Saturday 5 March 2016

Old Stuff Day- Blog round up

On Wednesday, I posted my own entry for Old Stuff Day- a holiday promoted by Warhammer 39999 where you can highlight older content in your blog. Part of the idea was to showcase older material that you think did not get enough attention or would like to revisit. Another part was to highlight some of the articles from other blogs that were reposted on the day.
With that in mind, here is a selection of some of the articles that I came across on Wednesday that I would like to share.
First up is the founder of Old Stuff Day, Warhammer 39,999 who posted an awesome birthday cake with pictures from his blog. In addition, he showcased a couple of older posts on his amazing painted buildings and templates for 40k-themed Stained Glass windows. If you haven't checked these out already, they are well worth a look.
NafNaf from Objective Secured posted the first Dark Eldar from his blog, the beginnings of the amazing La Danse Macabre. If you haven't caught his circus-themed Dark Eldar army yet, get yourself over to the blog and be amazed. The skill at the conversions and amazing paint jobs are just fantastic and will blow you away.
Marc from Old School Gaming posted an awesome Interrogator-Chaplain Dreadnought that deserves its own rules on the tabletop. He was also brave enough to provide photographic evidence of his first discovery of 40k, a braver man than I.

Dave from Confessions of a 40k addict showcased his free STC terrain downloads and highlighted his Old Stuff Day blog posts from years past. These are some brilliant templates for making 40k terrain easily. I need to finally get on with trying some of these out, as Dave is currently running a competition to win an Imperial Knight. Part of the competition is to submit a picture using some of the templates and I have a month to try and get some done.

Finally, we have a really interesting post from Nick at The Burning Eye on Perception of threats in 40k. It's quite a thought provoking piece on how your first experiences against a new unit or wargear will colour your opinions on them in the future. It got me thinking about the newest hotness- grav guns. My Space Marines love and hate these weapons; love that I can take them and hate playing against them. My Guard and Orks just laugh them off most of the time.

So, that's my round up for this year. Hopefully you will check them out and give some of these older posts some love. 

9 comments:

  1. Thanks for collating these, I think I saw more Old Stuff Days posts from ever before this year, which is great. I was also vindicated in some of my own choices from other folks blogs, the more random ones being the most inspirational.

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  2. Thanks for collating these, I think I saw more Old Stuff Days posts from ever before this year, which is great. I was also vindicated in some of my own choices from other folks blogs, the more random ones being the most inspirational.

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  3. Thanks dude :) some great articles here for everyone to check out

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    1. Worthy inclusion NafNaf. The Dnase Macabre is a phenomenal army. Can't wait to see the full force in one post.

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  4. Oh man, that photo makes me feel so old! If only I could go back in time and whisper a few things into 15 year old Marc's ears: "...thiiin your paaaaints..." :-)

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