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Hi Dakka,

Back in 1995 I was introduced to a game from Games Workshop called Adeptus Titanicus. It was a game based on the Titans of the Imperium battling it out with the Titans of the Traitor Legions. Needless to say I was immediately hooked. Then I learned of a game companion to Adeptus Titanicus called Space Marine. As I'm sure you all know, it is the game of the Emperors finest fighting desperate battles against their traitorus brother marines. Again I was hooked.

All of this was my first forage into Wargaming, having only played role playing games up to that point. So I started collecting everything I could get my hands on for Adeptus Titanicus and Space Marine.

Today, I have tons of models for what came to be known as the Epic genre of games.



Here are the covers of them as they progressed from one game to the next.

First, Adeptus Titanicus




Then Space Marine





Then the second edition of Space Marine came out





followed by Adeptus Titanicus renamed Epic Titan Legions





At this point, GW decided to expand the game and add more factions in like the Imperial Guard





The Orks and Squats





The Eldar and Chaos




And lastly, the Tyranids




Eventually, Gw decided to re vamp the whole system and created what became known as Warhammer Epic 40,000





And right before stopping the specialist games completely, GW created the 4th version of the game that was mainly online called Warhammer Epic 40,000 Armageddon.

With the 3rd edition of the game they made the tiny Epic models resemble their Warhammer 40,000 equivalents more closely than they had ever done before, yet the rules for 3rd edition are often considered by many to be the worst rules for the Epic system ever made.

Since GW stopped producing this game, many in the gaming community have picked it up and continue to play it and even make their own conversions for it. Many different rules systems have come out for it since then from the much lauded Net Epic EA to the Net Epic Gold and a bunch of others.

But in my case I prefer the 2nd edition Space Marine and Titan Legions. But I am not averse to learning how to play the others either, its just that I paid for the rules for 2nd edition so I may as well get as much use out of them as I can.

Anyway, I am starting this blog because my work finally got me working only 3 days a week, gave me a dollar an hour raise, raised up the amount they pay for mileage for travelling to 40 cents a mile and now I have 4 days off every week and still get my 40 hours a week in.

So this leaves me with a lot more time for doing things I have been neglecting like painting my Epic!

Now, in the past I collected models from ebay and anywhere else I could to increase my Epic collection. So most of my painted Epic models were painted by other people. Shame on me! I haven't been giving my Epic models the paintjob they deserve. So while I have a lot of painted models, from beasties...

Tyranid Lictors


Tyranid Genestealers


Tyranid Warriors


Tyranid Hormagaunts


Tyranid Termagants


Tyranid Gargoyles


Tyranid Hive Tyrants


Tyranid Malefactors


To the Emperors Finest...

Dark Angels ( I painted these)


Ultramarines


Blood Angels


Space Wolves






To Xenos....

Eldar








Orks




To the minions of Chaos


to the giant Titans and Gargants

Imperial Warlord Titan front


Imperial Warlord Titan rear


Imperial Reaver Titan


Banelord Chaos Titan of Khorne front


and sides




Ork Gargants


I also have a lot of unpainted and partly painted stuff that needs some love...











And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

So as you can see, I have a lot of work to do. So this is the blog I am going to try to keep to track my progress in my painting. Now, the problem is, where to begin?

I always wanted to like Epic, but I only played one game of 2nd Edition and the Epic 40K hit.

As much as I like the FW Heresy still I think Epic was the best scale for it.

I agree. The engagements they talk about in the stories for the Heresy would be way too big to try to replicate in Warhammer 30k. Epic scale is the right scale for that. And it is even hard to do battles like the Battle for the Emperors Palace in epic scale. There were just too many warriors involved.

Its too bad you were not able to get into it way back in the day. But it is still going strong these days, even though GW fails to support it. It really is worth getting in to.

And one of the plusses I've noticed with Epic is that you never really have that overpowered army build that breaks the game so that the whole game becomes unplayable. That really makes the game much more enjoyable to me...and besides where else are you going to be able to command so many tanks without spending thousands of dollars on them?


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Well, I finally decided that the army I want to start working on is my Squats. Why? Because they were the very first army I picked up for this game. So they are my oldest models. It's about time they saw some paint.

In the Epic Space Marine game the way you choose forces for the Squats is to first choose a company card. So I chose to get a Squat Guild Biker force. This card consists of 2 Biker squadrons of 1 guildmaster on a trike, and 7 guild biker stands plus 1 guildmaster on a trike and 5 guild trikes.



Now for each Company card you can choose one Special card, and up to five support cards. So for my Special card I chose a Squat Cyclops. This model is effectively a super heavy vehicle that mounts the cannon from a Starship on it.


I decided to reinforce my Guild Biker force by choosing two more Guild Trike Squadron support cards and three Iron Eagle Gyrocopter Squadron support cards. Iron Eagle's are basically planes that mount a Battlecannon in the nose and two autocannons near the back. They are about the only vehicle the Squats have that can keep up with the Guild Biker force.





This is the whole company with all of its support.




I know I want the colors to have lots of golds and probably some reds in there too. So I just have to come up with a good paint scheme and get to it. I will try to get at least some of this done by the end of next weekend. Now to get started!

WOW! That's a fan tastic collection.

Man this is so cool, I haven't seen a collection like this ever. Keep it up! I will defiantly be watching

Thanks guys, I'm very glad you like it. Stay tuned because this blog is going to show a lot of my Epic miniatures. I have quite a few. Not as many as Primarch does but who am I kidding, Nobody except him has that many Epic mini's

So today I made progress on a few miniatures. They aren't completed yet but they are getting there. Today was very busy for me so I only had about an hour to work on them. I figure if I work on the miniatures for about an hour every day, eventually I will get them all painted. (Of course I plan on painting them much longer than that on non busy days )

The first batch of Guild Trikes with a brown undercoat where I wanted to paint the red so it didn't turn pink.



Then I added the first red coat, hoping it turned out well. I don't think it turned out bad at all really. I didn't bother worrying about overspill of the paint because the tires on the trikes are going to be black anyway. By the time they are all done they will be all cleaned up and hopefully great looking. I would hate to have to re paint all of these minis.



Then I decided to prime the Cyclops white and give it an undercoat of brown wash so it will also help the red to not turn pink.


Hopefully at work tomorrow I won't be so busy that I can't paint. Anyway, that's today's update. Enjoy.

So there's more progress today. I wanted to try out an urban camo scheme on the Squat trike riders uniforms so I painted this up to see how it would look. What do you guys think?



I got a little carried away and painted the trike handlebars and even the headlight

More progress today. I got the five Guild Trikes done except for flocking the bases.









Now I've got to do the Guildmaster in Exo Armour on the trike.

So much nostalgia! Thank you Sir for making an old man smile. Consider me subbed!

Bash

Glad to see you enjoy my blog Bash. I hope the rest of what I post is just as nostalgic for you. It certainly has been for me.

For my next painting project after the Guildmaster I think I'll try my hand at a squadron or three of Iron Eagle Gyrocoptors.

That should be a lot of fun. I've always liked them. It's one of the vehicles I always wish they would have made for Warhammer 40,000.

So I have more progress today. I painted up the guildmaster at work today. So the support card for one of the trike squadrons is now painted!

So I got a little bit of progress done on three of the Iron Eagle Gyrocopter squadrons. I still need a few coats of each color though.





Painting these made me think of some of the other Squat stuff I had today and got me wondering how hard it is going to be to paint them up. For instance, the Squat Grand Battery. It is ten Mole Mortars and five Thudd Guns and each base has two little Squats with it.



Then it got me wondering if I should start working on my larger Squat Grand Battery. The 40k sized one.



Nah...I think once I am done with this Company Card and all of it's support cards I might switch to a different army for a while. Maybe Chaos or Orks. Or maybe some Titans. I can't make up my mind yet. Is there any particular army anyone wants to see? (Sorry, I don't have Tau, Dark Eldar, or Necrons. There were no rules for them in 2nd edition Epic so I didn't bother trying to get them or scratch build them.)

A liitle bit of what you fancy does you good. Great to see more Epic on here. Was going to say wearing camo on a bright red trike does you no good but then I saw the Stealth Gyros.

Yep, camo on red trikes is a terrible idea in real life, but its the grimdark 40k universe and there really doesn't seem to be much common sense going around.

I have always thought bright blue ultramarines and bright red blood angels were a bad idea too

Some Titans would be a great idea! For me, the Orks were always my favourite for 2nd ed. The tonnes of trukks and trakks and such variants always looked impressive en masse. I was always Orks on the PC game 'Final Liberation'. Damn the nineties were great!

Oh, I loved me some Final Liberation. You're right, the ninety's were great! Hmm, Titans huh? And orks? Ok, I think I can do that. I've been trying to figure out how to magnetize the weapons so they don't look like they have a magnet attached to the Warlord titan's carapace, either on top or underneath.

https://www.gog.com/game/final_liberation_warhammer_epic_40000 has it for a legal download and can get it to run on modern computers! If the weapons will stay in their holes reasonably well you might not need magnets.

Thanks for the link, that's got me hyped to play it again!

The plastic Titan weapons fit just fine. The metal weapons are too heavy to stay on without magnets though.

Nice! Love the squats, and your work truly does them justice! Looking forward to more!

That link is brilliant thanks! Just starting to download it now! I'm all giddy with excitement!

As for magnetising weapons, you can pick up some nice 1mm and 2mm neodymium magnets from various sources. I find ebay is usually the best place for bulk buying.

@SexierThanYou13: Glad you like the blog. I hope you continue to enjoy it as it grows.

@Bash the Bosh: Thanks. I'll have to look into that. Hopefully I can find something that does the trick.

Originally found it on here and I thought I'd spread the love.

No pictures to post today because I've been busy again, but just a coat or two of paint on the gyrocopters. No sense putting that up as it really doesn't look that much different yet than the other picture. Yellow is such a hard color to paint without streaking.

So I've been thinking about my Epic collection and how cool it would be to have an Epic club to go to for tournaments and just general pick up games so I could start using all of my models again and to introduce people to the game. But I've noticed that the newer version of Epic, the NetEpic Armageddon, allows the use of a few Battlefleet Gothic ships for orbital bombardments as well. That doesn't exist in 2nd edition Epic so it has me contemplating getting into NE Armageddon as well as continuing to play Epic Space Marine/Titan Legions.

Having never played it though, I wonder how easy it is to pick up on. Anyone have any idea?

So I've finally got more progress on these guys. After some very much needed rest I was able to get some more painting done at work. For the most part I like how the blue Iron Eagle Gyrocopter turned out, though I'm thinking of adding some runes or something to it.






But I just can't get the yellow to work. I think I'm gonna have to strip them down again and change them to steel or something.

Love the trikes! They came out really nice!

Have you tried a less pale yellow? I use goldbrown for all my epic now as I can never get 'real' yellow to work. Goes over brown easy, easier to highlight, but doesn't look to lemon-y!

Though saying that, your yellow looks fine in the photos!

Thanks for the tip. Guess I'll have to pick some up and give it a try. The yellow in the pic shows streaks of black that don't want to change to yellow, even though I went back and undercoated all of the gyrocopters in white. It looks way worse in person.

Now I have to find a way to do the rest of the squats so they don't look like christmas squats but retain the red, like the trikes.

Along with Net Epic Armageddon there is also Net Epic Gold which adds a lot of the new units to the Space Marine rules might be worth a look

Yep, I've looked into it. Armageddon seems to be more popular for some reason, but not by much.

So I got blue squadron done.



And one of red squadron.

Looking Good!

Thanks SexierThanYou13

So I finished red squadron.



And this is what I have painted so far.



I tried to paint the last three yellow, and even followed some suggestions but I just didn't like the result. So now they are changing to dark green.

First coat...at 1:08 A.M.



And just for your viewing pleasure, a group shot of some of my squats.



I want to re-paint all of this so that it fits with what I have just painted. A daunting prospect, no?