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Some more progress on my end, one unit closer to having my list ready...

4,5k of NetEA, Ill Met by Moonlight. The Machine Church gave the eldritch machinefolk a good ol' kicking and repo'd all of their toasters.



Couple more in the spoilers.

Sherrypie - I don't suppose you could be persuaded to come to Cardiff in the UK at the beginning of March and bring some of this stuff?

Looks incredible! And love the setting and background for the shots.

 Pacific wrote:
Sherrypie - I don't suppose you could be persuaded to come to Cardiff in the UK at the beginning of March and bring some of this stuff?

Looks incredible! And love the setting and background for the shots.

If you quickly undo Brexit, perhaps

Realistically, no time this spring, but I sure would love to visit UK events at some point. Bring Out Your Lead and similar smaller conventions seem lovely, maybe even checking out some EpicUK happenings while at it...

Bring Out Your Lead

As a fellow Monty Python fan (even as an American!) I absolutely snorted when I read that. Such a great name for an event.

Squat Project Update:

Bought some new paints that the Manager at my local GW shop helped me pick out based on my old #111 White Dwarf Mag I had brought in, and painted up a test unit of Mjolna Brotherhood. Pretty happy with the results and am working on a full Mole Unit worth of models now.

Also, I've uploaded my re-designed Squat army card PDF over in the Middlehammer Epic 40K Facebook group for free download. Here are a few screen captures from that passion project. Enjoy, and please think of me every time you use them! ;-)

Lovely looking Squats!

As a diehard Space Marine/Titan Legions player...any chance you're also in the New England area?

 Alpharius wrote:
Lovely looking Squats!

As a diehard Space Marine/Titan Legions player...any chance you're also in the New England area?

Thanks! Unfortunately I'm on the west coast. Been working on my Adeptus Titanticus Horus Heresy titan legion recently too. Love the newer "Epic" models as well.

Spartan finished.






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Got a unit of Ascus done too, on a role now! Might actually get my army done for the Con at this rate!

More tanks ready for my guard. With the ones I had, I can now field a tank company and 3 demolishers in support.

Some funkier EA this time, 2v2 custom scenario on a 12'x4' table with umpired NPC forces running in the middle. Fortified forge-fane in the middle, four outer storages outside the walls, two armies closing in in waves to rob and ransack what they can. In the end, no clear victor can be declared, though amidst the burning wreckage and torn down walls, it is clearly not the local administration... poor arch-magos Fönstern-x64 will be left with a long bill to pay after the invaders have taken their fill from their warehouses and disappeared.

Each player had 3000 points split into four waves of reserves, some of which had a long way to walk in order to get into the thick of it. All players had for whatever reason taken plenty of AA guns but nobody had any planes, or much of any other fast units either... oh dear. Plenty of headbutting into solid walls, robot sentries and other defenses in the initial half while the second stretch turned bloody as the overwhelmed locals finally saw their walls breached by force and got squished between the two advancing fronts as they started to properly meet in the middle right before the end of the day.



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Played my second game in a narrative escalation league that I've joined at my local club. It starts at 1000 and goes up 500 points after that with the intention of keeping your core 1000 points in every game. The terrain set ups have been mildly inspired by Sherrypie's incredible boards but there's only so much can be done with club terrain!

I played against Solar Auxilia for the first time and it was a good game! Keen to play some bigger ones as the small point games have been insanely swingy.

Mission: No Man's Land
Sec: Control the Battlefield

So, I'm not going to lie - a little behind where I had hoped to be with my tiny marines... but my test models are finished and I'm now into the mass production stage! Have hit a snag though, and need some advice...

These are the test models, which I'm pretty happy with overall. Predator is missing a turret as I'm a clutz and broke it (a spare turret from the sprue is in the assembly line).



Part of the reason it's taken a bit longer is because I have actually cut the small bit of base between their feet out from the masses, but that's one of those things. I've just finished spraying them and think I may have messed up with the airbrushing of BA Contrast as some are distinctly darker than others (if I can tell, being colour blind, than I'm pretty confident it's an issue!). Bit stuck on what to do now, don't really want the hassle of stripping them (or have the time!) but concerned an overspray of white again and then more contrast would end up being too think, especially on such small models. Or wondering whether the darker ones just getting a light drybrush of something like Wild Rider Red would be close enough (they've got a grime wash etc coming up after anyways). What do folks suggest?

@Piousservant maybe try a drubrush l biege on one? That could lighten up the scheme if it became too dark for you.

I finished another 2 wave serpents this weekend. I tried them in battle with some guardians on sunday, and mechanised guardians were pretty sweet. But I think next project will be a formation of fire dragons to be the future main users of these transports

First fire dragons painted

Some amazing stuff there guys! Sherrypie, that is the table and setup of my dreams! (In fact, from the background it looks like you are playing up in the clouds somewhere ). It looks incredible.

Tyranid Horde - I think that is a great way to start, smaller points and then work up as you get used to the activations and unit profiles. The army and layouts look lovely too. I think it's funny with the Baneblade cowering behind the building shows they are not tough enough, I really think they need to give those an extra wound or make them slightly more survivable in some way.

Gitdakka - lovely work on the Eldar. I have been trying to get some of those old model Wave Serpents for a while, but just waiting for some that aren't a crazy amount of money..

Piousservant - For the shade of red, I would go with whatever you want really for Heresy blood angels. The artwork and official minis vary a lot, and certainly some of the Collected Vision artwork had them painted in a much deeper/ruby red, which yours looks a pretty close match for.

Now a full unit of fire dragons is done!

Love the Eldar Gitdakka!

Pacific - thanks, I'm pretty set on how I want to do these Blood Angels - the issue is more how to correct a bunch of them that got oversprayed with too much contrast. I was concerned that respraying them white without stripping them may loose too much detail on such small models ? Alternative approach of drybrushing extra highlights is then whether that looks consistent with the rest of my models or not, that's what I've done so just hoping I don't have a bunch of bases which stand out from the rest of the army like a sore thumb! We'll see I guess.

Cheers Pacific!

Good stuff too, Gitdakka.

On my end, finished a couple more tiny tanks for Selen II home army.





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E:A, 3k GT. The armoured battalion took to the field under their new commander, who immediately sank to the bottom of a toxic swamp under enemy fire. Despite the Dark Mechanicus commander getting unceremoniously crushed under Baneblade treads with their whole terminator retinue, the Guard tanks faltered in their deployment area without proper leadership to drive them onwards and the day was ultimately carried by the machine-beasts of Chaos.

@sherry pie The flags on those tanks are such a great detail. Good color choices too.

Today I finished an additional fire dragon exarch and an autarch.

 Gitdakka wrote:
@sherry pie The flags on those tanks are such a great detail. Good color choices too.

Thanks, they are an integral part of 40k to me

Putting some stowage on the next superheavies.

Two days of tabletop ready painting for tonight's game, SHT's and more Russ turrets. There's still plenty of detailing to go, like the banners on the SHT's. But that's later.




3k NetEA GT. In tonight's heavy metal rumble, the iron tide of Selen II threw the daemonic techmongers out of their idyllic countryside holdings. There was a struggle to win on objectives as the tank companies barreled through the pressure point in the middle, yet were twice foiled by the fearless obliterators standing and rallying nearby. Ultimately, the bodycount was too heavily slanted in favor of the Guard and the hereteks were forced to yield the field.

Very cool Sherrypie. I assume are you playing Armageddon there and if so can I ask what armylist you're using for your Dark Mechanicum?

 Pacific wrote:
Very cool Sherrypie. I assume are you playing Armageddon there and if so can I ask what armylist you're using for your Dark Mechanicum?

EA with NetEA lists, yeah. I'm learning to drive with a Minervan tank legion and my friend fields their Dark Mech models as an Iron Warriors list. So there's a mix of priests and bots running as havocs and obliterators, smaller spiders as defilers, big ones as decimators and so on.

Perfect, thank you!

Friend and I are going to give his DM a go in the game with his new mini collection and that sounds like the units line up nicely.

I'm trying to get some Epic Eldar ready for a mega game next month, which will be Orks and Eldar, and nothing like a deadline to make you paint stuff!

Howling Banshees and their transports.






And some Jetbikes


The Grav tanks are classic GW plastics (still working my way through a bag of the things I got for about £10 ) but the 'Banshees' and Jetbikes are proxies (in the Eloi range) from Vanguard Miniatures.

We were going to do Eldar vs. Marines but saw this awesome piece of art by David Gallagher has made us go to an all-Xenos game instead.

Made these objective markers. Not super advanced, but maybe it beats battling for abstract markers.

Nice markers, Gitdakka. Always better than abstract ones.

Prepped a couple of quick Deathstrikes and banners for tomorrow's Epic game. Deathstrikes temporarily on extra Russ chassii until I can get a suitable batch of lighter hulls. Had to repaint everything after my varnish decided to dry white in all recesses

Finished a little Moritat diorama;

4x 5k NetEA, Nids & Eldar vs. IG & IF, escalating forces brought in three waves. The local farming community had their day ruined while no decisive military victory was to be declared by any side. Shoutout to the one bio-titan that survived about eight Volcano cannon shots and for the other one that survived two Deathstrikes with only one damage incurred.

Absolutely stunning Sherrypie, the colouring and highlighting on those Eldar Grav tanks is just

Are those ones yours?