Repercussions Of A New Bookcase

This weekend, I put up my girlfriend's new bookcase. It is not anything too special, just a plain dark brown thing from Ikea; but the repercussion of this; is that I intend to fill! I have a fetish for hardback books and to my surprise I discovered that The Black Library has started producing the Horus Heresy series in Hardback. I have just put my order in for all the current hardback releases; a total of six Horus Heresy books listed below:

Galaxy In Flames

False Gods

Horus Rising

Angel Exterminatus

Flight of The Eisenstein

Betrayer

I am looking forward to adding these to my Star Wars book collection and eventually reading. So eyes peeled, I will be doing a unboxing and comparison to the paperback editions sometime this week.

Add this to the recent Deathshroud release, means a lot of Pre-Heresy temptation all over again, Daemons first methinks, then the 14th shall rise again...

Thanks for reading,

DiStudios

The 14th Legion

This Years Agenda 2013

A belated happy New year to you all! 

With the holiday season finished, it is time to look at just what will be going on here. Today saw the release of  Dark Angels 6th Edition and despite all temptations I have managed to resist the urge to buy a new army - first major resolution of the year kept! However the most exciting thing about the release for me is that we should be one step closer to the rumoured Codex Daemon wave. Sources indicate that the following will be released in Feb: White Dwarf Update/Codex (TBC), Nurgle Plague fly riders, Juggernaut Chariots, Khorne Cannon wagon, large Chaos beast with the ability to take marks and Greater Daemon re-sculpts with resin character addon pieces.

If this turns out to be true, each facet of the Chaos gods will finally have some form of slot representation: Elite, Fast Attack and Heavy Support. This hopefully means more viability of mono-god armies on the table and while I strongly doubt mono-gods will ever have the same power level as a combined army, I suspect much more flexibility for mono players in this update/codex, to compensate for the random elements of the army and the single minded (close combat) nature of most of the units. With this in mind it is time to start planning the paint list:

Currently on the table:

Great Unclean One (Forgeworld Model) - 70% complete, probably use as Ku'Gath

Epidemius - Built

14 Plaguebearers - Built

14 Plaguebearers - Built

7 Nurgling Stands - 2 Stands complete

If the rumours are correct, I intend to add Plague flies and Plague Toads to use as beasts, I am purposely keeping away from flying Nurgle Daemon Princes despite the Tally enabling abilities they bring to the game. Of course that's assuming Tally does not get changed anyway with this upcoming update.

This week coming, will be the first official painting week of the year, as last week was spent putting up a brand new bookcase in the living room for my girlfriend's books and my planned modelling projects. I am currently toying with the idea of returning to Warhammer Fantasy; also with a mono-Nurgle army; partly this is to give me gaming flexibility and the cost efficiency of not having to buy a brand new army for each system - Last year saw too many projects, so this year I have decided to be super efficient with my hobby spending.

With all good armies comes terrain and the gaming table I worked on last year will be taking a more Nurgle feel as I intend to add lots of swamps and dead trees. There is still the Zone Mortalis set to deal with too, and I have major plans this year to expand it and get it ready for a recreation of a certain Pre-heresy batlle involving Nurgle and Luna Wolves. Any volunteers for the part of Horus?...

So a game plan of sorts is set and this week coming should see a bunch of Plaguebearers in the works, but as they "The best laid plans..."

Thanks for reading,

DiStudios

The 14th Legion

p.s. I have seen all the lovely new Death guard stuff from Forgeworld, but I am trying to be a good boy this year with my money!

Christmas Loot yay!

Another Christmas down and a nice bag of loot, surprisingly  this year there were no miniatures. This is mainly down to the reduction of projects I am working on and the relatively new release of 40K 6th Edition. But with my birthday next month tying in with a supposed Chaos Daemon release, this could mean a whole host of new models and painting content coming soon. But before that, I need to sift through my current loot. My other passion outside of the wargames circuit is mmo's and collectibles, I love collecting statues, busts and some toys of movie franchises such as Lord of The Rings, Star Wars and Marvel. I also have a fairly large collection (around 200) of anime figures. This year my girlfriend got me a whole load of Star Wars: the Old Republic busts, due to the fact I have been playing the mmo since summer and have steadily gotten more and more addicted to the game and associated merchandise. 

So this Christmas, I got Darth Revan, Shae Vizla, Darth Nihilus, a Lego Fury Interceptor and a whole bunch of Old Republic books to read. Tomorrow I will start taking pictures for the new busts and statues galleries, which I think will be a nice thing to look through once complete. I know it is not wargamie at all, but I am geek of many colours and I think it is nice to share my other hobby interests with the community as opposed to large down times between posts, when out at work.

So I hope you all got a load of new toys this Christmas and I hope you enjoy the upcoming collectibles section of this blog.

Thanks for reading,

DiStudios

The 14th Legion

Merry Christmas

To all the readers and followers of my little toy soldier blog, have a Merry Christmas! May your tree be filled with boxes full of resin, lead and plastic.

Best wishes,

DiStudios

It's Alive!

Big thanks to everyone who continues to read this blog, I know November was a dry month but things will be picking up in January '13. I just wanted to point out that I will be adding new non-miniature content in the future. I have always been a avid toy collector at heart, especially when it comes to statues, busts and figures, I use to run multiple blogs, dealing with each collection separately, but due to time constraints and in order to keep my sanity, I have finally decided to combine everything here on the 14th Legion in the future. 

The majority of content will still be Miniatures and Wargaming, simply because there is so much you can share about it, but expect new galleries to pop up with busts and statues. For most of you who read the 14th Legion, this may not be a problem, perhaps you yourself collect statues and busts (which is great I look forward to hearing your opinions in the future!) but for those who don't, I am sure cool photographs will entice you to read and comment non the less :-)

Either ways it means much more posting on this blog, whether it be toys, photographs or hobby news and that is never a bad thing. The first gallery that will be going up this month will have a very Star Wars theme to it, so if you are a Star Wars fan, keep your eyes peeled over the run up to Christmas.

Thanks for reading,

DiStudios