Ishoo Wun-Oh-For: Abyssal Lava Tower

Welcome once more Hippo Fans! Before you all flip out and call shenanigans, yes, this WAS meant to be the people's choice ishoo on Necrotite Rigs. I have postponed it for a very good reason. Really. It's totes legit.
Next Sunday is the AxeMaster 2016 tournament, once a mighty bastion of the Warhammer tourney calendar, now a mighty bastion of the Kings of War tourney celendar due to... well, if you don't know why we've all moved on from Warhammer, then you surely have only just discovered the internet, in which case, what are you doing here? You should be looking at pictures of cats.
Ahem.
Anyway, I have been asked to provide a table worth of terrain for AxeMaster, which will be awarded as a prize (to the best newcomer I believe) (Correction: The TO tells me it's for Best Presented Army). So I figured it would be a good idea to post the pics of this project BEFORE AxeMaster so everyone could see how cool the prize is and throw money at the organisers and demand to be allowed to enter.
But what manner of table is this table which is to be awarded? Well, it's an Abyssal hell scape basically. And basically how hard can an Abyssal hell scape basically be to build? Basically so easy a hippo could do it. Cue the Abyssal Grot!

And there, once more, you have it hippo fans! 

Why not come to AxeMaster, demonstrate your master of axes, and try to win this terrain set? You know you want to.

Next ishoo really will be the Necrotite rig. Trust me. I'm going to work on it right now.

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!