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WOW! That is 100X better than most paintjobs I see on that kit! Very Nice!

Thank you chap your words are kind as always.

That landing pad is finished now and I have started on the next one

MAN am i jealous of that terrain....

Love the blog mate ! The rebirth of the banblades one is pretty sweet too. Love all your work so far

The chimera looks wicked good, looking forward to seeing it painted.

Glad you are enjoying it mayfist.

I have not been in a guard painting mood lately so it might be a little while untill I get the new command chimera done. I have not even done any of my epic steal legion army in a couple of weeks.

Progress with the next baneblade is comming along nicely though at least untill I get to fixing the heavy bolter barrels. Thats gonna be a chor :(

Its throne of skulls next week though so keep an eye open for pics.

That is one epic table, Hope you finish it, looking forward to seeing more pictures from you

Young Logan

Ow it will get done. But its gonna take a while

Right guys. Throne of skulls is once again over. I have taken way to many pics to post on here so will give you a quick round up instead.

Game 1vs nids with kill points. Nid army was 2 tervigons a trygon 2 primes and a gak load of gaunts and 6 hive guard. Due to massively bad roll to hit for the entire game and the hive guard decking my vendetta I lost this one but It was one that could of easily gone my way in several places.

Game 2 vs space marines. A bike heavy army to full squads some attack bikes a bike captain a scout squad lead by tellion? a thunderfire cannon and a vindicator. This was done on multiple objectives. After my 5th turn he had 2 scouts left. A marine bike army was never gonna put up much of a fight against the guard.

Game 3 vs dark eldar. A really big assortment of stuff from razorwings to hellions and a pair of talos engins. This game ended turn 5 as a draw. It was one objective a side and I had d2 chimeras full of men just 8 inches from his objective. If only I had had another turn!!

Game 4 vs orks. This dude had 60 boys in 3 loads of 20 a big mek with a custom force feild and 6 killa cans. This was then back up with mr snikrot and his commandos comming on from the rear. The guy had pulled off the massive cigarette tactic of let thraka join the commandos and he comes on the board with them. Ow dear I thought. So how I combated this was to deploy a line of tanks straight from one side of the board to the other all spaced 1 and a half inch apart blocking the entire back of the board so thraka could not come on. When he came on the side I just drove the other way. This game was a win to me after turn 7 he had 1 boy and the mek running away and a nob with 1 wound in combat with a whole squad of guard.

Game 5 vs CRONS! I wanted to play crons as I think the whole codex is gak and wanted to be proven otherwise. This dude had 3 barges, 2 ghost arkes with warriors and a cryptek in each, a command barge with a lord in it, 2 squads of 5 scarabs and 2 squads of 8 immortals with a cryptek in each. This game was kill points. I got first turn and he played the whole solaa pulse trick. Yeah great my chimeras have searchlights so in my first turn I just lit up the closest squad and decimated it with my whole army. When the sentinels outflanked behind him and started shooting down barges the game was as good as over straight away. He gave up turn 5 8 kill points to 5 in my favor.


So 3 wins 1 draw which was properly close to a win and a loss. Thats not bad. Ow for the sake of arguement I was the second highest scoring guard army in the tournament. Happy me

What you guys recon? I will post some of the pics soon.

Quick update for the club space port. Work has begun on the second landing pad. It is base coated and has its metal drybrushing done. Here are some wips.







Coming along nicely.


Also. The next tournament for the imperial guard is a 1750pts one. So The question is out there. What do you guys think I should add to the army with the extra 250pts?

CC please guys.

ROUGH RIDERS!

A single, completely decked out tank (with everything you can give it!!!)

OK OK Maybe I should of said decent ideas

Are you missing anything tactically, because you might want to add something that you are lacking (i don't what) or just keep going with what you have got because it works. I know its not great advice....

Young Logan

Its not really missing anything I dont think. I was playing with more vets or adding some characters but now I have decided to use my space marines.

This will give me a break from guard and the marine list im gonna use is quite nasty if somewhat all or nothing.

Right folks who is ready for a huge guard revamp?

As my SilverSkulls are nearly done it is once more guard time. Work has continued on my Baneblades but more importantly I have come up for a plan for a new list for 6th ed that is well a bit different. I have also started work on some nice air power for apoc games.

So here is what is going on.

First up a wip Fortress of Redemption.









The new army list is very defensive. Its a simple turtle and destroy the enemy at range. When they die go and take the objectives. It will revolve around this fort

Next up some extra air power.







To add some mobility and a proper anti tank and anti air punch, the army will include 3 Vendettas not just one like the old list. This also gives me a lot of objective grabbing power if I need it as I will be having a very cheap infantry platoon which can either sit behind the fort lobing shells over it or get in the vendettas to be dumped on objectives at the end of games.

And now for the really fun part. I will be doing quite a bit of apoc soon so here is a new wip beasty.





And with its escorts.



Watch this space

Nice man! I am impressed!

Thanks mate. I started doing some paintwork on the next gunship. Tried to use a bigger brush and it just looked gak.

I restarted with a little brush and managed to get it looking pretty much the same. Here is the test wing.





Might get a bit more done today while I am finishing off the last drop pod for my space marines. Got lots of other guard stuff to get on with to. I am currently putting together 6 magnetic heavy weapons so I can swap and change

All those fliers are sweet! I like the lightning bolt thing you got going on with the Valkyrie wing. The bomber is a whole new level of cool. Funny, when I clicked on this blog I was expecting silver skulls. I guess these guys will do.

Well done my friend! They look spot on!

Glad you are liking these to You guys seem to be only 2 regular posters these days

I got some nice magnetized heavy weapons for you tonight









It is most likely that these will be autocannons but the amount of times in the past I have brought heavy weapons then decided I wanted different ones and so I sold them is just mental. This time I can just change when I need to.

I have brought 6 heavy weapons they will all be done like this and with a bit of part scrounging from old guard models and a few spare 60mm bases I will also be able to build 6 motar teams and 6 missile teams Will help save a bit of cash in these hard times lol.

Anyway guys what do you think?

Good Stuff, I like where your head is at. I lose too much stuff to end up magnatiizing sadly :/

I should be ok I am normally pretty good like that.

I have started the green stuff work on the bomber but its gonna take a long time and I still dont think I will get it perfect. I am not that great with green stuff and there are some pretty big feth ups on the model.

Nice heavy weapons, I have always wanted to magnetize them but I either get lazy or screw it up. Glad to see you pulled it off. It always kills me to get that set, with all its options, and leave most of it on the sprue. I'll consider these guys a win for me too, out of principle.

I found it dead easy. I have not drilled in the magnets or anything but once the base is painted you wont see them at all.

Did some work on the second Vendetta gunship tonight its coming along nicely now.



This one is coming up nicer than the first one did. When I have finished it I will do some work on the first one as it could use some touch up where paint has warn off.

I like the head swaps, and the valks. Well done.

The valk looks really good!

Thanks guys.

Got some more green stuff done on the destroyer last night but it still has a tone of work to do before its ready to paint.

Today has been spent doing more work on the second vendetta gunship. It has more of its base colour done now and also has a lascannon and the landing gear on one wing.

Will be usable as in fully built, then I will do the same to the third one so I can use them in a tournament at the end of the month

Pics for you.

Nice blogg! Lovin the paint job, really top notch! Those gunships are looking fly! he.. haha... hahaaha... ha...

Can we expect lightning bolts on these as well? Or different markings? I'm not usually a fan of gray extreme highlights on black but these really work. Maybe because they have a thicker, dry brush feel? Meh, either way it's cool.

Glad you are enjoying the army.

Yes there will be bolts on here they will all be the same.

Got some more wips of them for you.







I am trying to make it so all of them are fully built for gaming.

Hope you like them so far.

I do like them! I really like how you do not overwhelm yourself and concentrate on one area. This makes for a great vehicle!