". I'm sure it drives some f'ing nuts and I try not to do it. I've easily read over 60 of the novels and have I have enough in my hobby room to keep me busy building/painting for over a year. What I'm trying to get at is I'm in deep with 40k... really deep. So I ask myself what comes next? If something happens and GW does something to the game that I find unforgivable and I quit... what comes next? 

Comments appreciated.

Custom Master of Deathwing

In the spirit of the Dark Angels codex coming out next month I thought I'd toss this up. One of the armies I play is field-as deathwing and this is my Master of Deathwing I made a while back to lead them. The body is a metal space marine force commander, arms are plastic thunder hammer and storm shield, face plate is a shoulder pad from Warhammer Fantasy that I trimmed up, and one of the shoulder pads is from the Dark Angels Vehicle accessory sprues. We'll just have to wait and see for the next codex to find out if he get's retired.

Links Tab

I've been trying to update the links tab. If you have any sites that you would suggest please add a comment to this blog post. Right now I'm mainly looking for pages that sell bitz that are alternate options compatible with 40k miniatures but am happy to see anything else related to the hobby.

http://boringmordheimforum.forumieren.com/t507-40k-motivational-posters-humor

Games Day UK 2012 Photo Compilation

I do not claim to have taken or be the source of any of the below photo nor do I know for certain the original sources. I have tried to list at the very bottom of this post where I pull all of the images from. I do wish to say to whoever did take any or all of this pictures thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.

Pics after the break/jump

1000 Chapters

I stumbled across this page last night and was seriously impressed. The author of this blog compiled and organized a page of 1,069 loyalist space marine chapters and counting. No one does things like this because they're bored. You vacuum because your bored. You build things like this out of love of the hobby. If you're looking for inspiration for your own chapter this is as excellent place to start. For the glory of the Golden Throne I hope he's backed up this site. I don't know how current it is but I did see that he did an update about a year ago.

In his own words...
"Each marine image links to a chapter resource page. Most of the canon chapters link to the Lexicanum. The fan made chapters link to a forum, or blog, posted Index Astartes (IA), or a gallery of painted miniatures. Some fan made chapters are missing their link. You can tell the ones missing an IA as no boarder will be displayed around the image when you hover over it. If you click on one of these images you’ll see a request page asking if you know where the chapter comes from."

This is linked preview to the page. Click it and go explore.

Ork Blasta Bommer WIP Pt. 1

For the past several months I have been working sporadically on an Ork Blasta Bommer for Warhammer 40K.  Now that the project is going well, it is time to post a work in progress and show how this monster is coming together.  Before I get into the step-by-step, I will go over the parts list.

(Pics and what notz after the break)