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Glad you like it. My willingness to carve up Epic minis greatly increased when I realised how cheap they are on Ebay. 10 Land Raiders is usually about a £5

This is going to be a fairly big one. We'll start with my new toy.

It's a square hole punch it punches wait for it Square Holes! I had to order it of Ebay as apparently very people want to punch square holes. The reason I wanted it is to make easy 6mm ruins like this.

Take a Strip of card cut it to a width where the hole punch can reach all of it and rule on some guide lines I used a cm line.

I then took the Hole punch and punched in windows at random.

This piece was cut up in roughly triangular shape to make ruins.

Add matchsticks or sprue as guidelines to where you want the floor to go and glue to a base

Add floors on top of the matchsticks

Then paint and flock them up and party


I've also got a bunch of things painted. Their are these Colossi.

They are just 28mm War of the Roses foot knights I got to use as Dismounted Brettonian Knights painted as statues. In the background these are the elementals of Order.

This Witch provides another Mage for my humans

It's from Irregulars 19thc Civilians which I'll use to add some more mages to my force

I've also got the Defilers painted


Finally I've finished Verum Sotirias my Nurglite Warlord Titan



Lots of fun with washes on this beasty.

Pustulent

Great idea for fast ruins that.

Thanks. Well Verum Sotirias actually survived it's first game. Mortarion also managed to survive this one. I played Rykks Tyranids again and narrowly lost. Basically we ignored each others titans and blasted apart each others supporting troops sadly enough I shed to many supporting victory points by being over aggressive with Rhinos and the fact Tyranids get double points for wiping out cards. Mortarion hacked down 4 Malefactors and my titan blasted apart little beasties and big beasties. Against Tyranids you should focus on fewer larger company cards. I have a feeling my Guard are going to be excellent against them.


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I also saw the new White Dwarf. The knights look awesome but to be honest I prefer the Dreamfroge stuff. It's a nice looking toy indeed and could be a useful hull for the Imperator although I'm probably going for a Leviathon 15mm Mortis as the basis.

Got this piece finished.


It's a combined Henge/Stone Circle I've made as a centre piece for 6mm Fantasy games. It's not based purely upon any one example but Arbor Low in Derbyshire and Caythorpe in East Yorkshire were certainly inspirational (Caythorpe was one of my sites by the way. The Henge is technically a term for the large embankment I've decided to put a ditch inside and a central mound although that's to make my life easier usually the ditch would be outside. The ditch is depicted as cut into chalk as I thought it would look good. The stone circle is simply big pieces of railway ballast stuck into a ring around the edge.

That's nice. It'd make a good swamp for my welshmen

Nah to dry for that for swamps you want lots of PVA and reeds see the bases on my Beastmen for ideas

Now you're going to have to do some hills with chalk figures carved into them

That's an idea actually the chalk effect wouldn't be hard just score in some lines like I do for the rivers into the hill slope now the question is what designs? The Uffington White Horse is tempting. It's also which culture would do it. Currently Humans and Orcs are the prime suspect. It doesn't seem Elvish, Centaury or like the work of the Beastkin and the environment of the Lizardmen doesn't support it. Hmmm thoughting cap on

Humans and orcs certainly most likely, although the beastkin may well get into it with some kind of tribal/celtic design.....

It's more that I see the Beastkin as creatures of the true forest rather than of the Downs land. I see them as more involved with trees and glades than the open ground of the Downs, equally the Celtic idea is really good it'll bring them away from the Chaos Evil raargh imagery of GW Beastmen. The background of Mundus is designed to bring things to a more grey and grey ideology both Orcs and Beastmen are different not evil. Morality is an individual trait not a species one. While some societies are intrinsically evil, Nazi Germany comes to mind a different society of the same species might be good. I'm really hoping to play with this with the Lizardman civil war. Basically for countless generations the Lizardmen worshipped the volcanoes offering them sentient lives as sacrifice to stop them exploding blocking out the sun and causing catastrophic climate change again. Then Anak Tiryashok explodes blocking out the sun and causing catastrophic climate change. This causes a civil war as while many Lizardmen decide they didn't offer enough blood shed and the volcanoes require more sacrifice others led by the messianic radical Sholem Tzar decide god doesn't exist and embrae rationality leading to a bloody civil war between the Sholemites and the Fire Feeders.

Today's painted creations are an Or Lander and a Storage Tank both based on an old Vallejo paint pot enjoy.

Oh that's clever

Glad you like it.
Couldn't resist bunging together that Chalk Figure.

Might do some more actually. Adds a good sense of place to a battlefield.

I gave wings to that chaos dragon. For some reason the idea of a biplane dragon really amused me. They are Puppet War jump packs part of a bunch of random gubbins I traded for a spare Sauron of Monkeytroll.


Why trade a Sauron well I only need one Daemon Prince in this style

Hah! Bi-plane dragon

You know, I was tempted to send a box full of a variety of rawl-plugs Looking forward to what else comes out of that box'o'gubbinz.

Uhh it's got to the stage where I've got a big box full of rawl plugs, cable clips, bits of sprue, bottle caps and paint bottles for basing and random projects. So no need what you sent was far nicer and more varied I've got a wide variety of designs on those parts and I can't wait to see what you make of Sauron.

I've got A Platoon of the 21st Company 232nd Hrin Infantry finished


I've also got the Command Group finished. The Commissar uses the Rhino while the Company HQ uses the Lisa


This means I've got the Company finished as March's entry for Tale of Epic Gamers

I've unfortunately ran out of IG Infantry and I'm still waiting for my C-in-C mortars to be delivered as well as for various kickstarter goodies. Equally I still have lots of Brigade vehicles to paint and assemble.

Speaking of which here's A battery 26th Company 232nd Hrin Infantry. These are the Molotok artillery pieces from Brigade I'm using as Basilisks


The terrain behind them is simply a painted and detailed egg box with rawl Plug chimneys.

Egg box works a treat! I feel you should change your thread title to include rawl plugs, though

The molotoks make great basilisks, nice paint job on them too.

Eggbox and rawl plug terrain...old-skool

Cheers for the nice words and I've changed the thread title on your advice Graven.

What have I got for you today well here's C Squadron of 8th Company 46th Hrin Armoured.

The tanks are Bizons with Epic Battlewagon gun muzzles to produce a Conqueror style variant. 8th Company is a Leman Russ Assault Company so I've produced Vanquisher and Executioner variants as well.

I've also painted Fulgrim


Incidentally you'll probably enjoy what I'm doing on the Conclave of Hrin. Chaos Cults and Twist mercenaries.

Here's what I've got for you today.
Trolls frolicking among Alien fauna. Several of the Trolls are Rapier 6mm Grecian monsters

These are a squadron of Suwalski's with AT guns these half tracks are counts as Chimedons. They are part of the Command Company of the 232nd Hrin Infantry

The alien fauna are pompoms dyed green and cut in half.

I've also finished a Warlord. This Imperial titan Candente Iultionis is armed with a pair of Volcano Cannons and a pair of Turbolasers. Enemy titans beware!

Genius use of lascannons!

Not particularly Graven big laser gun as ginormous laser gun isn't particularly amazing.
Just played a game of After the Cataclysm I lost resoundingly again. Happily enough the mechanics seem sound just some of the abilities need tightening. Basically High Res is too easy to get and the ginormous necromantic magic missile needs toning down.
I've also got 3 bodged together Blood Bowl players two gutter runners and a rat ogre to greatly increase my teams cheese factor.
Aside from that I'm planning to enter into the League of Extraordinary Riveters Elemental terrain competition. Currently I'm leaning towards some sort of water powered forge complex. Possibly like the ones described in David Webers safehold series.

Be interesting to see what you come up with there - one of my ideas was a water-powered forge, but I shelved that one as I know it would have been too complex for me to finish in time

6mm scale smaller and quicker although due to a new job it might have to be shelved this time. See how the job shapes up and where I can get it to before I head down for it although with the nationals to hmm. Bright side is its another Archaeology job based around the Cambridge area this time. Means I'll be in a position to get my infantry as well.

Got some new stuff for you
This bodged up Blood Bowl player is based on a Gutter Runner I got for my Skaven army but never got round to finishing off.

I've also got a second Landa done.

Sadly enough I'll have to drop out of this round of the League. I've discovered I've been hired for a different job than I've been expecting I've been hired as an Assistant Supervisor which means I'll be running jobs and responsible for them sadly it means I'll have less time to dig holes and look for shiny. Equally I'm going to be paid more and I'm definitely going on an infantry buying binge soon as well as that the Troublemaker Games kickstarter is due. This might mean I'll be around the Cambridge area for much longer. I'm looking forward to it if I'm honest only problem is I'll probably be teaching a recording method I've never used before and I've got to work out what's actually acceptable always before it's been roughly based on what the supervisor says is ok. Bright side is I an't be as bad as some I've worked for................Northamptonshire Archaeology (since entered into Receivership so I can whinge about them as much as I like) comes to mind. It also means I might be going to a tournament on only one practise game....Fun times and havoc ahead!

Well, sucks about contest, but awesome on job! Grats bro!

Less time to find old shiny, but balanced by being able to buy more new shiny

I'm sure you'll do fine, even if things get hectic for a while

Thanks a lot guys I'm looking forward to it and it'll mean a lot of shiny new 6mm infantry and possibly even in the future a Microworld order again. It'll also possibly allow some of the crazier projects like 6mm Zulus for 40k to come to fruition.

Well I've got the Wyrdstone Wanderers finished in their full might. I also managed to get a draw somehow against my friends Orcs loitering with the ball in my own half cost me a touchdown but after the Troll caught it following kick off while my skaven were being pummelled by Black Orcs my Rat Ogre managed a brilliant blitz which left the ball in the hands of a Gutter Runner who managed to leg it and score my goal leaving the result 1-1. Blood Bowl is a silly game. But I like it.
At the moment this is what I have
6 Linerats

All Black Scorpion figures

My Defense

Black Scorpion a Thrower and two Blitzers

My Offense

4 Gutter Runners 2 GW conversions and 2 Black Scorpion

Keenripper


Island of Blood Rat Ogre with a headswap and an excellent example of how a simple paint scheme choice can change the dynamic of a model usually these guys would be dull and gritty but the bright colours makes him seem far less war like

Finally a full team shot.

Cool beans. Love a bit of BB action!