Contemptor dread Go!

Well I got my Contemptor dread in from Forge World last weekend. I have to say it was the easiest one to put together so far. I have a ton of Forgeworld iron armour and seems to me that the molding process left alot to be trimmed on those models. This wasn't the case with the Contemptor. Each part was clean and had very little mold lines to file down (side note: I found if the resin is a little wet that the files seem to work easier with the resin).

From clean to build was alittle under 3 hours, and I have to say this thing was meant to be articulated. This is the first Forgeworld model that I have seen that is ball and socket and screams to be magnitized so it could be posed. I opted to not do this one and went with a fixed body and legs. I magnitized the sockets on the arms, so they could pivit and move, and the joints for the weapon attachments as well as the head (this will be able to be swapped out to the targerter head when I get the cyclone missle launcher).

I opted to purchase the lascannon and the conversion beamer as the first set and will be adding all the arms down the road. I would love to get a second one and actually played with it Wednesday against Dave's Orks. For the point cost it did quite well and as I learn the rules more I may actually be able to do a little more with it.

All in all, I am extremely happy with this purchase. I hope at some point to be able to actually paint all my stuff and get it more table ready. By point count I can rough in around 4000 points with alot of wiggle room for options, saying this made me just realize that I have so much to paint now!

Untill next time,
Dan

Geekness again!

Hoping to get a game in tonight! Have a pretty good idea for a decent list and going to run with it at 1750 points just to see how it plays out. Trying to go for an all scout army with alittle twist and using Shrike with a unit of lighting claw (or S/S T/H I haven't decided yet) termies in a land raider crusader (according to what I keep reading Shrike can join the unit before putting anything on the table so he can join my 5 man squad of termies in the land raider and they all gain the inflitrate special rule, thanks for the help Jacob!) This just means that I won't deploy anything on the table and be able to better set myself up for a win (1-32 as of last week).






This may end up being my next purchase if I can't get anywhere with regular stuff might as well throw money at something with some firepower!

untill next time....

Contemptor Dread on its way from far far away land!

First and foremost most people seem to hate this model for some reason. I freakin love it, I truly think It is the single best model that Forge World has produced to date. Maybe its the old time Rouge Trader days that are still lingering around in my head, but I truly think Forgeworld and Games Workshop are trying there best to expand and capture the older gamers who started playing this game back in the late 80's and early 90's, as well as get people to play Pre-Heresy games.

This model stands slightly taller than the current tin can dreadnaughts and has a variety of weapon load outs. I opted to purchase a conversion beamer and lascannon for the first go. Why conversion beamer you may ask? Well I honestly have not seen one used or on a table in many years, GW hasn't really had a model since the old Rouge Trader Squats with conversion beamer, and heck its a huge stand back and fire weapon. So why not?

Hopefully once it arrives I will be able to magnitize it so I can purchase the other arms and be able to kit it out as I see fit. I have be watching alot of youtube videos on this and seem to be very easy to do. I have been really into converting my guys and adding magnets so I am not stuck with multiple models with diffrent loadouts and seems to give me more bang for your buck. Especially with the price of the figures this is the best option for anyone playing now a days.

This is the first time I have seen an actual model that is made to be posed coming out of forge world. Most of the FW models are pretty much cut and dry and can't do much on the end of posing or resulpting pieces. The joints are ball and socket and scream to have magnets shoved into them so when the model gets moved on the table you can manpulate the arms and legs. I have seen a fully articulated dreadnaught on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJiuWnl0T8). This seems like a lot more work than I really want to put into it, but its a great conversion. I think I am going to just stick to doing the arms sockets so the arms can move back and forth and the weapons so they can be easily swapped for diffrent versions. To me having a model fully move is just going to cause issues on the table and am opting to just come up with a cool base idea. I have some left over terrain pieces from 3rd ed boxset lying around and think I may be in the right direction.

Once I get the model in I will post some pics of the progess. I truly think this is going to be an awesome and time consuming build so be prepared for some larger updates coming up.