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I decided to add some texture to the blastscapes. I mixed some polyfilla, white glue, sand and water. This was then brushed liberally over the blastscapes. These photographs were taken when they were wet.

Newly released files from MI5 explain how the Germans would have taken Dover and invaded England during World War Two if they had won the air from the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

Dover was to be the focal point of the invasion, but troops would have landed elsewhere along the south coast, as well as in Scotland and the south of Ireland.

After the shock troops had captured the docks at Dover, the plan was for the main contingent of German troops to be brought over in barges and disembark at the docks.

Subterfuge would have been a key part of the German plans for Operation Sealion.

German shock troops would have landed at Dover, dressed in British uniforms, if the Luftwaffe had won the Battle of Britain, newly-released files suggest.

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A work in progress Adeptus Mechanicus – Baneblade from GamesDay 2008.

More Adeptus Mechanicus.

The instructions for the Killa Kans are very clear and straightforward, even so there are additional instructions available online on the GW website.

I decided to make mine up as they were on the sprues. It’s not quite one per sprue, but near enough. If I decide to buy another set I will then mix and interchange the parts (and possibly do some conversions).

The first I made up with a Rokkit Launcha, and putting the weapon was probably the most difficult bit of all three models as I didn’t really read the instructions properly and didn’t realise that there was a third component that needed to fit between the two sides of the weapon.

The second one I added a Skorcha. I do think some of the assault arms are a bit big for the size of model and I think I would have preferred it if they were a little smaller. Maybe next time a little conversion work to make the assault weapon arms slightly less large!

The third model has the Grotzooka. A few issues putting the weapon together, but apart from that the rest of the model went together really easily.

These are really nice models and go together quite easily. In many ways I much prefer them over the older metal versions.

More soon.

This Stompa conversion incorporates a lot of different parts, the main are the Baneblade chassis instead of feet and the use of a Battlewagon as the head.

At  first I wasn’t sure about this conversion, but the more I look at the more I like it. I think the head does work very well.

I can quite easily imagine lots of Ork Meks working together on the hulk of an Imperial Guard Baneblade and building up the body of the Stompa before deciding that the partly destroyed Battlewagon that the Baneblade had taken out would look great as a head!

More photographs of Ork Stompaz.

My Ork Stormboyz about to launch their jetpacks.

How I painted these models.

More photographs of my Ork Stormboyz.

The Skyshield Landing Pad is a very nice piece of scenery for Warhammer 40,000.

It goes together quite easily.

Though the key really is to ensure that you don’t stick it so that the side walls can go up and down.

I am not sure if I managed this very well, as at least one gets stuck and starts to unclip.

I might just well leave them up, possibly buy another one with the side walls down.

The big news announced at GamesDay Baltimore 2010 is the next Forge World Imperial Armour book will be The Badab War Part I.

So what’s the Badab War?

From http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Badab_War

The Badab War was one of the more serious rebellions in recent Imperial history, involving several Space Marine Chapters. Badab is a planet in the Ultima Segmentum, close to the border with the Segmentum Solar.

It will be released on September 27th, but I suspect that there will be copies at the UK GamesDay that is the day before.

We also saw pics of a Grot Mega-Tank to complement the already released Grot Tanks and an Eldar Titan.

In the plastic Killa Kans box set you get three sprues.

It’s not quite one Kan per sprue, but pretty much nearly one. Very clever use of space on the sprues.

Taken at GamesDay 2009.

The mechanical monstrosity known to the Orks as the Evil Eye in da Sky is the insane creation of Big Mek Dakrok. The Evil Eye in da Sky is a Stompa, with a number of ‘Big Mek’s Speshuls’ added. These include extra and larger rokkits, a head-mounted supa-gatler, a belly-mounted deth kannon, and, most unusually, an unlikely system for transporting and launching its compliment of Deffkoptas.

Dakrok has become an expert of sorts in using the Deffkoptas to pinpoint enemy positions so that the Evil Eye’s rokkits can be zeroed in on the foe with unerring accuracy. It takes a particularly unhinged Ork to volunteer to pilot one of Dakrok’s Deffkoptas, but for many the chance to be propelled at breakneck speed from the Evil Eye’s launch ramp is just too exciting an opportunity to pass up.

Download the Apocalypse datasheet from here.