Hobby Update

First pic and I admit an old one, is how my Daemons started out. Everytime I see this I think of the airfix figures.

On to the newer stuff and my Chaos Marine Vehicles. Simple paint scheme and simple wash = 4 vehicles in 2 hours. Awesome. Please note that the front windshield is still fully functional in the Jenkin setting.

So as you can see from this the terrain project is moving along nicely. I love the blue and gold effect and it makes a change from dry brushed silver/grey on the GW Cityfight terrain.

The piece I am probably the happiest with is the industry one. The tank is a garden feed container. I have gone for Blue and silver on this one as opposed to the blue and gold on the city buildings.

The fountain piece was purchased from Ebay for £9. For this I got a box load of Hirst art bricks made of dental plaster and a link to a website to see the model. I then did the Krypton factor to assemble the model. To finish the piece, I purchased some resin and plaster lions. These again from EBay, and are intended for Dolls Houses. The overall piece is great, although I still trying to find a decent colour for the black base. Here are the before and after piccies.

And after....

Lastly then, my Plantary Empire tiles. Playing Chaos for this campaign drove me towards the barren and ashen wastes. Hence the black/grey scheme. I also picked out the terrain piece as volcanic and highlighted this up to yellow.

The Germans are coming!!!

Thanks to the fact that I've managed to finish a few other bits and bobs, I can now get cracking on my Germans for SotTR.

I've finished the zombies (I'll try and get some piccies up soon) and a Vampire. Three werewolves are nearly complete, they just need army dip and basing. Just need to get all the ground pounders done!

We built this city on rock and Rooollllll!!

Decided to blitz my PE tiles at the weekend having only just got them from VSM on Thursday.

The 'Hive City' is indeed three saucer sections from Star Trek Micromachine toys!

When you're feeling blue....

... and so here come the Orks. All dressed in yellow....

Mr.Nob with Power Klaw & Bosspole; the only figure in this first mob of 20 that didn't come out of the Assault on Black Reach set.

A mob shot...

Two of the lovely fellows; one showing off the fact that not all of them are wearing entirely yellow.

One of the two Big Shootas in the squad. These chaps wear a fetching orange jump suit; they are the Orange Jackets.

A slightly further out mob shot...

For those with an interest:
Skin = Mordian Blue with Azurmen Blue wash
Clothes = Iyanden Darksun (majority) + variety of other foundation paints + Gryphonne Sepia wash
Belts + Boots = Calthan Brown + Gryphonne Sepia wash
Armour, Guns, Weapons = Boltgun Metal + Badab Black wash
Base = Shadow Grey + Railway Flock that was bought years ago.

So this lot come in at 170 points. 2 more mobs just like this to do.

... Blue is the new Green don't you know!!

Panzers March

Well I have finally decided on a colour scheme for my Panzers, I have used the Desert Yellow Spray from Army PAinter and overbrushed with Middlestone, then washed with Army Painter Soft Tone....still a little "brown" for my liking, nut no doubt the finished product will get better the more I practice.

Here we have my first Tiger I

And some StuG G's emerging from the woodland.

Pz IV's Hanomags a Tiger II and soem much needed Panzer grenadiers next.

Here's the T-34s (see post below) as it wouldn't let me post 4 pictures in 1 post!

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Yep, here I am, ready and raring to post for the first time since... well, suffice it to say it was when the BFG was a nipper, so it's been some time ;)

So, What have I been up to? Glad you asked! In a few words, Russians & Daemons. Piccies attached! So, what are they? Well, the first one there is a truckload of Russian Infantry, and there are more Russian tanks than you can shake a stick at (14 T-34s of both the 76 and 85mm version), and 6 Katyushas (although I need 2 more to field all 6 as it's 2, 4 or 8) and there are also 27 daemonettes currently on the table o' painting - so more rending attacks than a pocket full of genestealers! I'm pleasantly surprised at how quick this posting malarkey is, so feel free to give me a poke and get me to do more if I don't do a post for a while!

What's up next? Well, it's time for the 40k Planetary Empires campaign to kick off, so I'm thinking either mobile IG (as I have Valks & Chimeras/hellhounds to paint) or Dark Eldar (as I have loads of them to paint and need to get them done for the 40k Doubles tournament in January - so watch this space and we'll see what appears!