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Ok so I have a new project, and of course that means a new P&M Blog!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/291910.page

check it out and leave me some C&C!

Don't worry I won't abandon the Blackhand Guard the will eventually have a Vendetta converted from a Mil Hind and a couple more Leman Russ', and hell you can never have enough guard!

Cheers

BLACKHAND

LOL, in my absence this blog has hit 10,000 hits WOOT!

Thanks eveyone for your support and comments, and don't worry I will be back soon with something interesting...I have 3 busted up sentinels waiting to be converted into a walking leman russ...or maybe some more GK conversions I'm not sure.

Thanks again!

BLACKHAND

Walking tanks hmm sounds interesting...

Ok so I know I haven't posted here for a while but this weekend I had the chance to take the Malefis 666th "Blackhands" out for a spin!

here is a long awaited and nearly well lit group shot



and another



and here is a shot of my boys ready to thrash my friend David's chaos marines



So two days and six games later I came out a respectable 12th out of 28th, considering I lost 3 games , drew 2 and only won 1!

How did I get such a high placing with such crap scores?


By winning best fricken painting! dang I forgot to take a pic of my medal.......

I've got to say that while I wasn't painting and converting for anyone but myself it was still nice to get a bit of recognition for my work

Oh and my prize was kinda nice too...



... yes thats a Baneblade! , I believe its and older style as it only has 2 primary weapon choices but I'm still not complaining....oh wait there is one little thing....



...Yes that is the main cannon that is snapped off the sprue, THE MAIN GUN DAMMIT!!!!

At least now we know why GW sent it to us as a prize, it seemed too good to be true...


So despite mentioning a walking tank earlier in the thread I think that after I finish my first Sabretooth Marine squad I will be moving onto building the Baneblade, and as well as showing how to fix a snapped off main battle cannon I will post up pics of me attempting to build a Vulcan Mega bolter that I can switch out and run it as a stormlord...there is something about carrying 40 guard around in one tank that appeals to me.

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Congratulations blackhand.
Nice group shot, I forgot how good this army looked.
I am not sure if you are aware but the baneblade/hellhamer kit turrent is completly different to the Shadowsword/stormlord kit but good luck anyway with the conversion. not sure how you would do it but good luck.

Maybe GW customer service could help you with the baneblade problem, they might replace it but since you have no proof of purchase it is doubtful but hey you never know, just explain how you got it and they may replace because you never know your luck.

dam I seem to have rambled on. oh well.

again congratulations!!!

Thanks Agro!

And yes after an evening of looking at the different patterns for the super heavies I realize that there would be too much work to convert it to a stormlord.
Plus I think the stormlord is a waste of a superheavy chassis, they are a heavy gun platform not a people mover and since I really don't move my guard around a lot there is no need for one.

As to the cannon I figure I can spend $10 calling GW or $6 on some plastic tube and make a sleeve for the broken part. A bit of cutting and glueing and I will have a slightly variant Baneblade!

I don't feel too justified in complaining about a free baneblade especially when I have the skill to fix what is not really a big problem.

Yeah, your right.

I had a go at the cannon tonight, got myself some styrene tube from the local model shop and added a sleeve...oh and a bout an inch of extra length



added a couple of styrene rods to the side of the tube as well as a cuff at the base



Then , whether it was the new plastic glue I was using or just pure exhaustion I thought I would start assembling the Baneblade and after 3 and a half hours this is where I got to



Now I had better get some sleep before I cock it up some how

Cheers

BLACKHAND

By the Emperor that thing is a monster!
Oh wow that looks great, the extended barrel makes the baneblade look so bad ass.
reminds me of Oddballs sherman in the movie "kelly's heros" but epic-er

Great looking army, you would've had my vote for best painted. That sucks about the main gun being busted, but it looks even better with your repair and extension. Lets see some paint on that tank.

Nice lemon-aid you made out of the baneblade lemon.

We have paint!

So I have had a manic couple of days getting the 'Blade built and painted and I think its come out well, I realize it's fairly basic but it matches my other tanks so what the hell.







My only problem is that was the last of my pig iron heads :( !!!!

There won't be too much for this blog for the next few weeks until 3 leman russes I bought online arrive and I begin stripping and repainting those bad boys.

I found in the tournament I played in the other day that since I am one of only two guard players in our club that no one is prepared to deal with multiple pie plates dropping on them so I am taking advantage of it

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Looks great.
nothing better than 3 or more pie plates of doom!

So my LRs arrived and between them and a sudden addiction to necromunda I've been pretty busy.

Thought I would post a pic of one of the LRs, I got three of them, two of which had no sponsons and one of those had THE WORST UNDERCOAT EVER! honestly thought this guy had used housepaint to baseocat the damn thing.

Regardless I tried to clean the crud off but ended up with the sides pretty messed up. So I ended up spraying them black and was going to leave it at that....until I saw Xanthos's blog! there I saw how he had used a FW chimera armour skirt on a LR which gave me an idea.....





So here she is, right off the production line with pristine custom built armour skirts ready to pound the emporer's enemies to paste!

I put up a tutorial on my process for the skirts if anyone wants to have a go

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/303060.page

C&C is welcome as always

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

Excellent army Blackhand.

Sweet, crisp, paint job and awesome Rough Riders.

You fixed up the main battle cannon on the Baneblade very well, no one will ever notice =]

-Lasfire

@lasfiredoesn'thurt - Thanks bud, they have definitely evolved from their humble beginnings as allies to my daemonhunters into a asskicking Guard army.

True no one has noticed the Main Battle Cannon...yet. Our local club has an Apoc game this weekend and I think the other players may notice its several inches longer

On a totally different note, I inherited a ship today.

Its the 4 foot long hull of a model of the Bismark and I am thinking of building dry dock for it to use as a piece of scenery for the club. I figure I will load it up with battle cannons and give it a scenario where either army can seize it and take control of the cannons.

My question is..... is there a place in 40k for ships that actually float? I figure more low tech worlds would use them if they couldn't get hold of imperial tech?

What do you guys think?

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Wow these are great figures I like the color scheme very cool.

how hard was it to remove the ultra icons from telion?

ive been thinking about getting one but i dont place smurf-marines.

@templeorks - thanks man

@stargrave - Fairly easy, IIRC there is only one on the knee, on the left shoulder and the gun. I use a fresh blade on my craft knife and sliced off the knee and gun symbols. for the shoulderpad I greenstuffed the entire thing but I was trying to match him to my Stormtroopers, in hinsight I would have attempted to carve off thata one as well because the ridged shoulderpad looks quite good and I have seen other guys tae off the symbol no worries.

I would like to say if you aren't running ultras don't get the telion model just convert a scout sergeant, but hey he looks fricken cool right?

BLACKHAND wrote:its several inches longer

That's what she said.

Ok now thats been said...

The imperials have entire planets that are just ocean, I think they would still use boats.
A while ago a guy made a battleship for his guard, I think it was called the princess of Vostrya.

Most planets would still have boats but as a warship I'm not to sure, because there role would be taken over by starships, but orks do use subs, there is a apoc datasheet for it, so it would seem reasonable that the Imperium would use sea based warships on "modern worlds" i.e current to our tech level irl and lower to a point (yes feral worlds I'm looking at you!)

IMHO it is perfeclty reasonable to have imperial battleships, there are alot of worlds out there and the imperium is a werid place, anything is possible.