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Custom Templates

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so ladies and gentlemen, this is a special Review.
Now I would like to thank Matthew Polonski for making these high quality custom templates.


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so as you can see I got some custom XVITH legion templates, now personally I love to see a fully painted army plus custom gear so honestly guys pay the price these are top quality pieces and I recommend these.

http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y524/Taron_James_Beer/Mobile%20Uploads/20150525_120450_zps8kjdmx9p.jpg

7" template

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Flamer Template

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3" template.


now I will be ordering some apocalypse size templates next; but if your interested contact Matt here:

http://heresy30k.invisionzone.com/index.php?/user/1001-mplonski/

matt@tralfazsolutions.com


Here's the gallery

http://apoc-eclipse.com/LaserGameAccessories.htm
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Just a minor update;

 

This project is still happening, im just working on the first post and saving to buy a massive resin pile at Warhammer World.

 

I'll try have another Review ready by Monday, sorry for the delay

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Land Raider Achillies Alpha

 

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So its been a while but today ill have a couple of updates to post; so first things first my finished Land Raider Achillies alpha

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so here it is with the flash

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without flash

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side view

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front view

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all in all this was a fun kit to build and I recommend it to anyone that wants some added firepower to any existing force.

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Horus Luprecal, The Favoured Son, The Warmaster

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So here he is, Horus Luprecal in all his glory.

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Now I have to admit I put more effort into this model than I previously ever have AND HOPEFULLY IT SHOWS.

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Every little detail was attentively tended to from the stair case to the eagles head.

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the only thing I have to do is paint the base surround black

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maybe add some weathering powders on the base.

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Im pretty pleased with the base in all honesty, I had no clue what I was doing so I just dug deep and tried to make a scenic base that blends into the background and doesn't draw attention away from the main piece.

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and a close up of the first face ive fully completed.

 

 

this was a great model and I look forward to my next item from the character series.

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Aurelian (Gold Edition)



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So here we Have Aurelian, the first book Black Library released that crashed the site, I remember sitting on my computer at 2am hitting refresh waiting for this book to go on sale. Unfortunately it sold out within an hour IIRC and even though I thought I placed my order I was unaware that as I crawled into bed the website had crashed and I wasn't succesfull in securing my copy. Black Library then went and released a gold and silver edition to make up for the crash, yet I refused to settle for silver and only gold would suffice so I went to ebay and spent a whopping $250Aus for a signed copy.

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So here it is in all its beauty


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One of the best covers to date especially with the back cover with scribbling's of the Imperial Truth is a Lie


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Signed by the one and only Aaron Dembski Bowden


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my favourite page to every heresy book is the proverbs, quotes and monologue page.


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The interior artwork a nice beautifully illuminated yet subtly faded Word Bearers Icon.


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If only this Avatar was a full piece of art id get it tattooed on my leg in an instant.


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And the Artwork from the original visions of heresy of Magnus the red, John blanche truly created the grimdark vision that is 30k.

 

 

 

so now onto the story, after the serrated suns went into the eye and cannibalised there ship crew and brothers we have them return to the primarch of the XVIITh legion and pretty much say hey guys ummm you might not realise it but we've been gone for months and lorgar was like bitch please its been like 5 seconds. so lorgar decides to travel with the deamon engethel (SP?) and venture to the place where gods and mortals meet, now hes given a lengthy history lesson where he visits a dead elder crone world wrestles an avatar of khaine, has a D&M with Kairos Fateweaver and upsets one of the biggest baddest deamon princes of KHORNE!!

 

so why was the book a must have? because it goes in depth to the core of the heresy and helps perpetuate the nature of chaos and give us a reason why lorgar turned from the imperium and lays the groundwork for these once moustache twirling evildoers to become a relatable and human legion if not the most human legion, everything lorgar did was for humanity as a race to elevate us to symbiosis with the warp.

 

 

now if you haven't bought it read it or heard of it stop what your doing turn of Australia's next top model close the fridge door put down the beer and go order this.

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Brotherhood of the Storm

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So welcome to todays final update (as I have to watch the anime masterpiece Summerwars which was recommended to me by my mate Jason).

So here we have Brotherhood of the storm by Chris Wright, our first insight to the White Scars as a legion in the Horus Heresy Book Series. The only other exposure we have had to this mysterious legion is from one of the dark angel novels which showed the Ist legion relieving the Vth of Guard duty, and one other short story from one of the amalgamations we have had forced down our throats.

 

So what is Brotherhood of the storm about? Well its about 2 White scar Centurions; Torghun Khan the Terran and Shiban Khan a Chogoris (SP?) legionary. these 2 warriors are teamed up together in a joint operation towards the end of the Chondax (SP?) campaign to eliminate the last stronghold of the Orkish race within the galaxy, now straight away were introduced to completely different ideologies for warfare the Terran believes that supply chains and stringent plans are the key to success while our Chogoros (SP?) legionary gets caught up in the beauty and poetry of warfare and believes that speed is the successful key to any campaign.

 

long story short we see the terrans holding position while the Brotherhood of the storm push deeper into enemy territory to try catch a glimpse of the Primarch of the Vth Jaghati Khan in action, now before you say its just Mongolians in space stop, just stop.

 

this book is well written and shows us that the Vth legion are more than angry horseman and that they are a free legion that cannot function within the confines of the imperial Bureaucracy so they wish to be on the outer edges of the universe free to wage war and find peace within warfare.

 


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so stunning artwork on the cover and gives us a new variant of the scimitar pattern jet bike. Hopefully FW give us a model soon.


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Not a very exciting hardback I know but I feel its simplicity works with the story inside.


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Chris Wright giving a copy of his John Hancock


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A relatively small Dramatis Personae


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beautiful portraits of the Vth legion found inside, it upsets me that its only through the artwork we can see the individuality of each "Space Mongolian" I wish we could transfer this into 28mm scale.


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A bit of a look at the Bullock Pattern Jetbike.



 

So why get this, for once we have the white scars as a individual component compared to the stereotypical typecasting of angry Asians on bikes, this book has everything from philosophy to broken English, miscommunication between races to ideological differences and the ability to rise above to support your fellow legionaries. well written and helps bring the Vth to the forefront of my favourite legions.


 

so pick it up when and if you can and prepare to read it with a smile on your face.

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Corax: SoulForge

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So its been a fortnight since my last Review, admittedly I haven't been motivated even with the latest Forgeworld Open Day.

But I'll persist through my boredom and hopefully my visit to the uk will reignite my passion, so let's continue with a look at Corax Soulforge. Now unfortunately this book felt like a flop and it reads like one of my fluff pieces flat pointless and a pain in the arse to Finish.

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cover art is sub par, and honestly I'm tired of Corax being portrayed as a emo ninja.

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matt black cover nothing really stands out about this book unfortunately.

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The dust cover contains an extra short story, in all honesty if they used the chance to focus on the shadow masters rather than Corax himself I think this may have been a more successful path to follow.

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so first bit of internal artwork is just the RG logo, sometimes I wish we got more in depth analysis of gear equipment and schematics.

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so just some extra artwork of Corax's flagship (iirc)

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and the blanche art Piece of Corvus Corax.


So Story wise Corax and hus super space marines crash a floating island on a forgeworld into another floating island and destroy a word bearer Forge where there creating Deamon war machines, Corax fights a word bearer who's ascending to Deamon hood and goes on a rant about how the primarchs are Sons of chaos etc etc.

honestly this book is hard to get excited over as its a poor Piece of literature that doesn't truly add to the legion or to the heresy in general.

for a primarch to spend time hitting outposts etc seems a bit far fetched considering the galaxy is in flames.

So long story short if you want it for your collection grab it but if you want a good read save your money as this book gives absolutely nothing to the reader.
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Honestly it's my first negative Review not because I have hate for the RG but because it truly is a terrible story.

 

If the book had of been a short story over a limited edition novella I may have been less critical.

 

But after books like Aurellian, the purge & even the imperial truth this book is lacking true insight into the legion and it's operations.

 

I'll be honest as much flack as scorched earth (the next review) received it was at least a more enthralling tail of PTS and the space marine psyche, now I have not yet gotten around to reading my copy of Ravenlord but I will keep my bias in check as every novel deserves to be reviewed.

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Could it not be seen as he is personally making sure the traitors supply lines are being disrupted or is it not written that well?

Corax send the majority of his troops to hit a more important target while he goes and explores a possible FW controlled by the Word Bearers.

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So today I head off to the other side of the world, ill be doing a review of my overseas trip mainly focusing on the stores I visit and my once in a lifetime trip to warhammer world.

Now I'll post my review in 3 weeks time so I may or may not be accessible via the interwebz.

Now I'll be catching up with Augustus b'rass on my travels so there will be pics.

I've packed the b&c shirt and im ready for the best trip of my life.

Now farewell till my return.

Regards,
Taron
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So guys ive arrived in paris, been a long trip travelling half the globe.

 

 

So here are some quick snaps

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Some reading material smashed it out in an hour

 

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The edge of Australia

 

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Kuala lumpa layover got smashed on tiger beer

 

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Midnight waiting to board so I cracked our some more reading material

 

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Now I found the GW here in paris but it doesn't open till 2 so I'm back at the room showering then ill head back and check it out.

 

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and whilst traversing through paris I've found some ideas for one off conversions;

 

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So at least this trip is recharging my hobby battery.

 

so I'll rest up head out and meet the locals in the hobby scene and snag some pics.

 

 

Edit: I look like :cuss but so would you after 36 hours awake in the sky in a floating tin can.

 

I've got hundreds of pics but I'll wait till the trip is over and do the summary Review

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Thanks slips my buddy, just had my first night worth of sleep so it's time to spend the day with the misses it's her 30th birthday after all.

 

Hydra I should be around in the afternoon evening I'm not 100% sure but I will be in London, I'll check with the misses as she wants to see her sister but I think that's the 6th were doing that I'll pm you once im on the other side of the tube and see if we can catch up.

 

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