From the vaults: The Space Hulk

Many years ago, when the world was young, playful lambs frolicked in the long grass, the Ogre Kingdoms where the dream of a madman, and the Warhammer World still existed, and even BEFORE I started to go to Hampton Games Club, the esteemed Pete decided it would make sense to use his uni hols to build a space hulk. Not a whole one, obviously, but a set of modular boards to represent the glorious interior of one. Or the run down, dated interior of one. (Not the run down, gothic and skull riddled interior of one - this was before skulls were a thing even!)
Although I cannot claim to have helped with the building of this mighty edifice, I was roped in to help with painting since I owned an airbrush. Turned out to be the wrong kind of airbrush - we wanted to quickly base coat it all black, but my brush's spray pattern was too small for that to make sense. Sigh.
Any way, on Saturday some of the Infinitie Hordes of Infinity Players decided to play Infinity, and we dragged it out of it's long forgotten slumber. Well, Mk2 of it's long forgotten slumber - it'd been on top of a cupboard in my parents' house for about ten years until I took it back to the club late last year after our storage system changed around enough to allow it's majesty to return.
Therefore, here it is. The very first piece of terrain I worked on which was specifically made for HGC.

Note the ages old dust of years gone. This is not clever paintwork. It's dust.
Note also the many control panels Pete made from 40K bits, and which my brother and I then duplicated using roofing silicone for the moulds and fibreglass repair resin (which we meassured by eye and often got wrong...)
Note also the ever present 2nd ed necron, free with White Dwarf!

Airbrushes at Aldi

Just a quick post today to mention that Aldi, the well known German supermarket chain which is known well for stocking eccentric things, has Airbrushes in stock as of today (23/7/16). I got up bright and early to get mine, but I needn't have feared - my local branch had about forty of them, and I was the first person to buy one. And that's at a small branch in the country.
I have not had time to test it yet, but it is actually a double action unit, which surprised me a bit. The airbrush, compressor, and all required gear costs $99.
They are also stocking airbrush paint (black, white, and the primary colours, plus some metallics), and various hobby tools, such as a sort of knock off dremel-y thing, dremel-y thing bits, and laser-cut wooden models of the Cutty Sark and HMS Victory.
Huzzah for Aldi! Long may their eccentric habit of stocking things like wheel-chairs, reconditioned Xbox Ones, and wooden toys persist!

Ishoo Wun-Oh-Free: Albion Stone Circle

Reader with keen ears and heads to match will know I am currently embroiled in The Hoodling's 'The Shadows Return' campaign, in which I have been leading a large squid on a merry and largely random tour around Albion. This has prompted the obvious conclusion - HGC does not have enough stone circles. Or more accurately, we don't have one which is flexible enough to be played over. This, coupled with the cold weather meaning I have to wait quite a while for glue and paint to dry on the second Khador Tower I am making for men of distant lands, seemed like a good opportunity...
I have always planned to make a stone circle for TFH. There was one in the great red 'How to make Wargames Terrain' book of my youth, which lead to me always wanting one, even if I was only playing 40K and Necromunda at the time. Thus, early this morning, I rummaged around to find some CNC Workshop scatter terrain bases HGC won in ages past at the VICCs, and set to work...
A wandering Grot appears!

And there you are, hippo fans! I should have the mighty Khador Kommission done soon, after which I shall embark upon the Necrotite Rig, which has been voted in with spectacularly good timing since I'm about to start a Cryx army...