A Freaking Titan

Games Workshop is releasing an Imperial Knight Titan Plastic kit.

Games Workshop Cancels White Dwarf Magazine

Per Bell of Lost Souls:

Games Workshop has killed White Dwarf, and intends to split its production into "gaming" and "hobby" segments.

More at BoLS.

Kill Team!

Games Workshop has released a digital ruleset for a squad-based 40k they've neglected since 2nd Edition -- Kill Team!  Merry Christmas!

Apocalypse Survivors

Looking for ganger miniatures for cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, or modern urban games?  Wargames Factory just released an "Apocalypse Survivors" kit to match the zombies in their Dark Futures line.  They're 28mm, and have a range of models and weapons, from melee weapons to pistols, and to AK-47s, shotguns, and M-16s.  They're dirt cheap at $21.95 for 30 models, and they're a lot more customizeable than the zombies.  All in all, these fill a gap in most wargames ranges and provide those civilian models -- or Chaos Cultists -- that you might want to run.  Click here to check them out.

Blood Angels Birthday Cake

Holy moley.  I saw a link to a Blood Angels Birthday Cake, and I had to share it.

Click here for more details and pictures.

Cyberpunk/Industrial/40k/Necromunda Terrain

While looking at detailing my upcoming Shadowrun campaign, I again stumbled across Necromundicon, a site I found when I first started messing around with 40k.  With terrain tutorials covering a range of games, it's actually a great place to get inspiration for terrain for games of your choosing.

A Beautiful Heldrake Conversion

I cannot stand the look of the Helldrake, the new Chaos flyer in Warhammer 40k, so I was absolutely ecstatic when I saw this conversion, courtesy of Dark Future Gaming:

The Sin of Damnation

After my nerdgasm about the possibility of a true-to-tabletop strategy adaptation of Warhammer Fantasy, another foot drops: Space Hulk is being re-made as a digital title.  This goes to show that Games Workshop is trying to draw players in on more platforms at a time in order to increase the value of their IP.  It's working.

40k Dictionary: *EQ

There are specific standards that 40k has.  Of them, there are three that particularly stand out, especially when doing math on whether a unit is good or not.

Heresy Era Thousand Sons

While it's not the same direction I'm going with my Heresy Night Lords, I stumbled across a link Mordian7th's Heresy Era Thousand Sons on Bell of Lost Souls, and they are beautiful.  I've got a couple of images of his army after the jump.

Easy Mk IV Space Marines

As I'm gearing up for the new Chaos codex (and the Heresy), I'm working on converting more Heresy-era Night Lords.

Dreadclaw Drop Pod Conversion

With the 6th Edition 40k Chaos Codex and the Horus Heresy Forgeworld line on the horizon, I've begun looking at what I need to build to play in both.  I'd found these amazing conversions a while ago, but only recently have made significant progress.

The Dreadclaw Drop Pod

Reacting to the Market

Over the past few years, Games Workshop has struggled as two major phenomena have undermined their business model.  Both have spawned from the fact that Games Workshop does not provide all options for a kit in the kit itself, and does not provide models for everything in their rich background or even in the codices.  They've slowly maneuvered themselves to lessen the impact of both, but will it be quick enough?

FLGS 2.0

While in high school, I watched hobby shop after hobby shop shutter its doors in my (original) hometown.  I couldn't understand why this lucrative and noble profession didn't flourish as I loaded box after box of steeply discounted RPG materials that didn't sell into my car.  It didn't occur to me until the dawn of Amazon that it was particularly regular that I couldn't find specific books in my friendly local gaming shop (FLGS).  I had more luck finding Vampire: Revised books in my local Waldenbooks than at my hobby shop.  For the next decade, I would primarily make my purchases online, not only not supporting my FLGS, but encouraging their obliteration.

It wasn't until I saw Games Workshop's sales figures for the first time that I particularly understood why.  Here are ten lessons I've come to learn about a successful FLGS thanks to Games Workshop stores.