February 15, 2014 by dignity
On this week's Weekender we have a jam packed show including the new Dad's Army minis from Warlord, a sneaky peek at some exclusive Infinity minis and we're saying good bye to an old friend for a time.
So guys what have you been up to in your gaming week?
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Loads More Burrows & Badgers Previews For New Starter Set!
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Dive Into Bolt Actions’ 28mm Winter US Army & Airborne Collection
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Cover Your Bases In Dead Animal Bits From Wargames Atlantic
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New Ottomans & The French In Egypt From Perry Miniatures
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A New Crew Comes To Freebooter’s Fate & A Pirate Squirrel!
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Build Your Crusader-era Islamic Army With Victrix Miniatures
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Buckle Some Swashes With Two New Black Scorpion Miniatures
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Recruit New 15mm Desert Infantry From Slave 2 Gaming
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Battle Through New Micro Art’s Pre-Coloured Japanese Terrain
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Steamforged’s Epic Encounters Hit The Ruins Of Symbaroum!
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Grab Digital Armoured Clash Rules From Warcradle Studios
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The Fidwogs Marching Out Soon For ZombieSmith’s This Quar’s War
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Crooked Dice Gives New Home To Sinbad Range For 7TV Fantasy
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Spectre Miniatures Reveal Limited Remembrance Diorama
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Add Macrocosm’s Mighty 28mm Dwarven King To Your Throng
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Explore Kromlech’s Ace New Fantasy Realms Terrain Range
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Pre-Orders Live For Studio Tomahawk’s SAGA: Age Of Chivalry
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Moonstone’s Second Wave Of The Shades Up For Pre-Order
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Back Great Escape’s Plastic Mounted Gunfighter’s Kickstarter
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Warlord’s Vanguard: Normandy Board Game Kickstarter Live!
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are you sure Warren? that makes you 30 stone!! dont you mean pounds?
when we are on the topic ive been doing the fit club since just after xmas, and I havent really done much in the way of fitness, all ive done is on the way to/from work each day I get off the bus 1 stop early so I have to walk a bit more, most of my issues were food. I never ate breakfast, and to to quote Louis CK, I used to be like ‘the meal doesnt finish when I am full, it finishes when I hate myself’. so now, nearly 2 months in ive lost a stone, just… Read more »
Great look at the Dad’s Army box – zey also are goink on ze list.
Games Workshop are getting one of the finest embassadors tabletop gaming has ever had: I hope some of his glowing enthusiasm, sportsmanship and pragmatism rubs off on them and they come out of the Lenton closet and engage with the wider world again.
Best of luck, James!
No more all you can eat buffets mate 😛
Oh, and @warzan, thin gauge guitar string for aerials 😉
genius!
I’m about to restring mine so I’ll start saving old strings too!
Use the hairs from a plastic dust brush from a pound shop, nice and flexible when being transported and being moved on the table
SAWNKY new job? Spell check ffs!
Fixed
My fault, last title read like he was dead!
Welcome to Fit Club Warren! Time to kick that weight in the teeth! (Let’s hope it doesn’t have teeth, that would be scary)
I’ve got a bit of storage space, would be happy to keep hold of a few armies for you 😉
The movie reference: Spinal Tap!
Or to be precise, This Is Spinal Tap.
Lying in bed watching “The Weekender” has never made me feel so hungry !!
A “foot long” hot dog at the Sunderland match will sort that out !!
Good luck with the fit club , I’ll be starting on Monday ………….. honestly !!
As for those Dads Army mini’s , they will be taking on my WW2 German Zombies in games of “Zombies and Survivors” , and if they release a Private Cheeseman mini , I’ll Zombie him straight away !!
Hi warzan good for you on the diet man, but its more of a lifestyle change if you want to keep it off anyhow mate lay off the chocs crisps and pop beer, eat wholemeal rice/bread/pasta, eat lots of protein it fills you and you stop snacking, and buy a bike, it worked for me ten years ago, good look.
Love those Dads army mini’s.
Spot on. Diet is far more important than exercise for losing weight. You can even live a completely sedentary lifestyle and lose weight if your diet is right, whereas exercise alone is never enough.
Then this is where I have to start 🙂
I would imagine that your working life makes it hard to maintain a disciplined diet. I’ve put on a fair bit of weight since I left work for uni five years ago because I no longer have a structure to my day.
This is true. April last year I needed to loose a bit of weight before going to the MCM expo in London. I just cut down on bread and stopped eating shite. Without even doing any exersize I lost just under 3 inches off my waist in 5 weeks. Kept it up ( Well, except for Christmas time. lol ) and i’m loosing about an inch to an inch and a half a month. ( I’m not going off weight as that would just make me obsessive. ) It’s great. I’m actually eating larger portions than I ever did before,… Read more »
I should point out too. I’m not eating anything special. I’m not on a ‘Diet’. I just changed a couple of things. By cutting out the crap. I mean no sweets, chrisps, chocolate ( or at least not a lot ), and half the amount of sugar you put in things like tea, coffee, breakfast cerials. Grill or griddle stuff instead of frying it. Have jacket potatoes instead of chips. And eat lots of veg. ( If you don’t like the taste then just mash them into you potatoes. 🙂 Before I started I never would have belived how easy… Read more »
First good luck james, is this the end of Dreadball academy? I had my first game of bolt action the other day and oh my god what a game. Involved in the game at every stage no down time and great fun. Just about finished a british army and now starting a late german one.
Farewell James! We’ll always have Tapatalk!
First Dad’s Army….
Can “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum” be too far behind?
And allo allo , the fallen maddonna
indeed welcome to Fitclub Warren and yes you need to check your diet as part of your routine because as a good facebook friend of mine says “You cant out cardio calories”. I see you just about got to mention Zombies Run,5K which I have been using to improve stamina and breathing. One thing I notice about fitclub is it keeps each other encouraged to just keep doing something about getting fit. I love the focus is just to encourage each other to keep doing what we can to keep getting fit. Each of us has a different goal ,… Read more »
That’s what I like about BOW – rapid response.
Typos happen. it could have been worse…
The Weekender: James Gets A Wanky New Job!
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Warren, Zombies 5k is an excellent app to help get you started. It gets you running 5k in 8 weeks (but if you struggle with any runs you can repeat them), and it’s only a maximum of an hours run, 3 times a week. When you think about it, 3 hours in a week shouldn’t be that hard to fit in.
Go Warren, you can do it.
Ps, I’m so glad the weekender in back. Keep up the good work gents
Good luck to james. I hope you have the strength to remain a gaming Jedi and resist the power of the dark side. It’s like obi wan going to work in the Death Star. Can you turn the deadly laser into a beacon of hope? Da da daaaaaaaaaaa
All he needs to do is shut down the tractor beam, Me and @lloyd will do the rest – once @dignity has turned off the waste compactor!!!!!
Where could he beeee!
😉
What’s that incredible smell you’ve discovered?
I’ve got a bad feelng about this….
I think he is pinned down in the cell block also known as the editing suite 😉
Great vid guys, I love those Dad’s army minis, fantastic stuff, a bit of fun back into wargames, as it should be. I must admit I’m a bit saddened James is moving on, from a personal perspective he’s been a very important part of my buying into mantics products, presenting the games as he did on here showed them off at their best in my opinion, and whilst I would have reservations about whether an individual, however talented, could influence GW’s tone enough to get some humour back into their games systems (the biggest thing they lack these days for… Read more »
Warren , the best material I have ever found for aerials is Guitar string. Get to know someone who plays, they will break strings and you will get aerials for you tanks. Their are multiple thickness strings, the remain flexible and are easy to install, even in the old mounts, just use a pin vice to drill the hole. Coat paper banners with PVA and they can slip on and off the aerials to mark units and commanders. As for storage, go to a foam wholesale shop, it come in standard thickness’ of 25mm and 50mm, is cheap to buy… Read more »
Oh gods, no. NOT THE JAMES MONTAGE! I was holding it together until the James montage! Now there’s something in my eye.
Good luck James!
Aerials: I’ve used nylon fishing line to make aerials. It works quite well. If they get bent too much you may need to repaint then as the paint can flake off but that hasn’t happened to me often. Fit Club: 30 minutes exercise a day will start you off in the right direction. Then it’s a question of eating better, which means thinking about what you’re eating, not just grabbing what you like, when you like. For me that’s made the biggest difference. I’m still eating a lot of food but it’s fruit and veg, with some protein and a… Read more »
That has got to be the best camera work on the minis I’ve seen. Really good quality stuff guys, nicely done.
The whole concept of Dads Army in 28mm is wonderful. I hope that there are enough gamers out there who don’t know who they are and go out and discover that series. They’re in for a nice surprise. I can’t imagine any other company doing something like this for one of their games. Obviously no one at Warlord is taking themselves too seriously and it is showing with stuff like this.
I cant wait to get some BA content started on BOW, its becoming a huge game in my life…
I have my Dads army models coming I hope they get here soon 😀
I’ll definitely pick some up at the next show. I’ve no need for Dad’s Army right now but I can’t not have them 🙂
On storage, couldn’t agree more about the problems with foam trays. They just don’t cut it when you come to a variety of mini’s/poses. What I’ve been doing is we had one of these in the house from Ikea: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/products/helmer-drawer-unit-on-castors__0175264_PE328644_S4.JPG Now the drawers on that are entirely metal and about 90mm deep. Good size for mini’s because they’re fairly shallow so not wasting much space vertically but deep enough they can take bigger models. What you do is superglue a magnet into the base of the mini, plonk it in and it’ll stay where it is. I’ve even tried taking… Read more »