Eisenhorn - Special Edition Model
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Warhammer 40,000 – I’ve painted Eisenhorn a few times now and each time I enjoy it. The sculpt captures what I imagine the character from the novels looks like even if he rules aren’t the best.
Celebration - Daemonfuge
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Warhammer 40,000 – Black Library books always have some of the best characters, and sometimes they make special edition miniatures of these beloved characters. Most of the time the rules that come with these models are pretty bad so the models are more for display purposes. I don’t play Sisters of Battle so I’m not sure how the rules for this model are but the sculpt is really great and it was fun to paint.
Since I was already painting one sister I finished up two more random sister models that will go with a force I previously painted.
Book Review - Damnation of Pythos
/Horus Heresy – Ok I'm behind on reading the Horus Heresy books. Really I'm not behind, Black Library is just slow to publish them in a format I'm willing to buy and read. I refused to buy special editions and oversized paperbacks because they don't match the rest of my books. I also don't like to pay more then $11 for a book I'm going to read once. (Honestly there's only about 5 books in the series worth reading more than once in my opinion, not that the rest aren't good it's just that one time through is enough)
Read MoreBlack Library - Thoughts on Campaign Books
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Warhammer 40,000 – My heyday for 40K was in the early 2000's. At that time it seemed like the hobby was huge in my area with worldwide campaigns, weekly tournaments, convention support you name it. It was a glorious time to be playing Warhammer 40K.
During that time period Black Library was really just coming into it's own and was publishing art books and background books. Among these were the Battle for Armageddon and the 13th Black Crusade. Each of these books took the results of their respective worldwide campaigns and detailed them out into a comprehensive history of the phases of the campaign.
While these are not quite as detailed as the Forge World books that came after them they were top of the line during that time period. As a precursor to the Imperial Armour books they do share numerous similarities such as the system overview pages, a brief out line of major conflicts and supplemental art showing modifications to standard kit that happened over the course of the campaign. The only thing the Black Library versions lack are army lists, which to be fair are published in the regular codexes at the time as they are "modern" conflicts.
If you'd like to pick up your own copy of either of these books click here.
