Legion of the Damned are coming

Today at Games Day Italy, Games Workshop unveiled the all-new metal Legion of The Damned models.

The Legion of The Damned are Spaces Marines in appearance. Their black armour is adorned with chilling images of bone and fire, and an eerie glow suffuses their sable armour and a halo of ghostly fire dances about their feet. Considered by some to be an extension of the Emperor’s superhuman will and by others as the vengeful and immortal spirits of fallen Space Marines, Damned Legionnaires fight with a chill precision few mortal warriors can match.

Out in January, the Legion of The Damned are an Elite Space Marine unit who can always Deep Strike and can even opt to re-roll the deep strike scatter dice. Also, their 3+ saving throw is invulnerable.

Excellent news on something that has been doing the rounds for a while now. I think they will either be a 10 man box or more likely a 5 man box for £20 to £25.

Nice as they look i think i will just stick with my old plastic beakies.

One man band - Back in Black (or white stripes)

The tester for Microsoft

This is just a wee tester to see how this works from word 2007.

Remembering the world wars

Really enjoyed going to the Old ASDA building in Ballyclare to visit the Remembering the wars exhibition on Saturday with family and frineds.

Lots of photographs were taken and I hope to have them up soon, but in the meantime.....

I had lowish expectations as I was not sure how well the exhibition would be set up. Sometimes these things can be really cheesey and a big let down.

However, we arrived round the back where the car park is to find two "GIs" on guard and a park full of military stuff. I was in heaven. There was a Territorial Army 'North Light Horse' A.P.C., lots of jeeps, a couple of military lorries and re-enactors dressed as GIs, Russians and Germans. With all the appropriate kit. Fantastic. My eldest daughter, who is 2, and a real girly girl, much to my own chagrin, utterly suprised me by dragging us as fast as she could to the APC and wanted to get into it. I was never so happy to oblige so in we popped and then had fun waving to the rest of the family from out of the top hatch. Would have loved to have had a go driving it.

Inside the ASDA was an even bigger suprise. The place was fantastic. The exhibition was mostly British army from WWI to WWII. As far as I am aware most of it is from one man's collection who's relatives were in both wars. He did a guided tour and was excellent. Loads of photos taken - I am still in shock at how much stuff this guy had and a lot of his friends had given up their time to help out.

What was most suprising was that Newtownabbey Council had been working to provide funding for around two months and 12 days before the event they pulled out. I find this utterly bizarre and very sad that such an important exhibition has such essential funding pulled at such a late stage.

It is a real credit to the organisers that they were determined to go ahead and that the community of Ballyclare pulled together. I have heard lots of local schools have attended during the week. It has been so popular that the exhibition has been extended a week.

Really, I have to encourage you if you can to go. The exhibition will be on until 21 February 2009 in the old ASDA building in Ballyclare. It was not only great for a military geek like me but perfect for a full family visit.

I hope to have all of the photograghs up as soon as possible.

Stephen Fry blocks idiot

And i am that idiot in question.

Never had anything like this happen before and i am not sure whether i should be offended or feel like i have hit the big time of celebrity stalking.

Well that is if youconsider one tweet to Stephen enough to constitue a serious security risk to Stephen also given that he is in the US at the moment filming and i am in sunny Northern Ireland. I like QI but i am not mad enough to buy a flight to the US just to track him down.

All i tweeted was

"@stephenfry This is daft but... hello Stephen from Northern Ireland. Wife & I addicted to QI. If you ever visit NI i can put kettle on. "

So he blocked me.

I think my mistake was not to offer him some twinings tea.