Picks up a pen, starts typing:

It's the 1st of May, you know what that means, it's World Stationary Day!

True to life art of writing an ork army list.

What better way to celebrate than use a computer to write up a list of miniatures that I have on the painting schedule for the next few months.*

With this in mind here is the list of minis I expect to get painted up:

Galvanise the memory cells with Eavy Metal!: Part 3 (White Dwarf 147)

Holy moly that is a cool bit of art on the cover! Look at these Eldar in battle so full of vivid action yet determined and not comical.

But if 146 was an an immense showcase of what White Dwarf could do to inspire a young me then 147 was hugely disappointing. A brief Space Fleet article followed by an section introducing Eldar to the Epic Space Marine game is not a great start.

Adorable, but scale wise how big are those banners?!

Don't get me wrong some of the titans can be impressive and I did actually play a couple of games of Epic back in the day (heck the very first time I saw a miniature was a cousins game of Epic). Yet the tiny little minis representing troops or tanks never held my attention for too long. I guess they were just too small or fiddly.

 On my list of minis to find :)        War of the Roses style armor, a rare Empire unit I like.

The next article is about the new Empire miniatures being released and a comprehensive army list to use. My interest in Empire is not exactly high, sure they have some cool monstrous mounts for lords and a few of the units have my attention. Overall thought it is that renaissance style I just don't find appealing or want to paint. 

Having said that the two images above show a couple of empire units I do like. The champion who I am still looking for would be great in Warhammer Quest as the Imperial Noble. Whilst the Reiksguard unit is how I think armour plated medieval knights look best. Moving on.

Galvanise the memory cells with Eavy Metal!: Part 2 (White Dwarf 146)

Where was I, oh yes White Dwarf 146 and it's Mad Max hybrid space marine scouts cover?

That front left guy looks like he is about to join a genestealer cult!

I have no idea what is going on here but these guys are very odd space marine scouts, more like some Necromunda gangers cosplaying as space marines. What with Dark Angels, Space Wolves, Blood angels all represented and look at the guy at the front with the mohawk and commando facepaint. Still it is very striking as they descend down into a hive city, a tomb the London underground?? Let's move on.

"Nom,nom,nom..."

Ah yes Space Fleet, a game I have never played or really had any interest in, including it's eventual follow up Battlefleet Gothic. This article is covering the Tyranid ships being released. There is some great art of a hiveship which looks kind of like a nautilus pity none of the ship minis match up to the artwork. Especially the Humboldt squid hiveship. Let's keep going...

Galvanise the memory cells with Eavy Metal!: Part 1 (White Dwarf 145)

Today we go back in time, to the early 90s. To be specific 1992 a time of mere 9 year old wonder when chocolate bars were a decent size. The Woolwich was a building society and this blog writer picked up a copy of White Dwarf for the first time in his local newsagent.

A mighty fine selection of readin'!

I do like going back and looking at old White Dwarf magazines when others post some nice painting displays or an interesting scenario. However these retrospective walks down memory lane are always within the early 100s of White Dwarf when 3rd edition Fantasy Battle was getting it's footing and Rogue Trader was but a companion and not the juggernaut 40k it is today.