One mean Mo' Fo'!

A Terminator Marine captain for my Iron Hands.

Another lovely Scibor figure.

I've cleared off the detailing from the armour plates all ready for lots of nice transfers once he is painted.

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22000pts

So the day of the Mega game arrived with much excitement! We had something in the region of 22,000 points on the table

The board had been set up on Saturday with many of the forces unboxed and ready to go on Sunday morning. We mustered, for the most part (eh Urn? ;-), just after nine but it still took us a while to deploy. The orks deployed first and it was a horrible sight to behold especially as BFG & the Silverback were using the Green Tide formation.

'Orrible right?

And that was just one sector of the four set up along the table. massed Orks supported by a stompa, grot guns, squiggoths and herdz of grotz to sit on the objectives on their side of the table.

The Eldar's knees were trembling somewhat as they camped across from the horde.

Thankfully the IG had brought there ever so courageous Ogryn to act as a fantastic distraction and speed bump slowing the tide of green down.

Mean while in the center sectors....

....it was quite-ish in the fields but in the city.....

....a fight was brewing up with a stompa led charge of Killer Kans supported by non-other than Ghazaghull and some of his equally ugly friends!

The fighting spilled out of the city into the sparsely populated Badlands where the IG and Eldar struggled to contain a grot battle tank and some Killer Kans with the forces they had in the region.

A win for the Orks 28 - 20 at the end of turn three. We played the Eldar turn four, as we had a bit of time, but they only pulled back to 28 - 25 so it is safe to say that even with more turns the Orks would have had it in the bag.

Great game and always great to get the big toys out!

'Til the next one!

TTFN.

Almost there!

I've only now got the Fire Prism to finish with a bit more red on the prism and after that I just need to paint the base for the Scorpion.

PEW PEW PEW!!!

Time to bag some Orkies!!!!

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A Little Progress

Layering the drybrushing has taken its sweet time but I am still hoping that these bad boys will be finished for Sundays game.

I just need to paint some of the details with contrast colours and pick out the Fire Prism's crystal sections which I think I shall do in a yellow/orange/red ink.

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A Big Game....

..is always good motivation to get things done!

I've had the Fire Prism sat on my shelf undercoated for months and the poor old Scorpion has been languishing under my desk at work. Not a fitting place for such a lovely model. Anyhoo, plans for a mega game have galvanized me into getting these done. Its always the way that once you actually get started these things don't take long.

Saturday night I applied the dark blue mass dry brush to both of them and last night I introduced the blue and light blue drybrushes. Tonight I'll add the white to finish the look and get them matching the general theme for my Eldar.

Part of me is a little worried that the white will overpower the effect the blue has but I need to do it or they will look too dissimilar.

TTFN!

A brief update.

10 Lighting Clawed Iron Hand Terminators finished and ready for spraying.

Slicey slicey!

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Marching to war!

I've reached that point you get to when painting a new army....

....the slow job of getting the infantry done.

First up are:
20 Anvil Marines with bolters
5 Anvil Marines with Autocannons
5 Anvil Marines with Grav guns
5 FW MKiv Marines with Heavy Volkite Culvars
15 FW Iron Hands with bolters

Yup 50 Marines to get through and about 35 more to make followed closely by nearly 30 Terminators. 100+ infantry and I've said to myself that these are the tax I have to pay before I can start painting all the fun stuff again.

So far they've had a dry brush of Bronze and a light dry brush of gold to pick out the armour trim and detail on the back of the legs. The guns have been dry brushed with gunmetal and tonight the slow process of adding the layers of scarlet to their armour will begin.

The Termnators are a mix of Scibor bodies, GW arms and weapons and Anvil heads and shoulder pads. This should them stand out as a bit experimental and different.

I should end up with:

6 Gorgons including the Hammerbearer
10 Terminators with Lighting Claws
10 Terminators with a mix of Powerfist/Bolter and Thunderhammer/Shield.

Along with two heroic looking Scibor characters in Terminator armour and that should be more than plenty! ;-)

After the marines and the terminators I shall be back onto some more Mechanicum stuff and the vehicles for the Iron Hands. Much still to do!

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