So…..its Urn’s fault.
Epic. Out of nowhere.
Urn’s fault. I mean it usually is his fault but he did a bad
thing this time.
He unleased me upon the world of Epic.
Little did he know that I have had a hankering to play Epic
for ….well….decades. Since it first came out. In my teenage years I had a brief
experience with it that lasted long enough for me to fall in love with the
visual impact of it shortly before the owner of the grand multitude of wonder
proved himself to be an utter tool. One dead titan and he went off to sulk in
front of the TV. End of game.
Never got to play it again. I owned a copy of Space Marine
and even got round to painting some of the marines up in Ultramarine colours.
Then it went away in the loft. Lonely and forgotten.
Until Urn awoke the beast.
So now I’ve brought more than I should have and must
restrain myself from buying more on Ebay.
Look what you did Urn!!
The main appeal of Epic for me lies in the Horus Heresy era
especially as I was reading White Dwarf during the years when it was full of
great epic fluff. As such I decided to echo my 28mm Heresy stuff at the 6mm
level. I’ve got Iron Warriors and Iron Hands, the latter of which are in a non-standard
colour scheme to match the fluff I have for my 28mm force. I thought I’d start with a couple of test pieces given that
it has been a long time since I last painted any Epic.
Iron Warriors
Iron Hands
I was pretty pleased with the testers and proceeded to prep
the Iron Warriors force as they would be quicker to get to the table than the
Iron Hands.
Now I do like to have all the scenery in place prior to
getting a game to the table and seeing that the box sets had loads of buildings
in them I couldn’t see that there was much else to add in order to get us
started. I have a gaming mat, hills and lots of buildings so the only thing
missing was trees. Thankfully I’d ordered a load for the Dystopian Wars games
that we’ve been planning so they just needed basing. Once again a test was in
order. I used a small piece of black foam core and coating it in sand. Once dry
I painted it in mottled browns and greens and punched small holes to fit the
trees which were just shoved in with a blob of PVA on the stem. Worked a treat.
So this weekend I
knocked up some more! Should be enough….for now. I still have a couple of
hundred trees so it’ll be easy to do more if they are needed.
In between working on the 6mm Epic stuff I have been pushing
ahead with more 28mm Horus Heresy stuff as well. At home I’ve been doing a
little bit on some add-ins for my Mechanicum force and some more Iron Hands…
…and at work I have finished doing the gold trim on the 66
Iron Warriors.
TTFN!
Good lord man, you're like a painter possessed!
ReplyDeleteSome smashing stuff on the way, I see the butterfly approach is in order with tonnes of stuff on the go and nothing finished ;)
It's always his fault
ReplyDeleteNice stuff guys, good to see "Epic Fever" is intense in other parts of the world!
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