As I mentioned in a previous blog my friends and I only play Warhammer 40K from October to April to as the summer months here in Minnesota are taken up with yardwork, house projects and travel. This last weekend was our first Gameday of the '07-'08 season.

We had three new(ish) tables to play on this year. A swamp/marsh, which in my opinion, was the best looking table this time. A fall colored midland forest that I think could have used and extra small ruin or two to liven up the table aesthetically. And the new lava table, which worked out rather well although I didn't get a chance to play on it - the ones who did thought it was cool.
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My hobby swing has come back around to the 40K and miniatures world. This weeks obsession is with terrain.

My gaming group doesn't play 40K very often, maybe 5-6 times a year, so I like to have new and interesting terrian to play on each time. This makes it easier to justify the scenarios and gives better narative to play by. We have the prerequisite forest, plains, mountainous, desert and ruined citiescape battlefields. We used 4x6 mdf boards covered by terrain matching cloth. Over this is placed foam hill, trees and other pieces of interest. ...

To understand this post you will need the information provided at these places:

Leaked Codex: Ork (Speculation)
http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26658

and
UK Game Day 2007 photos at these locations (the forum has more throughout)
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I've finally gotten around to a reworking of my Big Shoota website. Redesigned to get you to want you want faster! I also have all new photos of my Ork Army, Red Jacks Waaagh!

You see, i work at an ad agency and we've got a really nice camera, a Canon EOS 5D with a nice 28-135mm lens. We've also got a couple of lights with softboxes. I took them home finally and did whole days photoshoot of my army for the Big Shoota site and here at CMON. I tell ya, the difference between an alright camera (like mine at home) and a great camera is day and night as as far as picture quality. I think the photography alone has brought my scores up nearly a whole point. ...