BIG MECH.....

..anicum

Massive in fact!

The GoGs had discussed trying to get a certain points value painted each month. Well I stood no chance of doing so in December but this month I have been making up for it. Almost finished are nearly 1K points made up of a Knight Titan, A Castigator Knight Titan and a Thanatar!

Oh yeah baby!!

I did the pistons today and tomorrow I'm aiming to paint the smaller other details and then it is just weathering and decals. After these it will be the turn of a Magos and two Castellax. I have an Avenger strike fighter that I intended to add to the marine HH forces but it appears to actually be listed as a Mechanicum FA option. This has led me to consider painting it in the Mechanicum scarlet and gold. I had intended to go with a dull sort of aviation grey scheme but the red and gold is starting to win me over. That will be it for the Mechanicum until I order some more which I'll have to do given the lack of troops!

TTFN

Pulp sci-fi, the good guys

So, following the nefarious storm troopers of my last post, I've now completed most of the good guy team.  Without further ado....

The captain and mechanic

The alien crew members, from a race down trodden by the evil empire

And the fussy robot and the good natured, hulking great alien with great strength.

Reckon I've hit most of the archetypes with these figures, all from Bombshell Miniatures, and they were a joy to paint!

Right, who's up for a but of 7TV or Pulp Alley then?

30k Death Guard - First steps

So, after the wash-athon, the stick-athon and then the undercoat-athon, over recent weeks I have been making real inroads into my fledgling Death Guard.

So the most important point to make is that this simple colour scheme with the worn "we don't wash as if we were teenage boys" look is complex, time consuming and a great project. I did not want to throw these together base coat and drybrush and throw them on the table.  I wanted to focus and get back in the modelling and painting side of the hobby.  Lastly, I need to be able to take better pics - these are stunning in real life and the light camera combo does not work.

Anyway, to date I have painted and weathered to completion

17 Legionnaires
2 x Radio Men
5 x Grave Wardens
1 x Champion
1 x Master of Signal
1 x Apothocary
5 x Destroyers
5 x heavy support with Lascannons.
1 x Rapier
Sicarian
Medusa
40k demolisher which started as a test vehicle but I painted to completion, as I will loot this from the Imperial Fists at some time

Half painted

1 x Spartan
3 x Rhinos
1 x Apothocary
10 x Deathshrouds
10 x Legionnaires
5 x Flamers

Then I go back into the wash-stick-undercoat routine for:
10 x Breachers
2 x Sgts
5 x Destroyers
Mortarian
Typhon
5 x Grave Warden
1 x Achilles Land Raider


Anyway, to the poor pics

Pulp sci-fi, the journey begins

So, we have a couple of games that we need to play and that look like jolly good fun - 7TV and Pulp Alley (I bought the second one, quelle surprise).

I thought doing some sci-fi with them would be fun, fuelled by tales such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, etc. So, I have taken the liberty of using that as an excuse to find some smashing new figures and get them painted.

Herewith find my take on the evil minions/stormtroopers/cylons:

Dangerous ladies to be sure!

 

They had the right mix of fun, sci-fi and silliness for me, including the combat high heels, space chain mail bikini equivalent and cracking poses.  A picture of the others....

And another angle....

Next up are the good guys and the evil mastermind leader, who should be with us next week, so tune in space fans for the next enthralling episode of......

Chaos space marine bikers - conversion time!

Sometimes I spend too much on gaming. Sometimes I'm a right cheapskate when buying things.  I've long since given up trying to work out why I swing wildly from one to the other, sometimes even for the same army.

I'm sure you also know that I really enjoy converting. My painting is an ok tabletop standard and I don't have the patience to learn the advanced techniques or get an airbrush. So I often rely on conversions to feel like my army is standing out a little.

So when the cheapskate in me kicked in when thinking about getting some chaos space marine bikers, it was a perfect chance to go for some conversions given how all the troops in that army are converted.

A meander through the various ranges on offer in both 40k and WFB led me to the chaos marauder horseman. Really nice new sculpts and only £15 odd quid for 5 as opposed to £40 for the "official" bikers. Add in the torsos from the dark vengeance set and lots of chopping and sticking and I had my conversions.

So here are the first four:

And here are the next four:

I got to eight by using 3 WFB Empire knights horses that I had lying around, from another project of years ago that never got off the ground.

Lots of religious craziness from scrolls, etc.

Two plasma guns and a lightning claw for sarge.

My chaos force is coming along nicely now and hopefully I'll keep the momentum up in the new year to get an army finished......... About 8 years after it was started!

Dreadball Veer-Myn

Here they are, my third dread ball team!

All spruced up ready for the alternate jungle zone boards that we bought a couple of months ago.

Minor conversions on the duplicates to make them all (slightly) different. Numbers added for star player points appropriation and lines added to show the front and backs of the bases.

Right - who's up for getting a duffing in the dread ball arena then?!?!?

Saga Welsh -finally finished!

As mentioned previously I've joined a "painting challenge" on another blog and it's inspired me to get try to get lots of the things sitting around on the shelves of holding done.

First up were the remain of my saga figures. 12 levy

The dog is a random addition when I thought I was a miniature down as saga requires units in multiples of 4.

And 8 warriors.

Really good to get these done, years after buying them, and perhaps we'll be able to get a game in soon. Either that or up to the loft they shall go until something else crops up for them.