Reply To: Hobby Weekender 08/03/19 – Slightly Forward to the 90s

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Better make a pledge for this weekend – in this case I want to get some more work in on my Knight Preceptor and it’s attendant trio of Armiger Warglaives, and I really want to get those Space marine Heroes Terminators painted up. Sticking to my idea to paint them as oath-sworn-brothers from several Chapters, I’ve picked the following six chapters who all had colour schemes I thought would present interesting challenges:

• Storm Wardens
• Celestial Lions
• Mentors
• Nova Marines
• Mantis Warriors
• White Panthers

@mage I currently have the contents of the Scions Star Collecting box to work through, plus I had enough spares already in hand from different bits purchases to build another 8. So far I’ve built 5:

Gerry inspired me with his rage about female Commissars & Scions, so I’m going to see if I can mix in some female heads amongst those wearing berets that I’ve picked up from various companies (and because I’m all about the fluff it works as Archon and Honourbound – the most recent novels staring the Astra Militarum – both have female Scions turn up 🙂 ).

That legion Vigilator I won also turned up in the post today so I’m going to give that and some other resin kits a scrub & clean tomorrow morning so I can start work on them.

Onto the questions:
1) Oddly I kinda miss the 90’s fad for “X-TREME!!!” and colours that could kindly be labelled as “day-glo”.

2) See the answer to question 1, because I might be nolstalgic but I’m not an idiot 😛

3) A tricky one as almost none of the great leaps in our technological growth or in human achievement have been accomplished by playing it safe. Equally the reason fusion bombs, and in turn fusion reactors (which would theoretically be far more clean than a nuclear reactor and create much more energy), haev not been developed further was that after the first few tests it was theorised a fusion detonation ran the risk of causing a cascade reaction that would turn into a global fireball. No one has really wanted to put that theory to the test…..

4) Have  to get back to you on that one……