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Not good enough, give it to me and start again

Hey guys, another update, the first for a while.

These guys have quickly become my favourite Ork models. i love everything about them, and i would love to have a 1500 point pure bike spped freak army! Give me an excuse to get hold of the forge world Ork Warboss on bike. The unit is eventually going to be 6 strong and in another picture below you can see the WIP shots of the other three.









And here is the last batch of reinforcements for the army. Then i will be happy with the size. Three Killa canz because i love the look of them, and it would be nice for the Deffdread to have some playmates, or some playthings rather. Three more bikes to finish of that unit. And finally 5 more Burna boyz, just to make the Burna unit just that more unpleasant to be near.





Ive decided to hold off on the army shots until the lot is done, then im going to get the realm of battle board out and really show them off

Hey guys, Another update speed freak update.

The bike mob is done, i really want an army of these guys.

(In future i will crop these pictures, but for a better view you should click the pictures, hey will take you to the gallery where you can zoom in)





Im a fan of the no-nonsense hands on the handlebar orks. The ones who are not waving improvised weapons of death. If you stick the bike on a tilt or angle it really looks like the are speeding around like nutters. But you don’t get enough handle bar hands, you get 4 in total which is odd. Same for the killa can kits you don’t get enough weapn options, one rokkit launcher one grotzooka etc.

Awesome kit never the less, next will be the killa canz who are pretty much done, then the burnazs and the army will be done. ow and doing a bit more work on the warboss.



Once again please comment or criticize

Hey Guys, another shambling update,
This time the little green cousins have been given the spot light, and are out in force. I had to have these guys in the army. May not be the best choice but certainly a unit i love. These guys will be providing cover for mobs and generally making a complete nuisances of themselves.

KIlla Cans! Had to do a bit of mekking on one, as the kit only comes with one rokkit arm. So i made a dual flamer/rokkit with some spares bits I’ve collected. If i ever get another one of these kits i will be make them all into obliterator style many weapons combined on one arm, as i like the orky look of it.









Seeing the pictures ive noticed a few bits and bobs i need t clean up or re-chip.

And finally i took a quick snap with there big brother bully



Arnt they just adorable...
Feel free to comment or criticise

Hey guys, coming to an end of the Space Orks,
Ive finished another mob, and this mob is scary as hell, the Burna Boyz!



I can imagine a truck buzzing around the board, engulfed in fire and wooping boyz. A tornado of fire.
Also made a few changes to the warboss, added a bit of a checker to his jaw and changed the colours of his glyphs might add some more checks as they only tooka couple of minutes.



And finally, ther was somthin wrong with this tank which i coyuld not palce my finger on, when i was setting them army up for a photo i noticed it did not have any chips in the centre of its armour plates like the other vehicles, so i quickly added them and i think i like it now.



For a better view of the picutres just click on them and it will take you to the gallery, where you can zoom in and see them in more of there glory. I was playing around takeing photos of the army, ive got some ideas and will be re-taking them pictures tomorrow if the sun is out, they take up a nice 4x4 foot board. Bigger then i thought.



Ive called these guys the Dark Reapaz through out (As Dark reaper is the name of the paint used on the cloth), but i think its time to re-name the army. So i would love to hear any suggestions from you guys.


As always please drop a comment, and feel free to make suggestions. On what army i should consider doing next, what things would you like to see painted... considered for a moment just picking a random apoc. datasheet (when it comes out) and just building it, painting it, for fun.

Really, really impressed with your work on these dude. Can only wish my Ork army was as impressive. I look forward to a full army shot.

 SelvaggioSaky wrote:
Fast and great paintjob there!

Tell me your secrets please

oops sorry, missed this comment

Not much of a secret, practice and muscle memory. It also helps that i worked for a commission painting service for two years. Apart from the skin and metal everything is basecoat, wash/black lined wash, then a highlight. The skin is straight out of the How to paint citadel miniatures (the recent one). Waaagh flesh, wash, warboss then skarsnik (warboss is a takes 3 coats in some places, bad paint! But in my opinion orks are meant to be that green) and the metal gets some sloppy brown wash and orange wash to make it look messy and orky. As for the vehicles, not much ork in them tbh. Thanks for the comment.

Very nice work The yellow details on the Warboss break up the larger areas well

Hey Guys, a small, yet big update.

Thank you dreadclaw, it was your suggesion after all, and a good one too.

Here a re couple of army shots. The weather is still grey, in the middle of summer..... ow well, these are just to show of the size of the army so far. As soon as i get a bit of sun i will re-take them. Hopefully they will come out better. I’m hoping to get a better camera soon. Also note ive messed around on Photoshop to get rid of unwanted background.






Going to try and play around with backdrops in the future. Hopefully it will make it more awesome, and not at all cheesy.

 TheFireDrake wrote:
Hey Guys, a small, yet big update.

Thank you dreadclaw, it was your suggesion after all, and a good one too.

Happy to help I had my first trip to a FLGS yesterday after running errands and had to convince myself not to buy anything

That's above coolness in every State mate!

WAAAAAAAAAGH!

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Happy to help I had my first trip to a FLGS yesterday after running errands and had to convince myself not to buy anything

Wouldn’t suppose a certain ork battle force caught your eye....?

SelvaggioSaky wrote:That's above coolness in every State mate!

WAAAAAAAAAGH!

WAAAAAAAAAaaaaagggghhhhh!!!

Hey, guys as promised a better picture of the army, not by much, but there is less flare/flash on there, going to invest time in making a kick ass back drop...



It is with great sadness in my heart that I’m going to be selling this army. Hopefully i will be able to get a game in before then and a few mid game pics, but the army is up on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281146177048

This will hopefully fund ever greater feats of hobby-ism! There are many projects i would love to work on, i have my heart set on doing a death core army, Voytraian army, ultramarines 3rd company (saw a squad in the recent white dwarf, it was amazeballs), and of course the death reapaz bike army and more.

In the future I will be showing off personal armies and projects, projects I intend to sell on and commissions for other people. I will also start to flex my aching converting muscles. The end goal is to hopefully create a blog that is overflowing at the seams with inspiration for my fellow wargamers.

As always feel free to comment, criticise, or ask questions.

 TheFireDrake wrote:
Wouldn’t suppose a certain ork battle force caught your eye....?

Old habits die hard so I was suckered into admiring Blood Angels, Dark Elves and Vampire Counts. I did get almost completely sidetracked with the Reaper range too though.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 TheFireDrake wrote:
Wouldn’t suppose a certain ork battle force caught your eye....?

Old habits die hard so I was suckered into admiring Blood Angels, Dark Elves and Vampire Counts. I did get almost completely sidetracked with the Reaper range too though.

Never heard of reaper before, just checked out there website, some cool stuff. Blood angels.... yes vampire counts....... yes, you just named two of my on again off again armies

Blood Angels were my first army. I started out playing Space Crusade and they were the only Chapter to ever take out the Dreadnought

Way before my time, but hats off to the little red so and so’s. That’s also on my to do list, a mechanised blood angels army, so far I’ve only got a little infantry together. so much to do, so little time

Hey guys, i have a Warhound Mars pattern titan, built and painted (very well i might add, but not by me). It was, until recently in many pieces after being dropped, but I’ve fixed him up and he’s pretty much as good as new (the only remaining damage is a missing piston on his backside, not massively noticeable). Im putting him up on eBay in the next few weeks (it will be more expensive up there), but i thought i would try to sell him to the more local community first (i live near Preston, Lancashire UK, picking him up is probably the cheapest way to get him, i can send him in post, it will be more expensive). I’m happy to let him go for RRP of the titan and weapons which is £320. Not a bad price for a built up titan, painted to high standard. And just in time for apocalypse too!

Also for those interested is an optional KR Prestige carry case, which has the foam for the titian, and is a nice lockable and sturdy case. This i believe is no longer in the KR range, but is around 150 RRP, it has room for a titan an additional KR case and books. It also comes with a tray KR dice and a tape measure, Branded!

Titan £320 or titan and case £420, any questions please message me, also have more pics

Hey guys, not only moving away from Orks, Moving away from 40k!

Going to be putting up some pictures of my Empire Ostermark army! FOR THE SIGAMR! One of my favourite Fantasy armies. This is a labour of love, and has been on and off for about a year and a half. At the moment its a sizable painted army, not a good one army list wise. I am also constantly adding bits and bobs, not so much at the moment as the weather is a bit too hot for painting.

First i will be putting up my favourite hero in the entire fantasy world, the humble warrior priest.... and or arch lector. I’ve only got three in my current empire army (have an old ostland empire army, it is outdate paintjob wise and has been disbanded).
I had wanted this model for a long time, never wanted to buy him because of his crazy big hands, but got a metal one in a trade! Thanks dave.





Then the plastic warrior priest from the war alter kit, one of the first model s painted for the army, a good fear and a half old now.




And finally, when the newest fine cast guy came out i bought him. Fondly disliked his face and one of his hammers had a huge bubble in it. Also i never arm them with two weapons, so a bit of converting had to be done. i now love this guy, he is one of the last guys i painted for this army a few weeks ago when i was fed up of orks.








As always please leave comments and feedback. Would love to hear from fellow empire players.

Hey Guys, more of the Empire! This beasty was one hard thing to paint.

The Celestial Hurricanum! It was painted over the course of a year or so, in total it must have taken 24-34 hours. A really demanding kit. It took some inspiration for me to raise my morale enough to finish it. it is wonderful and i like the in game rules to, its bound spell can if you’re lucky turn an enemy unit around so its facing the wrong way! Or is your unlucky it will just summon a rain storm to drench your opponents troops.... a minor annoyance more then anything.











So much stuff going on!





Also in the kit you get two acolytes, who can man the machine, and a wizard. Love the new fantasy kits with optional foot heroes!




Had a tonne of fun doing the globes and orbs all around the model. Now the hatred of having to paint it has faded, i feel like i can do it again, better. Also not the pink purple, draped over the horses. Showing allegiance to the province of ostermark, and a way to unite the College of Magic’s valued war engine with my province.

As always comments, criticism and suggestion all welcome!

You need to do a luminark so you have the pair, those look great tho

Hey Guys, another up date.
Fist of all i was lucky enough to get my hands on a unit of Teutogen Guard! Ace, took some time to clean them but now I’m going to slowly move my way though the unit. First of all a prototype i did a week ago or so. And now i have 5 done. labour of love and no rush.









In other news, forge world has finally put up the new empire hero’s, cannot wait till i get those guys. Don’t need them, but that won’t stop me. I will find a place for them in my army!

roullier10 wrote:
You need to do a luminark so you have the pair, those look great tho

Cheers, i do have one. Just wokring up the courage to paint it


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Hey guys another update,

Found some shots of the ‘Dark Reapaz’. These are not bad pics, don’t know why i did not upload them. Just more shots of the army from other views. Dont forget to check them out on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281130805355?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 and show your love!





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Also, the Empire. Small update/show off. A rather spiffing, and dappy looking which hunter. Proudly showing off the province colours of the area he has been tasked with safe guarding. This chap does not get used nearly enough in games. When its a choice between a warrior priest or a which hunter... sadly its not a competition.





Took these pictures in the gorgeous Blighty sun. And i love how his face is shaded! This guy knows how to create atmosphere.

As always please leave comments and questions.

Hey guys, not a big update unless you can see the winds of magic!

Ive always thought it would be fun to have a representative from all 8 colleges of magic in my army. And at a beginning of a game i can roll a D8 and generate a random lore for my wizard.

Fun! Unless i roll lore of beasts of course. No one like lore of beasts.
Over the course of my empire collection which has spanned a good few years I’ve made a few wizards, and these are some of the WIPS of the ones I’ve not forcibly retired.



Dun dad dun dun dun dunna a dun dun..... *heroic music*



Light ! Not happy with this guy so far, really need a bit of inspiration to finish him. I want him to glow with whiteness, like Gandalf from the two towers, so when i figure out what i want i will re-do.





Death!





Life! Really old model and green stuff attempt. Really itching to do some green stuffing.



My personal favourite METAL! neat little kit bash. Poor sod is blind burned himself during his alchemy experiments, but wizards don’t see like normal people..... they see like Neo. Numbers. ...fact.

As always please drop a comment.

wizards are looking mighty cool man. this is a pretty neat thing to watch looking forward for more. a lick of paint would help

really digging the life wizard he looks crazy.

 alabamaheretic wrote:
wizards are looking mighty cool man. this is a pretty neat thing to watch looking forward for more. a lick of paint would help

really digging the life wizard he looks crazy.

Cheers man, i might have to take another picture from the side, but there is a branch bursting from they earth. at the command of the wizards pointing hand

at the heart of any empire force marches disciplined blocks after disciplined block of state troopers. In colourful uniforms, banners waving and drums beating.
First of my state troopers , i think the first models I’m showing off in full Ostermark colours. This is a more recent regiment i painted, desperately in time for a tournament which i decided to take orcs to in the end.

Proud swordsmen of Ostermark, note an naked bnner. I have decided they will get a regiment name and banner design when they do something in game to earn it. lazy sods.









The command of the unit, these are all made up from Mannan’s Blades. With varies arms and heads. The action poses of the forge world models allows for some good poses. (ive done a bit of filling and converting to get rid of the most sea like iconography, its a shame, the mermaid thing was a nice banner).

Sergeant/ duelist. Amazing model, fun to paint.





Rest of the command.





The lads.











As always please leave comments and feedback. Stay tuned for more state troops.

Hey guys another update.

Straight from Altdorf with love. Fast becoming one of the best units in my games, reliable and unbreakable. Also helps that my current list has a few demi’s and a Life wizard to keep them all in the fight.

Really fun, but hard to paint due to detail. Decided like the Hurricanum, it would have allegiances to other provinces or institutions over Ostermark. Its more of a loaner to deal with a new threat to the Empire. As such it should have heraldry of Altdorf (where she was forged)and neighbouring provinces, or a remembrance to a previous battle maybe this beast has a shield Talabecland Because regiments of that province protected the steam tank and he crew when it was heavily damaged and broke down from orc wave after orc wave against incredible odds?









Note: i tried to work in a few of my Ostermark colours in there so she fit in the army, the flag was originally a Nuln one, black with the nuln lion. But i felt the it needed more purple. The engineer does have nuln black clothes, but a Altdorf leather cap. Having his cake and eating it.





The only reason i have the engineed hanging out, was not because it looks cool, which it does. But to remind me, that the bugger has a close combat attack and a repeater pistol.

Also i never did decide what to name her, any suggestions.

As always please drop a comment to show your support and feel free to criticize or suggest.

Orkz, top.
Empire, top.
I'm curios of what You have in the back burner now

A shame youre selling the orks...

Dam nice painting all round tough.. Well done... ( a bit to clean on the orks for me, but thats personal....)

Hey guys.

Cheers for the kind words Sanka and SelvaggioSaky.
They are a bit clean, next time i have a crack at orks i will certainly dirty them up a bit more. it is a bit more Orky

Another update. I’ve made some progress on the Teutogen Guard another 5 done which includes the command, excluding the banner. It needs extra attention.



Ive taken a break from the metal and wolf skin to have a crack at a unit i got a long time ago. And ive painted up for my old ostlanders. But it is time to ad them to Ostermarks ever increasing force.
Ironsiders. Never noticed how tall these chaps are. Almost a head taller than the crossbows, granted the cross bows are leaning into the shots more.






Got me a prototype and made a start on half the unit.





As always comments and criticism are all welcome.