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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: February 2015
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Saturday, February 21, 2015. Rumors: Are Plastic 30K. It's been rumored recently. That GW will be releasing a plastic Horus Heresy. Standalone game. Once the limited edition kit has run its course, the individual kits in the box are supposedly going to be sold separately as part of the standard 30K. Game system. Rumors say that the kits will include Mk IV power armor and Cataphractii Terminator armor. Honestly, I have no interest in getting into 30K. Because a) I already have a pile of 40K. Troop models ...
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: First Thoughts on Skitarii
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. First Thoughts on Skitarii. In my last post. I praised the Vanguard, Ranger, and Ironstrider models. The model line only got better with the Sicarian Infiltrator and Ruststalker models. GW topped it all off with the Onager Dunecrawler. Nerds already know, the High Gothic of the 41st Millennium is essentially corrupted Latin, although GW seems to throw in a healthy dose of Greek, too (paleontologists also love to mix up their Latin and Greek when naming dinosaurs). " Onager. The or...
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: Choosing a Knightly House
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Saturday, March 15, 2014. Choosing a Knightly House. When I first got into this hobby, I chose Space Marines primarily because they were the first army that I ever played. Although Bryce originally got me interested in the game with the Black Templars and their fluff, I ended up doing Ultramarines simply because I had bought GW's starter paint set. Which came with five Tactical Marines with Ultramarine logos. I ended up liking the paint scheme and, fortunately, also liked their fluff. I found that I real...
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: July 2014
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Friday, July 4, 2014. Back to Basics, Part II: Completed Tactical Marines. It's been just over a month since I started my "Back to Basics" campaign. On average, I've finished one Tactical Marine a week, which is downright speedy compared to my usual pace. I tried to work on two Marines at a time, but I ended up taking two weeks to finish both, so I've gone back to working on one model at a time. Only a few months ago, I wondered if I really needed. I didn't really need another Marine with a missile.
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: New Imperial Knights Incoming
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Monday, April 27, 2015. New Imperial Knights Incoming. Not long ago, we started getting rumors. About new Imperial Knights: the Knight Warden and the Knight Crusader. Like the Knights Errant and Paladin, these Knight types existed in GW's small scale game, Epic 40,000. The original Knights Warden and Crusader were both heavily armed, long-range Knights. Thus, it wasn't surprising when the rumormongers eventually gave us the following:. Crusader is armed with: Quake Cannon, TL Las-cannons. For the Knights...
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: September 2014
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Sunday, September 21, 2014. Predicting the Future of 40K. Curse my lack of Prescience. About two years ago I started posing my multi-part C:SM 6th Edition Codex Wishlist (see here. Granted, these were more wants than predictions, but when the codex finally came out, it was obvious that I wasn't particularly good at forecasting the kinds of changes that we did see ( here. Despite that, it's still fun to try to predict the direction of 40K. Models, Models, Models. Oh, and I want a plastic Thunderhawk.
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: Rumors: Are Plastic 30K Models Coming?
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Saturday, February 21, 2015. Rumors: Are Plastic 30K. It's been rumored recently. That GW will be releasing a plastic Horus Heresy. Standalone game. Once the limited edition kit has run its course, the individual kits in the box are supposedly going to be sold separately as part of the standard 30K. Game system. Rumors say that the kits will include Mk IV power armor and Cataphractii Terminator armor. Honestly, I have no interest in getting into 30K. Because a) I already have a pile of 40K. Troop models ...
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: January 2015
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Friday, January 23, 2015. My army continues to grow, slowly but surely, as I work on the models I primed just before the onset of winter. The latest is a Tactical Marine with a multi-melta:. The Ultramarines' Tactical Doctrine just barely makes heavy. Weapons viable in a drop pod-based Tactical Squad. Admittedly, I wanted a multi-melta Marine as much. Or more) for its looks as for its effectiveness. The cables on the gun and the backpack weren't easy to line up. And 57.8% chance of exploding AV12. 40K: I...
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: More Tactical Marines and Modelling
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Saturday, March 7, 2015. More Tactical Marines and Modelling. The new models keep coming:. I finished the combi-flamer Sergeant at 1:00 AM on February 6. The plasma gun Marine was completed on February 28, the final stint of painting lasting a full five hours. I was hoping to keep up a rate of an infantry model every week to a week and a half, but a particularly stressful couple months at work and my wife's purchase of a PlayStation 4 had an unfortunate effect on that goal. Still having an unsightly edge.
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The Atomic Spud's Warhammer 40K Blog: Adeptus Mechanicus and Skitarii
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Monday, March 30, 2015. Adeptus Mechanicus and Skitarii. My first exposure to the Warhammer 40,000. Universe outside of a codex or rulebook was through Dan Abnett's excellent novel Titanicus. I was very interested in the Mechanicus and was disappointed that they weren't a playable faction in the game. As soon as the pictures leaked, I became tremendously excited for the new Skitarii and the fact that the Adeptus Mechanicus would finally take an active role in 40K. Made me expect the Skitarii to be someth...
