15mm Germans

As Tom predicted it took the hobby butterfly in me about a week to succumb to the lure of lots of little tanks. These guys come from the El Alamein box from Battlefront Miniatures my new employer.

Great little kits that simply give you a load of options and go together in about 10 minutes.

Kits:

Finished:

I have not glued the tracks on as I want to spray them separetly. I have gone for fairly gentle weapon options as I am not sure how effective everything is in the game and from my crude understanding German stuff is powerful anyway.

I will embark upon painting them this weekend and let you know how I get on. Desert War here we come!!

Crimson Fist Land Raider

Now for about a million years the normal Land Raiders have been balls. They do not know what they are doing. Against Infantry they are meh, as tank hunters they are ok but sub optimal. However, in the dawning of 8th they find their place once more in the world. Tank killer (four Lascannons baby), plus a Multi Melta, Troop killing with two Heavy Bolters and a Storm Bolter we are killing everything!

Here is one that Gary gave me that I finally patched up and painted!

This needs some transfers and a little bit of detail work but it is almost there (Dave Done).

Side view

As I had the paints on the pallet I bashed this guy out too. He needs more work but will try and get him polished off soon.

Due to the volume of SM stuff I have gathered over the years I have all the options (except a Thunderfire Cannon but it is on Ork tracks…sorry long rant moved to a future post) so refining what the final army looks like is tough at this stage. I am trying hard not to paint a million Captains as I have loads and they are all cool.

Anyway hopefully finishing some stuff on the next post, or maybe more battle reports.

40K Three Way – Salamanders, Orks and Genestealers

The members of the Sherwood, Hucknall Ilkeston Team gathered once more for wargamming and drinking. I suggested going to the pub but 40K won out.

First time in a while I have beaten Tom to the punch and got my report up first.

This is a 50 power game (the power thing is working really well for us as it is quick and easy – I can see it being open to abuse but we aren’t that clever) I warned Tom before we started that General Ballroom’s Genestealers are lethal.

With that is mind he lined up next to me and made for a fight!

I am on the left and Tom is on the right

Did I see something moving in those buildings?

Oh, they are all full of Genestealers, sad face. You get 10 Genestealers for 8 power making them slightly cheaper than a Tactical Squad. I think with the GS’s moving at 8″, advancing D6″ and then being able to charge 2D6″ you have potentially the one turn charge! Once in combat the Marines can’t win so it is all on the shooting!

Tom is lined up ready to smash me with his main unit

Which he duly does, my Captain’s heroic intervention is the only thing denting those Orks, the Dread eats a couple of Nobs, I am trying for the morale check

While Tom and I tear lumps out of each other GB is free to roam the board

What remains of my force as my Captain cuts down the last of the boys. I have lost two dreadnoughts and a Tactical squad!

At this point: GB has lost one model, Tom has a Trukk with some boyz in and a couple of Deff Koptas, I have a Captain badly injured, a Tactical Squad and an Assault squad in reserve.

The inevitable happens and the Genestealers pounce. Tom and I take a fair few with us but in the end the blue and purple tide carry the day!

I am really enjoying 40K and it is an absolute joy to get each of my armies out to see how they fair (TBH a lot are Space Marines and so it is different windows into the same house) I am going to look at getting the Chaos and Elves book so that I can give those a blast too. Anyway I think I am just rambling so will sign off for now!

Crimson Fists

Spurred on by Brendan’s teasing about home wreckers and Tom’s challenge to refight the Rynn’s World campaign (we managed one game last time) I got all excited about space marines in general and Crimson Fists in particular.

As a second founding and famously most peoples first image of a Space Marine I don’t have to worry about the Heresy muddying my build plan they can be purely 40K and the embittered enemies of my Orks.

With my airbrush and some free time I can get onto batch painting the Fists

Originally the Hellbasters (not knicked from Volleygun fame at all) were going in the Blood Angels but they sit a little better in the Fists, as with the Termies and the Primaris Captain. I will do the Intercessors and the Fat Sky Divers too.

Here we have another Tactical Squad (number three), a Primaris Ancient, Apothecary and Centurian (power extreme) Devastators!

I also have a Dev Squad, Land Raider and Dreadnought cooking. Hopefully something will actually get finished soon!

Orks vs Marines Battle Report

So Steve Morris, off of being my friend for ages and formerly my colleague at Forge World, came round for a game of new 40K – yes I am playing quite a bit of this at the moment. It is great!

Steve took the Orks! I took the Sons of Guilliman (yes you might have spotted I have painted a lot of different Space Marine Chapters – which is cool, not sad and lonely).

Steve uses the Dakka Jet to hunt my characters, the darn thing was nigh unkillable!

My left flank form up. There seem to be a lot of Orks!

The Jet tears lumps out of the Librarian!

Quantities of Ork Elites charge my right flank!

Librarian is down to one wound 😦

I push the tactical squad forward shooting and then charging, big mistake! Those five at the back are dead!

The Terminators come to back up the left Flank!

The Chaplain gets the Dakkajet treatment!

After wiping out the rest of the army (bar a very badly battered Predator) Steve swamps the Terminator Chaplain!

Another easy win the Orks, I need to run them against Genestealers to see how they fair against the toughest opponents I have thus far discovered in the new 40K world!

Chaos Marines vs Orks

So Mr John French (off of writing Horus Heresy Books and stuff) came round for a game. This was the first time I had faced the Chaos men and I rolled out the Orks

Sadly I took only two photos so this is more of a postcard than a holiday letter

Lots of Orks

So we had a great game and a great chat. I learned just how tough Chaos is with a lot of invulnerable saves rocking around. Ork Warbosses got harder, Chaos Lords less so.

Three way 40K, Guard, Templars and Orks

Tom and gaming heir arrived for a Saturday afternoon game, we flipped through the 40K and found out the rules for multi player games. On the bones of Triumph and Treachery the system works really well.

Tom got his Battle Report up first just go here.

Gaming Heir bunkered down with his mighty Templars

I am at the end and hugging cover too as I am somewhat out matched having the worst possible combination of neither armoured nor blob guard army.

Tom’s Red Orks, they are super tough!

Tom starts the treck into no mans land!

My Leman Russ goes up against the Land Raider Crusader, that doesn’t go well for me. Multilaser Scout Sentinels hunt Orks, must remember to keep them out of charge range!

Still a lot of dudes on the table, keep your heads down lads

The Orks head towards objective on my right,  I have a squad their but that will not stop a Trukk, Warboss and Ork mob.

Chimera and Kasrikin are going to try and stop the Ork advance

Meanwhile Gaming Heir is being overwhelmed by Orks, the shear volume of dice pumped out by Ork units mean that equal points of Tactical Marines versus Orks is a super tough challenge

A barely scratched Land Raider is winning the tank dual.

My Iron Fist squad take the objective but the Orks are coming

The Shoota Boyz pile into the guard, not going too well

Tom had all the objectives bar one and had racked up all the points and won. Well fought and loads more 40K fun!!

Crimson Fists – Yah Boo Sucks Brendan

So Brendan was teasing me about the Crimson Fists. These I painted to play the scenario: “Battle for the Farm” from the original Rogue Trader!

I think they are pretty nice with plenty of Power Fists packed in, plus loads of Bolters

So there you are Brendan, lovely Crimson Fists! Munch is doing the vehicles so they will be even nicer!

Dreadnought Librarian Step by Step

After getting creamed by the evil Genestealers (Bat Rep to come) I needed something to so them down a bit. I also wanted to do the unique stuff for the Blood Angels. I figure as I do loads of armies I should take each one down the road of being as much of their own thing as they can be!

So anyway I wanted to get this done nicely but quickly, let’s see how we do it:

Start with blocking out the blue (Macragge Blue), I am halving the dreadnought for reasons!

Next let’s get the Mephiston Red on to get the Blood Angel thing going.

Block and line highlights, I washed the blue but not the red

Brown out all the scrolls and skulls

Now over the top with parchment colour (ushabiti bone), leave some of the brown showing

Screaming skull highlight

Gold on the gems then gem up (black and red, red the orange) I have white coming later so will dot the gems then!

Green for tubes, seals and leans. Highlight the tubes, and leans. Silver on keys and stuff.

I do a different tone of green on the seals. I light greyed, and then whited on the wings please face. And I use the white to do the dots.

Black writing, base coat force halberd, highlight black bits.

Highlights on halberd, gloss varnish gems and lenses.

Close up!

Do the base, and done!

It took a few days but there is your quick fire Dreadnought

Finished Primaris Marines

Trying out some of the different features of Word Press here is my squad of finished Marines. I think they have come out really and are a pleasure paint.

And for all you Fallout fans, is that a pipboy on the sergeants arm?