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Amazing minis & scenery!!

Stunning looking armies MD, Pacific and Sherrypie!

Honestly very keen on getting some terrain sorted soon(ish). I'm nearly there with my LI stuff and I have the manufactorum set to start.

Meanwhile, here are a couple of war doggos for my AT force. Aiming to get done by Wednesday:

Working on my Warlord at the same time. Pretty happy with it so far:

Lovely work Tyranid Horde! That's a cracking colour scheme/combination, like some of the detailing with the decals too.

Those titans are really nicely done TH.

Indeed. Loving the shading on the bone parts in particular, Tyranid Horde.

If all goes to plan tomorrow, I’ll be watching Tales from the Darkside and assembling the rest of my Legion Fast Attack.

Soon as I’ve got all that painted, I’ll take a group shot, with everything presented as Detachments.

Right. Half way through assembling the Legion Fast Attack, and it’s a really nice kit to work with.

Importantly, right now I’ve nearly got a proper Sky Hunter Phalanx of useful size.

One unit of Outriders will be joining the Demi-Company to give them some rapid responders.

The Landspeeders however are oddly frustrating. Their basic equipment of Plasma Cannon (Light AT) and Heavy Bolter (Light, Point Defence) have the same range, and three shots between them. But, I can upgrade 1 in 2 to Multi-Melta and Heavy Flamer, giving some punch against Armour and dug-in infantry.

I tend to favour specialisation in my head, so I’m not sure how a mixed unit of Landspeeders will perform, but the kit forces me to build one of each load out from each sprue. So whilst I can absolutely field an all Plasma/Bolter squadron, I’ll end up with orphaned models I can’t use.

But man these models are pretty!




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‘Ere we go!

One Sky-Hunter Detachment (2 full squadrons of Jetbikes, a full squadron of Big Speeders, a full squadron of Diddy Speeders, and a full squadron of Outriders) and a squadron of Outriders for my ever-growing Demi-Company.

Plus some spare speeders which I’m sure will find a home somewhere in a list.

Also a second squadron of Sicarans, because.

That's a nice collection there Doc. I am looking forward to getting that kit, they are lovely looking little minis.

I am just starting on a next project, which is a Great Crusade-era (hence the MK3) Death Guard force I'm doing for a friend. This will hopefully tie into the Rangdan Genocide project which is the next 'mega battle' we have planned for a few years down the road. My brief is a clean white and bottle green, so need to get a good recipe for it that doesn't take ages (I am experimenting with contrast/speed paints). I'm using square bases as we're likely to use Epic Space Marine/NetEpic rules, and I like the idea of massed ranks of DG infantry lined up and marching forward guns blazing.

Vroooom!

Outriders now done, Jetbikes to be done and dusted tomorrow. Speeders of both varieties are undercoated, awaiting Grim Black. Might go for that tomorrow lunchtime, as it allows a non-delaying drying period. Which is nice.

Got Friday off work, so depending how pissed I get tomorrow night (payday is always pub night!), there’s every chance I’ll break my own record and have all my Legion Fast Attack bought, assembled and painted within a week.




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Once I’m done, I think I’ll do a lovely group shot, Detachment by Detachment. Give folks a better visual reference to what an army might look like.

And today? Scimitar Jetbikes polished off, Speeders and Sicarans ready for tomorrow.

This is what happens when at the start of the day you’re on 150% of target at work, are already a full week ahead of quarterly target, and frankly couldn’t be arsed to do a great deal.

Super chuffed with how the bases turned out. Just MSG base colour, then a stipple/dry brush in patches of Celestra Grey and that bone colour GW does which isn’t called Screaming Skull but is Screaming Skull, and an Agrax Wash. For me, it gives the feel of dusty wreckage.

Looking good so far!

This thread is amazing. Here’s a couple of titans I’ve done, and some action shots from a recent epic game (hopefully it’s ok to post old school rather than LI).







Blood Angels and Guard vs. DE

 Gordy2000 wrote:
This thread is amazing. Here’s a couple of titans I’ve done, and some action shots from a recent epic game (hopefully it’s ok to post old school rather than LI).

Very nice, Gordy. Good to see you're still producing such nice models

Thanks Snord - nice to see you posting again. I mostly stick to the Battle Reports thread as I’ve been working through a campaign for the last decade!

I have the very same Cadians for Epic Armageddon. For a second I thought those were my mini in the picture haha!!

Welcome to the thread, Gordy2000. All Epic is welcome, half of my pictures are whatever eclectic mixes people have picked up over the decades

4k of EpicAU's Heresy legion lists, Epic: Armageddon. The Death Guard gives the Iron Fourth a solid whooping, though Perturabo's disciples give a grand exit by driving down the XIV command elements with their final titan-assisted charge.



More pics:

Zoooooom!

Just four Sicarans to go, which will be tomorrow’s job.

I've shared these a long time ago (in my old hobby plog on here as well) but I've been on a mission to rescue a whole bunch of old photos from the warseer days and port them all over to my actual 6mm fantasy & Sci-fi hobby blog. Mostly as a nice 'keepsake' for myself to look back on. But also I've just started the mammoth task of bringing this force to modern standards- new paint jobs, butchering new plastic tanks, and a few thousand new infantry!

But before I start most of the work (and whilst I wait impatiently for a big delivery from the USofA), I've been reposting my hobby photos of my old Epic 40k Space Skaven force. Photos and paintjobs are from around 2012ish-2015.

A remembrance of what once was, before they become what they should have always been!

I'm very much excited to see this get a total overhaul this year and back on the table- hopefully this time with a full blown themed city table. I might even finish the titan conversions that have been started and never finished numerous times over the years!








Vermin Warlock



Giant mutants armed with Flamers with Giant mutant rats



Vermin troops armed with chemical weapons


Giant Mutant Rats


Imperium slaves entrenching vermin defences


Artillery emplacement, minor rat mutants far right


Unconfirmed sightings of Vermin bio-titans reported moving in the Stein sector


The vermin marching to war (scratch built doomwheel, toy converted into doomhammer

And with this?

My Legions Imperialis Dark Angels are fully painted. Again. Because there’s always New Toys coming down the pipeline, which will swell my ranks yet further.

Probably gonna do a thread later in the week, demonstrating just what a Detachment can look like, from bare bones to as maxed out as I can manage using currently commercially available models.

All welcome to contribute to that one.

Very cool Doc - think you've made a good job of making the scheme pop, the DA are definitely difficult to paint in 30k I have found.

RexHavoc - those are amazing. Is that from the Microworld range?
I have thought of bringing some Space Skaven/Hrud as part of our Great Crusade Epic campaigns. Going with a different gribbly alien from that era now, but may bring in some of the new Mantic Epic warpath Veer-myn when those are released, will have to see how the scale matches up

My success is down to three paints.

Mechanicus Standard Grey - Basecoat

Army Painter Gun Metal - Drybrush over basecoat, and for picking out weapons and exhausts and tracks and that.

Army Painter ‘Grim Black’ Speed Paint for the, erm, black.

From there a splodge of red for contrast and yer done!

 Pacific wrote:
Very cool Doc - think you've made a good job of making the scheme pop, the DA are definitely difficult to paint in 30k I have found.

RexHavoc - those are amazing. Is that from the Microworld range?
I have thought of bringing some Space Skaven/Hrud as part of our Great Crusade Epic campaigns. Going with a different gribbly alien from that era now, but may bring in some of the new Mantic Epic warpath Veer-myn when those are released, will have to see how the scale matches up

Thanks! These are all pre-microworld stuff!

The 6mm rats (like the warlock and troops) are base models of Irregular with a little sculpting from myself. The larger mutants (like the flame thrower rats) are 10mm scale stuff from Pendraken. Some of the giant rats are from GW actually.

I just ordered a TON of microworld rats as part of 'operation modernise', I'd been putting off ordering them for far too long! I'm looking forward to getting to them! (if only for the fact that its going to artificially inflate my total painting model count for the year by spraying the whole lot brown and basing them in a hurry! )

Hmm.

Annual Bonus next month. Meaning I can easily afford four sets of Legions Imperialis board tiles.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I won't ask how much a table of those will cost, although think there are definitely worse things the money could be spent on!

I have finished off some infantry for Crusade-era Death Guard, a Battle Company of Assault, Devastator and Tactical marines. Gone for a clean/white and bottle green look, to set them apart from the stained, later representations.



Minis are KMFP MKII design, the bases are also prints. The Baneblade is the standard GW mini, with a cupola marine added. This is a reference to the late 00's pre-heresy days when people first started modelling the era, and the Marine Baneblade started to appear (think there was some Collected Visions artwork on it too)

It’s £280.00.

Which is a *lot*. But with me bonus, affordable.

But affordable doesn’t mean sensible or desirable.

Not a fan of the LI tiles, they're so flat and featureless they might as well be mdf. And if they come as warped as my Zone Mortalis tiles did it's gonna come off worse as LI doesn't have walls that click in place on top to hold them straight. I would really, really rather get a nice neoprene mat and use the difference on more plastic buildings. One epic trick I saw was to buy a featureless asphalt mat, and put your buildings on bases with sidewalk included. Then no matter how you place the buildings, the space between then magically looks like roads.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It’s £280.00.

Which is a *lot*. But with me bonus, affordable.

But affordable doesn’t mean sensible or desirable.

I've got a few packs. They're ok. For smaller games, they'd be fine. For larger games, they'd be a bit plain. Unless you can build up a lot of scatter terrain to cover the vast plain areas. Here's a shot of one of my tiles:




Honestly, for larger games, get one of the Deepcut Mats (available from Element!). They do some 8mm scale mats as well:

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/game-mat-titanicus/

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/game-mat-gothic-wasteland/

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/game-mat-sector-imperialis/

I’ve the big box of terrain and two boxes of ruins in varying states of assemblitude. So populating it shouldn’t be a problem.

But I think I do need at least a 6x4 mat for, well, City Planning.