Saturday, November 30, 2013

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: WHFB Sauris Warriors.


So my 5th anniversary giveaway has tons of options for the 5 winners to pick from.  I have essentially opened up my bitz box and barter bin and posted the stuff up here.  Today we are showing off 2 plastic sauris warriors still unassembled that have been sitting in the bit box for like 7 years.  They are left over form my simple Blood Bowl lizardmand conversion team.

To enter the giveaway all you need to do is add a comment to any of my posts without a comment.  Full details can be found here.

Friday, November 29, 2013

Lego Hobbit: Attack of the Wargs


Here we have one of the Lego Hobbit sets released with the first movie, Attack of the Wargs.  It is the scene where the dwarves are chased up the trees by the Azog, his hunter Orcs and Wargs.  You get 5 figs, a big tree, and a small rock outcropping.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: WHFB Dwarf Troll Slayers


Who does not love crazed dwarves with axes?  You can win these 2 if you you so choose as one of the 5 winners of my 5th anniversary giveaway.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

X-Wing: A-Wing Starfighter


Today we take a look at the A-Wing Starfighter for the X-Wing Miniatures game.  I am a big fan of the A-Wing from hours and hours playing the X-wing pc game in my youth.  If you needed to kill other starfighters, the A-Wing was the go to ship. It could essentially out fly anything in the Rebel or Imperial fleets.  This ship model is on the small side so we have lots of close up pictures to look at the model.

Monday, November 25, 2013

5th Anniversary Give Away Prize Option: Chainmail Humans


Another prize option for my 5th Anniversary Giveaway.  We have 2 human models from the Wizards of the Coast Chainmail line.  There is a Marine with crossbow and a Glavier in heavy armor.


To enter the contest you just need to put a comment on one of my posts without comments.  It could be any of the like 200 posts without a comment spanning the 5 years of blogging.  5 years so 5 winners.  For full details check out the announcement post.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: Terminator Heavy Weapons


Some more bits up for grabs in my 5th Anniversary giveaway.  Terminator Heavy Weapons including 1 flamer and 1 assault cannon.  Not sure if people love the classic terminator like they used to but these weapons can help you arm up those old black reach ones with some additional firepower.

All you need to do to enter is add a comment to one of my posts with no comments.  For full details check out the announcement post.

Friday, November 22, 2013

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: Blood Bowl High Elves


 Another prize option for my 5th anniversary giveaway is these blood bowl high elf models.  These high elf models replaced the great looking 2ed edition elves with models in heavier armor.  The prize pack comes with 1 lineman and 1 blitzer.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Lego Star Wars: Jedi Shuttle


Today we are taking a look at one of the Lego Star Wars Sets from the Clone Wars Series.  We have the Jedi shuttle which comes with the ship and 4 Jedi Knights.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: WHFB Witch Elves


Another prize option for my 5 year blogging Anniversary.  Here we have 2 warhammer fantasy battles witch elves.  I know that WHFB is not that high on anyone lists right now but Dark Elves just got updated.  Here we have 2 classic witch  elves which you can win.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Epic Squat Colossus


Here we have a very old model,  an Epic Squat Colossus.  This is one of the Squat war engines as they do not have titans.  The price out a little less than two scout titans if I remember correctly.  The Colossus is made up of 11 parts with many cannons and missiles.  I have 2 of these but one is missing a few of the small side cannons.  I will need to either model this as battle damage or convert something for this spot.

Monday, November 18, 2013

5th anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: W40K Tactical Squad Upgrade Bits


Another option for a prize in the giveaway is this small packet of space marine bits.  We get the 3 classic special weapons plus a combi plasma and 2 missile launchers with arms.  People still like missiles for the basic marines so here you can get two to add to your army for free.  I try to sell some bits in my bargain bin but it just never works out.  People really expect to be able to get them cheap so here is your chance nothing is cheaper than free.
 
There are going to be 5 winners for the giveaway picking from a pool of 10-15 small prizes so everyone can hopefully find something interesting.

For your first entry just find a blog post by me with no comments and add one.  It is that easy.  There are about 200 hundred or so of those posts.  For full entry details check out the announcement.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Lego Star Wars Winter 2014 Set Images


The set images for the lego Star wars sets due out in January 2014 leaked. Other than the first one here Death Star Troopers none of them really appeal to me.  They have concentrated on the Third of the prequel and setting the kids up for some ground battles.  This is a time period where lego has not already done the sets a ton of times but they are still mainly repeats.  Interestingly there are many smaller sets here but nothing really big.  I wonder if more sets are still coming.












Saturday, November 16, 2013

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: Blood Bowl Khemri Lineman


Another prize option for my 5th anniversary giveaway.  We have a set of 2 Blood Bowl Khemri lineman.  You get all the bits you need to build the 2 additional skeletons to take the 12 player team box up to 14 players since most people already have gotten the two extra mummies so really these make it the full 16.  These models were not very available as individuals so someone out there might want them.

All you have to do to enter is add a comment on one of my posts without any comments.  There are lots of those in the archives.  For full details check out the announcement post.

Friday, November 15, 2013

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: Chainmail Dwarves


Another Option for the prizes in my 5th Anniversary Giveaway.  Here we have 2 DandD Chainmail Dwarves.  One is a Cleric and the other is a Legionnaire.  He also comes with a javalin that glues to his back.  

Thursday, November 14, 2013

X-Wing: Tie Advanced


Another bunch of photos of an X-Wing miniature for you today.  This is the tie advanced or as many people know it Vader's Special Tie Fighter from the original Star Wars movie.  Remember, starting with Episode IV is just good parenting.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Prices for Lego Hobbit Sets

Last month I had a quick post showing the new hobbit sets.  I just got my Late Holiday 2013 catalog and they are in there.

Dol Guldar Ambush- 217 Pieces, Beorn Bearstruck, 2 Gunbdabad Orcs $19.99

Mirkwood Elf Army: 276 Pieces Thrandall (Elf King), 2 Elf Archers, 1 Elf, 2 Gundabad Orcs, 1 Warg $29.99

Lake-Town Chase: 470 Pieces Bilbo, Thorin, Bard, Laketown Guard, Master of Lake Town $49.99

Dol Guldar Battle: 797 Pieces Gandalf, Radagast, Azog, Necromancer, 2 Gundabad Orcs $69.99

They came in better than I expected and are due in December so maybe in time for Christmas.  Probably pass on Laketown but will definitely be watching for the others to go on sale.

Remember I am running a give away for my 5th blog anniversary , first entry is for commenting on a post with no comments (new or old posts).

5th Anniversary Giveaway Prize Option: Blood Bowl Duke Luther Von Hawkfire

Another option as a prize for my Giveaway.  We have one Blood Bowl 2ed Chaos Star Player.  He goes by the name of Duke Luther Von Hawkfire and was one of the throwers for the Chaos All Stars back in the day.  I like how he is a happy chaos warrior.  Look at that smile.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Blood Bowl: Mighty Zug


The Mighty Zug is an old star player in the Blood Bowl Universe.  I am pretty sure he was mentioned in the second edition rulebooks then showed up in the Star Players hardback.  Originally he was a Blocker for the Reikland Reavers but like all the star players from 3rd edition on, he is now a free agent.  This model is one of the last new models made for the game.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Forgeworld Free Shipping Voucher



Forgeworld is offering to send you a coupon for free shipping on your next order with any order placed between today and December 20th.  Only issue is that the next order has to be made by the end of January which given Forgeworlds slow shipping to the states is an issue.  They usually offer free shipping on big orders but small ones to the states get a like 15% shipping charge so if you want to get a dreadnought or some 30K marines first order an arm or weapon set with like 2 dollars shipping then when that shows up order the rest of the components to save yourself like 5-10 dollars.  Forgeworld is not standard GW so I can talk about it.

I am running a give away right now.  First entry for leaving a meaningful comment on a post with no comments.  Hint Hint.

5th Anniversary Give Away Prize Option: Painted WFB Kroxigor


So today we are showing off one of the prize options for my 5th Anniversary Giveaway.  It is a painted Warhammer Fantasy Battles Kroxigor.  This is a metal model that is not the current Finecast, or the most recent metal, but instead the metal versions before that.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Five Year Anniversary Contest Announcement


Sons of Twilight is approaching its five year anniversary of being a blog.  I have not been highly active over much of that time and the world of blogging has changed but I would like to mark the occasion.  So I will be giving away some minis on December 10, 2013.  Since it is 5 years there will be 5 winners.  The prizes will be announced as the contest proceeds but will generally be 1-2 minis or bits packet in the ~ 28 mm scale from a variety of the games I cover here (Blood Bowl, Chainmail, 40K, and WFB) .  I am think about 10 different prizes to choose from that the winners will select 1 in order of preference.  The contest starts now and last the one month to December 10, 2013.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

X-Wing: Tie Fighter Set


Fantasy Flight Games did an interesting thing with there first wave X-Wing releases.  The starter set came with 2 Tie Fighters and 1 X-Wing with associated pilots.  They also released stand alone packs for the tie fighter and X-Wing and those have additional pilots and upgrade cards.  So if you want to have all the options for pilots you need both the starter and the stand alone packs (assuming no proxies allowed).  While I have not gotten a additional X-Wing yet, I did pick up an extra Tie fighter as it was the only ship at the store I was in at the time.  Above we see the contents of that expansion pack.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Lego Review Index


I have added a page which indexes all of the Lego reviews that I have posted.  I have posts on Star Wars, Hobbit/LOTR, and Collectable Minifigures up there which seem to be of the most interest to the gamer community.  Take a look if you like Lego products.   I really thought I had done more reviews so I need to go through the collection again for sets still together to get them up here for everyone to look at.  Found 2 hobbit sets which could be added this morning in one of the Lego bins.

This index goes along with my Blood Bowl and Epic Indexes to help people find archival content that they might not even know they are looking for.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Epic Eldar Warlock Titan


Today we are checking out the set for the Epic Eldar Warlock Titan.  This was part of the last batch of Epic stuff GW produced but as this kit is over 20 years old there are many floating out there on Ebay for bargain hunters with the time available to shop constantly for stuff.  The wonders of metal and plastic miniatures is that they pretty much last forever even with stored poorly.  Sure the paint might scratch and you can break it sometimes but most of the models made are still out there somewhere in someones garage or attic.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Quarter Million



Blogger tells me that I have hit 250,000 page views yesterday.  Not that I believe that number as there are many irregularities in their stats but hay what ever.  I also had the most page views in October than I have ever had in a month before but that is what you get for posting more than a few times in 1 month.  Now that I am rolling in the money, oh wait you have to have ads for that.  All I have is my mini bargain bin which has stuff at or below cost once I pay fees.

All these are nice but what I would really like to see is more comments but I have a little plan for that coming up soon.