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28 April 2013

Radagast the Brown on Sleigh

From Dan Harden at 13:04 BST

Radagast the Brown on Sleigh is the latest miniature to be released in an ever-growing range of miniatures for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Strategy Battle Game. This dynamic piece captures beautifully the scene in the movie when Radagast draws Azog's hunters away from Thorin's Company in a helter-skelter chase that's as much planned as it is spontaneous. Michael Perry has captured this image perfectly, with Radagast clinging on to his sled with one hand and his hat with the other as the Rhosgobel rabbits tear across the moorlands of Eriador. There is even a scenario in the Strategy Battle Game rules manual written specifically for this part of the story, in which Radagast and his sleigh play a starring (and highly entertaining) role.

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27 April 2013

New High Elves out today

From Dan Harden at 10:04 BST

The High Elves' existence is one of eternal battle, fought with a courage and skill that only they possess. - Warhammer: High Elves.

Forces of Destruction beware, for the glittering host has awoken and a time of reckoning will soon be at hand. Let none stand in the way of the High Elves, for the world is theirs by right and they will fight for eternity to see it returned to them. To help the High Elves in their mission there are six fantastic new kits available to pre-order including the mythical Flamespyre Phoenix, the swift-flying Skycutter and the sinister Shadow Warriors, not to mention a brand new army book. In addition to the High Elf releases, there are also two new Digital Products, six Black Library book and the brilliant Radagast the Brown on Sleigh for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Strategy Battle Game. First up, the High Elves:

The Flamespyre Phoenix is a magical creature that burns with a constant, unrelenting flame. As a monster they are fearsome creatures in their own right, but when ridden to war by an Anointed of Asuryan, they become far more deadly. With a wingspan rivalling that of the High Elf Dragon, the Flamespyre Pheonix is a large and impressive centrepiece for any High Elf collection. It's fiery body is a real eye-catcher and makes for a wonderful painting challenge, as I found out when I painted one for the Paint Splatter article in May's White Dwarf.

Phoenixes, as the legends go, don't stay dead for long though, and may rise from the ashes of their demise to fight again on the field of battle. Yet the longer they burn, the colder they become and in time their bodies will become so cold that they turn to ice, projecting an aura of frozen death before them. Because of the way this multi-part plastic kit has been designed, you can construct either a Flamespyre Phoenix or a Frostheart Phoenix with a choice of riders - an Anointed of Asuryan or the renowned Caradryan, Captain of the Phoenix Guard.

The iPad Edition of the army book comes complete with a host of additional features that would be impossible to put in the paper version. The first is the 360º miniatures gallery, which includes rotating images of all the new miniatures so that you can see them from pretty much any angle. There's also a very handy series of buttons that allows you to flick effortlessly between the army list, the unit bestiary and the summary pages so that you can look up rules quickly in the heat of battle. The Hobby Team have also crafted a High Elf painting guide to run alongside the new army book. Inside you'll find plenty of stage-by-stage guides and variant colour schemes to help you paint your own glittering host.

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31 March 2013

New characters for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

From Dan Harden at 13:03 BST

Every month is an exciting new adventure for collectors of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as every month there's a new miniature to add to your collection. This month sees the release of six hero miniatures, every one of which is bursting with character. Thrain, the father of Thorin Oakenshield, is a battle-hardened warrior and a mighty Dwarf lord. He goes to battle glad in heavy red plate and mail, a war hammer clutched in his gauntleted hands. His face is set in a grim sneer, his one remaining eye glowering at his foes. To fight alongside him is the Captain of Erebor, who leads his warriors valiantly into battle. Gaku Matsubayashi, the sculptor of this dynamic miniature, has captured the feel of a grizzled veteran perfectly, with his axe outstretched as if challenging the enemy and his hair and beard caught billowing in the wind.

Gaku also sculpted the Captain of Dale, a mighty hero and leader of men. The level of detail on the model is incredible, from the Captain's jubilant expression to the tassels hanging from his belt and the intricate design on his shield.

There are also new miniatures for Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo Baggins and the wretched Gollum. Gandalf and Bilbo are action-packed miniatures - while Bilbo leaps over a tree stump, Sting drawn in his hand; Gandalf crouches low to draw Glamdring from its scabbard, his face a mask of determination beneath the wide brim of his iconic hat. Meanwhile Gollum holds his latest catch aloft as he paddles around the caverns beneath the Misty Mountains.

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30 March 2013

Tau Empire available to pre-order now

From Dan Harden at 10:03 GMT

"Our conquest is inevitable, our ascension a matter of time. Let none who are wise deny our destiny" - Aun'va, Ethereal Supreme.

Followers of the Greater Good, don your battlesuits and charge your plasma rifles, because today is a glorious day to be part of the Tau Empire. There are nine fantastic new kits available to pre-order, from the towering might of the XV104 Riptide to the stealthy Pathfinders and the infamous Commander Farsight, plus a brand new full-colour Codex to go with them. But that's not all, because three new digital products and six new miniatures for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Strategy Battle Game are also available to pre-order.

The Tau believe that battles should be fought at range, that their foes are prey to be hunted and annihilated in one swift, efficient strike. However, the galaxy is a dangerous place and their 'prey' tend to fight back, which is why the Tau are continually developing new technology to deal with them. Their latest experimental weapon is the XV104 Riptide - the most powerful battlesuit to grace the battlefields of the 41st Millennium. Equipped with the latest in Tau technological innovation, the Riptide sports a huge ion accelerator (or a heavy burst cannon), a bewildering array of battlesuit support weapons and systems, a shield generator, a jet pack and two shielded missile Drones follow it into battle. To say the Riptide is prepared for any situation would be an understatement.

From the skies comes the Sun Shark Bomber and the Razorshark Fighter, the Tau Empire's answer to aerial warfare. Where the Razorshark Fighter is designed to intercept enemy fighters and strafe the foe with well-placed shots from its quad-ion turret, the Sun Shark is a dedicated bomber, dropping pulse bombs as it glides across the battlefield while its Interceptor Drones protect it from enemy fliers. Colin Dixon and Matt Holland, the designers of the kit, give us an insight into its design in April's White Dwarf and you can see the Sun Shark in action in the Battle Report, much to my enjoyment and Jes' despair.

To run alongside all the new Tau releases, there are also three new Digital Products available to pre-order today: Codex: Tau Empire, Altar of War and a new How to Paint guide which features eight stage-by-stage painting guides for the Tau for everything from Riptides and Devilfish to Kroot and Vespids. Head over to our Digital Products page to find out more about them and to pre-order them for your iPad.

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14 March 2013

Eagles, Trolls, Dwarves and Wizards

From Dan Harden at 15:03 GMT

There have been lots of pictures appearing in the White Dwarf Daily inbox for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Strategy Battle Game recently and, curiously, quite a few of them are from Australia.

Alex Murray is the manager of Games Workshop Parramatta and he kindly sent in these pictures of The Trolls that he and Joe, one of his team, painted recently. Each Troll has been painted in the same style, but with subtle differences to make each of them unique. Bert the Troll, for example, has a red nose due to his terrible cold. Just don't look too closely because he clearly hasn't blown it recently...

This great Eagle was painted by Franz Schrammel, the manager of Games Workshop Miranda in Sydney. "The Great Eagles painted by the 'Eavy Metal Team were the inspiration for this model," says Franz. "I tried to follow the colour scheme as much as possible using a combination of basecoats, shades and drybrushing to achieve the effect on the feathers." Unsurprisingly Franz used a lot of brown on his Great Eagle, starting with a basecoat of Rhinox Hide followed by a wash of Agrax Earthshade, a drybrush of Mournfang Brown and, finally, a very light drybrush of XV-88.

Matt Philpott had a slightly different approach when it came to building his Great Eagle. Inspired by the movie, Matt modelled Gandalf the Grey riding a Great Eagle, no doubt flying to safety after his encounter with Azog. Using one of the new plastic Great Eagles and an old Gandalf model that he had lying around (the one from Khazad-Dûm), Matt set to work joining the two together - not an easy task by any means, especially considering Gandalf's robes. The inset picture shows the level of detail that Matt went to, even going so far as to have Gandalf's hand brushing through the feathers on the eagle's head.

There's nothing quite so dangerous as a fully armoured Dwarf and Paul Howard has four of them to his name so far. He drybrushed all of the armour on them with Leadbelcher, washed it with Nuln Oil and highlighted it with Runefang Steel. It's a simple, but effective, colour scheme that looks great. Now all he needs to do is paint the rest.

"I always paint the face first," says David Elliott about his Radagast the Brown model. "It means that I can concentrate on the most important part of the model and do it really well. A combination of red and brown washes helped give him an old, weathered appearance."

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