Future rumblings

No, no piccies this time around, though I have been plotting and planning a lot of different things. First off, if you haven't seen it yet go to Thorisian's page and check out the fantastic work he's doing on the long-planned but never acted upon Black Lancers. I just hope I can give them a paint job worthy of such kickass conversions.

Poking around the web, I stumbled across GW's Germany site which is a helluva lot nicer than the US site in terms of content even if I can't read it. So now I'm getting all sorts of "official" German terms to apply to my troops, like Taktischertrupp and Ordenspriester. It turns out that this blog and the Rosen Ritter battlecry for which it is named should actually be "Für den Imperator" but I think "Kaiser" has a nicer ring to it.

They've also got sneak peaks at the new Librarian and more importantly, the new plastic devastators. That's entirely plastic, no more unwieldy metal lascannons requiring nickles glued to the base as a counterweight. It also means no more metal arms and shoulders which leads me to my plan for a squad of kreuzzugs-devastoren. And with the new Dark Angels coming out at some point in the future there'll be lots of cool bits to loot.

Finally, I think I have a solid idea on what I'm doing for my chaplain. I'm going to ditch the notion of giving him lightning claws. Instead I'm going to give him Xavier's hammer and a storm shield which I think fits in better with my whole motif. Now all that remains is to start gathering the needed bits (and there's a lot of them) and figure out exactly how the hell I'm going to do his head...