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17 December, 2022

Adeptus Titanicus – Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan

I always thought the Warhammer 40k titans looked cool, so I bought one recently just to see how it is to build and paint. It’s a bit of a challenge as I never built or painted a model like this.

In the box there’s 4 set of sprues, instructions, decals and a set of cards and rules for this unit in the Adeptus Titanicus game.

Assembly starts with the hip or pelvis.

Next is the upper legs.

First leg and complete (almost) foot.

First complete leg

Without knowing I had done my first mistake, but first a pic of both legs done.

Looking good, isn’t it? It wasn’t until I’ve glued both legs to the pelvis, that I noticed that the feet leaned outwards instead of standing flat on the ground.
So I started to break the feet away with the help of Tamiya thin and some tools. One leg that I had glued that day was fairly easy to remove, but the other one was assembled the day before, and actually ended up breaking at the fot joint.

After cleaning things up, I glued the right foot in the right place. And while that was drying I started with the torso.

This is how it looked like after the legs had dried and was glued to the pelvis again, and next to it the torso taking shape.

Adding more parts to the upper body.

Then there was a bit of weapons to choose from. I also had a bit of problem assembling the movable gun attachment point.

There are also three different head to choose from.

I haven’t choosen head or weapons yet, but it’s leaning towards the guns I’ve inserted and the left head.

A few more parts to assemble before I need to start painting, including all the armour plates, that will go on last.

18 July, 2022

Blood Bowl Second Season Edition – Games Workshop

Blood Bowl is a fantasy game based on American football, but with a lot more violence, and the players seems to be from the Warhammer or W40k universe. With the game there’s a pitch, dug outs, dices, cheat sheets, rule book and two teams, one orc and one human (basically). You have to assemble and preferably paint the teams and the two referees, and the balls and markers.

I started building the star players, the large players and the referees.

The parts are easy to clean up and once you figured how some parts are supposed to sit it fits perfectly. Barely no visible seams at all. The plastic feels a bit soft, so a bit carefullness is required when removing excess plastic.

According to the instructions, the face should be glued to the body first, and then the helmet slipped over somehow. For me that didn’t work at all, so I had to open up the helmet a bit. That resulted in the bands to the bow breaking off. Once the head was inserted into the helmet it became much easier to get things in place.

After gluing the bow, I could use that as a support for the bands hanging down. The eagle also was a bit tricky to figure out how it was placed on the arm or gauntlet. There was a notch in the medal hanging down which seems to fit on a tab on the back of the glove.

While waiting for the glue to set, I started with the referees, who was quite easy to assemble.

Next up was the trained troll. One of the large players for the Black Orc.

The large player for the human team is an ogre, which was fairly easy to assemble. The troll and Varag had more parts.

The ogre done!

Here are all the figures I’ve done so far!

The only thing I haven’t done so far is putting them on their stands. I need to figure how I want to do with them, covering up the slots and perhaps getting new ones without slots and smaller ones for the goblins and referees. Later I’ll also add grass and stuff.

On to the rest of the teams next before I start to paint them. I might even play a bit just to try out the game before I start painting.

I also got two extra teams that I can build.

13 July, 2022

New purchase – 13/7 2022

Back in the 90’s I got the Blood Bowl game, and we played quite a lot.
A friend asked if he could borrowed it and even after asking for it several times, I never got it back!
Lately I’ve seen that there was a 2nd edition of the game, and I just had to check it out.

I also bought one more team.

That was a bit of a mistake as there already are a team of black orcs in the box.
I just have to paint these a bit differently.

I wonder if there are boxes for ogres and other special players, and cheerleaders could be a nice addition too. Have to check that out.