Hey Everyone!

Since I have started getting numerous requests to see some of my armies I have decided to start a blog and share some of my adventure.

If you are unaware I have, over the last 2 years, come out of a hiatus I took from painting and modelling. This was mostly due to tyrant of an x-wife (yup mistakes happen lol) who looked at my *man dolls* as nothing but a waste of time and resources.

That however has never stopped me from collecting models, keeping current with the rules and playing the odd game here and there.
These days I try to have at minimum 1 game a week and when I have time as many as possible!

When I came out of my hiatus I realized something a little offputting. Looking at my armies I noticed that I had painted the majority of them when I was between the ages of 14 and 16 . Since then my painting skills have improved massively! I have done a few characters here and there but have never had the time to complete them.

That left me with 2 things. 1: a massive pile of mostly pewter sub parly painted mini's and 2: lots of unfinished business!

I have spent the last year stripping, assembling, fixing broken models and digging through piles of bits for creative inspiration! Well, that and buying more models for my collection!.

Here are a few pics of the current state of affairs to get everyone started!

My game cave



SOme of my brothers Ork's that live at my house







My Aurora Chapter



Aurora CHapter sharing a shelf with Tau



More Tau



The Nids





And Finally some of my Chaos

Some of my Terminators



Some of my tanks and bigger models (in case you are wondering the unpainted tanks are assembled so that the tops come off to paint the interior before final gluing)





The Cult Troops and Lesser Daemons



Some of my tropps



And now into the WIP's ... lot's of them

My pile of half assebled/stripped stuff



The Dip... the never ending bucket of Simple Green. It may not look it but there are probably 40 models in there



Some model that I assembled at work that got damaged in transit ( I live at work for 2 weeks out of the month, fly in fly out)



One of my bitz binz



Some models organized into bitz to assemble. Can you see all 3 greater demons in this box?? lol. SOme of these are also waiting parts form the dip



Here are a few of the models I have painted over the years that I decided no to strip. Sorry about the crap lighting in the pictures, It's something I need to work on for next time!

Scout Sniper



A chaos lord (I just recently ripped him off of an old oversize scenic base)





Kharn





One of my new painting projects, Abbadon and a scenic base I painted up / added bitz to





My airbrush... the godsend of all base coating devices big and small! It's only a middle of the road one but I couldn't get by without it!





A few of my conversion projects

A chaos Lord in terminator armour, he may not look like much but he is massivly greenstuffed and except for his LC arm is solid pewter lol



(sry bout the blurry pic)


A daemon prince built from an inquisitor model. Works out perfectly in scale! lots of work left here!





Well, that's about it for now guys and gals!

As you can see I really have my work cut out for me! Here is my plan so far:

1: finish stripping all the models that need it
2: assemble everything I have to a high standard
3: base coat and paint the base of all of the models I have
4: squad by squad bring them up to a good table top standard
5: do nicer paint work on characters and squad leaders
6: squad by squad bring the painting standard of my army up


Why does it make me tired and wired at the same time thinking about it! All I know is it will be an adventure! and I will have to squeeze a few games in in the middle of it!

Thanks for looking!

Good luck painting all of those models up, thats going to be a lot of man hours.

Looking forward to your progress. which army are you going to start on or are you going to jump between them so your not always painting the same type of models.

Good luck, I feel like you're going to need it with all of the work you've got set out

But it looks good, and I can't wait for progress.

GiraffeX wrote:Good luck painting all of those models up, thats going to be a lot of man hours.

Looking forward to your progress. which army are you going to start on or are you going to jump between them so your not always painting the same type of models.

My main focus will be My Chaos oarmy but I usually jump over to one of the otehrs when I feel I need a change of pace!

I also have a pile of old scenery that i've been sorting through and remaking. Scavenging good parts like buildings/trees/barrels/tank traps etc and making them into real terrain again!

I think that's the toughest part of this whole project. I have so many models and terrain pieces that I thought were a great Idea when I was 15 and now they at a very minimum need an overhaul

I should be uploading a few more pics tonight, not much in the way of update but something

I have done a lot of work since these pics but am not able to take new ones until next week when I get home! Can't wait to share my progress lol!

geza55- thanks! i'm going to need the luck


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Got a few more pics uploaded! I'm on a satellite connection in the middle of nowhere so it's about as fast as dial up

The back of the Sniper form the previous post:




My land speeder








One of my Hive Tyrants






When I saw this the other day I was blown away lol.... I have been playing this game a long time



The difference in scale blows me away



Soooooo First order of business.... Take better pictures! I wil have to make a light box or something! the lighting in my game cave is way too cave like!

When I get back to civilization I will be uploading some pics of my new projects!

I have 10 noise marine terminators and 2 squads of 5 thousand sons terminators on the go! some fun conversions for sure!

Just a quick post today, in response to quite afew poeple asking to see my entire chaos force on one table!

.. I have so much work ahead of me!

I have been busy in the last couple weeks working away at things but sadly do not have a lot of pics

I picked this little gem of a sculpt up on ebay a couple weeks back and wanted to share it:









I was super impressed with the quality of resin work on this model! completely bubble free and amazingly detailed! I only wish I knew who sculpted it
Regardless, it's goign to look great beside my Kabuki Primarchs. Too bad they are all very low on the list of painting priorities >.<

I also wanted to share some pictures of a fun 4 player game I played the last time I was at home.
1850pts, chaos vs grey knights vs orks vs vanilla marines (aurora chapter)
The scenario we played had a primary and a secondary objective. 1 Hold the building in the centre of the table. If the building was contested it went tocontrol of table quarters determined by higest # of scoring units in each table quarter.

Super fun scenario and perfect for a free for all!

Turn 1:


Turn 2: Orks charge CSM, Aurora chapter goes after GN


Turn 3: Orks wipe defilers, CSM Sorcerors control the table centre, everyone charges the middle


Yes, this did actually happen... the die sat like this until we picked it up lol


Turn 4: Vehicles down all over and troops flooding the table. A rush for the centre is made!


End of turn 4: After a mass of shooting and brutal combat in the centre all that remains is 20 CSM's They shot Drago to death, wiped an 8 man terminator assault squad and a mob of 12 boys without a wound . Truly the stars of the game in a late "Hail Mary" Push for the win!





Hopefully I can get soem shots of some of the work I have been doing. I kit bashed (with all sorts of old metal bitz) 2 winged soreceror lords of slannesh and filled out/ base coated 3 full squads of plague marines. Also base coated 20 Plague bearers, 3 nurgle rhino's and a whack of other stuff.

I have a few things on the go this week.

I bought myself a warhound titan as a birthday present a couple weeks back and am I the process of cleaning and assembling it. Pics to follow when I get home from work!

I am also working on some Ork conversions, Painting Abbadon and as always assembling more of my fresh from the dip chaos models!

I hope to give everyone a proper update soon and hopefully one of these days someone will respond so I can stop talking to myself lol

Sorry for not updating in a million bazillion years everyone!

I haven't had much time to dedicate to the hobby due to too many hours at work >.<... I will have a few updates later today and then some more extensive ones in 2 weeks!
I should have some warhound build pics up soon too

God I'm a slacker

So I've got a few things on the go these days.

Firstly I've finally decided what I will be running at the 2500 Pt level which means I have some good direction as to what to start painting first!

Here is where I am so far:



Painting this army will be on the top of my painting priority for the next while. Having some direction should help me move forward a little faster


I've also gone and picked up 2 Warhound Titans So far I have trimmed and washed one of the two and this is how far I've made it on assembly so far.



I really need to stop working so much and start playing a little more!

This is a very interesting blog, your Chaos marines look very cool indeed and I love the Retro Tyrant.

My whole tyranid army minus the new releases is of that vintage
They are all from the first time I got into this game in the mid 90's
Come to think of it probably 70% of my entire collection is from that era

Woohoo Aurora Chapter!

That was my first army, way back when. Finally got them all sold to feed the growing chaos army.

Keep it green man, good luck!

That is a nice sized Chaos army my friend, and a great looking game cave if I may add. I was supposed to have a game cave too...but my mother moved into it. -_-

P.S. Nice leg.

Spellbound wrote:Woohoo Aurora Chapter!

That was my first army, way back when. Finally got them all sold to feed the growing chaos army.

Keep it green man, good luck!

Haha! yeah I started painting them about 15 years ago and then they sat in a box for a long long time!
I need to update the pics here aswell! I have bought a few new units to expand this to an army capable of fielding 2500pts.

That is my new goal with all of my armies. Get a playable force @ the 2500pt level and start by painting that. Chaos first, aurora chapter second and then either Tau or Nids.. haven't decided yet...
I need smaller goals or more time at home or little helper monkies


Automatically Appended Next Post:

bunnygurl wrote:That is a nice sized Chaos army my friend, and a great looking game cave if I may add. I was supposed to have a game cave too...but my mother moved into it. -_-

P.S. Nice leg.

Thanks! I love the chaotic spikey buggers

It took me years to carve out a decent spot I need to take some more pics too I've rearranged it quite a bit! ohhhh parents and invading useful game space! If you were a little closer I would say drop by and borrow mine

It is quite the sexy leg isn't it... now where did I put it's friend....s....

I can't wait to be home in 6 days so I can host and post some of my progress!

Me too. Anything with a stabby bit is good in my books.

When I bought my house it had the perfect area for a game cave, just need some paint and flooring, but...sigh. Pay for my plane ticket and I'll gladly come by.

Wish my legs looked that good.

Aww common you don't wanna do the 20+ hour drive for a game or two!

I have no idea what your legs look like so I have no point of camparison I'll have to believe ya

Whoop! Should be able to do some updating either tonight or tomorrow finally!

Thats an awesome army colection, i am looking forward to seeing the painting come along.

I love the painting on your Hive Tyrant.

and let there be Light (box) in your cave

M0rdain wrote:Thats an awesome army colection, i am looking forward to seeing the painting come along.

I love the painting on your Hive Tyrant.

and let there be Light (box) in your cave

Haha! Thanks!

Yeah a light box is a must! I'm going to be setting up a permanent painting station sometime soon and it will def include a light box!
Even I'm getting tired of the odd shadows and weird saturation in my pics

Sooooo It looks like I finally get a few minutes to do a few updates here!

Here's what I've been up to in the last couple months when I haven't been working

I started building a Flasgitz for the Waaaagh Dakka:

Some basic Kit Bashing





Now getting a little more into it







I've gotten a little further than this but for the time being this project is on pause. One of these days I will spend the last couple hours it will need to assemble!
I have a number of parts fit up, shaped and built for it but it's going to be a jigsaw puzzle so I'll need to spend some time at it


I spent some time on one of my two warhounds:

The raw deal


After a couple hours of watching some season of something on dvd. The bag on the left is the scraps >.<.. In hindsight I'm sad I didn't keep more of them as they would have made excellent terrain!



Then on to several hours of fine trimming, removing mould lines and then washing is a warm water and dish soap solution



Fitting up the upper seciton to see where I have to trim (looks like I hadn't trimmed all of the hull yet)





Where the first warhound is sitting until I get enough other junk sorted out to start work on it again :(



Soon mr. warhound soon!

I've also been doing a lot of reorganizing, cleaning, assembling and in general getting my poop in a group:

I reorganized my chaos shelves after putting the whole enchalada out on the table, here is one of the fun shelves with a few more models than were on the table before



I spent some time organizing my Aurora Chapter aswell:



here are some of the new space marine additions (as if I need more crap lol)

Land speeder, I have 3 more to assemble after this



I picked up this funky RT Librarian in Power Armour because I didn't really like any of the currently available models



Also got a few of these bad boys but they are far from complete... I wish they were plastic or finecast >.< (the new school is spooiling me)



Also grabbed one of these for my term assault squad



It may seem a little random but I settled on a 2500pt list and had to fill in a few gaps. No more space marines for me to buy, hopefully ever (yeah right )

I also picked up a few additions to finish off my 2500pt Tyranid list:



I actually assembled all of these yesterday but don't have a camera with me to show everyone

Now the only outstanding army I have to deal with is the Tau... and I don't think they are going to see a huge amount of love until they get a better codex
I have however decided on a coulour scheme and will take a few pics of some test models the next time I have a chance!

Some more of my brothers Ork's have moved in aswell:



My titan competiton,.. well without his arms connected as we have been trying a few diferrent ways to magnetize them. There is a second one on the way but I don't have a pic of it



(wow I really do need to do this in better light)

I also moved a bunch of my bitz and medelling supplies into a cupboard that previously housed boxes of books



This made life alot simpler!

Now onto the Chaos:

I started basing my 2500pt list







I couldn't resist picking 2 of these up when I saw them... My first finecast!



Compared to the pewter the detail and ease of assembly is amazing. On the other side of that coin I still don't know how I feel about the air bubbles >.< (not many but filling them is going to be annoying)





This kit also came with 2 torso's and 2 heads... I'm going to have to find something to do with them in the future! (only 1 shown here)





Bing, Bang, Boom togeather in no time flat







and off he goes to join the Bloodthirter Family! I almost have enough to field a Bloodthirster Bloodbath unit!



That's all for now

Thanks for looking everyone! Hopefully I have some more time to dedicate to modelling in the next month or two so I have a few more cool things to post!

Quick update,

I have been assembling random miniatures I have sitting in a box post *dip* as well as a few other newer things.

Here is what I have done whiel at work over the last couple days:
4x metal chaos terminator
2x finecast Broodlord
1x chaos lord with jump pack and lightning claws
1x chaplain /w jump pack
1x RT nurgle lord on palenquin (such a cool model)
and I think a few other things that aren't coming to me here.

I also have several havocs and a few space marines and a greater demon to assemble while I'm out here

It was a sad day today... I ran out of super glue at work with 7 days to go and only 1/2 the models I brought with assembled !

It turns out 3 of the 4 tubes of glue I brought out had been opened and were less than full to say the least!

Someone air mail me some super glue! I'm now working overtime and will be at work an additional 3 days.....
I guess that means more mini's for me! >.<

Yup.. this is all I got done before I ran out of glue
I would give my left leg for some glue or paint right now!

I finished reading my last book and broke a guitar string and have no spares lol! I't going to be a long 5 more days



This box should be empty of parts by now!



I'll survive... Only 5 more days of blogging to myself

Soooo I'm finally back home.

I picked up my copy of Dreadfleet and assembled everything with my brother a couple days back and had a few games yesterday and have to say that it's pretty smooth overall!

I will post up some pics once I take it back out of the box

For the time being here is some work that I did on Abbadon in the last little while. A few more hours and he should be complete.

















Soon my army will have a leader again Wish I had some before I stripped him pics lol

Tyrant of an X-wfe - sounds like how I came back to playing games too. Fun times indeed. Keep up the work - I missed the game a lot when I left and recognized how much it covered all my bases as a hobbyist - Painting, modeling, playing, and even drawing and creating.

Wow! And I thought my to-do-list was long! Good luck with all that! Look forward to future updates!

Abbadon is looking excellent so far, keep up the good work

Emperors_Champion wrote:Wow! And I thought my to-do-list was long! Good luck with all that! Look forward to future updates!

Haha! I follow your thread off and on and know you feel my pain I figure all I need to do is do something every day no matter how small and it will get done



Automatically Appended Next Post:

GiraffeX wrote:Abbadon is looking excellent so far, keep up the good work

Thanks! I can't wait to have him fully painted again! I may even have to use him in a game or two for fun!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

GoatboyBBMA wrote:Tyrant of an X-wfe - sounds like how I came back to playing games too. Fun times indeed. Keep up the work - I missed the game a lot when I left and recognized how much it covered all my bases as a hobbyist - Painting, modeling, playing, and even drawing and creating.

Yeah! It's definitly a great outlet that I didn't realize how much I missed!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Just a few quick posts in the middle of my day here.

I started working on my Titan again. I want to get it to a point where I can base coat it before the week is out!



The guys that will be getting base coated when my warhound is ready for paint:



A quick snap of some of my bro's RT Orks that were on the table:



Makes me remember how badly I need a real place to take pics

and just 2 quick iPhone pics of dreadfleet:



This move won me my very first game



Thanks for looking

Sooooo I got to do a little more work on my Warhound again today.

I got the legs 100% together ready for base coat:







I also got the upper torso assembled to the point where it can be base coated. Here it is fit togeather:



It's really in a few pieces still so I can detail the interior before final assembly:



and It actually fits together so well that I was able to get a preview of the future!






I'm so stoked right now! I can't wait to put some paint on this bad boy tomorrow!


Did I mention I still have a second one in a box? >.@!

The Warhounds looking good, looking forward to seeing the painting started.

Nice work so far,the titan looks great and abaddon is rocking.

I'm suprised you're getting so much done on your other projects! If I had two titans sitting around, I wouldn't be working on anything else!

GiraffeX wrote:The Warhounds looking good, looking forward to seeing the painting started.

You get your wish

shingouki wrote:Nice work so far,the titan looks great and abaddon is rocking.

Thanks!

Rawson wrote:I'm suprised you're getting so much done on your other projects! If I had two titans sitting around, I wouldn't be working on anything else!

The Titans are hard to transport to and from work so it gives me some time to work on the rest

So here's today's update! Got some paint on the hound before I started having troubles with my airbrush







My bro was over while I was painting and got some work done on a new squad of Stormboyz





hopefully I get more time tomorrow and I get my airbrush sorted

Well after a day long soak with simple green in the paint bowl the innards of my air brush seem to be in order again.

which means I may actually get some painting done before I go back to work or tuesday

Hey all,

Just a few quick updates before I go away to work for 2 weeks

Not really much to write home about but I got a little bit of paint started on the warhound



Also I'm going to be bringing some of my noise marines to work with me! My goal is to finnish this squad byt the time I get back GL me !



It's sad how easy it is to pick out the 3 that were base coated by hand instead of airbrush

Hopefully I will be able to upload some updates while at work !


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Quick update. Base coated some bases before bed tonight at work.



Sry about the cruddy iPhone pic, it's all I ave for a camera with me

Tomorrow I will start blocking out the black and maybe the metalics

That warhounds gonna be immence! Looking forward to in-battle pics!

Emperors_Champion wrote:That warhounds gonna be immence! Looking forward to in-battle pics!

I have been pushing my brother to finish painting his Stomppa so that we can play an APOC game as soon as I'm done my Warhound

I was actually really suprised at how the Warhounds dwarfs a Stomppa!

Quick update... web cam pic >.< Hopefully this ne doesn;t get removed for sucking like the last one! I need a cheap camera to bring with me!

Right my friend, you will never blog alone. As you have stumbled across my Pre-heresy Iron hands, I have a policy of always checking out others threads.

I think we must have be seperated at birth, being a Mariner I am always away and it annoys the hell out of me. I have spare time at sea but no mini's, or no glue, or something missing or it's blowing a Bast*rd so I couldn't make a model if I tried.. It's annoying and I share your frustrations. I wish I lived in Canada, partly because I went on Honeymoon there and partly (and secretly well from the wife anyway) so I can get my hands on the Miracle that is Simple green. Oh and I am totally jealous of what I am guessing is your gaming basement. Oh and finally Kudo's on the 1st Blog on Dakka to featuring a Warhound. I will be following your blog with interest and sense of mutual support.. lol

mwnciboo wrote:Right my friend, you will never blog alone. As you have stumbled across my Pre-heresy Iron hands, I have a policy of always checking out others threads.

I think we must have be seperated at birth, being a Mariner I am always away and it annoys the hell out of me. I have spare time at sea but no mini's, or no glue, or something missing or it's blowing a Bast*rd so I couldn't make a model if I tried.. It's annoying and I share your frustrations. I wish I lived in Canada, partly because I went on Honeymoon there and partly (and secretly well from the wife anyway) so I can get my hands on the Miracle that is Simple green. Oh and I am totally jealous of what I am guessing is your gaming basement. Oh and finally Kudo's on the 1st Blog on Dakka to featuring a Warhound. I will be following your blog with interest and sense of mutual support.. lol

Thanks! I appreciate a little company in here now and then! We have quite the crowd of lurkers here on dakka!

Frustrating to be away for sure! But I guess if I didn't work I couldn't afford to game!
You would actually be suprised at how hard it is to get a hold of simple green here aswell! It took me week to find it in a container bigger than 1l ... I wish it wasn't so difficult to mail it across the ocean!

If you weren't at/across the ocean I'd say come over for a game sometime! One of the advantages of living as a bachelor is that I have nobody to tell me how much room my gaming business can occupy

The first blog to feature a Warhound? Really? That kinda blows me away! I figured for sure there were a few out there already. I can;t wait to get home in 3 days so I can put a brush on it again!

I will also be following you blog Especially when I am at work!

Looks like I might fail at updating until the end of the month here! I forgot to grab all of my pictures off of my camera before I left >.<

I'll postup some battle pics tonight but sadly no warhound updates >.<

Oh no, I was looking forward to the Warhound update... It will come soon no doubt.

Waiting on battle pics

I managed to get 1/2 of my pictures uploaded last night

Here are the first group of pictures I have from the 4 way 2000pt battle that took almost 7 hours to finish!

Tyranids(me) VS Orks VS Necrons VS Sisters of Battle.

Deployment



Start of round two, notice how many Tyranids are missing? I got trucked in round one by all 3 opponents and never recovered >.<



And the fun starts at the other end of the table



And back to the piles of fun at the other end of the table I must have pissed everyone off because I was getting hit from all sides



Bombs away!!!



Enter Trygon And goodbye warriors >.@



Notice th lack of second monolith?? Good old zoanthropes!
Also notice the lack of trygon? Damn melta missles from across the table >.<



More to come once I get pics uploaded! damn satelite internet!

At the other end of the table Sisters with flamers make short work of the truck mounted boy!



Gene Sneakers are being sneakery and hiding in the bushes until orks get close enough to pounce on



The broodlord cleaned out squad of immortals on his own before they stood back up and started shooting him in the back!



Gene sneakers VS Boys. Once again the broodlord managed to flatten the pile of them, but it was too late!



I don't play my tyranids very often but this game taught me a lot about their strengths and weaknesses in the current printing... well mostly about their weaknesses...
After four gory turns the victory (we settled via victory points) went to the Sisters of battle by a landslide as they went last and very efficiently mopped up everyone elses mess
In the future I will definitly be playing a much different tyranid build

One of the other games I played was against my brother. I played my Tau and he played my Aurora Chapter leaving us both out of our element.

This is after turn one, One landraider down but a whole army of mech closing in:\



From the other end



SOme brave Krut attacking terminators from the brushline.



Thye took one terminator out shooting....... but the inevitable happened >.<



And this is where the game unfortunately had to end.



The tau were in very bad shape after not having much luck shooting down the marines and my brother and I were distracted by going out for the midnight release of MW3
I conceded as it was soon to be a slaughterfest!

After this I got one more game in before I left but I don't have any pictures of it.

I played my chaos VS some very cheesy Grey Knights but managed to stomp them into the ground after 5 rounds regardless of the daemon hate!

4 days and I can post up some more warhound pictures!

Short update today, I figured I would post up pictures of my newly assembled Land Raider Proteus

I love this thing! Can;t wait until I get my second one in the mail!









Very well designed model! Other than some fun trimming on the tracks the fitment was excellent overall

I want one! It is a very cool tank, I regret not putting it on my christmas list now

Love the Proteus, planning on getting one with my tax return.

Where did you get that chapel building in the battle pictures? Would love to add one to my terrain collection.

Commander Cain wrote:I want one! It is a very cool tank, I regret not putting it on my christmas list now

Yeah I love how they have a very rogue trader look to them but lack the wonky proportions of the old LR models!
I just wish my second one arrived when I ordered it... >.<


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Salted Diamond wrote:Love the Proteus, planning on getting one with my tax return.

Where did you get that chapel building in the battle pictures? Would love to add one to my terrain collection.

I got it at my FLGS It's made by a company called Pegasus but I was unable to find a good website for the company.

It's actually a really neat bulding as it is all modular and can be assembled any way you choose. I may even pick up a few more to make some towers with

I'll be updating this thread later today. Sadly with all the hussle and bussel of the holidays I haven't gotten a lot done >.@!

Nice Landraider Mate, I am a little jealous of this one. How is the Warhound coming on?


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Nice Landraider Mate, I am a little jealous of this one. How is the Warhound coming on?

I am loving I like multi project threads the Proteus looks cool I had a very nostalgic glow when I saw it on Forgeworld before the Prometheus,Crusader,Redeemer,Terminus Ultra there was the Proteus kit x2 for a twenty quid (or close to it) ahhhhh the RT days cant beat em...

Yeah keep the good work up man

ArchaonSon wrote:I am loving I like multi project threads the Proteus looks cool I had a very nostalgic glow when I saw it on Forgeworld before the Prometheus,Crusader,Redeemer,Terminus Ultra there was the Proteus kit x2 for a twenty quid (or close to it) ahhhhh the RT days cant beat em...

Yeah keep the good work up man

I know exactly what you mean! The second I saw the Proteus model it was instant nostalgia! I was never able to buy one of the old style land raiders when I was younger because every single one that was allocated to the only GW dealer in town was scooped up as soon as it hit the shelves by older people with more $$$. I've since thought about buying a second hand one but have never liked the difference in scale. The proteus really filled that gap for me.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

mwnciboo wrote:Nice Landraider Mate, I am a little jealous of this one. How is the Warhound coming on?


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Nice Landraider Mate, I am a little jealous of this one. How is the Warhound coming on?

Ask and ye shall receive!

Here are the 2 pics of the little bit of progress I got done on my Waround. Realistically it's not a lot but it makes it look quite a bit better already!





I still have a lot of work to do to finish the base coat o gold and then some more to add depth to it. I can't wait to see how fun this looks with proper shading and weathering!

I also took a few shots of the Proteus with some Chaos Undivided doors beside a normal Land Raider to show a scale comparison



I also realized that I don;t think I have ever posted pictures of my land raider that I painted over 10 years ago This was my very first LR that I scooped from a Space Marine Mega Force before it was available separately! I then modified it with a pile of chaos tank bits that now come standard in the LR kit



The inside is actually painted in extreme detail but I don;t have a good enough camera to take a picture of it!





Here they are again being towered over by the Warhound



I also saw this model on ebay and absolutely had to have it for no other reason than it is completely absurd !



And that's about that for my time off this run!

I do however have several models with me at work to assemble and will be keeping everyone posted

Thanks for tuning in!

That Warhound is begging for 30mins with an Airbrush, it would look uber. As it is it looks pretty good. Keep plugging at it man, I look forward to seeing the results.

mwnciboo wrote:That Warhound is begging for 30mins with an Airbrush, it would look uber. As it is it looks pretty good. Keep plugging at it man, I look forward to seeing the results.

The Warhound is begging for 30 minutes of anything I need to open the cockpit up and paint the interior so I can finalize assembly and get on to the making it look awesome!

Hopefully I will have some time to spend on it after the holidays are over!

I've gotten a few things done here at work in the last couple days.

And what do you make out of this pile of bits?



Why It's a land speeder!



And I trimmed, prepped and fit up a pile of these Forge World bad boys



Once they have a bath they will be ready to glue togeather!

I have a few more things on the go here too and will keep everyone posted


Automatically Appended Next Post:
SO i was just thinking to myself that the points totals for my armies in my sig are looking rather out of date... I will have to make up fresh lists of what I actually have ... that should take a million years!

Soooo I got a few more things done.

Got all three land speeders and all of the drones glued





Then I started looking through my space marine bits box that I haven't been through in a while and fond all sorts of neat stuff

old water transfers



A bunch of mid 90's sticker banners





and some neat old guns. old pattern bolters, hand flamers, las pistols, ect



just thought I would share

Nice retro goodies

Haha yeah, it makes me want to go through my other bitz boxes and see what treats I can find

Wow, just wow!
The scale of which you work on this hobby is just amazing.. Makes it suck to be young and cashless! No matter, in time I might get up to your level
Until then I'll just keep my Tau WAY away from them all! The atlantic ocean will hopefully do that rather well well...

The Titan is great, can't wait to see more pics of it as it slowly (but quite surely, I will grant you) transforms into the horrible mechanized herald of death it will undeniably become!

Haha! Thanks!

Yeah the scale is a little overwhelming, but Ｉguess thats what happens when you play for 20 years >.<

This week I should have some time to finally put some more paint on my titan..... I just have to get my airbrush working!

Got my airbrush working, It was a plugged air passage that paint had found it's way into.

I got a lot done in the last 2 weeks and will be updating this thread as soon as I have time

Well here goes nothing! I figured I would at least get started on my update of what I have done over the last 2 weeks.

I finally got my airbrush working again! I found a blocked air passage and once I cleaned the thinner than a hair layer of paint off of it the brush worked like it was new!
Now that I know where the problem is I can clean it while I work as I notice the air pressure falling off!
I was also able to crank the PSI down quite a bit and still get the same coverage.



That airbrush stand was the best $25 ebay purchase ever!

I managed to slam out a whole pile of my Aurora Chapter







Here is what I banged out in 2 sittings:



I also base coated all of this but didn't take a picture of it before I put it back on the shelf



Here is what my Aurora Chapter looks like on the shelf now.... Me thinks it needs a bigger shelf!




That's it for now... I have a lot more to update but my lunch break is over!

It's great to see that you had some quality time to get stuff done. But you got a lot more done than I did.

I need to get more painted.

I also had some time to dig through my bitz boxes and put a few models togeather that have made it out the other end of the *dip* or have been sitting around waiting for some love:

Old plastic PM



And a few of his friends that will form another PM squad



I assembled some havocs, and the ever iconic DA's captain that graced the cover of so many books back in the day



Some aspiring champs /w power fists and a few random marines



I love this old Sorceror on DIsk. The backpack is an addition of course



His friend the lord of change (minus one part that must still be in the dip)



And finally the start of my Necromuda Gang. They will probably eventually double as Traitor guard, but regardless they are going to be fun to muck around with



I know everyone wants a big warhound update, but I haven't had the time to sit down and work on it. I have however started scheaming about how I am going to do interchangeable arms



The next time I'm at home I'm going to tackle this! Hopefully the results are as great as they look in my head!

I also decided what I am going to do with my Primarch Models. I've had the idea for a while that I want to make them look like they are on stands being projected as holograms.
I'm going to bulid the stands for them and then start using them as objective markers




I still have some battle pictures to post here, but that's it for the painting and modelling for the moment. I have a couple tanks with me at work that I will post pictures of but nothing exciting

Thanks for looking!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

JB wrote:

It's great to see that you had some quality time to get stuff done. But you got a lot more done than I did.

I need to get more painted.

Haha! I was just getting into a great P&M groove and then I had to go back to work >.< Hopefully I can fall back into it when I get home!

The OOP plastic Plague Marines look interesting.

I always knew the Dark Angels would hang out with traitors.

The Necromunda gang and the primarchs look like cool projects too.

Oddly enough I actually have a whole squad of *fallen angels* to build for Cypher's retinue

I wonder if Cypher will make an appearance in 6th...

The necromunda gang is sort of a backburner thing. I played a few games a couple months back and really liked it so I figured I would build a few gangers with modular arms and have some fun with it

Maybe I'll get around to posting some battle pictures today

Just got back into the flow of things and thought i'd check in with some familiar faces!

All looking rather fan-dabby-dosey in here! Loving the battle reports!

Also very keen to see some more pics of the Warhound.

Also, regarding the tau FW drones. Which book are the rules in for those? I have the FW Apoc books but they're not in those! Any info would be greatly appriciated as I was looking to get some for my own tau!

I actually had to look it up! Apparently the rules for the Tau special drones are in IA 3 : THE TAROS CAMPAIGN

The particular ones I bought are Marker drones and are actually in the Tau codex They look extremely huge next to standard GW drones lol.

I'm very keen to make some more pics of the warhound! When I get home in 10 days it will be my first modelling priority!

Always nice to see returning faces in here! Thanks for the visit and stay tuned!

My latest conversion:



The Chaos Rhino Tower of Vindication! Cower in all it's glory!..... Or was this an Ork invention?...

I think we need to schedule you for an appointment with a "specialist" to talk about your "conversion".

What else would you expect a man to do when he's stuck in the bush alone with 6 freshly built tanks?

I just don't want to be anywhere near it the first time it fires lol.

Blood is blood in the eyes of the blood god

If you stand near it it may do him service

So I figured I owed Dakka the battle report I promised.

The details are a little fuzzy now but there are lots of pictures so hopefully that makes up for it


The Skinny:

4 player game, randomly rolled teams, each player brought 1850pts to the game.

I brought my Chaos to the table, my brother brought out his Orks, and 2 friends brought grey knights and Necrons.

after the random roll it was Chaos + Orks vs. Necrons + Grey Knights

We played a capture and hold scenario with 4+d3 points. a 5 was rolled so 7 points were placed

Long table side deployment was chosen with a 24" dead mans land

Roll to go first/deploy first was won by the Chaos/Ork team and forces were deployed:



Much of the necron force was deployed in reserve and initiative was not seized

A few shots of the key points at deployment:









Orks and Chaos push forward led by a battlewagon and stormboyz



The other end





After an uneventful first turn the counter strike comes



end of turn 1, after we got back from a food run.



Boyz clash with scarabs after they have their truck eaten



eep (typhus is an objective marker. all of the markers are neat miniatures)



Some death cult assassins come out to play along with their shield bearing friends



Scarabs clash with Kans



Stormboyz get Stormed



End of turn 2



Power weapons prevail



Necrons start to pop up



A demon prince breaks through to the other side



an overview



Necrons come to play in the bushes



Unfortunnately from here on in the game got really intense and I didn't take enough pictures

Here is the table at the end of the game







Post Battle discussion



Chaos and Orks were victorious! We took the center of the table and managed to push back into their ranks for the entire game. Us forcing them to be on he defensive allowed us to control the flow of the game and gave us a definitive victory!

*wipes forehead* Hope everyone enjoyed that!

I blinked and it was over.

Congrats on the victory! Looks like your group are definitely players not painters...yet.

The GK Player has a fully painted SoB army, but has been playing GK's because it's the only way he can fiels his inquisitorial army right now.

My bro is new to the game and is painting away all the time, 6 months and he'll be painted out.

The necron player also has a fully painted army except for the new codex stuff.

But yeah, we enjoy playing too much to let painting stop us form doing it.

I really have to get on finishing my 2500pt army >.<

I'm going to be on to project *finish spikey bitz on tanks and base coat all tanks* the next time I'm home from work.

What is it with all man caves having wood paneling on the walls LOL

It's the only room in the house that nobody forces us to renovate??

I need more shelving lol

I'm jelly of your vindication tower and titan. Mostly your tower though.

whalemusic360 wrote:I'm jelly of your vindication tower and titan. Mostly your tower though.

It is a pretty tall tower.... I can't wait to get home tomorrow and start in on the spikey bitz!

They look sort of Ultramar-y right now.

Though the stacking makes me think of Imperial Fists for some reason.

Quick! Kill the loyalist! His mouth attempts to preach the emperor's name!

No. Just no. I was going to say that it could be a Plague Tower, but... no. Just no.

logg_frogg wrote:Quick! Kill the loyalist! His mouth attempts to preach the emperor's name!

You and what army (besides the 23000 points of Chaos)!!

Looking forward to the pointy bitz. Vegas is betting that you stab yourself in the hand at least 19 times with the points.

haha~ Maybe I should use them to play JENGA instead.....


Automatically Appended Next Post:

JB wrote:

logg_frogg wrote:Quick! Kill the loyalist! His mouth attempts to preach the emperor's name!

You and what army (besides the 23000 points of Chaos)!!

Looking forward to the pointy bitz. Vegas is betting that you stab yourself in the hand at least 19 times with the points.

I think the odds are better that 93 of the spikes break off the first time I transport the tanks anywhere at least that's where I'm putting my money!

Man, Logg_frogg, you have quite the "Workbench" laid out in front of you. More like a factory than a workbench, given the number of mini's you have. I'll be following your thread. Came here thanks to this:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/255352.page#3827601

Glad I did. Excited to see your chaos army grow.

Oh, and that tower rules. Skalk's just jealous he didn't think of it first.

Thanks for the visit! I'm going to be happy to see my army grow in colour

... I could go overboard and build a LR tower when I get home....

I will be following you now, as well. So much good stuff to see you paint! Abbadon turned out great, and Warhound will be immensely fun to watch.

The Tower of Vindication... My orky side is quivering at the awesome!

One of the first pics, I see you have a Gorkamorka box... I loved that game back in the day, tons of fun.

Also very much liking the beer fridge in the cave. Or are there two fridges?

SO MUCH AWESOME GOING ON HERE! That titan is SICK! Great stuff man.

Ok frog I need to ask, what is the purple hue light coming from in a ton of your photos? It always catched me off guard and also congrats on getting your gun fixed I KNOW YOU. Were having some issues with it.

Gymnogyps wrote:I will be following you now, as well. So much good stuff to see you paint! Abbadon turned out great, and Warhound will be immensely fun to watch.

The Tower of Vindication... My orky side is quivering at the awesome!

One of the first pics, I see you have a Gorkamorka box... I loved that game back in the day, tons of fun.

Also very much liking the beer fridge in the cave. Or are there two fridges?

I can't wait to really start banging out some squads painting. I have some really good ideas, I just have to set myself up a good place to paint that isn't where I game

I should really put the final couple touches on Abby and Snap a few more pics

Haha, we actually have a Gorkamorka legue at our FLGS... there are about 10 crazy people who play it like it's a religion... I just bought it for the models years ago

That is in fact 2 fridges. A beer fridge and wine fridge for when I'm feeling posh


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Baldsmug wrote:SO MUCH AWESOME GOING ON HERE! That titan is SICK! Great stuff man.

Haha! Thanks man! I can't wait to get a little more paint on my Titan!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Cutthroatcure wrote:Ok frog I need to ask, what is the purple hue light coming from in a ton of your photos? It always catched me off guard and also congrats on getting your gun fixed I KNOW YOU. Were having some issues with it.

That is the dark light of Chaos itself burning from within the warp!

Actually It was dark in the games room and I wanted to snap some pics but the only way I could get good ones without the flash was to light the models. The only light I had was an LED with a slight blue tint


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Thanks for tuning in everyone! I'm almost back home from work so I should be gettign some work done again soon!

Curious... if your opponent gets a penetrating hit on that tower and a 5 or 6 result, do you simply remove a level of Rhino? What happens if your get an Immobilized, do you get 5 Repair rolls?

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Curious... if your opponent gets a penetrating hit on that tower and a 5 or 6 result, do you simply remove a level of Rhino? What happens if your get an Immobilized, do you get 5 Repair rolls?

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Curious... if your opponent gets a penetrating hit on that tower and a 5 or 6 result, do you simply remove a level of Rhino? What happens if your get an Immobilized, do you get 5 Repair rolls?

Brilliant!

On a roll of 5 you remove D3 rhino's. On a roll of 6 you remove D6 rhino's an resolve that many D6 in explosions as per usual. If the roll is a 6 it explodes with a D strength apocalyptic blast

You guys crack me up

logg_frogg wrote:On a roll of 5 you remove D3 rhino's. On a roll of 6 you remove D6 rhino's an resolve that many D6 in explosions as per usual. If the roll is a 6 it explodes with a D strength apocalyptic blast

You guys crack me up

LOLz

Great battle report as always!

Now i'm itchin' for a game myself!

Soooo I've been experimenting with Ultrasonic cleaning and will be sharing some picture of that sometime this afternoon

Interesting stuff!

No, no...none of your fetishes unless they involve miniatures for 40K.

That reminds me of Guiles sonic boom, I guess it works differently though lol.

I can always trust my Dakka Brothers and sisters to make me laugh when I come back here!

So here goes

I picked up this little machine here to see if it would help me with stripping mini's



So I figured I would start with this as my first victim





And the regular magic liquid as the paint remover



Set the time... turn on the heater...



And here goes nothing....



480 seconds later and a little steamy



I pulled it up out of the liquid and nothing magical happened



Only a small amount of pant had been removed



so I put the basket back down into the now very warm pool of simple green



and I added a well soaked model to see what it would do



That is actually a picture of the model after it had gone through the cycle. If you look closely you can see that the paint on the surface is rippled.

Paint was also starting to come off the tank body.



Since the ultrasonic by it's self was not removing large amounts of paint I decided to give the models a quick brushing:

Some paint came off the tank


The metal pieces on the other hand both stripped very easily, I was actually able to wipe a large amount of the paint off with just my finger.







The ease with witch the paint came off blew me away. Especially out of the deep crevices that would normally need a pick to even move.

More to come!

That's pretty cool!

Cutthroatcure wrote:That's pretty cool!

Yeah it seems to speed the process up more than anything.


I've also done some modelling and base coating in the last 2 days.

I layed down base coat on my brother's stompa and battle wagon.





And then since I had red in my airbrush I decided to tackle a few Khornate buggers

I painted the blood slaughterer impailer I built yesterday



Lord Zuhfor and Khorne terminator friends



A lord, a few bezerkers and Angron



I also helped my brother out a but by trying my hand at scuplting some green stuff to make a cybork face as part of a warboss conversion from an Inquisitor model.









I tried to make his skill look leathery and loose like it didn't quite fit his face anymore. My brother also didn't want teeth in his mouth.
It was quite a bit of fun working with the GS again and it makes me want to finish one on my Daemon Prince conversions from a different inquisitor model

Thanks for looking!

Can we have more/closer pictures of Angron Please?

That is something I would like to see.

Also is that the same arm just flipped on both sides of that Cybork?

I'll take a good picture of angron tomorrow when I get a chance

The warboss actually started as this model from the inquisitor line:



There may be a few more modifications in his future.

He makes a perfect Ork as he is almost identical in size to Thraka


Automatically Appended Next Post:
My next mission is to tackle putting the bitz on these



And I also wanted to give a shout out to this godly stuff



It makes airbrushing rediculously easy!

Simple Green works quickly on metal but seems to take several iterations to clean plastic. On the plus side, you can soak and resoak and resoak plastic and it doesn't get warped in Simple Green.

JB wrote:

Simple Green works quickly on metal but seems to take several iterations to clean plastic. On the plus side, you can soak and resoak and resoak plastic and it doesn't get warped in Simple Green.

Yeah, That's why I keep using it. You can leave models in it for months and not have to worry about them. At worst it will take the shine off of metal models. I find it only does this if you put them back in for a second dip after scrubbing.

I always use brake fluid to get my plastic models clean, a 24 hour soak and a toothbrush, I fly thru stripping...Maybe if you put brake fluid in there.

Bake fluid has never really worked for me. Maybe i'm doing something wrong

I just get the cheap stuff and let it do the rest of the work. Let it sit in it and then hit it with a toothbrush with the fury of Khorne lolz!

Wow, you are flying along I'm getting a bit jealous, I need to get on with more. Too much playing not enough painting.

That's quite the amazing little gadget you have there.

My experience w/ Simple Green is that it needs a bit of muscle no matter how long it sits. A friend of mine put a WFB plastic Giant in a jar of simple Green and left it there for almost 6 months the paint was still stuck on.

Simple Green for metal is (mostly) amazing. For plastic... eh. It's not horrible (it works better than beer for example) but in the end there's still work to be done.

Cutthroatcure wrote:Can we have more/closer pictures of Angron Please?

That is something I would like to see.

Also is that the same arm just flipped on both sides of that Cybork?

Here are a few snaps of Angron up close.





I have abunch more pics uploaded to blog about here aswell and should get to doing a real update tomorrow!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

mwnciboo wrote:Wow, you are flying along I'm getting a bit jealous, I need to get on with more. Too much playing not enough painting.

Haha! yeah I've bene dusting out the corners pretty efficiently! I'm tired of having a closet full of boxes and a shelf full of grey mini's!

It does however seem to be creating the problem of having too many mini's compared to shelf space... that is being worked on in the background

Nice to see you back in here!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:That's quite the amazing little gadget you have there.

My experience w/ Simple Green is that it needs a bit of muscle no matter how long it sits. A friend of mine put a WFB plastic Giant in a jar of simple Green and left it there for almost 6 months the paint was still stuck on.

Simple Green for metal is (mostly) amazing. For plastic... eh. It's not horrible (it works better than beer for example) but in the end there's still work to be done.

After doing a little bit more experimentation I have been having some excellent results with the ultrasonic, More to follow when I get a chance!

Completely agree on the shelving front. The wife won't allow me to have more, so were moving house because we need a bigger house for minia...having a bigger family. The comedy is if we get an Ensuite i'm going to start hiding random miniatures in there just to hear her freak out.

A couple of weeks back she was screaming because a large (read 2" across spider) was in the bathroom so I've been taking the piss out of her stationing soldier sentries to ward off spiders (this annoys her as much as the spiders do!). Ah the joys of a happy marriage.

I live in a small two bedroom Bungalow in the Middle of WV with my Roommate and something I love to do is put Mini's in the Bathroom and tell him later they were watching him shower,

Yeah it's pretty funny LOLZ

mwnciboo wrote:Completely agree on the shelving front. The wife won't allow me to have more, so were moving house because we need a bigger house for minia...having a bigger family. The comedy is if we get an Ensuite i'm going to start hiding random miniatures in there just to hear her freak out.

A couple of weeks back she was screaming because a large (read 2" across spider) was in the bathroom so I've been taking the piss out of her stationing soldier sentries to ward off spiders (this annoys her as much as the spiders do!). Ah the joys of a happy marriage.

Do the sentries have heavy flamers? I hear they work well against arachnids


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Cutthroatcure wrote:I live in a small two bedroom Bungalow in the Middle of WV with my Roommate and something I love to do is put Mini's in the Bathroom and tell him later they were watching him shower,

Yeah it's pretty funny LOLZ

Were they blink clicking picts?

I have a serious, don't ask don't tell policy for my Miniature soldiers

Nice progress and as always, full of useful hobby tips! . . . Hmm. . . Maybe you should have your own TV show?

I don't think we have simple green over here but we do have dettol which works very well! It's probably to same stuff really!

I've got an ultrasonic at work, I wonder if they'll notice if I "borrow" it!? . . . Or maybe i'll just take a few minis into work!

Looking forward to next installment!

So with a little more effort I found that the Ultrasonic cleaner worked exceptionally well!

This time around I cycled the machine on once every couple hours and let the models soak over night in the cycled solution.

The results turned out to be quite amazing!

Right away you can see in the milky simple green how much paint was being removed by the process



I managed to make fast work of a number of models. The paint was so loose that it was more like *brushing* that *scrubbing* to remove the paint.



What amazed me most is how clean these models got with such minimal effort.









I was able to strip a massive amount of models in quite a short time because my hands no longer get tired from scrubbing!



More to come~!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Emperors_Champion wrote:Nice progress and as always, full of useful hobby tips! . . . Hmm. . . Maybe you should have your own TV show?

I don't think we have simple green over here but we do have dettol which works very well! It's probably to same stuff really!

I've got an ultrasonic at work, I wonder if they'll notice if I "borrow" it!? . . . Or maybe i'll just take a few minis into work!

Looking forward to next installment!

Haha! I guarantee the one you have at work is of better quality than this one It's good, but a commercial one would have a better duty cycle

I hope to continue to share everything I learn on this hobby adventure , Maybe I will do an installment on airbrushing the next time I'm at home!

Thanks for looking!

Good S***, i am glad you found something that actually works, Also I love the Angron and can not wait to see him complete and Painted.

Here are a few more pics of some of the modelling that I did when I was home over the last 2 weeks.

I assembled a number of Havocs and some random dudes



I also did about 15 more of these but they didn't make it into a picture for some reason

A few close ups of the FW missle launchers. The backpacks def presented some fun modelling challenges but I managed to get things to work







Tossed a few freshly stripped eldar models togeather



oh, apparently I lied, I found a picture of a few more of the Havocs, still not all of them



I also picked up a few second hand FW models for my brothers Orkpocalypse Waaaagh



now I get to see how well simple green works on resin

I snapped a quick pic of the on eof the 2 bridges I got from Pegasus games. Super easy to assemble and will look good once they are painted up.



I base coated and clipped a massive stack of GW palm trees in preparation for some jungle terrain I'm working on



I also started blocking out colour with my airbrush on the awesome FW piece I picked up a while back.



And started working with some GW barbed wire that I picked up months ago.
Here is what it looks like fresh out of the package



and here is the start of what I am doing with it. This is one length stretched and glued to plasticard.



I'm quite a bit further along than this but I didn't get a chance to take any pics before I had to leave for work.

Soooo "project clean out my closet/bitzboxes" seems to be going quite well. All this must seem random to everyone out there but I have a pile of stuff that I need to get out of storage and out in the open assembled so I know what I'm truly up against!

This week I will be doing up a Battle Report from a 4 player 2500pt each random teams capture and hold game I played last weekend. I also brought a bunch of space marines up to work with me and will be posting my progress as I assemble them.

Thanks for tuning in!




Automatically Appended Next Post:
Here is a quick preview of the big game I had last week.

The teams ended up being Necrons + Space Marines VS Sisters of Battle + Chaos Space Marines

The lignes at the begining of the game:

Crons + Marines



Chaos + Sistas



purely epic!

You're on hyperdrive! Nice to see some terrain projects mixed in with all of that Chaos!!

That sonic device did some great work! I'm especially impressed that it cleaned the plastic models.

The battle looks like fun. No comments on the painting...

And by that I assume you mean that the painting is so awe inspiring that you are rendered speechless

Don't make me call in the Inquisition...

They'll give you the Fluffy Pillow. Yes, verily.

I'm hoping to continue my hyperdrive modelling kick while at work this time. I got ambitious and brought a SM Megaforce and 15 AoBR Marines with me to assemble into future Green Marines. I will be using the models to fill out gaps in my current force by outfitting them with hvy weapons, plasma guns, melta guns, power fists etc.

I have 17 guys assembled so far and can't wait to get back at it after work today!

Soooo here goes the rest of the battle report that I previewed.

Chaos and Sisters deployed first and go first.
The mission is capture and hold with 9 objectives.

Turn 1 moving



We had a very uneventful turn one followed by the Marines/Necrons giving us a bit of a pummeling



Vindicator was lost after a single round of shooting.

The middle of the table also tightened up.



On turn 2 the battle for the middle of the table and our *left flank* started to get interesting



The living saint heads up the charge after a squad of deathmarks lead by a special character port in behind them.



By the end of our turn 2 there were tanks carcases everywhere





The start of their turn 2



our opponets put on the push



Deathmarks decide not to die



A failed deep strike leaves 4 marines dead



heavy fighting starts





by the start of turn 3 there are troops on foot piled out of tanks all over!



And shortly after this is unfortunately where the game ends



The marines/necrons cenceded to us as there was no hope of them winning. By the end of our turn 3 we held 5 points, contested 3 and had 2 more in our sights to contest.

Not the most exciting game as our opponents made a few key errors that allowed our strategy to move them away from the capture points and hold our line.

On the plus side both of our opponents learned new things about the armies they were fielding.

Necrons? Allied with Marines?

CURSE YOU MATT WARD!!! /Rant

Almost any day gaming beats one working. Even if the game only lasted for three turns.

JB wrote:

Necrons? Allied with Marines?

CURSE YOU MATT WARD!!! /Rant

Almost any day gaming beats one working. Even if the game only lasted for three turns.

Did you miss that Chaos was aligned with the inquisition? lol

Even with the 3 game quitzies it wasn't a short game by any means. We still got in a good 5 hours of play time Too much talking and not enough playing
Also a few of the combats got rediculously complicated in regards to asigning hits and wounds

So while I have been at work I have been bashing out the SM megaforce as well as the 15 AOBR marines I brought with me for this run.

I am using the marine bodies coupled with a box of bitz to try and fill out some of the gaps I have in my army as far as sergents, heavy weapons, melta guns and Plasma Guns.

So far I have 30 guys assembled in various configurations and will try to post up some pics later tonight if I can get them to upload on my slow connection

Pics? PICS?!

That sounds like a good use of extra AOBR minis. Thankfully, those things are fairly cheap.

Yeah I picked them up for a song. They work very very well as rank and file fillers


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I just did a bad.... I bought 9 bloodcrushers and 2 soul grinders so I can field a Chaos Daemons Army >.<

So I'm up to 35 marines built now and get to have fun finishing the last 10 tonight with FW Heavy weapons that don't seem to like backpacks at all

Bad Frog!

Lol all those minis look excellent just need a really heavy painting session!

Yeah Chaos back packs and heavy weapons are a right pain.

Sooooo I got a few marines built. 43 to be exact

Here are some pics before I finished all the devastators






Now on to drop pod building.

@ giraffex lol yeah, I thought the chaos dudes were bad... the freaking over the shoulder FW marine hvy wps have the worst fitment I have seen on a GW model in a long long time!

Quick update today as I am still at work and only have an hour or two a day to do any work.

I finished all the devastators, 5 scouts with shotguns and a drop pod.



Should be finishing up a Venerable Dred tonight

Thanks for stopping in!

Haha, just how long have you been buying minis?
Can't wait for the day I have an entire BASEMENT filled with Tau! Damn, that is going to be a lot of hammerfishes!

Anyways, great blog man, keep on trotting!

I have been buying mini's since the eraly 90's and it seems the older I get the easier it gets to afford them! Too bad that also means I have way less time to spend playing with them!

Thanks for the blog visit!

Quick update again today, Still plugging away at this build.



Venerable Dread and LR Crusader. I left the top removable for now in case I want to paint the interior

Now I just have to decide weather or not to build the Land Speeder Storm...

Thanks for stopping in!

Flip a freakin' coin!

Heads you build the Storm and Tails you build the Storm. Just be sure to leave off bits that will make it tough to paint.

I'm pretty sure It's going to get sold.
I don't really like the Idea of the model and It's not perticularily competetive lol. If it were a dedicated transport for scouts It may be a different story lol! For now it will sit on the sprue

I ended up trading the storm for some old metal termies, so good deal for me!

Wow... It has been way too long since I updated anything here!

I'll have to see what pictures I have on my camera for you guys !

Chaos or Loyalist termies?

Chaos termies of course Can't beat 10 termies for a silly speeder full of scouts!

I should have a few pics up tonight or tomorrow morning if I can manage to upload the pics on my ghetto work internet connection

So here goes

I have been doing all sorts of stuff over the lsat month but have not taken enough pics of all of it.
I do howver have a bit f a sampler.

I bought a new camera and have been screwing around with it to try and get some better shots.

Chaos Lord





Icon Bearer







Close up of a terminator in better light



Now all I need to do is build a light box and I can start taking good pictures of my mini's for you guys

I've also been trying my hand at some GS again with some promising results.

A little warm up and trimming of old GS



Then I tried my hand at a Daemon Prince of nurgle with some pretty great results.











I also played a game with 2 of my newly assembled Tervigons.... sooo sexy.....







I also got a few games in trying out my Chaos Daemons for the first time







These pics are from a crazy 4 player game we played out of the Battle Missions book. It was victory based on kill points but all non vehicle units that were killed were returned to reserve!

I'll have a few more pictures tonight again once I get them uploaded

That 'Nid horde looks intimidating.

Did you know that you can change the color of your miniatures? They have this stuff called paint that comes in bottles and you can apply it with a really effective tool called a brush.



/kidding

The armies are growing strong...and you already had big armies.

Yes and I really really need to spend some time making them pretty colours!

I have been so stuck on trying to get all of the stuff I have in the closet assembled that I keep ending up with more grey and silver

I think it may be time to buckle down with the airbrush and slam colour down on every model I own! Especially those poor poor neglected Tau!

I keep buying troops to make the armies that I have more competetive, but I seriously have to stop! And for the most part have!

..... well except for the fact that I somehow ended up with 20 traitor guard torsos that are trying to tempt me into putting togeather a 1500pt guard army.....

*RUN AWAY!!!!*

Well, having just poured over the whe of this I gotta say what a great blog you've got here! I totally recognise a kindred spirit in the obsessive building of stuff stakes - now where'd that Warhound get to? - and I also know the whole craziness of return to the hobby post-evil ex (I should add my wife of the ladt 6 years is very supportive of my toy habit however, mostly cos it keeps me out of trouble and away from musical theatre). Well and truly exalted chief!

Thanks for the visit! I'm glad you enjoyed my ramblings

I really do have a building stuff obsession... SOmething about keeping my hands busy makes me just a litte more sane .... If only I knew what the word sane actually meant

The warhound.... Now that's a seperate issue entirely...

It was on the books to do some work on it the last time I was at home but all of my warhound time got taken up by adding 2 shelving units to my games room and moving everything all over!

On the plus side I have gained piles of room!

I think the Warhound is once again very close to the top of the list... hrmmm maybe I should make an actual list.....

*mind is blown*


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Well.... It seems that my mind has recovered enough to think about showing you guys what I have been up to in te last couple days


Working a little bit on my traitor guard








And once again digging stuff out of my bitz box to make bodies



Once the last few pics finish uploading I have a few more to post up


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Whoop! they uploaded!

Here is what came of the bottom of the bitz box..... It's really too bad I ran out of arms for these projects... silly me forgetting one of my bitz boxes at home









Cheers! I'm off to bed for now

I think I may just have to work on my titan when I get home.... 4 more days of waiting!

Soooo just as the boxes of unbuilt stuff on my shelf have gotten to a bearable sized stack I had to go out and order more stuff >.<

I've ordered everything I need for a 1500pt traitor guard army to compliment my forces of chaos ...

Now I'm going to need to spend a solid 2 weeks painting and building to get the cobwebs out of the corners before the new stuff arrives

Did you order a lot of FW stuff for the traitor guard or are you kit bashing and converting a bunch of regular IG minis?

I'm going to be doing a combination of both.

I have been collecting the FW torso's for a while now slowly.

All of the vehicles will be kitbashed and converted and I am really really looking forward to doing them!

Your new camera seems to have boosted the quality of your shoots considerably - I approve!

You have a mind bogglingly large amount of armies there, mate! I also envy the size of your gaming room, nice to see that getting rid of one's wife has it's own rewards (joke)

Are you slowly working on building up the details of the Aurora Chapter i.e. base coating all of them then detailing all of them?

Keep the battle reps coming by the way, muchos fun!

Haha! yeah the camera was a muuuuch needed upgrade!
Once I build myself a light box things will get one step better but that's not really on the short list.

Yes, I plan on using my aurora chapter as a testing ground for my airbrushing skills.
I'm setting up to do then with airbrush shading, washes, weathering powders and a few brush painted details.
I may even delve into the realm of OSL ! But that might be a stretch

Looking forward to seeing some minis painted up.

Yeah when I get back home on Wed this week I'm going to make a point of painting up a full squad of either Aurora Chapter or Blacl geion just out of principle

I have a pile of ne techniques I wan tto try out!

So what's your tight 1.5k list then?

I'm going to be running some variation of this:

Company Command Squad - 4x Melta, Chimera/145pts

Vets - 3x Melta, Chimera/155pts
Vets - 3x Plasma, Chimera/170pts
Vets - 3x Plasma, Chimera/170pts

Vendetta - /130pts
Vendetta - /130pts
Vendetta - /130pts

Manticore - /160pts
Manticore - /160pts
Hydras (2) - /150pts

Part of me also wants to make a variation with suicide vets mounted in regular valks but I'm probably a nutter


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Hopefully that will prove to be more compretetive than my Chaos and less cheeseball than GK's

It's an interesting list. I swear by a bane wolf in there but that's just me. I also don't rate ccs in mech vet, give me a commisar any day!

The list I posted is primarily an armor spam list.

It plays the *how many efficient units can i get on the table in armor* game lol.

Seems to be a very popular tournament strategy these days.

Too bad nobody does it like GK's lol.... I would build that army but it would feel like selling my soul!

I made a decision today that my traitor guard army will be Based in a snow theme, similar to the plan for my Tau.

I just ordered a pile of very nice looking resin *snow* bases from Dart Art Miniatures.

Sexy stuff indeed!

Certainly seems competitive. Saddle up, etc. Are you going to play with gw's basing paint snow at all? Also, btw, Ifalba did some amazing snow effects on commission puppies recently, worth checking out her blog for.

Funny story, I was just reading her Blog

I'm not sure about the basing snow, I haven't had a chance to see any of the new range at all yet because I have been at work in the middle of nowhere for the last 2 weeks.

I was planning on using a combination of water effects, baking soda and GW snow flock. I will have to do some experimenting on terrian before I do it on bases

I should be updating this soon! I have tons on the go

Watching... Waiting... *taps foot, checks watch, tuts...*

I'd skip the baking soda, goes yellow with age and you know what yellow snow means...

I haven't tried this yet but I've heard good things of mixing snow flock in with gloss, when it dries it will have a nice sparkly cold look to it.

SO just a quick update for today as I don't have a lot of my pictures from the last 2 weeks uploaded yet.

I got some fun stuff in the mal when I got home!



I also did a little bit of digging in my ultrasonic cleaner... I need to get on this and get the rest of my nids togeather!



I finished moving my Chaos over to the new shelves I bought. This is what it looked like 2 weeks ago:



I also fired up the old airbrush to try and get rid of some more of the grey on my shelves





The paint booth I bought off of ebay is a freaking life saver! It takes 100% of the paint particles out of the room!

I sprayed a bunch of aurora chapter







Then I went on a mission to change this:



To this:





I then went on a bit of an adventure in paint land.
I decided I really liked this colour from the new paint line and wanted to spray it on my pink horrors.



The challenge being that this is from the new *dry paint* line.

My first attempt at thinning left it clumpy and unsprayable.


I found not only that this paint was very pigment heavy but the medium that i sused to make it is gel like. Even after adding a ton of airbrush medium to it it still looked like this



I ended up having to thin it about 10:1 to make it sprayable.

I did on the other hand get some pretty good results once I did!







On a side note... I also found out that trying to spray *shade* (washes) is a bad idea. You get a nice even coat, but none of the wash effect as it tends to dry evenly and not seep into recesses as when brushed.

Once I upload some more pics I'll update again! Thanks for looking guys!




Automatically Appended Next Post:

GiraffeX wrote:I'd skip the baking soda, goes yellow with age and you know what yellow snow means...

I haven't tried this yet but I've heard good things of mixing snow flock in with gloss, when it dries it will have a nice sparkly cold look to it.

Thnx for the tip! I'll stick to snow flock for the most part I guess

inmygravenimage wrote:Watching... Waiting... *taps foot, checks watch, tuts...*

I think I hear an echo in here somehwere.....

I have that booth! It's great but a nightmare to get replacement filters. Lots of toy goodness here - keep at it, looking grand.

I have to say, you got me hooked on the ultrasonic. I actually burnt through the 1st one, and got a bigger, industrial grade one.

We want to see some finished models though, get on it.

I actually did some colour scheme layouts on my Traitor guard.

I will upload some of the pics when I get a chance and show you guys

I actually can't wait to get painting! As soon as I figure out a good way to smotth out white pigment without thinning it until it's translucent I'll be gtg!



Automatically Appended Next Post:

whalemusic360 wrote:I have to say, you got me hooked on the ultrasonic. I actually burnt through the 1st one, and got a bigger, industrial grade one.

We want to see some finished models though, get on it.

Yeah I'm thinking about upgrading myself! what did you end up purchasing??

inmygravenimage wrote:I have that booth! It's great but a nightmare to get replacement filters. Lots of toy goodness here - keep at it, looking grand.

What did you end up doing for filters?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290604862797?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

The next step up has variable frequencies. This one has adjustable temps (warning: 130 degree purple power is to hot, it pits the plastic) and can be set 5 min - 1 hour. ~95 degrees for an hour and it just falls off.

The problem I had with the other one was it wasn't sealed. The simplegreen vapors melted the glue bonds and shorted it out.

wow! thats a good price for that!

I may have to try it out... have you found that it works a lot better?

I have found that the one I have works fine but only after you run it 4-5 times to warm up the simple green

It works amazing. The only problem is it can get to hot if you run it for to long (2 hours, I was trying to knock some superglue out of a metal model, forgot about poor gaunty)

I will have to fit that into the budget somewhere
I love mine but I know it doesn't have the punch it should!

The Aurora marines look like an Ork horde all under coated green like that, progress is looking promising so far though

GiraffeX wrote:The Aurora marines look like an Ork horde all under coated green like that, progress is looking promising so far though

when I get ambitious thye will be getting a highlight spray with a lighter green and then a quick wash and weather and a basing in something light and desert like

A few more updates today as I was able to upload some more pics last night.

I took a few pictures of a model that I thought looked awesome when I painted it 15 years ago









I was going for a coming out of camouflage look but looking at it now it could def use to have some details picked out.

I also did some work on my traitor guard. I decided to use the *renegade enforcers* as my sgt.'s and vet's



But I had to fill in the gaping arm gaps with some GS in order to fit standard arms.

\

Typically for a lot of my GS shaping I have been using this as a tool.



I like using a wooden tool as keeping it moist in water means it doesn;t stick to GS. also you can easily carve it into any shape you need.

Inadvertantly while installing the flag pole through the hands of my standard bearer he aquired a mean looking beating stick!



and then shortly traded it out for a nice little banner... something about it being too heavy!



I picked up this model a while back with full intention of converting him to a CSM Sorc of Nurgle but I didn;t ever think he was the right fit once I saw it in person.



He will however make an excellent addition to my traitor guard!

Once I got all the arms sorted and glued on my guard I based them in a light grey and started trying to get a colour scheme down





I decided on a grey/white/black camo pattern and white acessories.

I blocked out the colours then used a thinned down wash to pick out the low points.

It doesn;t look like much right now but it will lokk a lot cooler once I have picked out the highlights and make the white look white again.







On a side note I picked up an 0.2 airbrush to try out (Iwata knock off for $10 on ebay)



here it is beside my eastwood brush



I also bought a couple more of these quick conncetors





They make changing out airbrushes and cleaning airbrushes super easy! The biggest advantage is that you don't have to crank down your regulator or turn off your compressor when disconnecting your brush as they will keep pressure in your supply line. They also provide a pivot point for your line so it won't get tangled

That's it for now!

Thanks for looking!

Looks cool. I totally get the idea of weathered white for traitor guard in fact exactly what I'd intended myself if ever gone that route. Consider shading with purple/brown inks for a worm-flesh look perhaps? Just my 0.02 (pennies, not cents!)

Once I do some more higlighting and make the white pop again it will make more sense

The vehicles on the other hand will be a weathered white.

So I got the last few pictures uploaded....


I built a second soul grinder for my chaos daemons army:



I picked up this little thing on ebay nice and cheap for larger coverage spraying projects:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/362466-.html

I also started messing around a bit with the foam cutter that I bought a while back

Here is what it looks like freshly cut


Then a quick pull of the of the offcut and.....



Turned out pretty damn good! ... So I did a whole pile of pre cut pieces that I had!



And remeber Kids! Always wear a respirator and work in a well ventilated area when cutting foam!



..... The sad thing is even after 10 years I can still taste the tear gas in that thing

And right before I left for work I got the best present in the world in the mail!



Traitor guard!!! Whoop!!

I brought the whole stack of stuff to work with me and have been working on them in the evenings!

More pics to follow as I get throught it all! 2 Valk's built so far!

Freakin awesome. And the mask sets you up as a member of your own traitor guard! Btw, re:filter - never managed to replace :( beat it out thoroughly.

Yeah every once in a while I have to put it on and drink out of my canteen in it !

I'm assuming trying to find a military grade gas mask filter is not very straigh forward.... But I have never looked to buy one!

Hopefully I will get my 3rd Valk finished tonight... then on to the Chimeras and manticores!

Quick update.

Got my 3rd Valk Built!



On to Manticore's!

Building building building.

unfortunately the last 3 days have been 15hr days at work so my productivity has been down a little. 1 manticore down 1 to go... then on to the 4 chimeras!

so now I have:

3 valks
2 manticores
2 chimera's
30 vetrans
5 company command squad

I still need to complete:

2 chimera's
2 Hydra Flak tank's (don't have them with me at work)

whoop! will start painting on wed when I get home!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I'm looking at something alon these lines for a colour scheme for my *snow camouflage* vehicles



This is more for colour reference than anything

Everything I have for this army minus my Hydra Flak Tanks are now built!
I uploaded a picture but it seems to have dissapeared into the vapour

I can't wait to put some paint on it!

That UN tank is a great reference pic for weathered white. Looking forward to seeing it on your vehicles.

Gasmask!

I always find it nice to have a real worl reference when doing painting to help get colour pallets sorted. I'm just happy I remebered that US vehicles get painted white on peace keeping missions

I should get some airbrushing done on Wed

Hey Logg, just caught up w/ your thread and have to say that I really noticed the cleanup / reorg you did for your modeling space. I just did something similar and it's a great feeling.

That 2nd Ed Lictor looks just fine. I've converted one of mine into a Tyranid Prime for my ridiculous Genestearler-only Tyranid list. I either get stomped w/o mercy or I ravage and rend my opponents into little tiny bits. Not much middle ground w/ that force.

New addditions to your Traitor Guard are looking great! Looking forward to some paint

Thanks for the drop in Skalk!

Yeah the cleanup felt totally awesome ! It's so organised down there now it's disgusting

That sounds like a neat conversion Most of my Bugs are 2nd ed so he fits the bill I Looove genestealer armies!
I found that Tervigon's compliment them quite well as they add a lot of fodder and some big targets to draw fire.

Sadly I must report that I literally got absolutely nothing done on any of my mini's in the lat 2 weeks. Between spring vacationing and Diablo 3 all of my time went away way too quickly!. I also failed to bring models to work with me this time so it will be 2 more weeks before I can even play with a Mini >.< .

Me=Sad Panda

I would say that you are slacking but one should never throw rocks at the slab thick panes of a bunker from the fragile comfort of a greenhouse.

But you would be right! I am slacking! Unfortunately I suspect I will be slacking a little bit until the end of June >.<

Quality trumps quantity. A break from all of this may well help you see different thigs you hadn't worked on before. After the break I took I'm a lot more focused on what I want to do instead of scattering myself across 4 main projects and multiple sub-projects within each main.

Hrmm. Geting myself focused would definitly be a great thing


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Thanks for the positive outlook

It beats the alternative.

Yes falling into a hobbyless void where no modelling can be done would be terrible!

Yes, it would be. Very terrible indeed. This is supposed to be fun, not a chore.

I find it to be lots of fun! I just tend to extend my collection past the amount of time I can sink into it

P.S. I am the slackiest slacker in slackersville

Summer has been burning all of my time!

The release of 6th edition has def renewed a lot of my interest in the game!

I'm still building my IG Hydra Flak Tanks and have also been working on some FW dreads and cleaning up some little things that I have pushed out into the distance in my overbuying spree of the last year!

Time to get some projects done and stop spending cash

Eh, Logan lives?

Dammit ninjas! I want my money back!!!

Glad to see you back at it. 6th Ed is looking awesome and I am really excited about it.

Anyone would think you were going Hydra crazy for 6th or something

JB wrote:Eh, Logan lives?

Dammit ninjas! I want my money back!!!

Little do you know..... I am their master and they are coming for you!



Automatically Appended Next Post:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Glad to see you back at it. 6th Ed is looking awesome and I am really excited about it.

Yeah I can;t wait to get back from work and open my book and see what wonderfulness 6th ed has in store!
Hopefully it fixes the lackluster I have had for my Chaos as of late

inmygravenimage wrote:Anyone would think you were going Hydra crazy for 6th or something

^^ I bought the hydra's a while back, long before the flyers were released or 6th was confirmed

They are a bastard of a model to assemble but they seem to be well worth it gameplay wise

6th Ed fixed a lot of the general rules enough that Chaos already has more options (meaning it is a bit more level for us vs. everyone else) and w/ the Codex coming soon you can bet things are going to become awesome!

*jumps up and down*

I get to read my rule book tomorrow night when I finally get home!

I have also built a few things at work this week:

2 x venomthrope
2x FW Black Legion Dred
2x Hydra Flak tank
1x pyrovore
1x epedimus
and I might build a Tao model tonight but I may also just pack for tomorrow's plane ride

Can you tell I'm cleaning out my proverbial closet?

So once you have everything built you will have nothing else to live for?

If I manage to get everything I have in boxes, in the dip and hiding in my bitz bins built before I die I will be impressed

I has the Been Slakinz'


I have a few pics to post later today hope to keep things going!

Post pictures later? Only if my ninjas fail in their sacred duty!

Thanks for sending the anime ninja's with boobs... they were quite enjoyable

SOooooo amongst my slacking I got a few things done.

I built a pile of random models I had sitting around



I worked a little on my traitor guard



And now I am working on Project X... SOmehting I have needed to get out of my stack of boxes for some time now!

It involves these




and all of the contents of this massive box of resin



Any guesses??

Ooh, what a lot plastic crack! Building an leviathan perhaps?