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I do Theo. Holding off until I get more of what I already own, painted... though I must say I've been making good progress, either directly by painting myself... or by getting some help from my friends.


I have been painting... got 7 servitors done.


This brings me up to 3 complete squads (12) and of course X-101.


I don't actually know what's next. Might have to finally re-open that box of skitarii jumpy dudes... I need something as the boys have been kicking my butt every single game.

Hey guys. Been busy sorting out more gaming stuff for sale. Managed to get a campaign game in with my friend Tyler and got a little bit of scatter terrain painted up.

First things first... just a few shots of my 500 point skirmish with Tyler. My son Alec has been encouraging me to run a board control style of list rather than my usual AdMech heavy shooting list. It was interesting and fun... also ultimately successful in the face of Tyler's very nasty Astra Militarum list out of his Psychic Awakening book. (sorry, some special kind of IG with all hot-shot las guns, plasma & melta guns & power axes. *shudder*

My list as follows...

HQ: TPD
TP: 10x vanguard, 10x vanguard, 5x vanguard
EL: 5x infiltrators w/ mixed weapons
FA: 5x raiders

Table after my first move (I'm on the left). My raiders crossed the entire battlefield and picked off one of his commanders.


They decide to charge the nearest 5-man unit and lose 3 (that's 9 wounds) to overwatch by hotshot las and plasma hitting on 4+.


The remainder fights on for a bit, but is eventually wiped out after only killing 1 guardsman.



My left flank moves steadily forward. Two large vanguard squads with a TPD in close support. I'd never really done this before, usually the TPD is stuck in the back supporting my heavies. This worked out pretty well.


My center. A short unit of vanguard on an objective with a pack of infiltrators as backup/reserves.


Lots of Astra Militarum hanging out in the cover of the wreckage of a flyer crash.


Once the cavalry gets wiped, the guard move up my right flank around some ruins.


In the end, there were just 6 figures left on the table. Luckily they were mine... but it was a really close battle and Tyler actually outscored me on primaries 2:1, though I caught up through the secondaries.


Lastly, a bit of painting. Picked this little supply cache up from Noble Knight Games in one of their clearance sales.... now that I have some paint on it, I wish I had more (it was the last one). Nothing fancy... but it'll look great on the table.

Thanks guys, appreciate it!

I finished painting the last of my ork barricades!

Thanks all!

kenderthistle wrote: хорошо сделано. как вы их применяете? террейн? защитная линия?

Спасибо! Зависит от того, что, по моему мнению, нужно для таблицы. Иногда они «баррикады» и используют правила из книги, иногда это просто местность, которая дает небольшой бонус укрытия (+1 к спасброскам).

@Tyranid Horde: Like most models, I think they look better on the bigger bases.


Here's what I've been working on lately. PITA builds, new flying bases stink on ice. 5 more to go.

Well, the wings do have small jets. I'll have to think on it.

Thanks for the good ideas guys. I'll sort it out when they're painted. I think part of my soul has been sucked from my body... all done.

Thanks graven.

Well, I went ahead and finished the bases. I think I can easily modify them by adding little pin extensions to the top which will slide up in-between the model's body and the flight pack. Ideally, I'd like the bases and models to be completely separate so I can pack them separately.

Thanks CB!

This was an assembly weekend. Got some pipes industrial bits from the sector mechanicus set done. Also finished up this beauty... a Big Trakk with cobbled-together supa kannon!



Going to get some paint on this baby right quick! I did a pretty poor job of putting the tracks on. Probably just should have purchased some rubber treads, but... what the heck. It looks OK as is. For scale... this is a bit bigger than a trukk. Unfortunately like most FW stuff it's not very points-efficient. For 35 more points you can have a kannonwagon which has a better save, more hull points and better BS (4 vs 5). But, it's a cool model that I've wanted for a long time... and not every army needs to be kitted out for maximum value.

Thanks guys. Oh, and thanks for getting the page to rollover TH... I hate it when I have something new to post and it dissappears into the ether.

Basic metals are done on the big trakk. This is Nerdfest's technique. It'll look pretty good once I have all the other colors picked out and painted (rather than being the entirety of the model).

Thanks guys, I'm really glad you like it!

These are still WIP as I have chipping, rust, weathering and maybe some gunk in the tracks to do... but the basic painting in finished. The rust and the chipping will make a really big difference. As you can see there's still a long way to go.

Thanks aku-chan!


And................... done!

Thanks graven. It really needs some black and white checkerboard strips, but I just don't have the energy...

@Gwin: The orks use Ipana!

Thanks one and all. It's nice to have that done. On to the next project!

Thank you one and all but I'm still in a building mood. Dug out another FW oldie... Kill Tank with bursta cannon. I have the other variation too. Think for the time being I'm just going to assemble the other gun and magnetize one of the sides of this hull so I can switch them out (the tank is cool but like most FW, very overpriced... so it's unlikely I'd ever field both outside of an Apoc game (which don't happen very often around here).

The orks have NOT been retired! Nerdfest is doing a bunch of ork stuff for me too. So there should be plenty of new toys to play with.

No... Nerdfest is just lazy about his updating...

He's been very busy.

Just thought I'd share this. I'm putting together an army to play a friend's IG next week. Didn't want to make it too competitive, just fun. Here's what I ended up with... most of my favorite ork models in one bunch (minus the 30 boys that'll go into the trukks). The smallish red tank is going to serve as a mek gun bubble chucka... which is a total waste of points but too fun not to field (d6 shots, d6 strength, d6 AP & d6 wounds). Of course I have to have the grot bomms, big trakk, squiggoth and mega dred. Leading the lot is my dakka avatar on looted vyper (warboss on bike).




Have also been working on that kill tank. Modified the gun port so that both guns can slip in and out of it from the front, allowing me to properly build the rest of the tank. I'm nearly out of black primer though so I've been milking the can for every last little bit and I *just* made it. At some point I may need to add a small magnet in the hull to help the guns to stay put (probably not an issue). The dozer blade and engine/exhaust aren't attached yet for ease of painting. I'll have to do either pinning or magnets to get the blade to stay while the model is being used in game as the existing mounting points simply won't do. I also need to build some kind of LOS-blocking shield around the base of the big kannon as a little too much of the hole in the hull shows around it for my liking.

Making progress on the Kill Tank. Used the iron gob from the squiggoth to make the "shield" for the big kannon. Everything is metal colored... that means I can play it, right?



Blade and engine will stay off until painting is done.

inmygravenimage wrote:It's a lovely big chunk of metal, that

Indeed it is. Am looking forward to getting to work on it! It's been sitting in a box for a very long time.

Yorkright wrote: Looking good Gitz! Maybe next time we get together I can have a go at the boyz.

I think you'd enjoy that. The boyz are still very interesting and fun, in spite of not having a new codex yet. I have lots of build options and at least one reasonably competitive one... so it's all good.

Anvildude wrote:Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it. Maybe you could keep the silver as the primary color on this one, and use the other colors as accent instead?

You sir, just made my sig!
It's a great suggestion too. I was planning on using the metal as a base for most of the panels (though there will *have* to be some yellow), and just treating them differently with washes, highlights and weathering powders to give it a proper scrappy look without overloading it in a riot of color.

Thank you one and all!

I'm doing a side project for a buddy of mine (which I'll show when I'm done). In the meantime here are a few pics for my battle with a friend's Cadians the other evening. Fun game. After a while we forgot about keeping track of victory points but I can say he was leading early, but the tide of the game was swinging in my direction near the end. Could not believe how super-aggressive he was with IG facing orks, but it really worked as it kept me from getting beyond mid-table for 3 turns.

Here is the table after deployment. This is an Imperial industrial facility that was taken over by orks, but before it could be looted the Imperium came back. Neither side wants to destroy it though, so if you are within 3" of any pipes or tanks, you were -1 to hit due to everyone trying not to destroy the "liquid gold" in the pipes. This meant that for all practical purposes, nearly the entire table was -1. Thus the Cadians were hitting on 5s and the Bad Moons 6s. The Cadians still had a fair amount of shooting success, the orks not so much... aside from the 3 grot bomms which made up probably 95% of my successful shooting.


The grot bomm launchas and the big trakk debut on the table.



Bullgryns and supporting armor are ready for battle! The bullgryns scare the crap out of me as they're nearly impossible to kill with a combination of 2+ saves & 3+ invuls to choose from. The guardsmen... not so much, however I must admit the most annoying units of the day were regular infantry and chimeras, which completely bogged me down.



My left flank, the small red tank is a bubble chucka today.


My right flank, looking mighty!


The bullgryns come pouring through the gap in the barricade!


The guided grot bomms come raining down. I mortally wounded two tanks and blew the manticore off the board. However the two wounded tanks both eventually got healed up to their top bracket because I couldn't get to them to assault, nor could I hit them with shooting!




The bullgryns win the fight with my trukk over the objective (to my left), however they fall just short of killing it, allowing the boyz to jump out safely the next turn.


Hyper-aggressive Cadians charge mid-field and block my advance (granted, my trukk has already blocked that same path).


Rabid guardsmen attack a trukk full of boyz! Lucky for me there was a squiggoth full of burnas near-by. These guys are nearly in MY deployment zone!


My warboss (on bike) and the boyz pile into the bullgryns. The warboss is a crazy beat-stik but just manages to kill off the two 3+ invul guys, leaving the rest of the squad to slowly be beaten to death by the boyz. Though, the bullgryns did plenty of beating back too. Frankly I think they all had a lot of fun in the process.


This is T2/3. You can see how well Tyler's Cadians have held me up mid-board. I'm not being cautious... I just can't go anywhere.


Surviving boys from the blue trukk (I call the blue guys my "blue moons") finally get to chew on some 'oomie flesh before being blown away by another squad.


The bubble chucka and a launcher charge into assault with a chimera to try and stop it from shooting up one of my boyz squads. Unfortunately neither unit really has a chance of hurting it (the bubble chucka is S2! LOL!)


The other two launchas are duking it out with a small squad of scions that dropped onto an objective on my side of the table. I knew these would be good for something!





Some tactical thoughts on the units for those interested.

- The Grot Bomm Launchas are excellent, perhaps too good as written. They're basically single-shot supa kannons but because of the grot guidance they hit on 2s. You combine that with a well chosen strat and you're taking out a major vehicle in one shot pretty reliably for 50 points. I think I'm going to play them as BS3 rather than BS2 UNLESS I'm playing against an army with an updated dex. In that case I'll need all the help I can get. They are "Legends" however so you need your opponent's OK to use them. I do like the fact that the launchas persist after shooting and can still run around to grab objectives, hold table quarters, perform actions & pick off small units.

- The Big Trakk didn't do much, but it looked very cool so who cares?

- I took a Bubble Chucka for laughs. It was so bad you couldn't even laugh at it. I don't think it caused a single wound. No more of that crap. Rather than costing you 40 points, you should get a 40 point bonus if you take one.

- The Mega Dread didn't do a lot this game because of the choked table and 6's needed to hit in shooting... however it looks great and generally is pretty formidable. It's secondary weapons nearly cleared out an entire guard squad on their own... however I'm thinking it might be more functional as a meka dread. Basically the same load-out but a BS of 4 and the ability to repair other vehicles (no secondary guns, 1 less attack & 2 less wounds though). This is one of the few FW models that I think hits it's point cost/value balance reasonably well.

- With the right combination of traits, the warboss on bike is simply abusive. That being said... this battle all he did was kill the two 3+ invul bullgryns and later a psycher... but those two bullgryns were pivotal to maintaining control of my left flank.

- The squiggoth is very good, also very expensive but again... one of those models that consistently hits it's point cost/value balance. I think the ideal load-out (as far as a transport) is 8 burnas, a spanner with the "klever spanner" upgrade (1 CP) and a big mek w/ KFF. Run it in close support to a couple of trukks full of boyz and I think you'll be pleased with the result. The flamers really saved my butt this game.

Couple of recent projects.

A buddy of mine got this pro-painted Slaan Lord a while ago. I gave it a bit of a repaint/heavy touch-up, then did the base for him. He'd seen someone else do the chains hanging off of the model and thought it looked cool, so I did my best to recreate it for him. I may add a smidge of rust powder to the chains to make them look a bit more aged. I have some mounrfang cavalry of his that I'll be doing next (along with my 40k projects).


Secondly a little experimental casting project. I have a really cool looking ork nob that was supposed to be riding on top of the Kill Tank, but as such he has no feet. I didn't want to use him on the tank, so I need to make feet for him. Here is the first successful GS foot using thermoplastic (like blue stuff), green stuff and an AoBR nob's foot for a model. There are 3 failures in the bin and I still need one more foot! Ah well, it's all good experience I guess.

It was great fun!

Yes, that sounds right.

I can always use new teef. Actually I'm waiting for proper casting supplies to arrive, but this is just to get me used to the process with what I have at hand.

Little bit of a surprise for you guys today. A Mantis Warrior!

Fifty was kind enough to build and paint this noble marine for me as a gift (thanks man). I love banner bearers in an army but I hate painting banners, so I don't have any of my own. Now I have a beautiful one who will go proudly into my display cabinet until the next time he's called to action. That's pretty awesome in my book.

Not much going on here hobby-wise, but I did get a few Armorcast refinery bits painted up. Also did several "pipe walls", but you've seen those before so I'll spare you the pic.

Thanks Syro_, glad you liked it. There will be more!

Fun news...
Thing 1 is home for the summer... that means I get to have my butt kicked by Necrons for a change!


I finally received the shipment of OOP Armorcast refinery towers and such from my ebay purchase. Laid everything out and I must say I'm pretty excited about it. Have started gluing everything together and begun priming. It's rare enough to find a single set of these refinery towers, let alone 5 sets... though the can topper things on the right are still around.


Along with them came a bunch of plaster cast, high-tech lab benches and control consoles. These are really cool and very well made. Not sure where they came from but now I'm torn as to whether to re-paint and keep them or re-paint and sell them as I think with a consistent look they'd be very attractive. Unfortunately I don't really have any "indoor" gaming layouts, so I'm not sure how much use I'd find for them if I kept them. They look about the right size for a normal sized human in 40k through.


Also got the spray-can work done on some sector mechanicus terrain. Nothing exciting, but good enough to use until I can get back to them and finish detailing. This is where all my industrial pieces start. Black primer, bolt-gunish metal spray, then a very light spray of reddish/medium brown to give it that neglected look. All spray-cans. Lastly I'll come in with some copper, bright silver (for non-corroding alloys) and rust/soot in powder form. It all goes together pretty quickly and is a good way to get things in playable form with a reasonable amount of work.


That's all for now!

@BrianCJ: Hey, if it works, it works!

@CB: Thanks man, appreciate it.

Getting a little help today in setting up the table for my game with Thing 1. Amazing that he didn't knock any of the pipelines down.

I kit-bashed my own skitarii Marshal. The white primer is a bit spotty but it won't be visible after painting. The pose of the left arm is off a bit, but I didn't have anything closer. That is actually the same pistol, mine is just an earlier version of it. Sorry the images are so huge. I'll try him out once I get the new dex and if I like him I'll build another. I should have the parts for one more.



For comparison, here's the real thing.

Thank you gentlemen.

@Yorkright: Not sure. I won't get my codex until later this week. A lot of people are beating their chests over it but at least with what I've seen so far, I don't get it (both in watching codex reviews and battle reports). I think a pretty major nerfing was carried out. The army is far more complex to play now and bonuses that used to be army-wide are now single unit and tied to an HQ being near... meaning you have to spend a good deal more points on support HQs. A lot of rules got re-arranged... but in essence they didn't change much. In some cases in order to get a bonus, you have to also get a significant negative.... WTF?! What other of the new codexes does that?! Supposedly Mars Skitarii is a winner in the new dex... that suits me as that's primarily what I play anyway... but I'm very skeptical.

@graven: Thanks mate. I tried my best to copy the original with what I had on hand. I am pleased with the final result.

@Guardling: Thanks, me too! Probably start on that today.

Nevelon wrote:Nice work. Once you paint it up you’d be unable to tell it didn’t start life as a monoposed HQ. Hits all the notes of the source.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:That is a really well-done recreation of the model! It'll look great on the table!

Thanks guys, comments are very much appreciated. Now that I'm looking at it, I'm starting to get ideas about adding tiny wires for the smaller cables (like those to the light, mace head and wrapped around the servo-skull cable). That might be asking for trouble though...