15mm Microtactix paper buildings

I've been working on these Normandy buildings in between World of Tanks battles. Bought the two sets of plans ages ago from RPGNow mostly for 20 mm but I've decided to give them a run in 15 mm which is what they were designed for. They are BattleLands 15mm Normandy: 1944 Set A-Buildings and  Set B-Ruins and Scenics.

Laser printed onto standard paper i'm reinforcing with cereal packet cardboard. the two ruins in the photo above are tests as i want to make them sturdy enough but still fine enough to look right to my eye.  

FOW 15 mm American paratroopers for scale. The building on the left is the trial downloadable here and the one on the right is from Set A-Buildings. Neither have chimneys yet and i will leave the awnings off the cafe? until i'm closer to completion. The structures are designed to go on a square street base but i'm thinking of sealing the bottom with some weight inside to make them more versatile.

Games Workshop Digital Books for the iPad

Wow, just had this drop into my inbox from Games Workshop.

Istore Digital editions of Codex: Space Marine (expanded to 324 pages) at $AUD 45 , How to Paint Citadel Miniatures - Ultramarines at $AUD 8, Battlefield Challenge - Deathknell Watch at $AUD 6 and six Scrolls of Binding for Warhammer for $AUD 1 each.

My first thought was that this was brilliant but on closer inspection i'm a bit less impressed. These are itunes only at this point probably because their copyright control is reasonably tight and even worse they will only download to an ipad which is a bugger cause i dont have one and have no intention of getting one.

I wonder if there is a price difference around the world?

White Dwarf 388 - The Big Paint Issue

Well love 'em or ignore them when GW takes a turn in direction there's likely to be a fair bit of interest generated in hobby stores around the world. The cover of this months White Dwarf magazine has a big Empire splash but really its all about the paints.

The Empire gets 31 pages as they get a new Warhammer army book and a slew of new models in Finecast resin and plastic.

Warhammer also gets the final part of the Civil War Expansion with Empire, Dwarves and Skaven.

The new Empire Warrior Priest in this shot looks awfully familiar.

The latest incarnation of the Citadel paint line which has blown out to 140+ paints including the technical paints gets 28 pages with lots of how to pictures. There is also a big tasty 40K Space Wolves how to put together and paint article which runs to about 8 pages.

Interestingly they also announce the release of ten transfer / decal sheets for very specific Space Marine forces in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Forgeworld has similar products but GW has not done something like this yet for general release. Warhammer 40K has another insert in the shape of a 10 page Battle Missions expansion.

LOTR gets a passing mention with the second article on four blokes buying, painting and gaming the system.

Warhammer 40000 Space Wolf painting guide in White Dwarf 388.

And the usual extra ads and shop / club locators.

But really it's all about the paints.