Warhammer 40,000
Warhammer 40,000 or simply Warhammer 40K is a miniature-based tabletop game. It involves building and painting your own miniature army and pit them against others' on a dioramic 6x4 or 4x4 feet table using a standardized set of game rules. Miniature armies come in various factions, from Imperial commandos to space-faring orks, each with its own background stories (what 40K players call "fluff") and combat units.

My army, a sub-faction of the Adeptus Astartes or the Space Marines, is of the so-called Dark Angels Chapter - one of thousands of regiments of bio-enhanced supersoldiers created by the Emperor of Man to impose his will throughout the grim universe of the 41st millennium.


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Dark Angels of the Adeptus Astartes
The Dark Angels Chapter is first among legions of Space Marines bred by the Emperor from his own genetic imprints. Enhanced physiologically for combat operations, they are literally Angels of Death in the battlefield, sowing fear to anyone who dared oppose their mandate. Their homeworld, Caliban - now reduced to a barren asteroid after an epic battle against their traitorous Brothers - holds the Chapter's mobile fortress-monastery called the Tower of Angels. Here, deep within the labyrinthine pathways to the underground caverns, lies the key to their monastic nature. The Dark Angels hides a millenia-long secret that compromised their honor. It is with this reason that they and their Successor Chapters are called the Unforgiven.


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Monday, October 24, 2005

Deific Fury

Last Saturday in UP-CFA, I was able to - finally! - create conversion works for my Rhino which was converted into a Vindicator. That would be my second one, although I'm not inclining into using both on a list. Not that they look cheezy but I just prefer having two Dev Squads instead.

The day and the Vindicator conversion went like this:

- After assembling the Rhino chassis (front hull excluded), I saw a 1-inch diameter PVC pipe down to 3 and a half inch long.
- Using a dremel tool (thanks Arvin!), I filed down one side of the pipe to demolisher cannon-standard.

*Bloodless rummaged on my bit box and "emerged" with an old Rhino dozer blade.*
*Emp pitted his Cryxian turkeys against Jun's Cygnarite land mines. Jun won, I think.*
*IPMS Boys busied themselves watching videos of scale modelling, stand-up comedies, and insane Japanese clips (?!?)*
*I played ball with a kid on the workshop's mini basketball area*
*Attendance: Junster, Pork the Ork, Sheriff Garrick, Bloodless, Emp, Chilli Arvin, Mark Lim, and who else were there?? Gawd, I'm getting senile. Anyway....*
*Saw this scratch-built lightsaber with a neon orange blade done by one of the IPMS members. Astig and I was listening to them when somebody asked how much is the price of asking him to build another one... LIMANG DAANG PISO LANG. Wow. Paul, I need FOUR of that!! Quick! Ask him, ask him!!
*Food: Kakarampot na fish cracker, isang container na choco wafer stick, Chilli Arvin's Spicy Boy Bawang, and standard ration of grape juice. No fishballs that day... it was sembreak until next month.*
*We went to the Shak afterwards*

- At the Shak, Paul drilled a hole on the Rhino's front hull for the "demolisher cannon". It was situated on the left portion of the tank, exactly where there's a depression on the lower armour trims.
- After inserting the PVC pipe through the hole, the angle of the cannon was too pointing too high. Johnny leveled it down by slightly trimming the perimeter of the hole with a sandpaper, and it was a perfect fit afterwards!
- We spend a couple of minutes more staring at the ex-Rhino. Arvin was able to salvage an Ork bit - an armored window panel, and it fitted cooL on the untouched right side of the Rhino front hull. The next part was to fix the drilled left part of the Rhino.

I didn't attach the demolisher cannon and the front hull yet but when I do, iL just do putty "tapal" works and small-time plasticard cutting stuffs to hide and "pimp" the front armor and the cannon attachments.

Thanks to the Shak Boyz for the assistance!

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Yesterday, I went to Greenhills with, again, the nobz from the Shak to hunt for modelling tools. I was able to buy a file set, a side cutter, and a Nikko Flat Black acrylic primer. Later that day after watching "Doom", I bought two cans of Dark Angels Green spray. That'L sure help a lot for my pending painting projects of three tanks and an incoming Dreadnought MK4 from Forge World, which I ordered from Sit Lito's Forge World Run.

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I saw this blister in NG-Galle which contains an old but very nifty Space Marine fig. It has no label as to what exactly that Space Marine is (but it has a Power Fist and a bolter so probably it's a Sergeant) and it even has no price. For the meantime, I had it reserved for me because they still have to verify how much it is. Im'a takin it! =)

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Oh by the way, our resident Tech Adeptus suggested that the newly refurbished Vindicator Assault Tank be named "Deific Fury".

So in this day, I shall baptize it as such.

Inscribed by Interrogator-Chaplain Randel on 12:34 PM              

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