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Are those Forsaken pieces? They have quite a price tag now themselves.

They look great, I think better than the FW minis.

 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
Are those Forsaken pieces? They have quite a price tag now themselves.

They look great, I think better than the FW minis.

They are. I am quite the hoarder of bits so had all these left over (plus some more) from the 2 boxes I had from my 8th WHFB WoC army. It was an amazing box and hopefully gets rereleased with ToW releases.

So here are some proper Alpha Legion marines. Nothing special here. Just regular marines with a pretty basic paint job. These were the test scheme for the army. Worked well and was quick enough so I have stuck with it throughout. Thinking of doing some in black with the blue AL color on just the shoulder pads or something just to differentiate between squads.

I havent taken a ton of pictures of my 30k units individually but did take some pictures of their last battle. Played a 2k game against my friends Word Bearers.







His storm eagle was blasted from the sky the turn it came on the board killing everything aboard (all his Gal Vorbak) which pretty much swung the game in my favor. We had a lot of fun and are planning a Zone Mortalis game in July.

One last Battle in 30k before I move on to some of My AoS stuff. This batle I used my Demons of the Ruinstorm. This battle was a narative battle where the traitors and their demon allies were trying to breach a Loyalist Stronghold. Word Bearers, Iron Warriors and Demons vs Loyalist Emprors Children, Space Wolves, and Solar Auxilla. The Traitors ended up winning the battle but it was a great time and took us about 7 hours to play.

Our Deployment







And some Battle Photos





And thats it for now.

So thought I'd post a couple pictures of individual models. Th army so far has 2 dreadnoughts. In my area we play by the rules of only 1 dread per 1k points since they are pretty powerful. I will add some more to the army for options, but this is what I have for now.

First is my dual lascannon dread. He is probably OP and he seems to be the all star in every game I use him.



Next up is the first plastic dread that came out a few years back. I had it lying around and was the first model I painted up for this army.







And thats it for now. Will post a few more individual pics of other units here soon. Thanks for looking!

Next up are my two terminator squads for the army. I need to get a land raider built to tote them around.





Going to play a Zone Mortalis game in a few weeks and I imagine they will perform well in that.

Last post about the Alpha Legion for a bit. Played a small 1500 point game against my buddy's Word Bearers. I won this game on points but he definitely did more damage to my army that I did to his!

My List



The one picture I remembered to take...



Thats all for now. We are playing a ZM game in July so I will probably be working in this army in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for some AoS and Blood Bowl!

Next up is my Necromantic Horror Blood Bowl team I painted up. I went for a monochromatic scheme with a pop of color on the armor. First attempt at this kind of paint style and it came out well enough.









Played a few games with this team but they are not my favorite. Thanks for looking and till next time!

Lovely group shots - you've nailed the metallic blue of the AL and the Blood Bowl team is almost at the opposite end of the spectrum with the drybrushing. Nice pops of colour on both of them - the green power weapons for the AL and the red for the spooks.

Glad you're getting some games in too! Must feel great to have a fully painted force out there rolling dice.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Tzurk. I have been trying more and more to only play with painted models. Doesnt always happen but I usually get em done.

So the past few posts have been from the two year gap in my posting here. In this post I am going to post about what Im actively working on right now. I am going to the NOVA open at the end of August and am playing in ALL the Blood Bowl events they are having. One of those is a Blood Bowl variant called Dungeon Bowll where you play in a Dungeon instead of on a pitch. The teams are mixed into colleges and I am going to give the college of metal a try this year. Here is my progress on the team so far.

Here is the team in its current state



A closer look.



And here are the 4 models that are actually finished.



Going for a very rusted / distressed metal look. Not sure how it comes across but Im in too deep now to change it. Let me know what you think!

The other project I am currently working on is an ebay rescue for a FEC army. Got this lot DIRT cheap and with the new edition coming around I figured I would do something with them. Here is how they were sent to me. Wish me luck!!





Honestly dont know what was done to these models. They seem structurally sound but there is a lot of gunk on them!

So I started trying to clean these models up. Using a small jewelry cleaner and it has worked well enough. Dont need to get everything off, just the clumps of paint etc.

Excuse the mess in the pics. Doing this in my outdoor shop.





Hopefully can get these done over the weekend and get some primer on them.

"Colleges" for BB teams is an interesting concept - lots of different steel-wearing dudes ready to brawl there. Is it based on the different magical lores from WHFB like Metal/Beasts/Heavens/whatever?

Good luck with the clean-up and congrats on the steal!

 tzurk wrote:
"Colleges" for BB teams is an interesting concept - lots of different steel-wearing dudes ready to brawl there. Is it based on the different magical lores from WHFB like Metal/Beasts/Heavens/whatever?

Good luck with the clean-up and congrats on the steal!

That is exactly what the colleges are from. Blood bowl lore wise takes place in an alternate dimension of the old world but besides all the warring everything is the same. Made more progress on that team that I will share later! Pretty much all the greenskins are done now and now I just have to paint the humans to go with them.

But for now I wanted to share progress on the FEC lot. Went from what you saw above to this!



Note the character in the upper right corner isnt finished. He didnt come with a base or his tactical rock and so I need to decide exactly what I want to do with him.

Still working on the FEC. In the meantime I finished up some of the Endless Spells for my Blades of Khorne army. Will find out tomorrow if they are any good.





Have a decent size BoK army so wanted to get these added since they are free in 4th edition. Thats it for now!

They look really good, the rescue of the FEC is also looking very promising

Thanks, Cap'n!

While Im on the topic of Khorne, here are a few pictures of my BoK army in action.

Is that a Khornate GUO? Sorry I haven't had the chance to read through this whole plog.

 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
Is that a Khornate GUO? Sorry I haven't had the chance to read through this whole plog.

It is! I dont like the Bloodthirster models so I just painted a GUO red and no one has fussed about it yet.

Red GUO is very DOOM and surprisingly Khornate with the palette swap!

Love the action shots, and great work on the endless spells.

So Ive actually done some more work on that FEC rescue but havent taken pictures. For now, I spent some time the past week working on the Skaventide box and playing some spearhead.

Started working on the stormcast spearhead first. Excuse the mess, was working at my kitchen table while I was watching the kids. My normal hobby area is in the basement.




First game we played with the spearhead's in the box. My buddy is obsessed with skaven so he took the rats. The stormcast won this game pretty convincingly but we are still wrapping our heads around the new rules.





Next up we played Sons of Behemat vs Bonereapers. OBR is my friend's go to army. Please excuse my cheap SoB proxies. I like GW but I cant justify the prices of their giants so I have an army of proxies for SoB.





This was a much closer game. I won only because I drew a card that gave me strike first in my opponents turn which saved my leader from dying and allowed me to kill his leader. Really enjoying the card aspect of the game.

And thats all for now. Working on getting this Stormcast Spearhead ready for an event at my FLGS tomorrow.

Worked on the stormcast Spearhead from the Skavetide box some more. Getting the glowing effects going.





Coming along nicely and with only 11 models total to paint it should take next to no time to finish.

Agree that the cost of the Behemat giants is ridiculous, considering that they aren't even very attractive giant models. Compared to the ones from Mantic, or even 3D printed, they look especially bad.

Loving the glowing effect on your stormcast - super striking!

I agree, Cap'n. On the cost at least. I like the look of the models but still not worth that cost. Especially as if I ever want to play in an official AoS event I have other armies but the guys at the FLGS dont care.

Thanks, Blockade! Appreciate it!

Here is the Spearhead 99% complete. I need to finish the priests face but its done enough to show off the idea. Again, please excuse the mess in the picture. Not been working in my normal hobby area as of late.

So its been a couple weeks since I have posted. I was getting ready for the NOVA open. I spent my entire time there playing Blood Bowl which was very fun, but also maybe 18 games of Blood Bowl in 3-1/2 days was a little much. I loved the game, but was tired of it by the end.

The team I made specifically for NOVA was for Dungeon Bowl, which is a variant of Blood Bowl played in a dungeon. Makes sense, huh? I chose the College of Metal and painted up the below team for it.



I only remembered to take a picture of one game, which is against The College of Heavens.



We played three games and I went 1-1-1 which was good enough for me. Thanks for looking, and I will post more shortly.

Blood Bowl Burnout!

 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
Blood Bowl Burnout!

I did feel a little bit of burnout towards the end of the con. Had fun, but it was a lot.

I also played in the Gutter Bowl tournament which is pretty much Blood Bowl in the street. I only took this one picture of my three games. This one my OWA vs Chaos Renegades.



I took 2nd overall (out of just 8) so had a pretty good day with this one.

Got a little burnt out of Blood Bowl after playing so much at NOVA. Been working on some Kill Team and other skirmish games as of late. Here are some WIP shots of my Mandrake Kill Team for the new edition.





Just going with a pretty basic slap chop on these but it looks good enough for the time put in. Thanks for looking.