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This might actually be the coolest thing they've ever made. I'm sure he'll be insanely expensive and I also hate resin, but I'll make an exception.

Váfri Zedemi had a point: Eldar were strange creatures, but even they wouldn't hoard items in a treasure vault unless they had some value. As he followed the Salamander, it occured to him that what was valuable to the Xenos might not be useful to anyone sane, but it would be a pity to pass up the chance to see what these pirate creatures had accumulated. The Wayseeker's mention of plunder made him grin. "Plunder is the right of a victorious warrior" he said, partly in reply and partly as a simple statement. The fight had done a great deal to improve his disposition, and with the Eldar defeated he bore them no particular ill-will. That would change abruptly in the face of treachery should they try anything underhanded, of course. He was wondering what among the strange and slightly repellant array of alien artefacts might even be worth plundering when he saw the helm the Salamander had found. "Morkai's blood," he swore. "Is that what I think it is, Zidemi?"

Mr Hobby brand plastic glues are excellent but can be a real pain to get in the UK. Mr Cement S is similar to the Tamiya extra thin, while Mr Cement Deluxe is a brush-on goop you can use to fill small gaps as well as sticking things together (that one stinks, however). It's really hard to beat Revell Contacta as a general purpose glue though. I don't think I ever assemble plastic minis without using it somewhere.

Like everything in the Nomad range, I want these to make into swamp-dwelling Nurgle cultists. I feel like my thunder has been stolen a bit on that front though, because they're almost too perfect for that already, especially with the green colour scheme the studio painted them in.

I'm basically late for everything at the moment due to irl busy-ness, but count me as interested as well.

Hmm. I'm pretty rusty and I barely get painting time these days, but I also want to enter the Death Guard kill team I've got built... I'm going to give it a shot - it's possible I'll only get one guy done by the deadline and he might look like a grot paintball team used him for target practice, but you don't know until you try!

Ok, so I've been away for a while, and maybe I missed something, but I don't see a thread about this book and I'm surprised. This was pretty long-awaited, no? Anyway, I'm partway through it, so I don't have a complete set of thoughts about it yet, but I'm enjoying it a lot so far. Double Eagle is one of my favourite 40k novels, and I'm very happy with this as a follow-up. Maybe there isn't much talk about it because it's so... polished? There's none of the odd plotting choices or experimental prose here that's made Abnett such a locus of discussion recently, he's just doing the thing he did so successfully for so long: this is a Sabbat Worlds book, and it does what it says on the tin. Anyone else read (or reading) it, and if so what do you make of it?

Absolutely fantastic conversion work. Also I love that green!

Awesome! I'll catch up before we get started again.

I've barely had time to see anything of myself, honestly. I got your message though, thanks! I'd love to come back, and making a bit of hobby time in my schedule would do me good.

I like him. Depending on how expensive he is, I'd like to add him to the retinue of the heretek Magos I'm making. He'd make a good Horrid Little Minion.

Stunning work. Very characterful Iron Warriors, but the most impressive thing is that Obliterator: It's the only time I've ever seen one that captures the essense of that piece of codex artwork (you know the one, you posted it in this thread!)

I liked The Emperor Expects a lot, I think it's still a cut above anything else I've read by Thorpe. I enjoyed it more than Slaughter. If Gav ever writes a standalone Imperial Navy book, I'll snap it up.

Thanks for covering my roll, @Lysimachus. Papa Nurgle gave me my holiday gift early this year (it's pneumonia!) so I've been under the weather, but I'll be here again this weekend.

Váfri Váfri hadn't been in ocean water since he was a Blood Claw, and never on a world other than his own. It was ironic, in a way, for a warrior born to a seafaring people. He had spent more time in the open void than submerged below the waves. Sometimes one's Wyrd played jests like that. Perhaps it was why he hit the water harder than he should have - a very slight error, his angle off by millimetres, but the speed of the drop meant the forces involved were enough to turn a mortal man's guts to liquid. With his physique and armour it annoyed him more than it hurt. Careless. Fool. It augured poorly. A bad start to a hunt he already didn't like. Checking his gear was all still in place as he descended, he strode out after the others, taking up a position on the flank of the small formation to avoid the clouds of silt they stirred up as they moved.