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Got a bunch of deadzone terrain painted. I've done them without gluing anything to maintain modularity, and it was annoying to get together as when painted, but I'm happy enough with the outcome! Might do a bit of touching up here and there where the wash dried unevenly is all.

I've gotten this not only to play Deadzone but also to use as terrain to go with my Battle For Cabot set, which I am going to tackle next. The box gave me real 2e 40K vibes and I chose it based on nostalgia, but the thing it's missing that that 2e box had was scenery. So I got a terrain crate of ruins and the Deadzone box to populate at least a small board with a battlefield 12 year old me would have been blown away by.

Making good progress with my Orks, they make excellent Blood Axe boyz. Have knocked together some 1000 and 1500 point lists for Marauders, Forge Fathers and GCPS and I'll do one for Plague as well.

I've been big on making cards for my games of Grimdark Future to help total newbies process their units, it's cool that mantic's app outputs a nice summary of every unit onto a list so I can print it out for my opponent. I might do a laminated sheet of the relevant special rules as well. Probably be a while before I can play any games but I plan on doing some solo games to teach myself the rules anyway.

Just a couple of shots of my finished marauders. Not winning any prizes for sure but I'm happy with them. The scheme is very similar to my Imperial Guard scheme because they're Blood Axes so they might have allied with the Guard and gotten surplus from them, or traded perhaps. I like the Marauder models but the background isn't as good as 40K's space Ork background imo.

Group shot of all of my Demiurg Infantry. I've since finished a tank and a couple of walkers and their little self propelled gun thingy.



Close up of my infantry. I converted some of the steel warriors into jump infantry using bitz from the Hammerfall Exo Suit unit. I dislike how chunky that upgrade makes the exo suits, but the backpacks fit really well on my Steel Warriors. Mantic accidentally sent me both of these units so I felt fine taking risks with them. In Firefight I might use these guys as Thoragrim but more likely I just won't use them, saving them for Grimdark Future and Xenos Rampant.



A close up on my Exo-Suits. I ended up with 18 of these despite only ordering 6, but no worries about that! You might notice one of them has a squid head - there's a couple of these scattered amongst my Steel Warriors too. I got them from I think the North Star Mercenaries sprue. I don't like how human-like the Forge Fathers are and I'm planning to also use them as Demiurg for 40K, so I decided the beard motifs might just as easily be stylised tentacles and decided my Demiurg would have chin tentacles. I imagine them living on gas giants on floating earthbergs, and having to mine for speciifc minerals to expand their territory as densities and material properties are very important for maintaining their cloud cities.

I have a bunch of Brokkrs and some militia that I got sent by accident or in a Crazy Box. I'm going to paint them up as well, so that I can use them in Firefight and Deadzone. I'll just leave out the squid headed lads in those games and use them as by the book Forge Fathers. I suppose it also means I can field a fairly large traditional Squat army, though I prefer my space dwarves as proper aliens these days.

Veer-myn (for 40K themed games, Hrudd) are up next. I still have some Matsudan (Slann) to assemble (and I could do with a Mech for that force as well, maybe a grav tank) and I want to do a bit of work on my Plague to make them look a bit nicer with some greenstuff before I assemble them. I'll be keeping my eye out for any hard plastic Rebs that Mantic might release but otherwise I think I'm happy with what I have.

These are fab! Looking forward to you getting some mecha space dragons on.