Stoking the Flames of War

I have decided to chip away at the prep work for my new FoW collection at the same time as working on the church terrain project. This way I can nibble away at the tedious work of filing, trimming and basing of all the figs in the spare half hours I have here and there.

Hopefully it should all be done around the same time as the church is finished and I can throw myself into getting it all painted. Done so far are several bases of Artillery Observers and Staff and these two bad-ass 88s!

The latest scenery project.

The Silverfox recently gave me some Tau goodies to help with my newly expanding force. In thanks I commited to building him some scenery. Thankfully I managed to convince him to let me build something that I've had kicking around in my head for a while.

The diagram above is my design sketch for the project with a few of the details noted that I intend to include in the build. I actually started construction a week ago but I'm going to hold off posting piccies until I have finished and the Fox has seen it in person.

The central idea behind the design is that the basic church, which measures 3 foot by 2 foot, can have all of its parts spaced out even further so that the entire church could be spaced out to be the entire table. It also leaves the possibility open for extra sections to be added for special occasions like Apocalypse games.

So far I have made the Aquila floor section, the central columned section and the wall section to the left of the columns. I'm using a mix of blue foam and Hirst Arts blocks which has, so far, proven to be a good combination as the Hirst Arts blocks provide a nice level of details and the blue foam keeps the weight down.

I must say that I am really enjoying building this one!

Airbrush-tastic

Now you all know I have banging on about my new airbrush and I have spent a lot of time pounding the web looking for 'How to' videos.  So I have used what I have learnt and produced 2 pieces of work to date that I thought to share with you.  Now, as ever the pics won't do these justice, so please bear that in mind.

The first is an Ork Battlewagon.  I promise you this took less than 25 minutes to paint 3 different coats of red on.  The effect is lovely to behold.  I then used a piece of blister sponge and some 'Smoke' effect from Vallejo, to produce a bit of weathering on the plates.  I have not done any true detailing on this yet, except pick out some of the metal bits.  The three reds were sprayed in reducing areas on each plate, thus giving the illusion of shading.

Next up, and I think you might be a little surprised at this.  But this model is entirely sprayed - no paint brush has been applied to the model yet.....

The effects on this was based on three different blues.  These were sprayed in 6 reducing coats to give highlights, the last of which was mixed with white!  Again this took no more than 30 minutes in total achieve.  Next step is to pick out the details, and maybe add a light wash to certain areas.  So what do you think?

Veterans R Us

So here are my IG veterans.  2 squads with 3 meltas and 3 plasma respectively.

Now, there are 2 points to note when you look at these...

1.     The heads are from Westwind; their SGS WW2 Germans with gasmasks. 

2.    I used my new found airbrush skills to spray the sandy colour uniform.  I then used the airbrush to paint the shoulder pads, the chest and back plates and weapons.  There was minimal overspray which was easily sorted with the sandy colour on a brush.  20 guardsmen with detailing in less than 3 hours..... awesome!

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!