Galadriel Done

Finally,  Here are the colors:
Face/skin-base coat GW Tallarn flesh and highlights with increasing GW Elf Flesh, lips were the slightest amount of Vallejo Vermillion.
Dress-base coat white, then Vallejo Flat Aluminum (like GW space wolfs grey ), washed with dilute GW Fenris Grey and drybrushed with Windsor and Newton Titanium White.
Armor-Base Boltgun metal, shade with dilute Vallejo Black, highlight with GW Mithril Silver
Hair-Base of GW Iyanden Darkson, highlights adding Vallejo Sand Yellow then adding a little WN titanium White for the final highlight.
Had a lot of trouble with the dress, no matter what I did I kept getting air bubbles in the recess areas with the Flat Aluminum and white layers that I could not eliminate.  Which is why I washed the dress part and did not apply shading with layers.  This is probably the best face I have done so far.  Faces are hard. :)
The Base is a mix of GW sand, Medium and Fine Talus from Woodland Scenics.  Topped with GF-9 Winter Grass and then an Army Builder Swamp Tuft.

more more more BFG and WIP and Dystopian Wars preview

Whew, lots of things today.  First off we have some BFG tokens that were custom make by LITKO.  To get 20 is $19.99 with a lot of options for color, shape and text.

Also the heading template that is large enough to fit underneath a BFG base and covers the 45 and 90 turns.

Next up we have previews of the Antarctic faction from Spartan Games Dystopian wars via TTGN.  I have been waiting for this since the fluff for Dystopian wars came out.  UPDATE here are painted versions.

And here is a WIP pic of Legolas from the Fellowship of The Ring.  I have been practicing my highlighting and shading with the plastic set.

Here is the finished product, based and matte varnished with Army Painter Matte Varnish.

BFG Markers

Joe discovered and got some of these from Litko. I think they are fabulous though a tad expensive as i already have 2 sets of cardboard marker worth from two starter set. Note though that there is tentative plans for all torpedo markers to be bases on 20 mm x 20 mm bases.

Disappearance of the Astronomican portion of GW website

If you had not noticed part of the GW website that relates/posts past articles has been removed.  Speculation about this has brought to the surface the idea that White Dwarf, the GW adverzine will be going digital, in a pay per year all access pass or a pay for a all past volumes CD/DVD deal.  I guess they could even go  a'la carte on an article by article basis.  It can still be accessed with a direct URL but has not been updated since march.

Finecast the next wave

Via BoLS

Thanks Sephiroth

:
WH40K
Tyranid Venomthrope
Eldar Warp Spiders squad
Eldar Howling Banshee squad
Eldar Harlequin squad
Inquisitor Karamazov
Dark Angels Master of the Ravenwing

WHF
Dwarf Engineer w/ Great Weapon
Dwarf Thane w/ standard
Dwarf Grudge thrower
Dwarf High King Thorgrim
Lizardmen Slann Mage priest
High Elf Korhil
High Elf Prince Tyrion
Dark Elf Dreadlord on Cold One
Dark Elf War Hydra
Khorn Lord on Juggernaut
Beastmen Doombull

LotRs
Vault Warden Team
Witch King of Angmar
Dragon
Uruk-hai siege ballista
Gondor battle trebuchet

Chaos
The Changling
Greater Daemon of Khorne
Greater Daemon of Tzeentch

Not sure if the vault warden set was the best of choices, iron guard or citadel guard would have been better choices IMHO.

Citadel Finecast

So, now that they have come out, anyone have real strong opinions?
I know that I like the movement to 4 models per pack in the LoTR line.  We will not have to buy 8 blisters(anymore) to get an even amount for WoTR movement trays.  2 packs per company for elites is pretty reasonable.   I have seen some pretty bad miscasts but I think those will become fewer and fewer as GW catch up with demand and QA picks up, but maybe I am wrong.  You can check out Warseer and BoLS for a great number of fincast pics.

So, today should be the big announcement about metals-update

So, a couple of things, 1-today should be an announcement about metal figures and why they are being pulled from general circulation, I have heard that it will be called Citadel Finecast ( according to the German GW website ), which will begin on May 28th.

So, of course,  it seems GW takes this to mean they can increase prices.  Maybe the US prices will not change.
First news in british pounds i converted to US $

Starting from the 28th of May 120 products that were Games Workshop direct only items will be coming back on the shelves as resin or resin Hybrids. This new range “Citadel Fine Cast” range will be limited in number for the first few months, so we will be taking advance orders for them.

Full details for the products and prices will be available later today.


THE DARK LORD SAURON £25.50 = $41.00 ( used to be $35 )
GULAHVAR THE TERROR OF ARNOR £30.00 = $48( used to be $41.25 )
MORDOR TROLL CHIEFTAIN £25.50
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING £37.00
ELROND AND GIL-GALAD £15.00
SARUMAN AND GRIMA £15.00
GANDALF THE WHITE £20.50
ARAGORN (THE BLACK GATE) £20.50
THEODEN (HELM’S DEEP) £20.50
BOROMIR (ITHILIEN) £20.50
SULADAN THE SERPENT LORD £20.50
THE DARK MARSHAL (RINGWRAITH) £20.50
DAIN AND BALIN £15.00
URUK-HAI WITH CROSSBOWS £14.00
URUK-HAI BERSERKERS £14.00
GOTHMOG (PELENNOR) £20.50


Full list after the break.......

2-This year is the 10th Anniversary of the LoTR SBG ruleset.  Accordingly we will probably see a big release announcement soon.