Finishing things.......

Need to finish things.......its the only way that I'll allow myself to start my FoW Germans. Still in the production list are.....

Scenery set for Silverfox - Started.

SotTR figures - Nearly finished.

Tyranids Pods - Started.

Warmachine and just about everything else is being benched so I can have good crack at doing my FoW stuff and producing scenery to go with them.

Eddy

Flames of War!

My will power was finally eroded last weekend. One cracking game of Flames of war and I was helpless to resist. It didn't help with Urn and the Silverback talking about a new webstore selling FoW cheap but the final blow was the offering of a discount voucher (thanks to the Silverback).

The toys were ordered within hours of the game and arrived a few days later...........

....just need to resist starting them until I've finished one or two other projects.

Incoming! Daemon Prince

Good afternoon and welcome to a lazy Sunday here in August.

So yesterday Clinton and I spent the day playing 40K over at Triple Helix in Westbury. We used 1950 points a side of his Wolves v my Daemons. I took the Daemons as I noticed I haven't used them all year and fancied throwing something different at the Wolves.

In the end we had 2 very, very close games and the Daemons came out on top twice! The second game we managed to win even though only 8 Bloodletters were left on the table; you have to love objective missions right...

Whilst there we popped into their shop and lo and behold they had some of the new Daemon stuff on sale. Now this was most upsetting obviously and in order to appease my wallet I ended up buying just the Daemon Prince.

Today I decided to spend an hour putting him together and, in line with all the latest plastics from GW, he's blooming marvellous. Mine is going to have the Mark of Slaanesh and as you can see below he's fully winged up. He's since been undercoated but will not be painted until the cowboys are done.

Thousand Son is included for scale comparisons...

Of course the only problem now is that with 3 other Chaos Marine armies sat in boxes I just know that I could do with a couple more of these lovely beasties!

I think I saw a ship sir!

Well it's been a while! Tonight I have something a little different; Uncharted Seas has set sail. I originally bought these back at Warfare 08.... yes indeed. I'm between 40K armies at the moment so thought I'd get on with some other systems (well I have to appease the wife!)

Warmachine is ongoing and some pics to follow of my Cryx. Also I'm about to embark on my new Cowboy Posse which has also been sat waiting for a couple of years...

So here we have the Dragon Lords Battleship...
... and Frigates....
Here's the starter fleet (10 ships, 6 frigates, 3 cruisers, 1 battleship)
Orc Raiders for the Evil Monkey. Yes this game needs you to roll high on dice; Evil Monkey can still roll 6s like they're going out of fashion. I've no chance right?

Note all the guns at the front of the ship.... guess how Orcs approach their enemy?

Battleship...
The Fleet...
Sailing into a port near you soon. If the game's any good expect more ships soon!

Right - where's those Cowboys???

Abaddon... but with a twist.

Well, third post in three days - which tends to pretty much be the way I work to be honest!

Ok, so, from my post below you'll have seen that I made up 7 terminators from the AoBR termies, plus some bits I scavenged plus some parts from the Chaos terminator Lord....

....So you're probably wondering what happened to the chaos lord, right?

Piccies at the top, as I turned him into Abaddon the Despoiler!

Now, I love the Jes Goodwin sculpt of Abaddon. As with all of Jes's stuff, it's top quality and bursting with character. He used to even be a little bigger than the old metal terminators, which is absolutely right and proper in my eyes. Then GW brought out the spiffing new plastic terminators, which were a little larger and suddenly Abaddon was somewhat on the puny side.

I'd bought the Abaddon figure ages ago and turned him into a lightning-claw-wielding champion of a slaaneshi terminator unit. So I ended up with the talon of Horus, Abaddon's head and his daemon weapon in my bits box. With the lovely new plastic termi lord, I'd have been made not to put the two together, right?

So, I started with a rather nice display base I'd picked up from Heresy miniatures a good while ago that matched the flagstones of my chaos army and had a step to allow abaddon to stand out. Some pinning of the legs allowed him to just be stepping up to the top step. I then chopped down two chaos terminator arms to take the talon and daemon weapon and stuck them in appropriate poses. I was intending to use the original head, but it felt a little small on the new plastic model, so I used the rather spiffing bare head from the lord box (I like the expression a lot) and just pinned abddon's top knot to it instead.

The termies in the post below will now be Black legion ones to form their Lord's bodyguard and hey presto, a whole load of terminators! Quite how I'll fit them in a carry case is a little beyond me right now, but that's a problem for another day :)

Another project I'd been meaning to do for ages....

....was turning my AoBR termies into Chaos termies. I am something of a trader when it comes to GW stuff lying around, and from my box of AoBR I ended up left with the 5 termies, plus the free one I got from White Dwarf.

So, on the basis that if I didn't do something to fit them into an existing army I'd make a new Space marine army just to use them (I'm a wargamer - that makes perfectly logical sense to me!) i decided to make them Chaos termies. So, I'd bought the Chaos terminator lord some time ago to build a lord and so I decided to use some of the weapon options from that with these dudes.

In addition to that, there are various bits from other chaos models and some scratch built chaos symbols with arrows cut from the metal around the top of a wine bottle and some tiny nuts and bolts I bought from Atenocenti ages ago.

I decided to go with non-terminator looking heads, as I think this really marks them out as not regular terminators and went for the spiky bits on the shoulders to enhance that impression.

Along the way I managed to build one to go atop a pair of Dark Angel termi

legs that come on the veteran sprue (and hid the back with the lord's cloak) and so I ended up with 7 terminators!

In addition to being a trader, I'm also a bits box raider, so special thanks goes to Nick for the trade/lend/theft of the leftovers from all his chaos terminators.

First post in I don't know how long.....

...So I'd better make it a good 'un, right?

Ok, so whilst my hobby time has been rather cut down by the birth of my daughter (my best miniature yet, even if I do say so myself!), I did manage to get started on my Ork army right before she was born.

"What Ork army?" I hear you cry "I thought you'd decided not to start new armies because they take too much time and you have enough already!"

Yes, i did indeed say all that. But in my defense, I am a wargamer and am therefore totally incapable of resisting anything even vaguely shiny. Even if it's plastic, and that stuff don't shone much.....

Anyhoo - here are the fruits of my early labour. I decided that as I was intending to pile into combat a lot (yippee!) I should try to make the units easily distinguishable. The Ork Clan regime was my saviour here as I decided each mob would come from a different clan. Different colour schemes weren't quite enough, so I made sure that the headgear on the first three units was also different, so top-knots for snake-bites, bare heads for evil suns and helmets for goffs (I also added some little goblin shields to the snake-bites to emphasis their clan and these were small enough to be bucklers as opposed to full on medieval shields). Spray them the appropriate colour, add some Knarloc Green and metal and a couple of other colours and there they were! 12 each of the snake bites and evil suns for Trukk mobs and 20 goffs for a battlewagon mob, or the start of a 30 man walking mob.

For support I changed the arms on three old-school killer kans as the triple joints looked a bit rubbish imo. So, one joint less was more in my eyes and after covering the "shoulder" with orky bits to hide the new join, they only needed a quick red spray and metal and bits and power cables picked out and they were ready to go!

Hopefully coming soon are my chaos termies and then onto more Orks - gotta love 'em :)