Ebay/Goodbye: Final goodbye and Salamanders are up.

I'm sorry but i forgot to put up that the warriors and silver skulls had gone up on ebay but here is the link to my green salamanders marines:

Salamanders

This really is my last post, bye,

Thanks for reading,

Jacob OUT!!!

Selling: Space wolves and red marines up!

So, Yesterday I put my terran hands space marines up on ebay:

HERE

And I also put up my Space Wolves:

HERE

The rest will go up soon hopefully. Any questions can be emailed to:

jacobgamer@live.com

or can be sent via ebay.

Please take a look at the items, more pictures can be sent to anybody interested.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob

Blogging: The end has come for me.

So, I have to now say that I am leaving the hobby recently I have done no work to my armies at all and for a long time very little. I can write editorials all day but they are not that great and without actually participating in the hobby I can hardly run a blog about it. I also had less and less time for warhammer because of 'real life'.

I will still be listening to podcasts and maybe reading but I have decided to sell my armies. be going up on ebay at some point and I will put a notice up on this blog when that happens.

If anybody would like to take over this blog then they are welcome to, just contact me via this email:

jacobgamer@live.com

As for my other blogs they have not really taken off but I will leave them up on the web if anybody wants to read them. Even if nobody wants it this blog will still stay up on the web as it has plenty of tutorials etc on it and I would not like 3 years of work to go to waste.

I would like to give thanks to all of the FTW blogger group for being such good friends and readers, especially Ron from From The Warp. As well as all my other readers.

I hope everybody has enjoyed this blog and continues their own. I don't know if I will ever rejoin this hobby but I have enjoyed it while it has lasted.

So, Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Reading this Week: Finished Ciaphas cain book 2.

So, this weekend I had a reading frenzy, I read the last 50 pages or so of Cain book 2 then a 364 page spooks novel then I've started the second short story in the Cain omnibus.

It was great but I'll go into more detail when I've finished the whole thing.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Games Workshop: WoC 8th ed FAQ Well done!!!!!!!

So, i have just read the latest WoC FAQ and it is great. they cleaned everything up and took out the silly jokey comments. It looks like the rules are going to be a lot clearer with 8th so

WELL DONE GAMES WORKSHOP!!!

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Hello: I'm Back!!!

So, I have decided that I don't want to move off this blog and so will be using it again. I will still tougfh be focussing more on podcasts and books over anything else. My other blog will still be there on the web and I have some plans for it but there won't be posts on it for a while. So, hello again and I hope to keep looking at everybodys' blogs and keep up to date.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Goodbye: Goodbye to Gamers World and hello to Ahrimans Lair.

So, recently I have been on a complete warhammer low at the moment. I haven't posted or painted or even played. So, I have decided to leave this blog for the moment. It will still be up but I will not be posting on it. I may return at some point. Meanwhile I will still be blogging but over at Ahriman's Lair that is my new blog.

I am still really into reading 40K fiction so it will have plenty of detailed book reviews on there as well and other things that I am doing. if anybody would like to hop on with me and become an author of Ahriman's Lair then contact me at jacobgamer@live.com

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Blogging: "ARRRGH, Man down man down!" (or sorry for not posting)

Picture from web, will be removed if asked.

So, Right at the moment it's summer over hear and I am very busy. I haven't been able to do much hobby or any blogging, I am still watching some blogs though.

At the moment I am too busy to keep up this blog as it is so there will be much fewer posts. In return though I will be making sure they are all very quality.

Please put me on a blogroll so I pop to the top when there is a new post. I hope I will be able to return to normal frequency soon.

See you all later,

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Painting: Getting back into the swing of things.

Sorry for not posting recently been very busy, I have on the other hand been painting a lot more, almost all of the m.horse are undercoated now and I have done some other knicknacks. More updates and pics to come.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Painting: motivation idea, the painting clock.

So, i feel that I am not painting enough at the moment so I have an idea to get me back into it. The idea is simple, on my watch I am going to time my self while I paint, I am going to paint for at least 10 minutes every night, if I miss a night then I have to do the excess the next night and so on but if I do more than ten mins then it doesn't mean I don't have to paint the next night.

It will start at 10 mins but as I get into the habit then I may raise that. I hope you like the idea.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Polls: Post summaries or full posts results!

So, my poll on whether I should have full posts or summaries has finished and here are the results
Not Bothered 1 (33%)



I prefer post summaries 2 (66%)



I prefer full posts 0 (0%)
Votes so far: 3

Poll closed

I have decided on using what I have now which is to display the first post in full then the rest in summaries.

Blogging: Paying It Forward

So, i was watching the movie 'Paying It Forward' and i found it dead interesting, it's about the concept of instead of paying back someone who helps you, helping somebody else and so on and so on.

So, you may wonder how this relates to blogging and this is how. When I was starting out Ron helped me with a good few tips and then he also set up the FTW blogger group. Now I made the soap box which I think helped one new blogger even if in recent times it has completely failed despite my efforts. Plus I have quite a few posts on blogging meaning I am hopefully helping other bloggers,so i say...

... If somebody helps you I.E. adds you to their blog roll then sure add them but don't stop there, go and add a couple of other people and pass the message on, it only takes a second.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

WHITE DWARF: SPEARHEAD EXPANSION REVIEW!!!

So, I recently got white dwarf and went to look at the new spearhead expansion for 40K here are the key points:

1. no minimum requirements
2. up to one spearhead of each type
3. you can take an army entirely of spearheads.
4. Three new deployments and missions.
5. most of the rules in mag but all the extra bits on games workshop website.
6. troops, tanks, walkers, spearheads but not if they a have rule saying specifically against this or are a swarm can score. Troops meaning any unit taken from a army's troops allowance.
7. You always play longways across the table.

8. dice off to be attacker, attacker goes first and deploys first.

Spearheads: formations you take, everybody has access to the same ones (at least at the moment) for instance:
Tanks hunter spearhead:
up to 3 tank or walker units, all vehicles in spearhead get tank hunter USR.

Deployments: counter attack-divide board in half then from each player table edge corners draw a triangle the point 9'' away from the centre so it makes a hourglass shape with a gap between the 2 triangles, deep strike infiltrate and scout can be placed in reserve + up to half your army can be.
Cauldron: both players have 18'' deployment zones so start 36'' away same amounts for deployment as above.
Escalation: players start 18'' apart you can only put down 1 spearhead or 3 units down, all else in reserve, can infiltrate as long as you don't go over the above allowance.

Missions: Breakthrough: you score 1 point for each unit at least partially in you opponents half of the board at the end of the game, whoever has the most wins.
Vital Ground: 1 vital objective and 3 minor, vital worth 3 points, minor worth 1, one player puts vital in one half, other player puts minor in other half, all at ground level, not within 12 of another objective, wrecked super heavies become a minor objective for your opponent have to be within 3'' with no enemy to claim an objective, whoever has most points at end of game wins!
Lightning war: 3 objectives placed alternately 24'' away from each other plus an extra 5, one within 18 of table centre and one within 18 of each table edge, wrecked super heavies become objectives for opponent as before, same rules for capturing objectives as before, whoever has most objectives wins.

Overall a very good supplement and I would definitely recommend getting this issue as it is great!!!
Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

Fun Tips: Easy (well relatively) none metalic metal for weapons!

So, recently I have been playing around with NMM and have found a simple way to do it, here are the steps a proper tutorial will come soon:

1. paint the weapon codex grey
2. water down heavily codex grey and fortress grey and mix them together in a codex, fortress, water 4:1:5 mix, wash this over the lighter part of the blade
3. add a little more fortress and a little more water then wash this over the lighter part of the blade leaving a little of the last layer showing.
4. continue doing the last step until using about a 4:6:10 mix the clean your palette.
5. Highlight the top of the blade edge pure skull white (or for dull weapon pure fortress grey)
6. Mix badab black and codex grey and water in a 3:1:2 mix and wash it over the dark part of the blade.
7. keep adding more badab black and more water like before using the same method.
8. wash the whole blade with heavily watered down codex grey like a 1:10 grey to water mix

For a better coverage use paint thinner instead of water.

I hope this helps, thanks for reading, 

Jacob.

Polls: Do you prefer post summaries or full posts.

So, recently I have been giving my blog a new look using the new template designer as they look much more layered than the old templates. I also added automatic post summaries so my question is.

ON MY BLOG Do you prefer the post summaries or the full posts.

Poll on the top of the left column, VOTE!!!

Painting: I'm entering a competition.

So, in a couple of weeks there is a painting comp at my local store, the owner saw my tzeentch guy and asked me to enter.

He now has an interesting base and has been touched up pics to come.

Fluff: What does the warp look like?

I was reading the other day and the space marine battle barge went into the warp. I think it looks like a mass of colours, more reds oranges any yellows wit a few blacks and purples it all bends and twists an convulses but that is just my view.

What do you think it looks like, thanks for reading,

Jacob

Discussions: Your 40K role model.

Recently I was thinking about all of the different characters in 40k and which ones are good role models:

1 It can't be a space marine because they have no concern for looking after themselves and can be snobs

2 it can't be a guardsman because they are worth zit

3 the only alien races would be eldar, tau, or chaos because they can think for themselves. Chaos is evil though and eldar is snobby plus tau are still a little mind less

I couldn't decide until I thought about books then it came to me, commisar caiphas Cain because he looks after himself and is good with people as well ad being very lucky!

Who is you role model, thanks for reading,

Jacob

Painting: Losing the buzz.

Sometimes I find that I am really into painting and I get loads done but sometimes I just lose the buzz.

What are your tips on keeping that buzz going, thanks for Reading,

Jacob

Army Finishing Project: How I manage only a few projects at a time.

A lot of people wondered how I mange to do only 1 maybe 2 projects at a time so I am going to write that here: What I do is to look at what I have left to do and coose 2 units, one will be a unit that will be more of a chore and one will be a unit I really want to paint, I do the chore first then the nice one. This keeps me motivated an wanting to paint. Thanks for Reading, Jacob