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White Dwarf Issue 8. It feels like a “filler”-White Dwarf, with a rag-tag collection of releases that “didn’t fit” anywhere else, including rarely seen Hobbit releases. Still, it will be remembered for a long time as the White Dwarf with the Void Shield Generator cover, a (for most people at best) Saturday-morning magazine advertising a […]
Like a lot of people (I assume), I was the movies yesterday watching the 2nd installment of the “Hobbit-Trilogy”; i.e. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings-prequel trilogy spun from Tolkien’s rather more lighthearted (and rather short) Hobbit book. I thought I’d share some of my thoughts! The following article will inevitably contain spoilers. You’ve been […]
I stared 2013 with a White Dwarf, so I thought I end it with a Dwarf too. For better or worse, blogging made me a semi-regular reader of the White Dwarf (and other Hobby Magazines). That said, I found the “Christmas” White Dwarf to be… well… a bit lacking. #1 – New Hobbit Releases I […]
December is here, and with it (soon) the new Hobbit movie. Time to have a look at GWs strangely neglected “3rd Game”, the Hobbit Strategy Battle Game. Aside from the Space Marines Ultimate Codex, Sigmar’s Blood, Escalation and a few other things, the Hobbit is (among) the time of the month. There’s some nice Elves […]
Games Workshop has been getting ready for Christmas for a while now with some big-bundle-deal boxes (6 Broadsides and a Riptide anyone?), the Citadel Ultimate Paint set and other goodies. Now, there’s a list of the things that are yet to come with next weeks White Dwarf. #1 – Games Workshop December Release List #2 […]
Mantic Games is getting ready to kickstart a new miniatures board game: Mars Attacks. And doing so, they may well herald a new chapter in the miniature wargaming industry, or at least the Kickstarter-driven side of it. Mantic is now combining two ends of the wargaming industry I would’ve thought were polar opposites: Crowd-funded games […]
Now here is an interesting little thing I found browsing Facebook. Knight Models, a company know mainly for producing miniatures based on DC Comics & Marvel superheroes, as well as the Batman Miniatures Game, previewed a green for what looks a lot like a 28mm Gandalf. This is only re-enforced by the quote from the […]
More than 10 years ago, young actor Orlando Bloom first appeared on the big screen in his (now) iconic role of Legolas, the most famous elf of all. The role made Orlando rich, famous and the butt of quite a few parodies, spoofs and internet-goofs. For the new Hobbit trilogy, Orlando was allowed to don […]
Slightly off-topic. Or perhaps not. Today saw the release of the first trailer for the second instalment of the Hobbit movie “trilogy” (guess we all got used to that). The Hobbit miniatures games … dunno … I still don’t see it getting a lot of game-time, though I know some people are playing it. Either […]
It’s gotten really, really quite on the Hobbit Strategy Battle game. Despite this, Games Workshop now released a new miniature for the game, featuring one of the most .. um .. controversial additions to last year’s the Hobbit movie over the original story written by J.R.R. Tolkien: Radagast the Brown on a rabbit-pulled sleigh! Have […]
