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Congrads on the placing. I always enjoy your conversions.

Eh I was being slightly sarcastic only 6 people actually finished models and this time 4 did. Thanks through.


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Should have a good update tomorrow after a great game against Rykk's Nids with my Word Bearers with a Nurgle Twist.

I was planning to do an Epic battle report but time limits mean't I didn't really record well enough. The highlight for me was gunning down the Bio-Titan n the last time and Mortarion chopping up the Dominatrix. However sadly Mortarion met his doom to a Winged Hive Tyrant and a pair of Malefactors so it wasn't to be. I do however have some pretty pictures. All Rykk's armies are absolutely awesome and he has a 40k Nid army painted to the same incredible standard. Basically he's painted most of the best models I've ever seen in the flesh.



Rykk won mainly because his Exocrines were awesome and I never managed to secure enough objectives.


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Thanks to inmygravenimage and briancj I discovered I came 2nd in the Great Repurposing. Gitsplitta's Servitor was the well deserved winner, While Skalk Bloodaxe and Viktor van Doom's entrys were also excellent. I'm really ecstatic with the placing and I'm hoping to get a bit more traffic here due to it.


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I've also managed to win a Space Marine box set of Ebay lots of toys and prizes on there way awesome!

I wasn't kidding when I said congratulations, I honestly had no idea only 4 people completed. It's about time someone recognized you for your modeling skills. I've been impressed with your skill since I first saw your work, and I'd guess that 90% of any army you own is made of repurposed parts. You are the repurpose master. No one else I have seen comes close. Gitz stomped usall and while thast is hardly a surprise it was a lot of fun.

Short battle report but still very cool.

Definitely cheers Skalk its a shame more people didn't compete it was fun and it certainly helped prod me into doing something totally different

First of all a close up of Mortarion painted for the battle report.

Secondly a Chaos Cult using genuine Cultist models.


The walls are a lid chopped up and bulked out to make shallow barricade walls. Cheap and cheerful just the way I like it. I've got 4 long pieces and 8 corners giving me about a foot of wall for a few bits of rubbish.

Nice to see you're still churing out original pieces out of odds and sods here Llama

Really liked the paint job on those gargants a few pages back, very nicely done.

And nice job on the slaaneshi daemon engines, certainly looking the part.

Thanks a lot great to see you here, It's good to see the Daemon Knights are in the right place and coming from you creating original pieces from odds and sods is a great complement.

Got the first of the new lots of Prussians completed. A LAndswehr and Luftlancer are both ready to hear the call of duty.


Had a quick look at Skalks junkpile competition I'll probably give it a go.

Began the Artillery for the Army of New Haven

This is a Bacchus Mortar with Limber Team. I have 4 of these in total providing some brutal bombardments to deal with the numberless hordes of Rising Dead.

I've also got the first of my Skaven Blood Bowl team painted up.

Hopefully with actual player models rather than proxies I'll be able to pick up the ball. These are rather nifty Black Scorpion Miniatures. Blood Bowl seems to have attracted loads of excellent alternative miniature manufacturers so have a look around


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Got a Wizard done this means the forces are both ready to be playtested.

He was part of the Irregular Miniatures Druids diorama I chopped that into bits and now have several Wizardy models and a Sacrifice piece.

These guys are a Solar Priest in 28mm, Microworld Games 6mm and Pendraken Games 10mm and Giant 10mm This shows the size I'm actually working at of. Incidentally the 10mm are designated for use as Umdead Horrors basically Ushabti/Crypt Fiend equivalents

Received a Space Marine box game from Ebay today it doesn't have all the models but does have most of them including the titan. Even better it's got both the Space Marine and a bunch of extra Epic buildings as well as better counters and a set of official Up/Down Left/Right dice. The Ork buildings and Skalks junkpile contest also mean I'm eyeing up creating an Orky settlement the Gargant building short makes it a requirement sadly enough the 1/700 harbour crane is too big for the competition. I've also made a start on some trenchlines for Epic I want to create at least one each of the fortification cards.

Got a varied update for you today. Got new blokes finished for the Blood Bowl and Landswehr Teams


I've also finished a second Wizard from the Druid set for the Army of New Haven

These are the most interesting addition some Troublemaker Games Skinna Warbikes from the Kick Starter. Utterly cool models and nicely varied.

But the craziest thing I've been doing this week involves scenery. The Defense lines from tub lids have worked well.

The craters are just papier mache over a pizza foam core.
Most amusingly I went slightly loopy with scenery producing these contraptions.


From left to right you have a mostly Rawl Plug Smelter, A train fueling point and engine shed as well as that you've got the train itself. Mostly made from Ork Battlewagon and plastic I beam with the cab being a bolt pistol back. The smelter was inspired by the junkpile competition Skalk Bloodaxe will be running.

Nice update. Skinna bikes look interesting.

Love the smelter, nice use of rawl plugs there.

Will there be more track sections for the train?

Definitely all it is is cable tie. The Skinnas have also got some reinforcements up on indiegogo. A cool Landa and some nice Fighta's. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/6mm-scale-armies-wave-2. I'm probably going to back for some Cybershadows Dark Mechanicus and cultists for the Word Bearers me thinks.

Got Nelly's Wrath the first of my 6mm Cannon painted up.

As well as that I've got some nice shots of massed 6mm troops for you


These are my current play test forces for After the Cataclysm. I've also read the Mantic rules for Warpath and they'll make an excellent plan B.

That's a mighty horde there sir!

It's all your fault you know. Hmm know what I feel like doing for the Great Repurposing a Hero on my Rapier Griffon no character packs of 6mm heroes right then army..........Then they needed opponents and scenery and it's rolling on.

The Junkpile contest has been encouraging me to make some Epic terrain with my random basing box I put together for the 24th Islandlwanda however none of it's technically junkpiles.

These sheds are mainly cable clips cable ties and rawl plugs but will give some good clutter for my Epic Industrial zone.

These are the mine shafts for Mining Complex Omnicron simply pizza base foam and insulation along with a cable clip entry and cable tie tracks. Then use papier mache to make a natural looking hill easy and cheap as chips.

I've also been looking at woods for 6mm. This tutorial seemed to simple not to try. http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8655.

They are simply pipe cleaner lengths shoved through the hole of a green paint tube and then cut to shape and based. Not beautiful but good for gaming.

Here they are with the Mammoth company of rebel T35's painted up.

Nice cheap terrain

The mines in particular are great.

Thanks 6mm is perfect for junk terrain it means I can make loads and store loads as well.

More junk terrain.

This works consists of a bottle top wiring blocks and some bits of rawl plug and cable tie.

Here it is bombed out the explosions simply consist of died cotton wool glued to transparent plastic.


I've also been playing about with Skalks Junk pile contest the first one I made was ok but I forgot to photograph it before undercoating it it was based around a papier ache crater filled with junk and rubble. I made another version but it still didn't gel as a competition piece. For a start I made several of these a year or so ago for the Wargames society and based my Zulus in this Industrial waste from found objects style. It just wasn't special to me. The other problem was I'd asked whether I could make a micro-scale piece and it just didn't look like that at all. It could do perfectly adequate service on a 28mm table and when your being fussy like I was you need to make the dispensation worthwhile. This led to this piece a 6mm junkyard. It's on a less than 60mm base and is just stuff from my basing box.


Inidentally the Chrono-Gladiator was made in direct response to Skalks version and is still one of my best conversions in it's simplicity and juxtaposition

You are a machine and could teach the Adeptus Mechanicus a thing or 12 about mass production.

Junk pile looks decent!

Thanks 6mm terrain is a doddle however it's about shapes and that's something that I've got good at over the years.

Good news first game of After the Cataclysm went well. I lost as some idiot who wrote the rules made Cursed Knights far too tough. As well as that I've painted my Greater Air Elementals or Aureoluses. These are the Kalistra Fire Elementals with an airy paint scheme. I'll be using toy dinosaurs as Salamanders for the Fire Elementals.

My Prussians have another pair of recruits a Landswehr Specialist and a Luftlancer the face on the Specialist didn't go well I've started using some new flesh colours and it just didn't work on this feller. I'll claim he's an albino if asked.


The next thing to look at is the terrain an icky sump based upon a lid. The sump mix is red and yellow paint and PVA

These container yards are based on the cardstock templates from http://www.papershipwright.co.uk/category/free-downloads/ they fit enough to a page it's feasible to use these 1;200 models for a large area. One is a complex store shed thing while the other is a pair that has been stomped on by a titan.

Finally we have finished cards of Defilers and Hell Knights. The Defilers are based on an Ork Battlewagon and a 15mm GZG spider drone.
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Those defilers are cracking mate!

Cheers I'm delighted with them the Ground Zero Games Spider Drones legs are perfect and at £3 for 3 as soon as I saw them I realised they'd be perfect. The Battlewagon top was just a pure moment of serendipity. They are one of the cheapest epic vehicles to find and they are so useful for various projects in this scale.


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Got some of the Irregular Undead painted

Value is great and there's a definite olde schoole charm about them. I'm hmming and harring about another order in the near future as there Dwarves are more varied than either Microworlds or Baccus's offerings and the Halflings are tempting. My Epic has also got some scenery done. A rawl plug smelter and a disco ball key ring hab dome.

Hmm, methinks some of my grots might be getting those drone legs in the future

Lovely smelter, and I presume there may be another dome of similar ilk being built at some point?

Probably although maybe not it depends what happens when I get round to it. They've also provided interesting fuel tank tops as well.

That is excellent. Among all the other great things you've done recently this one impressed me the most. It's really well done and makes me want to build on in 28mm now.

Thanks Skalk it would be far less easy to do one in 28mm in 6mm it's an exercise in basic shapes. Shelf Support, Screw Cap, 2 different types of Rawl Plugs, Cable Clip and tie in 28mm you'd need to find larger replacements doable though. A cup for the main funnel a tin for the smelty bit plasticard ramps and railway track all usable.

These are my 6mm Undead Monsters
A pair of Undead Mammoths one a Necromancer mount


Zardos and his mighty Dragon



This is a big model hugely impressive especially as it's 6mm.